Well, I haven't begun a new monthly thread for awhile, so what have we got to lose ??
Justifiably appears to be a fair amount of depression in Pens Nation coming off the turd they dropped in the punch bowl last night. It was around this time (maybe a little earlier) last season that I was starting to think this team might not have the same ability of the previous 2 seasons to turn it on when they needed to.
But even though it remains a VERY long season, I'm starting to think this team actually MAY struggle to even make the playoffs. Just too many continuing questions in goal and on the blue line, while asking Sid, Geno, and Kessel all to approach 100 points solely to offset all their other issues seems an awful lot to ask.
Presumably, we'll see good stretches (as we saw a week ago); but I'm currently not confident this team is good enough to go on one of those 8 wins in 10 games streaks it'll needf to establish itself as a given for the post season.
Justifiably appears to be a fair amount of depression in Pens Nation coming off the turd they dropped in the punch bowl last night. It was around this time (maybe a little earlier) last season that I was starting to think this team might not have the same ability of the previous 2 seasons to turn it on when they needed to.
But even though it remains a VERY long season, I'm starting to think this team actually MAY struggle to even make the playoffs. Just too many continuing questions in goal and on the blue line, while asking Sid, Geno, and Kessel all to approach 100 points solely to offset all their other issues seems an awful lot to ask.
Presumably, we'll see good stretches (as we saw a week ago); but I'm currently not confident this team is good enough to go on one of those 8 wins in 10 games streaks it'll needf to establish itself as a given for the post season.