Pens vs Rangers (10/9/24)

[Pabst]

Hockey is back! Game on TNT this evening. Hopefully this can wash away the awful taste of last weekends college & NFL games out of my mouth.

Chris Kreider - Mika Zibanejad - Reilly Smith
Artemi Panarin - Vince Trocheck - Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle - Filip Chytil - Kaapo Kakko
Adam Edstrom - Sam Carrick - Matt Rempe

K’Andre Miller / Adam Fox
Braden Schneider / Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones / Victor Mancini

Igor Shesterkin


Rags are dealing with some injury issues of their own in Breadman and Zibanejad, but both will play. Lots of familiar names on that lineup.

Moving on.....


Drew O’Connor - Sidney Crosby - Anthony Beauvillier
Michael Bunting - Evgeni Malkin - Rickard Rakell
Rutger McGroarty - Lars Eller - Jesse Puljujarvi
Kevin Hayes - Cody Glass - Noel Acciari

Marcus Pettersson / Erik Karlsson
Matt Grzelcyk / Kris Letang
Ryan Graves / Jack St. Ivany

Tristan Jarry


Lots of new faces will be on the ice. That top line is.....interesting. Sid getting paired with 2 guys who have made their name in the defensive zone. Rust is back at practice, which is a good sign.

Loads of milestones to look for tonight:
- Rutger McGroarty (what a name!) makes his NHL debut tonight.
- Geno is 2 goals from 500 in his career and 2 assists from 800.....which means he's also 4 points from 1300
- Sid is sitting at 1596 career points and....holy shit, he's about to start his 20th season with the Pens.
- Letang is about to start season #19
- For the first time since 2021-22, the Pens are not the oldest team in the NHL. That honor now goes to...Edmonton? Seriously?

[Pabst]

Is something up with Jeff Jimmerson? He looks terrible

Still sounds great tho

[Pabst]

Speaking of looking like shit....

Whether or not this challenge is successful that was garbage defense on that rush

[Orangesteel]

Go to the bench Jarry.

JFC this team already looks bad.

[Pabst]

Go to the bench Jarry.

JFC this team already looks bad.

It's not like these are soft goals by any stretch, but good God you can't let *all* of those in

[fractalsteel]

Just knew the last 50 seconds when the Rags turned the screws and dominated the OZ they were going to score inside 15 seconds.

1 inch from being down a 4 spot.

Huge difference in the teams transition games.

[Orangesteel]

Nice effort.

[Orangesteel]

Yeah Jarry looks great glad he’s still a Penguin.

[Orangesteel]

Well that’s three hours I’ll never get back.

So are you telling me Kevin Hayes is not the guy we needed to turn this roster around?

[Steel Ubaldo]

Just popping in to say Holy Shit was that BAD.

It has to get better…it should get better…right?

[Louis Lipps Service]

I hate overreacting to the first game of a season, but methinks Sully doesn’t make it through the first third of the season.

[Orangesteel]

Is something up with Jeff Jimmerson? He looks terrible

Still sounds great tho

I think he’s battled cancer. Not sure what type but I believe he’s been open about it.

[Pabst]

Is something up with Jeff Jimmerson? He looks terrible

Still sounds great tho

I think he’s battled cancer. Not sure what type but I believe he’s been open about it.

Ah, OK.

Glad he's still out there singing.

[bradshaw2ben]

When do the playoff tickets go on sale?

[fractalsteel]

When do the playoff tickets go on sale?

2034

When the Pens draft the franchises third savior Nikita Malkin with the first overall pick. Mini Geno leads the Pens back to the playoffs after a long drought.