Locked On Penguins - Daily Podcast On The Pittsburgh Penguins - Casey DeSmith and the top line CARRIED the Penguins to that win!

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

The Pittsburgh Penguins got the win on Tuesday night, but it hardly came easy. Hunter starts the show out by praising Casey DeSmith for his performance as he was busy right from the opening faceoff. He goes into how his active stick, plus his movement really shined in this one, plus how he looked a lot more aggressive compared to normal. He analyzes some of the saves that he was able to make and how the Penguins got some strong goaltending from him not just in this game, but in two of his prior three starts as well. After that, Hunter looks at how great the top line performed as Sidney Crosby was the best player on the ice. He analyzes the first Jake Guentzel goal as the two took a play right out of the Tampa Bay Lightning's playbook from 2011. Oh, I bet you know that one. He then touches on how it seems like Jake Guentzel is having a "down year" eye test wise but when you look at the numbers, he's still having good production. Why is that? Does something still seem amiss about him? Finally, Hunter goes into a brutal coaching blunder from David Quinn toward the late stages of this contest and then slams the team for still looking broken. All of that, plus a look ahead to the schedule, is on this episode of Locked On Penguins.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.Athletic GreensTo make it easy, Athletic Greens will give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NHLNETWORKFanDuelMake Every Moment More. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet to get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in Free Bets – win or lose! Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get startedFANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Well, at least they won, right? 3-1 win, 10.30 start time, playing the sharks, get the two points to one on the road trip. Things are looking up, right? Well, maybe, but maybe not. Sur off the show, I'm going to get into who really played well in this game versus who not, who did not play well in this game. That's all coming up right after this drop.

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that's kind of how i felt after that game you get the win oh you get the two points you finish the road ship two of one but something about this team still does not seem right um overall i thought this was a very rotten performance by most of the penguin skaters i would say outside of the top line plus Casey to Smith. Everyone else played like crap. The hockey stat cards with the average game score for the Penguins. That matches up from what I saw.

Cindy Crosby, Jake Gensover, Carderichael, Casey to Smith carry them in this game. Everyone else can go kick rocks after this one. I don't think a single other skater really jumped out to me. Maybe you can argue Drew O'Connor, Jason Zucker a little bit. But otherwise, don't really

think anyone played well in this one. I'll start with Casey to let's start with him to kick off today's show. Magnificent performance from him. I think this was one of his finest starts of the season. He was billing them out 10, 15 seconds into the game. For those that did not watch, I understand. 10.30 start.

Shout out to the people that actually stayed up to 1-1-15 in the morning on a freaking Tuesday into Wednesday. You all are also the real MVP. If you do not stay up, I don't think any less of you. People have work the next day. I get it. But for those that did not stay up, penguins gave up a couple of odd man rushes right away. The sharks were really taking it to them in the first five, ten minutes of that first period.

And DeSmith was shutting the door. And he kept shutting the door. Throughout the game, he only gave up one goal, came with about four minutes left. In the third period, really nice rush by Tim O' Meyer, who I'm sure is going to go to a metropolitan division team. Probably not the Penguins, even though I would make a run in him. And yeah, he's probably going to be a phone on their side for a lot more games. down the trash. Maybe not for Carolina because the penguins, they don't play the hurricanes the rest of the way unless they would draw them

in the first round of the playoffs. But he's a very good player and it's going to be tough going up against him. But to Smith, I just loved the way he looked last night. 38 saves on 39 shots. He was really active with his stick. A couple instances where the puck was behind the net, then the charts were trying to pass it in front for a cassering pass. There's some of that, right?

and as Smith was able to put a stick out, block it, goes to the corner, Peng was able to get that quick clear and they're going from defense to offense very quickly. Really liked his alertness there. Also liked how aggressive he was. He was coming out of the net. A lot more wasn't playing deep in his crease

was squaring up to shooters, making a lot of solid glove saves. I thought even when he went down, he stacked his pants together and a couple very quality chances for the sharks. And he was awesome. I think, again, outside of the, I would say outside of Sydney Crosby, if you want to rank those four players, Crosby, Den, Solrickell, and Dismith,

he was the second best player on ice. And heck, you can even make an argument that he was the best player on the ice. He was outstanding for this team. The sharks had 16 high danger chances to the Penguins 11. So the fact that he was able to save 15 of those, those show the sharks also had 57% of the expectations. of the expected goal. So he was seeing a lot of high volume shots, scoring chances.

Close, but 29 for the sharks, 23 for the Penguins. They had the better of the play, but to Smith was a wall. And, you know, this was the game where I thought Tristan Jari was going to go. I was very surprised, like I'm sure a lot of you were, that Tristan

was not going, but they held him out. The Penguins flew home today on Wednesday. I'm sure he's going to get a practice on Thursday. And I'm Pretty, I'm saying about 85% and 90% sure that Tristan is going to go this weekend. They probably just wanted to get him to get an extra practice and make sure that he is 110% before he comes back. So, Desmith played. I know people were nervous just because of what happened in Los Angeles.

But, you know, over this last week, since the Penguins have come back from the All-Star rate, look at this. We didn't one record. And I would say in those starts, in those four starts that he has had, Colorado game, Excellent. One of his finest starts in this season. Anaheim game. Didn't have to do too much. Gave up a couple of garbage time goals.

Very good. King's game, you started on a back-to-back. Okay, whatever. He didn't look that good. Maybe a little bit of Maligan. Sure. This game last night against sharks, a team that is bad,

but is poached offensively with Eric Carlson, Tim O'Meer, Tomas Hurtle, Logan Couture, can keep going. You know, Nick Benino is still putting up okay offensive numbers. Not the greatest like he used to, but still okay. They have talent there.

Smith gives up one goal in 60 minutes, fails his team out constantly on man rushes, makes a lot of high danger saves. Three and one. If you would have told me that Big Penguins will be three and one coming out of the all-star break with Casey to Smith leading the way, I'd sign up for that every single time. And I think you all would as well.

No, because Tristan, again, he's still not back as of right now, but I think that's going to change obviously very soon by the weekend. But, you know, for the most part, he's starting to clean it up a little bit, which is nice. I know he has his inconsistencies. And yeah, has it been a tough season for him? Absolutely. I've been critical to him on the show. Other people in the media have been critical of him in their articles and on their shows. Fans have been critical of him on Twitter.

He's inconsistent. That's what a backup is a lot of time. But in this last week and change, for the most part, 77% of those games, he's been very good. And he's been a key reason why the Penguins have gotten six out of a possible eight points in this last week to really stake their claim on the top wildcards part right now. Still have games in hand on the Capitals. Islanders lost last night.

Again, that's huge going into Friday night's game against them. The Penguins can sweep two of those next three against the Islanders. I mean, it'll be very hard for them to come to climb out of because the Penguins have four games in hand right now. And there are two points up on the Islanders. But Casey DeSmith was awesome. Goaltending was a big difference last night. And honestly, I don't even know if I should truly say that because Aaron Dell was good. He made a lot of very quality saves on the Penguins, another random goaltender,

another random backup goaltender who wants to play very well against them. He was still fine. But if that was anything less than stellar from DeSmith, the Penguins probably. probably lose that game. You know, honestly, I would say Yins, if that game is not against, the sharks, maybe the Blackhawks, coyotes, blue jackets, am I missing? The Ducks, five. They probably lose that game. They probably can beat those five teams by playing the way they did last night. Otherwise, they probably get blown out by any other team at all. Really rotten performance, but they were saved by Casey Smith.

And coming up in the next segment, I'm going to tell you why they were saved by the top line as well. Because Sydney Crosby especially was the best player on the highest in the get into that. Jake Gansomber, Carter, Kaleh were also great as well. But before I get into that, let's take a quick minute to discuss Fandual. The midway point of the NBA season is here, and now is the perfect time to download Fandual. America's number one sports book.

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I am your host, Hunter Hodes. I'm going to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hodes. All of the show's Twitter at L.O. Arnold's for Penguins, and, of course, thank you all so much for making this your first listen. Other day. Recording this at about 4.45, 5 o'clock on Wednesday. I've had some work stuff to do today, but glad we're able to fully record the episode for you all today. So outside of Casey DeSmith, the top line, excellent as always last night.

They were on fire. And it doesn't, you know, you go to natural satrick. And sure enough, they were the best line by far. When the Penguins line of Jake Gensel, Cindy Crosby and Recreverick-Rolek, they played 13 minutes at 5E-5. When they were on the ice, the penguins had 63% of the shot attempts. They also had two goals for, no goals against 78%. expected goals rate, 63% of the scoring chances, and 75% of the high dangerous scoring chances.

Sidney Crosby was ridiculous in this one. To honestly set his presence right away, or set the tone, I should say, right away with a thunderous hit. I'm trying to, I'm blanking on the Sharks player that he hit, but it was the hit of the game on AT&T Sportsnet. Right in the first period, right in the first few shifts, just set the tone. He was fired up coming to this game. first game this kind of, was not happy with how things transpired in Los Angeles. He's been playing a lot of real good hockey as of late, 17 points in his last 11 games. Now, only Matthew Kuchuk in that time span has had more points than him.

He also made sure I was out of Casey Smith that they were not going to go down and lose this game. Three assists for the captain, including the old, going to ruffle some feathers here, including the old Sean Bergenheim, Dominic Moore play from 2011. You all know what I'm talking about for newer Penguins fans. That was a series where they were without Sidney Crosby of Guinea Malkin and lost game seven to

Dwayne Rawlison, who yes, was a goaltender in this league. And the only goal that was scored in that game was when Sean Bergen behind was behind the net, did a no look past to Dominic Moore, fired in the back of the net. piece of cake. It's exactly what Crosby did here. To Jake Gensel,

Arindell, it looked like, was chasing, you know, Crosby behind that. I wouldn't say he was chasing him behind the net, but he was definitely fooled by him, to say the least. And was looking one way. Crosby goes back to Gensel, fires it off the post, goes off Dells,

button in. again, the old Moore Bergenheim play. Still gives me PTSD because the Penguins easily could have won that series. They probably don't get Malkin or Crosby back if they go on to round two. They were kind of playing with house money at that point. But still a series, they probably should have won. They went up three games to one in that series. You know, whatever.

I believe that was a key Bouchet's coach team. Anyways, getting off track, just a little bit. That was a beautiful pass from Crosby. Just, you know, the eyes in the back of his head. As always, had a, Assists on the Rourkeh goal, which I'll get to in just a second. But, I mean, Sid had ice in the back of his head, I would say all game tonight. Last night, Yidd's was making beautiful stretch passes, had a couple of quality scoring chances himself.

Aaron Dell made a couple of nice saves on him. But forwards-wise, I think he was the best forward on the ice. Was not close. One of his best games of the season where the Penguins really needed him most, he delivered. And that's how I think it's going to have to be down the stretcher. They've played, what, 53 games, got 29 games left in the regular season before the playoff start. You know, you are going to need your best players to be your best players here.

And sure enough, Sid was that last night. Just spectacular hockey from him. And, you know, he's on fire right now. Jake Gensel, he gets two goals. Look like he, you know, he could have had a hat trick late, but ended up not having it. But, you know, solid job on the. first one to get to get it and then he also gets the empty netter that v as he is mr empty net

um at this point and remember the gensel goal that was the one that made it um to nothing in the second period after recurre rakel made him one-nothing i'm gonna get to him in just a second but um you know it's funny when you think of jake gensel season to date you know he's not really blown you away right you know it seems something seems off a little bit i mean maybe it's because i've predicted him this 4 or 50 this year. But you look at him, it's like, okay, he has 23 goals, 49 points in 49 games, so he's a pointer game player. But it's almost at the same time you're thinking like, man, should he be producing a little more? Like, is that like, weird of me to think that? Because it's something that just hasn't seemed right with him

for the last few weeks. But yet, again, he's still producing and he almost, he almost has 50 points and we've got almost less than 30 games left. So that, I mean, that's just goes. to show that despite not having the year that he's maybe envisioning himself having, he's still producing, he's still playing fine, and he's still at a point of game. So maybe he goes to another level towards the late stage of the road season and in the playoffs because he is, you know, Mr. Playoffs with how good he is, you know, during that time. But you just wanted to point that out, you know, I'm glad that he got the two goals last night. But something still seems, it feels like it seemed a little honest.

with him. It's a little weird. And then finally, Rickel, he gets his 19th of the season. Sharks, you know, probably could have challenged

for goal interference on that. I did put in tweet out. I said there's no chance that's interference, but then I did see the replay. I'm like, well, I old takes exposed myself. There was contact in the crease there.

David Quinn opted not to challenge it, and he opted not to do a lot of things last night. I thought he really was a horrendous coach. And I'm going to get to that in just a second as well. But, But, you know, they decided not to challenge. They had a very good case. I think they probably could have won it.

But Penguins made it 1-0, and they will take that. Rakel. I thought he was all over the ice as well. He was getting quality of scoring chances, was forechecking relentlessly, was playing well in his own zone too. That top line, it's been cooking a little bit lately, and it cooked a lot last night. I really love that Gensel-Kroxby-Rekyll line.

And that just goes to show. I know Crosby may like playing with Rust, but whichever line Rust touches, it kind of goes to crap a little bit. And that is proven here. You know, when we go down to hockey stats cards with the game score, Brian Rust had the worst game score of anyone on the team last night. Honestly, the Zucker Malkin Rust line had the worst game scores combined out of anyone on the team. Russ was close to minus two overall. Zucker was, you know, not minus one and a half. And then Gino was, you know, minus one in one quarter.

It feels like every line that Russ touches, it just, you know, kind of goes to crap a little bit. And, you know, the second line's been awesome for a lot of this year. But definitely wasn't last night. I mean, at least two-thirds of it had with Zuckre and Malkin. You know, Zuckers, I think, been the most consistent board. And Malkin has had some really good games. Definitely, that was not last night. I thought he was brutal.

And that game was turning the fuck over constantly. not getting any good looks defensively, thought he was atrocious. You know, it's one of those mulligan games, which you know, where I'm sure he's going to come out on Friday and score a goal or two and, you know, have like a three and four point nine

because, you know, that's just, that's who have getting mulkinsed at this stage of his career. So, but, you know, that Gensel-Crossby-Rekyll line. It's awesome. I think it's going to continue to be awesome. And again, and outside of Casey to Smith, you know, that line was the biggest reason why they won. So really wanted to, you know, dig into that performance.

those performances and just look at why the Penguins won when that line was on the ice and how hopefully Matt can continue moving forward. I think the line's going to cause a lot of teams fits down the stretch here. But that wraps up this segment. Coming up in the final segment, we're going to get into some other coaching blunders that I saw from the sharks in this game. What other things the Penguins can take out of it heading into Friday's game on the island against the islanders another massive game for the end. and just looking ahead to the schedule because it's about to get really brutal for the penguins. But before we get to that, if you're looking for a delicious trait but don't want all the fat

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So you can thank me later on both of those for Sam's Club and Walmart. All right, I'm back in this episode of the Lockdown Penguins podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Hode. So you're going to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hode. Follow this show's Twitter at Eleanorstle Penguins. And, of course, thank you all so much for making this your first list of the day. So a couple coaching blunders that I saw last night, at least one of them that I saw. Late in the game, Penguins are up, two to one.

This was after Team Omyr scored. For those who are not watching it. So, you know, three minutes come down. Usually that's old two or not. Then it comes down to two minutes and the third period. A lot of coaches now, analytically, they start to pull the goalie around there. A minute 30. a minute, he finally pulls the goalie with 50 seconds of the penguin score five seconds later,

Jake Gensel against the empty dinner. I'm like, that's a little late to be pulling your goal. You look like an intentional tanking move by David Quinn. And, you know, I know the shark stink. Don't get me wrong. They're in it. He's trying to get Connor of a dark. But, dude, you got to give your, you got at least give your chance.

You got to at least give your team a little bit of a chance to tie the game there. Just gave the penguins the win on a silver platter towards the late stage of the third period. They didn't even have to defend right there. That was just very weird to say the least. That was just some loser coaching. Didn't even call his timeout. I don't know what they were doing. This is a shark's team that, again, they played better as of late.

They went to Washington, whoop the capitals. They went down to Tampa Bay, whoop the lightning, gave Carolina all the fits they could have, beat the penguins in Pittsburgh. the team's been fine decent, but he coached like a loser in this one. I don't know what the heck that was. So that was definitely a little bit weird.

He didn't even have some of his top six players out towards the late stages of the game, which was also all he was going with their bottom six. I mean, just, you know, coaching, it's just loser stuff right there. You know, bad teams stay bad, and the Penguins, you know, they'll take those two points and run with them.

Other miscellaneous observations that I had in this one. Third line continues to be an absolute joke, but that's nothing new. Brockham again, this is now what? 20th, 25, I believe it's his 21st game in a row now without a point, 19th game in a row without a goal. It's bleak for him. I know he has decent defensive impacts, decent on the PKK. Outside of that, though, there's nothing much going on there. He needs a good play-driving third center to thrive, I think, on this team. He needs someone that can drive offense and produce and get him the podcast. because Jeff Carter's not that guy.

Carter's been skating in mud the whole season. Honestly, been skating in mud since the second half of last season. It is not happening right now. When it comes to that line, it's very captain. He had a decent chance at least. He fired one off the shoulder of Arundel, hit the post or crossbar. So a little bit better, but still,

that line is not doing it. When they were on the ice, eight minutes of five on five time, Penguins at 37% of the shot attempts, 39% of the expected goals, 25% of those scoring chances, you know, garbage. Just straight up trash. And, you know, and again, it remains the single biggest weakness, I think, for this team right now. And actually, I saw all sat today from a CK.

4-04 response code on Penguins Twitter that, you know, this is, this is, we're in just a little bit of scary hours here. And I'll share this right now. You know, per money puck, again, is the worst expected goals of any non-bottom-fine team player in the league. He's right up there with Ryan Reeves, Matt Martin, and Nick Ritchie. Brock McGins' expected goals percentage this year at five on five is 41.9%. It's garbage.

I mean, it's, that's just bad. Still got two more years left to $2.75 million. Great contract for next all, really. It's just a blunder that didn't need to happen. And you're seeing it right now. I mean, he needs a heater to produce. And, you know, I try to warn people. this was going to happen and some people thought I was drinking the Kool-Aid.

This is what happens. Third line was bad. Dr. O'Connor came in, played fine. You know, he's still a little bit of the unknown to me. I would rather see him in the lineup compared to some of the other bottom six guys right now. And maybe he will be considering that paling was a late scratch because of that nagging injury for the last couple months. I'm not really sure if he's going to be playing in that game on Friday or Saturday.

We'll have to see if he practices on Thursday. I'd like to see a little bit more of him. You know, it seems that it comes at the expensive paling because I thought he was really playing a bit better ever since coming back from the injury for the second time. But, you know, if he has to miss a few games, you know, at least we'll get to see O'Connor in there because I thought he looked decent last night, to say the least.

I don't really like the amount of Auden rushes his team has been giving up on a nightly basis at this point. It's just kind of annoying, to be honest. they're still not starting games on time, especially against a team like the sharks. Come on, man, it's the sharks. You can't be letting a team like that outskate you. I thought the penguins were about the outskated in this one.

Out hustled, outchanced, outmanned, I guess if you want to say, if that makes sense, out physicaled, if you want to say it like that, not a lot of good stuff from this one. This team still looks broken in a lot of ways. And I'm not sure if one or, or even two moves can truly fix us to get them back to being a cup contender. Because more or less right now, this is the roster they've had envisioned for this season. Minus Jan Rudah, minus Justin Jari, minus Ryan Paley.

Jari's probably going to come back this weekend, minus a player who they add, minus two players who they added in the all season. This is more or less the team that they thought they were going to see in the season. And it's still playing like, you know, crap a lot of times. whether you got the win, you get four out of six points, and that's what I said coming into this last week. You got to bank four out of the six points on this trip because two of those teams are really bad.

You lose to the Kings, sure, the kings are really good, but you got to beat the ducks. You've got to beat the sharks, especially after you also just beat the avalanche at home. Exx out of a possible he points that's, you know, everything you could ask for in this last week and change. Now, it gets tougher, get the Islanders, really been struggling in the last three games.

They only have two points to show for it by losing the senators, the Canucks, and the Canadians. This team looks like it's completely broken right now. Penguins got blown out the last time they went up to the island. Five to one was the final. This team is reeling. You've got to take advantage of that. Tristan, hopefully we'll get the start.

Gotta see a better form is in this one. If you can get the two points here in regulation, you're not only four points up on the islanders. You still got four games in hand on it. And then if you beat them next week, you potentially six points up on them. We still have three to four games don't handle them. You know, it's almost, you know,

they almost can't come back from that. So that's how big that is coming up. And, you know, Penguins have a very busy stretch of games coming up here. Nine games in 16 days. Six of those nine games, nice, of course, against play all teams and another one against Florida Panthers. Penguins to beat the Panthers twice this season. They've only given away one point to the Panthers,

that's whatever, but still we really like. to beat the Panthers that last time. Try to, you know, just, you know, the ball is in your hands here. Yeah, the math is on your side. You have the games in hand, but those only matter again, you can win them. So that does it for this episode of Locktime Penguins podcast. I really appreciate all of you listening to this one. Again, big stretch coming up.

Islanders, Devils, Islanders, Panthers. We can go on and on and on. A lot of tough games here coming out. They got Nashville before the end. end of the month. Edmonton comes to town who've been playing very well. Big stretch here. Let's be curious to see how the Penguins come out of the deadline is. In just about two weeks, I'm sure Ron Hextall is waiting it out, see if he can get someone probably for the deadline because a lot of selling GMs are just a bunch of bozos who asked

for way too much. I saw the report last night that, you know, Gavrikov of the blue jackets. They're asking for three picks for him. What are we doing this? Ben Sharrat 2.0. You know, no one really even heard of him coming into this year. It's just selling GMs are hilarious, man. But again, that would do it for this one. Really appreciate I'll be listening. I'll back with another episode for you all. On Thursday, we're going to go over some trade stuff.

I believe with that special guest. And then we'll be previewing the game against the Islanders on Friday, a massive game against them on the Island. And then on Friday, I'll be recapping the Islanders game directly after it concludes. So again, thank you all so much for listening. Hope you all have a great Wednesday. It's 70 degrees today in Pittsburgh. It's going to get a bit colder.

But I would enjoy this on. I hope you do as well. Have a great day, everybody.