this game was so bad it made me want to puke. Gonchar returned to the line up, but the PP still looked terrible, just as it did earlier this season with him and all spring last year with him. That sentence was not meant to be a knock on Gonchar who is a great defensemen, it was meant to shut all the people up that are always blaming our PP woes on the fact that Gonchar is hurt. We have enough talent on our team that one injury should not derail the PP. It is time for Mike Yeo to be re-assigned, he is a terrible PP coach, I am not sure he is even aware there are different PP formations. My personal favorite, about our PP is how we just leave the left point man standing at the point and never use him for anything but trying to keep Malkins shots that go wide of the net in the zone and the vocational back door play from Crosby that everyone in the league knows is coming. As my friend Eric told me "Our PP is so bad that I wish we could just decline penalties". I laughed when he said that, but unbelievably I have heard others echo the same sentiment.
Now that I got that out of my system lets touch on something positive:
Jordan Staal has been awesome so far this season, he is growing into his frame and becoming very difficult for other teams to handle. He has been in the league long enough now to prove to me that he will never be an elite scorer, but I would expect him to put up between 20-30 goals every season while racking up huge puck possession minutes in the offensive end, and shutting down the other teams top scoring unit.
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