DENVER — The game began like it did seven months ago in Denver, as an Evgeni Malkin highlight-reel goal helped the Pittsburgh Penguins take an early lead.

Then, it was if the Penguins realized this is a new season. The magic evident on so many occasions last season, including at Ball Arena, was nowhere to be found after the Penguins landed the first couple of punches.

The Colorado Avalanche overwhelmed the visitors in a second surge, paving the way to a 5-2 victory over a Penguins team that is 0-2 on this road trip and facing a daunting task in less than 24 hours in Las Vegas.

Malkin scored an early gem and then Sidney Crosby surpassed Joe Thornton for No. 7 on the NHL’s all-time assist list by feathering a beauty of a pass to Bryan Rust, who made it 2-0.

The Avalanche then decided that was enough, and led by a dynamic Nathan MacKinnon performance, left the Penguins in the dust.

After an outstanding first period, the Penguins were plagued by the problems that have been evident with concerning regularity in the season’s first eight games.

Two of their leaders, however, insisted after the game that now isn’t the time to panic.

“No,” Rust said in a very direct manner. “It’s eight games into the season. There are areas where we quickly need to get better. But I wouldn’t say the red light is flashing. We just need to be better.”

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1967-1972
(LW)
Games Played: 349
Goals: 39
Assists: 82

2009

sorry for not posting any doodles the past few games, im a bit miserable atm butttt heres a new one!!

tried something new, not sure how i feel about it!

also i watched my first irl hockey game last week and it was so cool, we were sat right behind the guest bench and could see everything!! (I was not prepared for the smell though lmao)

i also have wifi again!!!!

As always hope you enjoy and dm me on twitter if youd like a PDF! (cant take reddit dms anymore because reddit thinks im below the age of 16)

LETS GO PENS

The Pittsburgh Penguins lose 5-2 to the Colorado Avalanche.

It’s just a wall of ‘fire Tocchet’ and ‘we’re the worst team in the league’. Every time I see another post complaining, I feel a little bit more joy in my cold dead heart.

Penguins forever and always.

I'm starting to see a lot of people saying things like get these journeymen out of the way for the young guys, but the journeymen of whom they speak are:

Hendrix Lapierre - 24 years old.

Elmer Soderblom - 25 years old.

Nic Robertson - 25 years old.

Egor Chinakov - 25 years old.

Kaeden Korczak - 26 years old.

Declan Carlisle - 26 years old.

Ville Koivunen - 23 years old - he's the only one who is referenced as part of the youthfulness of this team in any comments so far this season. It's odd. I don't know if people are uninformed or if they just choose not to care.

Ville is no more of a prospect than Soda or Lapierre, in that none of them are prospects any more - they either NHL players or they're not yet. But prospect time has to end 5 years post draft, right?

So, we don't need to yank all of these guys to force younger guys into the lineup to serve some agenda of getting younger for its own sake. Instead, I think you just gotta play the best players who give you the best chance to win, and provide opportunities to young guys to show that they are one of the best players who give you that chance.

Those opportunities should be very brief when the player is not meeting that standard.

Connor Dewar - 27 years old - barely entering his prime - not old or washed our outside of some timeline.

Lizzo - 28 years old - again - prime of his career - is it awful to have guys in their prime?

And yes, we all know that Kuzmenko was the one 30 year old addition, and he's not been good. I'm still going to just let that one simmer for a bit. He's a hockey player and he's been a pretty good one, but first he's human and we are more fragile than we realize.

1967-1971
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Games Played: 185
Goals: 14
Assists: 35

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Seriously he's a downright terrorist in the power play department. He was awful here in the Pitt alright, but he's much worse in Philly! And I mean the absolute worst of all! How the fuck did they hire him?!

Anyways, I just want to vent about how bad he was and is worse now. If you don't approve this post, I will delete it. Goodnight, everybody!

So I posted this in response to a Hughes video from the Olympics on NBC Sports. Yelled into the abyss. You know. Forgot I even said anything. I get a single like notification and I see Travis Konecny likes your comment. I assume it’s a fan page or something, is this as funny as it seems? Cause if this is real it’s hilarious. 56k followers doesn’t seem fake.

How do I get this on the available billboard at 3100 S Front St, Philadelphia, PA 19148. Hmmmmm

Edit: this is a joke, chill out

2001-2002
(D)
Games Played: 19
Goals: 0
Assists: 4

Hi, I’m in Denver and just realized Pens are playing here tomorrow. Just checked the tickets and the cheapest ones go for $115. Unfortunately can’t afford it but do any other Pens fans here want to watch it together in the bar? Or maybe anyone has an extra ticket they’d sell for face value?