Looking at the expected opening evening Penguins roster and what it can mean

I haven’t written much for a while, except answering my friend Rick BukerMessages. Finally, the team has made important changes and there is now an atmosphere of any optimism for the future. Don’t know much about Mike SullivanThe replacement has kept me still a bit quiet and would rather pay attention to how things develop.

There have been many things fun to like the first -year head coach And MuseThe training camp and preseason. It is very early, but several of last season’s worst ice cream issues seem to have been tackled. The talent level of our Penguins‘In the previous season, opponents was not exactly Cream cream But there were different games when our Favorite flightless chicken kept their opponents up to less than 25 shots.

Just as important as a return to a more simplistic defense, clearly determining roles was a great jump in the teamoral. When I saw the team playing, they seemed to play with passion and have fun.

Many of the prospects were also placed in positions to succeed instead of failing. Moreover, some prospects were consistently leaned in critical situations.

Until Saturday, when I saw what the last cuts seemed to be, I was almost convinced of it Kyle Dub was seriously planning to return to the play -offs. Looking at the players sent to Wilkes Barre – SCRANTON (WBS) and those players who still stay on the Roster, I can’t help to wonder if Dubas really intends to refuel without looking as if he is trying to refuel.

The worst selection decision

The worst selection decisions were taken about who to keep the goal of the team. The worst keeper in the organization gets the net. Tristan Jarry has consistently demonstrated that he is at best inconsistent. After nine years of NHL experience, Jarry has still not demonstrated that he knows how to play the position and at the age of 29 and various injuries, including a hip problem his athletics that could compensate for his lack of technology, is now affected.

Jarry is still going to the body of the shooter and not the Puck, who left 1/3 of the net to his opponent on almost every shot. He still responds exaggerated and takes himself out of position. He still loses the puck and looks in the wrong direction. And he still wanderes wide and wide from his post.

Jarry Back -Up will be a keeper who share many of the same weaknesses of Jarry, Arthur Silov. Perhaps the only reason why Silovs Jarry does not bind for the worst keeper in the system, that he is larger and even athletic.

The best two goalkeepers in the organization of the Penguins are Joel Blomqvist And Sergei Murashov. I don’t care if they are young, it is his head and shoulders above all other goalkeepers under contract for at least the parent club. Perhaps the only keeper in the training camp close to those two is only under contract for our Penguins -affiliate in WBS, Taylor Gauthier.

If Dubas wanted to be really competitive this season, Blomqvist and Murashov would share the net.

(Remember that Murashov had to remove the back of the team when Turnstile Jarry tried to lose to the Buffalo Sabres In the last match of the team).

The second worst schedule movement

Dispatch Tristan Broz And Avery Hayes Up to the WBS penguins is the second worst selection.

Tristan Broz

Broz was constantly asked to do the heavy work. I am not sure how accurate natural stat -tricks -numbers for the preseason were this season. Their figures did not match the website of the NHL for goals for and against and shot for and against, but they mention Broz as only 26.67% of its start in the attacking zone below 5-on-5 conditions, which would make the eye test believe.

Everything Broz did this preseason, demanded that he was given the third line tasks if this team had hope to make the play -offs. Unfortunately Dubas decided to send this child to WBS while he stayed Ben Kindle A player was built on the Roster to play top six instead of the third line.

Avery Hayes

Hayes also did his part of heavy work. This “small engine that” could open uber talented Ville KoiVunen And Kindle through which those two can use the room to best influence their talents. Just like Broz, Hayes, however, was shown the door to WBS instead of a reward for his efforts.

The third worst schedule decision

The third worst schedule decision was to keep Kindle and Harrison Brunicke On the parent grille. Both Kindle and Brunicke represent future success, but none of these players are better than the players who are in their positions for them.

As I wrote above, Kindle is a top six center. However, he is not in the class of Evgeni Malkin let alone Sidney Crosby. Except in injuries to Crosby or Malkin, Kindle does not leave a playing time in a position for him to succeed. In the last match of the team against the Sabres, when Crosby and Malkin occupied the top two lines, Kindle was eaten alive by a Sabres selection that ended lower than our penguins last season. Kindle’s assist at the opening goal, even though the child was under water for the rest of the game, only limited ice age.

Kindle keeping the roster, now smells like a decision that was made above Muse to justify him with the 11^one Choose in the design when Kashawn aitches Was still on the board and this team has no, repeat no top-end left-handed defenders (LHD). If this child’s confidence is crushed in an attempt to mask a bad call from Dubas, that would be a crime. He will have allowed his ego to double his mistake.

• Quick comment Aitcheson has 3 goals, 3 assists and is a +8 in its first 5 games with his Junior Club, while Dubas has left our penguins to use Caleb Jones” Ryan SheaAnd Parker Wother Spoon On their port side. Hmm …

Brunicke has many offensive skills, but he is a defensive nightmare. He must learn how to defend his own zone. What is even more important, and as much as I hate this to say this, Matt Duma Almost all defenders of other Penguins surpassed (not really difficult, the team really doesn’t have many top defenders).

Because the rules do not allow these children to be sent to WBS, they must be sent back to their junior teams for further development.

Fourth error on the last cutbacks

Finally, Noel Acciari” Justin BrazeauAnd Tommy NovakWill harm this team, but they still steal schedules from players who can contribute to this team that makes the play -offs.

The best schedule movement

Abandon Ryan Graves Perhaps the only step that makes sense if Dubas really has the intention to try to compete for a play -off place. Perhaps the only reason he could show that he could point to this step to veil a secret attempt to refuel. Graves has become such a flash point that many people will overlook other bad movements.

The only thing I hope that the graves will suck is that the team does not buy it. The Jack Johnson Buy -Out has only been released the books (how long ago was that?). Dubas has our penguins with more than $ 11 million in CAP space. With the number of children that comes up, that number should not really fall. Not buying him, but instead burial Graves would free the books much faster.

Bottom Line

It smells for me as if Dubas is looking for tank

Nobody asked me …

Playing Armdaar GM (one of my favorite past and perhaps a lot of our readers?) If I wanted to make the play-offs (and I think this team could make that if Dubas would make the right calls), it would be the schedule

Ahead

Notes:

1. When Bryan Rest Gets back from IR, he would enter if the second line right wing (RW). In a perfect world, Valterri Puustines Would start the season very well and he could be traded to supplement the farm. In an infallive world, puustins would fall to a sub and possibly be re -distributed to WBS.
2. When Rutger McGroarty Gets back from IR, he would get the chance to prove himself at Left Wing (LW). Exactly where McGroarty places would depend on his performance, where everyone takes a line where he goes everywhere. Blake Lizotte Would be the first choice at the Subbing for all attackers.
3. Novak first sub that must be waived.

Defense

Notes:

1. All LHD are about the same. None of them is impressive and can be easily separated.
2. I am not a dumba fan, but he was really the best option for third pairs of RHD.

Goalkeepers

Notes:

1. If the team really wants to make the play-offs and does not want a tank to get a 25% chance to prepare Gavin McKenna, Murashov starts the season as the number one goalkeeper of the team, who gives it to Blomqvist when the last one comes to backup to a backup of Murashov, while the backup of Murashov, while the back-up of-ing-ionic Looking for a Mike Bales Like goalie coach to bring him as Marc-Andre Flury. This boy reminds me far too much of a young refugee in both his athletics and his wildness in the net.
2. Gauthier should have had a contract with the parent club and not banned to an AHL contract. That was a shame. It is better than any other option that is not called Blomqvist or Murashov. Jarry must be buried in Wheeling, with the NailsWhere he might just be competitive, while Silovs can still help Filip Larsson In WBS.