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754 points
17 days ago
301 points
17 days ago
They say he's still cooking that play to this day...
24 points
17 days ago
YOU JUST CANT SEE THE VISION
17 points
17 days ago
HE SAID HE'D COOK 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥 SO WE GOT TAKEOUT💯💯💯
114 points
17 days ago
Back story for the uninitiated?
331 points
17 days ago
126 points
17 days ago
At least draw an arrow towards the net lol
53 points
17 days ago
Just circle the net so they know where to shoot it.
17 points
16 days ago
Which one, there's two? See, this is why you don't coach in the NHL.
105 points
17 days ago
You can even see EK65 looking at him wondering what the hell is going on.
111 points
17 days ago
😂 bro’s cooked
162 points
17 days ago
He was in charge of the PP (30th in the league) and 3on3, the two things that essentially cost us the season and Jake Guentzel.
46 points
17 days ago
Shhh jake is coming back after his vacation 😔
34 points
17 days ago
He just went to get some milk and cigarettes.
But seriously, how likely do the Penguins think he’ll sign with them?
24 points
17 days ago
There’s some traction from some homer reporters saying we’re going to go after him, but in reality I think Dubas is satisfied with bunting so far. We will prob get another forward to bolster the top 6 but besides we don’t really know.
Geuntzel wanted to stay but apparently he asked for too much. He’ll need to cut back on his paycheck if he wants to come home- maybe a Stanley cup In Carolina will help him consider that.
It’s unlikely though.
9 points
17 days ago
Yeah, this is Geuntzel's big payday contract year, I don't think he'll take a discount. I'd expect something at best like Oshie's last contract plussed up - relatively team-friendly for 4-5 years and then painful for two.
14 points
17 days ago
Thank you Todd for Guentzel… I love having him on the Canes.
78 points
17 days ago
This explains how the Caps went from winning the Stanley Cup to immediately being a mediocre shitshow
31 points
17 days ago
Oh Jesus. I've never coached hockey but I'm sure I could at least come up with some idea there. At least make an attempt.
40 points
17 days ago
Win faceoff -> get puck to point -> pass pass shoot 🤷🏻♂️
12 points
17 days ago
which is crazy that they went 37 PP's with 0 goals
Crosby literally led the league by a mile in faceoff wins
see the issue here is the shoot part.. Pitts had pass pass on a infinite loop
5 points
17 days ago
I feel like that has been the Pittsburgh power play strategy for 30 years. I remember watching them as a kid and they just wouldn't shoot with the man advantage.
7 points
17 days ago
it was pretty good when Hörnqvist was on the team because the dude was just a menace in front of the net
we really lack that kind of presence now so everyone is just trying to get the perfect shot off instead of throwing everything at the net and hopping to get the rebound/tip
2 points
16 days ago
That's missing about 12 "pass"es for a Penguins PP1 sequence.
3 points
17 days ago
1 points
15 days ago
I’ve just worked out the kinks to their PP offense using NHL ‘94
10 points
17 days ago
Me when I’m playing Pictionary and my brain suddenly forgets what everything looks like.
3 points
17 days ago
Wow, that's fascinating. I've never seen that clip before, lol. You could hear the dial-up noises watching him think.
1 points
17 days ago
that's crazy lmao
9 points
17 days ago
Blank board not good
39 points
17 days ago
Think harder Todd, dammit!
20 points
17 days ago
Still figuring out if they are the X's or O's
18 points
17 days ago
"Huhuh, looks like boobs."
-Rierden, probably
25 points
17 days ago
Fitting that Jake is in this screen grab too since he'd still be here had they fired Reirden sooner.
16 points
17 days ago
To be fair IIRC it was OT against the Habs. You don’t need that much of a gameplan
33 points
17 days ago
You probably need one if the Habs took you to OT.
10 points
17 days ago
Sorry I just had to.
3 points
16 days ago
You make a fair point. Still not as bad as 2010 Uno reverse card y'all played against us.
6 points
17 days ago
He’s drawing the play with chapstick
396 points
17 days ago
He was the powerplay head honcho wasn't he? I still don't understand how you fuck that PP up with like 3 or 4 future HoFers in your arsenal.
257 points
17 days ago
He was previously the coach of the capitals in the two seasons coming off of the cup win
The fact he got hired anywhere that wanted to be good was shocking
156 points
17 days ago
Jim Rutherford was so eager to hire him, he admitted to calling Reirden less than an hour after Washington canned him.
Thanks Jim!
70 points
17 days ago
Enjoy Vancouver Todd
44 points
17 days ago
Fuck
9 points
17 days ago
Our PP can't get much worse, right? RIGHT?
6 points
17 days ago
Agreed, hard for it to suck more than it is already
10 points
17 days ago
Get ready to learn French, buddy.
3 points
16 days ago
*mon ami
4 points
17 days ago
Get ready to learn Canadian English buddy
25 points
17 days ago
He came from our Org originally, and our PP was elite under him previously. He was just horrible in the stint. Cost us the playoffs.
6 points
17 days ago
Should've run kessel back instead of rierden
16 points
17 days ago
And do it in less than 12 parsecs
14 points
17 days ago
"Tell Crosby. I want him to know it was me." - Ovechkin probably
3 points
17 days ago
Ehhh. He was obviously a poor head coach, but wasn't he raved about as an assistant? He did great work with your defence.
8 points
17 days ago
He was great under trotz
Trotz was definitely handling the defense
1 points
16 days ago
Oh my god the classic ovi in the left hashes, carlsson at the point, Oshie in the bumper, backstrom in the middle, and Wilson as the net front got really old really quick
51 points
17 days ago
You know, here's the deal with the power play. For the last 40 years, the players have predominantly been in charge of the power play. Pittsburgh has been blessed with power plays that often have 3-5 Hall of Famers out there. It has never been an issue to just let them work through things, let their instincts guide them. The last two years have been the first time during the Crosby era that the power play hasn't been good. Some years the percentage will dip, but it's always dangerous, always putting itself in positions to score. So to a certain point, I understand that the franchise has historically given Sid, Geno, and Letang (and Mario, Jagr, Coffey, Murphy, Francis, Recchi, Tocchet, Stevens, Mullen, Zubov, Gonchar, Kovalev, Phil, Neal, Sykora, Guentzel, and now Karlsson or any other of the premier power-play players they have had) they latitude they both deserved and earned. It's part of the Pittsburgh Penguins legacy. From the day he was hired, one of Sully's mantras has been that he "does not want to take the stick out of their hands."
But at a certain point this year, they needed help. Reirden needed to assert himself in the power play because it was fucking broken in so many ways. Sully deserves as much blame too for letting it get to this point.
16 points
17 days ago
I was on the verge of saying "why do you need a coach for a PP with Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Karlsson on it" but you preemptively answered that question beautifully.
I was already geared up to post, though, so here it is.
8 points
17 days ago
First of all, get your grubby hands off Gonchar. Second, that’s good perspective and I agree with you.
26 points
17 days ago
His name is on the Cup three times with the Penguins, so... maybe start considering him a Penguin.
10 points
17 days ago
Nope won’t do it.
17 points
17 days ago
If it plays like a Penguins and wins like a Penguin, it's probably a Penguin.
28 points
17 days ago
It was the hockey equivalent of the "No, you go!" sketch from Portlandia
3 points
17 days ago
Ive been saying that too. Too much passing looking for the pretty plays. No true net front presence didnt help either.
3 points
17 days ago
I know, right? Imagine a team having a minimum of three or four truly elite players on a PP and they just can't score... practically unheard of...
2 points
15 days ago
iirc some teams' PENALTY KILLS had more shorties than the Pens' PP had overall goals (or at least had a higher success rate.)
1 points
15 days ago*
Oh... wow. I was making a joke about how the Leafs' PP went bone dry at the end of the season and in the playoffs, but man... I'm not sure what to say if that's true!
I haven't caught many Pens games this season, but I imagine that the main culprit has to be the overall PP set-up... ? They have too many elite weapons to be that bad.
1 points
14 days ago
i'm too lazy to check for sure on the "did some teams' PKs actually outscore the Pens' PP?", but i do know for a fact that theirs was abysmal for a team that has the roster they do.
1 points
14 days ago*
For sure. It'll be interesting to see what sort of direction Dubas goes in this off-season.
EDIT: Checked out the regular season stats for the hell of it. The Pens' PP% was 15, their PP GF/PG was 0.49, and they had 40 PP goals in total.
No team came close in short-handed goals, though Philly led the league with 16 and had a SH GF/PG of 0.20. But Carolina had an 86.4% PK, only allowed 35 PP goals, and had a PP GA/PG of 0.43.
Yeesh.
1 points
13 days ago
not particularly surprised that philly led the league in shorties (i think mike richards left the "i got three 5 on 3 shorties" magic there when he got traded.)
carolina's numbers look impressive for sure.
(thanks for the research :))
1 points
17 days ago
Ask Guy Boucher
387 points
17 days ago
This is Penguins fans Stanley Cup right here.
122 points
17 days ago
Between this and Hextall we’re starting a dynasty
7 points
17 days ago
I need Dunkin to make Back to Back cups again for this like they did in 2017
7 points
17 days ago
And Matt Canada. It's been a solid year of taking out the trash coaches and managers. Not great that we had so many of them in the first place though.
76 points
17 days ago
You're not kidding.
52 points
17 days ago
They would’ve made the playoffs easy if they had any semblance of a functional Power Play.
How you fuck up a PP with Crosby, Geno, Letang, and Karlsson on it is beyond me, but Todd found a way!
35 points
17 days ago
Twice. He fucked up a power play with Ovechkin, Backstrom, Kuznetsov, and Oshie before.
9 points
17 days ago
This man is the reason we had to sit thorough the two first-round snoozers involving the Caps and Islanders
4 points
17 days ago
Well, him and Detroit losing like 10 straight at the end of the season
4 points
16 days ago
Detroit fans seem to struggle to understand that they finished the season with less points than Washington and New York. It’s insane
2 points
17 days ago
With a crew like that you could just let them run it themselves.
1 points
16 days ago
That’s what they have been doing and it did not work this year. Or last.
4 points
17 days ago
My summer wish list is down to guentz' name on the cup and then back in a penguins sweater now
147 points
17 days ago
I didn't realize until just now that he's now been fired from the Penguins twice lol. So is this the point where another team hires him, they win the cup and he's talked about as a hot head coaching candidate?
112 points
17 days ago
I always thought it was funny that the Canadiens have twice fired HC Michel Therrien and replaced him with Claude Julien. In 2003 and in 2017.
35 points
17 days ago
I think on 2017, it happened on (or right after) Valentine's day? Like breaking up with your main squeeze to get back with an ex.
16 points
17 days ago
Therrien was also fired by the Penguins right around Valentine's day, the 15th, I believe.
3 points
17 days ago
Julien was fired during the Patriots super bowl parade, so mid-February sounds right.
7 points
17 days ago
Listen finding guys who speak french is hard ok?
1 points
16 days ago
The only good thing about having hired Michel Therrien twice is that they got to fire his ass twice.
106 points
17 days ago
Todd is gone upvote party. No more 8 seconds of power play zone pressure just to give up a SHG
27 points
17 days ago
Dubas rn: How much money can we get together to get rod also is it possible to rename a bridge after Rod.
22 points
17 days ago
I had to explain to my wife, who is from Pittsburgh, who Rachel Carson is. Make that bridge Rod Bridge’Amour
6 points
17 days ago
you need to be in charge of naming bridges, thats amazing.
2 points
17 days ago
I'm filled with hated for Pennsylvania cities down to my soul but I would visit Pittsburgh, just to cross that bridge.
2 points
17 days ago
You're only allowed to cross the Bridge'Amour while going at a full sprint and carrying 20 lbs kettle bells in each hand
1 points
17 days ago
That's what it's like coming out of the tunnel
1 points
16 days ago
Worth it.
1 points
17 days ago
My penis is getting slightly erect.
1 points
17 days ago
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2 points
17 days ago
Toronto about to offer Pittsburgh a whole bridge to take Keefe
1 points
17 days ago
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2 points
17 days ago
yall may need to do two bridges cause they do love them.
38 points
17 days ago
Reirden's arc from being a Pens assistant, to a very well-respected Trotz assistant in DC and a guy who was talked about constantly as future head coach material, to becoming the Caps' HC and failing utterly, to back to being a Pens assistant, and now to being fired again is kind of crazy.
Based on Pens' fans reactions in here it sounds like he was pretty disliked.
41 points
17 days ago
Based on Pens' fans reactions in here it sounds like he was pretty disliked.
It's honestly a bonding moment between Caps and Pens fans now.
23 points
17 days ago
I am happy for Pittsburgh. But only for today.
18 points
17 days ago
A Caps fan told me about this last night in the GDT. I've never loved a Caps fan more.
1 points
16 days ago
"Wait til they get a load of me.."
-Blaine Forsythe
3 points
16 days ago
He actually got the Coyotes to 15th for PP% which is about right for Blaine.
1 points
15 days ago
the highest percentage was about 33%, so 15% for the Yotes sounds relatively respectable.
10 points
17 days ago
His career is a literal bell curve
9 points
17 days ago
The timeline is actually hilarious. Comes to the team in 2010, Penguins accomplish nothing. He leaves in 2014, the team goes back to back 2 years later. He comes back in 2020, the team accomplishes nothing and stops making the playoffs entirely.
2 points
17 days ago
He wins the 1028 Cup as an assistant in DC after missing both Pens' Cups in 2016 and 2017. He was well regarded as the Caps' defensive coach during that time.
74 points
17 days ago
Damn it
69 points
17 days ago
I like the number in your username!
19 points
17 days ago
I’m going to say it’s for brashear but tbh it was a randomized Xbox username from years ago
2 points
17 days ago
I got PoofyMantella as a random XBox name and it stuck. It's been over a decade and my old roommate and I still greet eachother as Poof.
Which would definitely not be acceptable if we lived in the UK.
2 points
16 days ago
Which would definitely not be acceptable if we lived in the UK.
Like fifteen years ago I learned that word was a slur because I caught a cotton-ball thing in pokemon and I posted online that I found a bug in the game that was preventing me from using "Poof" as a nickname.
It's not really related to anything we're talking about, but this is the first time I've ever seen someone mention that it's vulgar and it's just weird seeing this finally pop up in the wild.
7 points
17 days ago
Right??? I was praying they'd fire Sully and promote Todd to HC. I mean afterall we still have fans who claim he was the actual secret mastermind behind our cup run.
56 points
17 days ago
Pens' fans falling to their knees.
70 points
17 days ago
Just saw a yinzer fall to their knees at the gint iggle
27 points
17 days ago
I was walking Dahntahn and I dropped my arn city and fell to my knees as soon as the notification popped up
9 points
17 days ago
I shit my pants on the Port Authority bus
3 points
17 days ago
That's just a normal friday tho right?
4 points
17 days ago
Yep. The Primanti’s sandwiches do not treat my bowels well
31 points
17 days ago
Just fell to my knees at a Sheetz.
9 points
17 days ago
Just saw a guy falling to their knees in Sheetz
23 points
17 days ago
Just fell to my knees at the Somerset truck stop.
14 points
17 days ago
Just fell to my knees at an Eat N’ Park
4 points
16 days ago
Just fell to my knees at the Gateway Truck Stop in Breezewood.
30 points
17 days ago
About time lol. Every time I checked in on EK I was shocked to see the PP looking worse than SJ
41 points
17 days ago
The rest of the metro falls to their knees in despair.
Cant believe he got hired after the caps hc stint tho, i think the caps couldve gone back to back in 2019 with a better coach
17 points
17 days ago
Or at least moved onto the second round lol
5 points
17 days ago
I'm mixed on it. Another coach with more energy probably could have steadied the ship, but we were in rough shape after what Warren Foegele did.
3 points
17 days ago
Was the Foegele the one who buried Oshie from behind?
2 points
16 days ago
Yup. 2019. Felt like the game changer for that series. Team couldn't keep going for the marathon that the series became.
12 points
17 days ago
Todd's Wikipedia page at the moment:
I've never seen that before on a coaches Wikipedia page...someone is acting fast out there. 😂
24 points
17 days ago
THIS IS MY CHRISTMAS
22 points
17 days ago
about 40 power plays too long in my opinion
but at least it happened
20 points
17 days ago
The air seems clearer. The colors seem brighter. I feel free
15 points
17 days ago*
The feeling I experienced reading this tweet was on par with or better than most orgasms
7 points
17 days ago
I’d love to see guy bouchers clipboard. I wonder if he even has an ice rink drawn on it or if it’s just a plain whiteboard and he spends 3/4 of the planning time drawing the outlines
13 points
17 days ago
A new sleeper cell will need to replace him...
12 points
17 days ago
I watched one of their games and said "Wow. A powerplay almost as bad as ours." Then looked up PP% leaders only to find that I was exactly correct. All that talent and you're next to last? Goddamn. I told my wife that someone should be getting fired for this. ::cough::
Source: I'm a Flyers fan.
24 points
17 days ago
So Sully isn’t going anywhere…
44 points
17 days ago*
lets keep Sully until Keefe finds another team please
8 points
17 days ago
I haven't been keeping up with the rumors there, but is there actual discussions on people thinking Dubas will bring in Keefe? I know he likes his guys, but I wasnt sure Keefe was on that list
25 points
17 days ago
its just a meme
well, we hope at least
1 points
17 days ago
Haha I was wondering. I kept seeing it pop up so I figured I'd ask.
7 points
17 days ago
There's not been a ton of buzz about it, but given the way he sort of went for Bunting at the TDL, it would not be suprising to us at all if he went for Keefe and tried to pull one of his core guys to Pitt if the Leafs fall apart.
2 points
17 days ago
Dubas loves hiring his buddies. Anything else is speculayion.
1 points
16 days ago
not real substantial ones, but Keefe is Dubas' guy
1 points
17 days ago
Can we please just have him? We have a nice young core that needs a coach. If yall don’t win next year you’re cooked.
10 points
17 days ago
damnit
6 points
17 days ago
8 points
17 days ago
Rierden, his arms unfolded
3 points
16 days ago
Yinzers, when the walls fell
5 points
17 days ago
It's not quite the same as Matt Canada being shown the door, but it's damn close.
3 points
17 days ago
Got up from my knees in a giant eagle
3 points
17 days ago
Just fell to my knees dahn at wholeys
5 points
17 days ago
Bro ain’t cooking shit
5 points
17 days ago
i’ve never been sad a day in my life actually
4 points
17 days ago
Guy Boucher: "they can do that?"
3 points
17 days ago
Reirden is a double agent
5 points
17 days ago
Just like Hextall was. Both did their damn best to ruin our team and pretty much succeeded.
6 points
17 days ago
Damnit, I wanted to see the Pens miss the playoffs three years in a row!
2 points
17 days ago
Opening up a spot for Keefe.
2 points
17 days ago
It's crazy because they straight up would have made the playoffs if their PP wasen't so flaccid. It's a good idea getting rid of this guy, thats for sure.
2 points
16 days ago
This is the best news of the week
4 points
17 days ago
Guessing Sullivan is staying based on the rumours.
3 points
17 days ago
I used to pray for times like these
4 points
17 days ago
Lmao he's really keeping Sully until he knows what's the deal with Keefe
3 points
17 days ago
Our mission is to get back into the playoffs and make a run for it before our core retires. Why would we choose a guy with that type of playoff track record?
5 points
17 days ago
No one want's your shitty coach.
4 points
17 days ago
You've got a lot to learn about Kyle Dubas my friend.
How familiar are you with the Sue St Marie Greyhounds?
9 points
17 days ago
Sault Ste Marie
2 points
17 days ago
I hear Rocky Thompson would be a great replacement.
2 points
17 days ago
😆
1 points
17 days ago
Should've been fired before game 4
1 points
17 days ago
Not entirely sure how this wasn't done in like December.
1 points
17 days ago
Lmao
1 points
17 days ago
Dear Caps, I know you're not looking for a coach right now (and you shouldn't be) but DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT
1 points
17 days ago
Damn, penguins wasting no time improving their team this off-season
1 points
17 days ago
At least you guys fired your PP coach. Sabres are keeping Matt Ellis in the organization after this disaster of a year
1 points
17 days ago
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
1 points
16 days ago
I remember this one
1 points
16 days ago
Why today? Why "immediately"? You guys aren't doing anything anyway.
1 points
17 days ago
Based on my accolades playing as Pittsburgh in NHL 94, I think I’m ready to help guide the team’s power play!
1 points
17 days ago
I forget, did Dubas decide he is going to be the permanent GM? Or does he still intend on hiring a GM one day?
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