#ron hextall

[doingdathockey]

sid just casually killed another man (gmrh)

[naanima]

I'm reading the HEXTALL article. And holy fucking hell, it is so damning. Beyond the whole fucking contract-gate fiasco that Sid, Kris AND Sully had to talk Geno down from there is just SO MUCH rage inducing parts. I'm gonna C&P some parts that truly stuns me.

To help sell a skeptical public on the new hockey leadership, Morehouse cooked up a story that Lemieux was heavily involved in the process.

OMFG. THEY LIED ABOUT LEMIEUX HIRING HEXTALL & BURKE?!

And the trades!!!

Hextall put Kapanen on waivers the day after fans chanted for his firing. Somewhat shockingly, the St. Louis Blues claimed him.

AND.

Hextall later enraged players and coaches by putting Brock McGinn on waivers while McGinn was enjoying some family time on the team’s annual “dad’s trip” in Nashville. Sullivan was forced to deliver the news.

Fuck, Sully really hated HEXTALL.

A four-game losing streak extended into the first week of November. By then, an exasperated Sullivan resorted to making one regular — Kasperi Kapanen, whom Hextall controversially re-signed during the offseason — a repeated healthy scratch. Days later, Sullivan asked Hextall for the first, but not final, time to trade for a defensive upgrade, specifically Jakob Chychrun, who was being shopped by the Arizona Coyotes.

Just WTF. And of course making Sidney Crosby DISAPPOINTED in the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Crosby rushed to console his now former teammate and after a few minutes returned to the dinner. “That’s not how we do things in Pittsburgh,” he said. Crosby remained mostly quiet the rest of the night.

What a shitshow. Fucking hell. He traded away Pens' future, wanted to break the core 3, ANGERED SULLY, made Sidney Crosby disappointed, and WASTED this fucking precious year for Sid, Geno & Kris. Fuck.

[goaliekisses]

you know what…

[st-louis]

“Ron Hextall hasn’t done an average job. He’s done a really, really bad job.” i am crying laughing at this lede

[kazokuhouou]

tagging @catboygretzky cause the heinous anons would go nuts over this

[msmillionworlds]

Trying to explain to my mother how evil Ron Hextall is but she can never agree with me on anything so now we’re arguing over what constitutes being a good GM and what people are allowed to get away with because “it’s just business”

[readingbythestreetlights]

would this have happened without the playoff streak snapping? let’s look at the positives folks!

[tblueger]

soon my little freak. it is almost time.

[sergeifyodorov]

do u have ant thoughts on the pens play style ? i love to hear ur thoughts and the way u break things down :0

i love those old geezers so much okay

so the pens, coming off the three cups/crosbymalkin era, still play with a pretty straightforward forechecking style -- they're up there in hits/game and pretty good with the "first pass" (that pass once regaining possession, from defender to forward, out of the defensive zone.)

their major advantages: sid and geno. like, for real, that's THE number one reason. intangibles are hard to measure, but it's well known that the pittsburgh locker room is a very welcoming environment, one players want to stay in into their old age. which is why everyone in there is a million years old. also, the two of them (plus kris letang!!) have aged as players VERY well into their mid-thirties and are showing pretty much no signs of slowing down or stopping, all three of them almost exactly as effective as playdrivers as they were in the championship years. sid is on pace for nearly 100 points!!! he's 35!!!! that's simply not done.

their major weaknesses: their bottom six is not good, and their goaltending is inconsistent as hell. i think their bottom six has changed up a bit since the deadline and might be better now, but either way it is a very very weak set for a contending team. little goalscoring and negative defensive effect. also, their starting goalie is injured often and their backup is straight up bad.

the penguins: power of love for your captain and city. pros: they love each other :) cons: why is every single one of you thirty years old with two kids

[goaliekisses]

good riddance

[mulchmarner]

no, I'm sorry, we can't trade our star player. no, not because he's our star player, it's just his bestie is on the team.

[icedhockey]

not to catastrophise but chuck fletcher is out there somewhere, unemployed,

[punkrockmixtapes]

The Sainte Catherines - Reinventing Ron Hextall (I Don't Want to Say Goodbye)

[readingbythestreetlights]

mr. ronnie hextall circa 2021

[coffee-at-annies]

What if we NYI swept us in the regular season so we can sweep / take the series vs NYR because who knows? Before the doomers rise: we still can easily catch NYI in the standings w 18GP to go and a 2 pt gap in their favor. hard to imagine that scenario when after the Oilers game we were outside of a playoff spot because Detroit was hot only 2 weeks ago. Also erasing a 4-0 deficit vs a Metro team two games ago was already huge in case everyone forgot

Oh I’m not dooming and glooming. It was a disappointing loss to an otherwise good game but I’m not letting it get me down. This team is looking way better than it did before I took the time off. Unlike the oilers game this looks like a team that wants to win. That’s important. If we don’t want to win then we can’t scrape wins out of games that should have been losses.

We’ve struggled really hard this season with beating teams that are flat out better than us - both in the standings and on the stats sheet. We can play down to teams easily enough - that’s what happened to CBJ on Tuesday; nice as the comeback felt, CBJ is the worst team in the league and this was always their game to blow. I don’t know if the isles are a better team than us but last night we looked like the better team for long stretches. That’s really encouraging. We’ve gone into games against playoff teams and did not look like we were even trying to win, just get out of the game. There’s no way we’re going to meet the islanders in the first round but I can see a playoff series with them going either way. That’s a good thing. It means the pens are shaping up.

The only place the isles looked consistently better than us? Goalie. I love Jarry. He’s my favorite player on the team. The better goalie on the ice was Sorokin. He locked it down in the third and Jarry couldn’t. Now it’s not completely on Jars. The defense could have done more to help. We could have scored on the empty net. We could have not let up two back to back 1 on 0 breakaways in overtime to end the game. The pk in the first could have stopped the puck from crossing the line by inches. I’m not badmouthing our goalie but as much as I hate to admit it the better goalie won last night.

As for the rangers? Who knows. I don’t. I’m actually incredibly terrified for my tickets on Sunday. I’d like by believe we have a chance to not get swept by them but who knows. All I know is the Pittsburgh fanbase is not classy so there’s gonna be Igor chants on Sunday and the little hater that lives in my heart and wants nothing more than the rags to lose will have to fight the good little girl who also lives in my heart and thinks goalie chants are mean and dumb and we shouldn’t do them. Inside you there are two wolves etc etc etc.

[yabagofmilfs]

ron hextall and kyle dubas will not see heaven