What's up with the Pens?

[stieny]

they didnt lose half their team... thats the problem. they lost next to nobody special.

This is a good point.

Hossa was nobody special? Conklin? Roberts? Malone?

Now, I don't put all the blame on coaches and sometimes they do take a lot on their shoulders, good and bad.

But I can not understand why Hossa even still comes up. Does anyone remember when we were on the top of our division before the trade deadline last year without him? How about the beginning of the season this year when we where sitting pretty good within our conference?

I did like Conklin but he played 10 good games and didn't add any value to the team after that. Roberts was a good person to stir things up but he was also out a lot last year.

Malone was one of their bigger losses but I do not consider any of them to be "key" players. We should be able to win games without them and with the team we have.

I keep watching this team make the same mistakes over and over again. Could it be the players? Sure but you better believe that coaching is to blame too.

We have way too good of a team in raw talent to be sitting in 10th place at 27-25-5.

Lets turn it up NOW! Lets go PENS!!!!