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Free Falling Penguins

From Craig Simpson at CBC’s hockey blog:

There is some serious concern and all kinds of tough questions coming out of Pittsburgh.

This Penguin team is a shell of the one we watched in June, and despite the legitimate excuse of some key injuries to Ryan Whitney and Sergei Gonchar and the departure of Marian Hossa, Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts, they have underachieved in a big way.

Pittsburgh still boasts two of the three top scorers in the NHL, but even Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby have not been themselves. Malkin, the NHL leading scorer has zero goals in his last right games and has only two points in six. Crosby has done more damage with his fists than his stick lately with just two goals in his last 17 games played, and has been held pointless in eight of those 17.

If the players have tuned out their head coach Michel Therrien and are trying to get him fired, they are doing a good job.

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Filed in: NHL Teams, Pittsburgh Penguins | KK Hockey | Permalink
 Tags: evgeni+malkin, michel+therrien, sidney+crosby,

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Yep Craig It definitely changed “The Room” after the trade when they went to the Finals, Before losing to the Machine know as Detroit

They Have tuned Out MT & Mike Yeo who runs the PP is a JOKE

MT is a Ball Buster Nothing More & Ball Busters come with an Expiration Date when Hired, Mike Keenan is Light Years a Better Coach than MT & he has the same Problem, Tortorella had the same problem

Posted by Evilpens on 01/06/09 at 05:40 PM ET

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