Enough is enough! 1-3-0 is unacceptable for a team like the Penguins that are stocked with the talent they have from forward to blue line and in into the goal.
Ok so there are injuries on the Blue Line and the Penguins sent their best option back to Juniors. No excuse. This team is still better from their A-line on back than 95% of the teams in the NHL.
Tonight the New York Islanders are in town. That’s right, the New York Freaking Islanders … a team that has been one of the laughing stocks of the East in recent years. It is time for the Pens to get serious, bear down and win on home ice for the first time this season.
It’s time for players to not just man up but to HERO UP! I don’t care who takes up the challenge to rise to the occasion and do something beyond being mediocre during the sixty minutes they are on the ice tonight. Someone, preferable someones, will decided that they have had enough of the losing and dig down deep to make a win possible. Sid and Geno need to find their game. The defense needs to put aside the bruises and defend the blue line. Everyone needs to pick up their game.
What do you say Pens? Ready to take up the challenge? Ready to HERO UP and be the team that you are supposed to be? Ready to kick some ass?
It looks to be a stormy night in the ‘Burgh with thunderstorms rolling through the area. And with the temperature dropping Pens fans are wondering if there will be a chance of Fleurys as in Marc-Andre Fleury playing they way all Pens fans know he can rather than the way he has been playing as of late.
In Wednesday’s night loss to the Senators Fleury was not on his game. He let in four goals that he should have stopped or at least had a better chance of stopping than he did. Without their star goal tender bringing his A-game the Penguins are going to be behind the eight ball and will have a good chance of falling behind 0-2 in the series.
Malkin and Crosby could not have been asked to do more in game one combining for several goals and assists. Now with injuries mounting on the Senators bench and Ottawa’s third line not likely to produce at the same level again two nights in a row the Penguins will have to find a way to get a victory on home ice before heading north for the next game.
Mike Rupp will be in the lineup tonight after sitting out game one according to reports. Rumors are that he will replace Ruslan Fedotenko in the lineup after Feds had a sub-par first game. If you ask me he should probably be replacing Ponikarovsky who has not played at all up to expectations since joining the team at the trade deadline.
