Locked On Penguins - Daily Podcast On The Pittsburgh Penguins - Well, that was an unfortunate loss...

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

That one will sting for a little bit. Hunter is back for another recap episode as the Penguins dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker to the Hurricanes on Tuesday night. He starts out the show by blasting the NHL officials for somehow missing that penalty on Jarvis in overtime and how that's a textbook boarding call. He then goes at the players on the ice for the Penguins for basically quitting on the play and spending too much time whining to the refs. He explains how the team needs to keep playing in that situation, even though it should've been a penalty. After that, he breaks down the 6-on-5 goal and how the Penguins were FINALLY able to score one. He looks at how patient they were with getting that goal to get the point before looking at some of the negatives, which involved how lost Tristan Jarry was on the second goal. He also blasts Bryan Rust for another poor effort as he's currently having a season to forget thus far. What needs to change for him to bounce back? Finally, he roasts the power play and looks at what the Penguins need to do to get this thing going in the right direction. All that, plus much more on this episode of the Locked On Penguins podcast.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.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds, and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnNHL to learn more. 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, that's another unfortunate result for the Pittsburgh Penguins with this one. Three, two loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. For today's episode, we're going to get into everything that transpired in that game, from that awful non-call in overtime that involved Ryan Russ and Seth Jarvis, to the awful power play, to a six-on-five goal somehow in this economy, to Trishon Jari's Gaff on the second goal. That's all coming up right after this drop. You're a locked-on penguin.

your daily podcast on the Pittsburgh Penguins, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to a late Tuesday night episode of the Locked on Penguins podcast. I am your host, Honor Hodes. You're going to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hodes. You can also follow the shows, Twitter,

at Honearst for Penguins, and of course, thank y'all so much for making this your first listen of the day. Again, as you call can see, I am in the office of the upstairs part of it. my Richmond house and we are T-minus less than 40 hours away from officially moving to the Steel City. This was the last Penguins game and I have to fully recap here down in Richmond. But Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2, again, the Penguins could have had in overtime. They were kind of lucky to get a point, but they kept her playoff spot, but they just were not

able to get over the hump as they dropped this one, three to two in overtime. I got the score right. I just didn't get the result, right? So I'll get half credit. But next time I do one of those predictions on a crossover, I'm going to pick the penguins to lose, to say the least. But to sort of out this episode, you know, we got to start with what happened in overtime.

So two, two game, a little over a minute or a couple of minutes into overtime. And Brian Rust has the puck. And, you know, Rust has struggled a lot this season, definitely playing some of the worst hockey. I think I've ever seen him play, to be honest with you. And he just comes in there and he comes into the offensive zone, decides to button hook back, and then goes directly to the boards for some reason

where there's two other penguins just sitting there. And I'm like, that's the play that you're making? I just really did not understand it. And yes, what Seth Jarvis did, that is textbook boarding. Should have been called. You saw the Penguins Bench Furious. You saw Mike Sullivan do a beautiful Bruce Boudreau impression. right there.

That is a penalty 100 out of 100 times. If you don't think that is a penalty, get your eyes checked, stop being biased towards your team to Carolina fans mostly. I think even an objective hockey observer could see the battle's penalty. Wasn't called.

Carolina, the hurricanes go back the other way, two on O, the penguins lose. But the thing was, yes, it was a penalty, and yes, the bench was furious, but why did all of your controllers just disconnect? Why is Brian Rush just like kind of standing there?

Why is Jeff Petrie kind of going after Seth Jarvis in that situation? Jeff Carter, he's also nowhere near the place. He's like 10 leagues behind both Carolina players that came into the offensive zone on a 2-0. You've got to keep playing in that situation. That is just inexcusable by the penguins to do that. I'm sorry. Like you can be mad at the officials all you want. Trust me.

I was a little miffed as well just because NHL officiating. Let's face it. It stinks. Like, I don't know what. I've said that on almost probably every episode that I've recorded for this show. I've been doing the show for, what, over three years now at this point. And it's all officiating is a tire fire. Sometimes you're going to get the benefit of the doubt with some calls.

Sometimes you're not. That's life in the NFL. The penguins got bone tonight. Yeah, you can be upset, but you've got to keep playing in that situation. If they actually keep skating there, the hurricanes probably don't score. So, you know, I'm upset that the officials missed that call, but I'm also just as upset, if not more upset, the penguins, just their controllers disconnected,

like you're playing NHL 22, and you give up a goal with like less than a few, with just a few seconds left in overtime when you're playing online versus or like eight or like hut or something like that. Just a really stupid sequence to end the overtime session. I thought the penguins were the better team, the third period. And honestly,

the overtime period before before that chance both teams were kind of just playing keep away with the puck there really wasn't much going on overall until that play and then you know first team gets a chance it goes in and again it's unfortunate that the team could not get the result in this one but again you got to keep playing to the whistle and you can't be you know being babies and looking towards the refs all the time for calls and all that and because and again i'll say this for the fifth time. You're allowed to be upset, but you got to keep playing. That's the reality of this situation. And again, you know, Brian Rust, yeah, he's really struggled this season. He is not living up to his contract right now. I don't think that's bad to say or anything. And just the

play that he made even get over to that situation to begin with, really stupid. In my opinion, I don't know why he's even skating the puck over to the board. It's just a really brain dead play, I thought overall. So those are my main thoughts on the overtime. the overtime situation. It was, again, was it a very awful way to lose? Yes. Have I moved on? Also, yes.

The team got a point. They scored a six on five goal, which they have not done this season so far. They believe they only scored one or two, six on five goals last season. This is a team that struggles a lot in that situation. So I honestly will consider that a win for the penguin's night. I'm going to touch on that a little later on in this episode. But yeah, just a fortunate ending. And it was a really great game to watch.

outside of that just tired fire. And I actually did see a funny tweet. I think this came from a Hurricanes reporter where it was like the team that is victimized in that situation, they will always say that's a penalty while the team that committed the infractional would be like, well, his body wasn't all the way term,

which, you know, it was. I don't know how you can argue against that. Brian Russ's whole entire body was facing the boards and he went head first into it. That is a boarding call. Earlier this year, Brandon TNA, I've got a misconduct for that exact call. there is just there is no inconsistency when it comes to league officiating there isn't like there there

there has never been any consistency with the officiating in this league it's get worse every season and people talk about it especially in the playoffs and nothing gets fixed so I'm kind of just tired of talking about it at this point you know if I was 17 or 18 I probably would have blew a gasket but I'm 25 now I do a podcast and I try to be as objective as I can and I just you know, it's just not worth for me just getting enraged about it. They got a point. They're still in a playoff spot. They have stuff to fix, yes.

But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, at least they got the loser point out of that. But so a lot more to get to for this episode of the Locked on Penguins podcast. In case you all and haven't noticed, so one of the other people on the stream account is actually using it right now to record their episodes. So I'm recording this via Zoom. So I would not have my wonderful bet online little promo for you all.

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You can head to the website today or use your phone to learn more. That has been online where the game starts. All right, we're back in this episode of the Lockdown Penguins Podcast. I am your host, Honour Hodes. We're going to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hodes, follow the shows Twitter at Enlarso Penguins. And of course, thank you so much for making this your first listen of the day. So let's get into just the overall performance from the Penguins tonight.

If I just move my chair a little bit here, nope. There we go. There we go. That's, I think I was just like not centered as much for the video, at least. I don't know. I guess it's just a little different on Zoom. Overall, I thought the penguins first period, mostly okay, second period, not so good. Third period, they really took it to Carolina. And now, and I thought those first 10 minutes, they were getting some glorious chances kind of went down a little bit during those last five minutes. But then the penguins were able to get a few more good chances after that. And they were able to get, they were able to. to get their first six on five goal this season. Really nice job for the penguins to set that up. And it's funny, they're able to get a six on five goal and score on that man advantage.

But with five on four and all that other stuff with their actual power play, it's just an absolutely tire fire. Please explain that to me like I'm five. And I'll try my best to explain it to you all a little later on this episode because the power play is just a dumpster fire right now. But, you know, the penguins, it didn't rush any of their shots once they got in the zone and they set it up. with the six on five.

There were a couple times where I thought they were going to rip one with when Malkin was at the point, but he's able to give it off to the right half boards, gets it back to Petrie. He rips it. Nice deflection from Gensel to get that passed on Coochee, as I am calling the Hurricanes netminder. And also great job from Gensel to just box out Red Burns. He made Burns just his, you know, I'm not going to say that word on this podcast. I think you all will know on where I'm going, his personal, you know, what. And it just Burns had no chance of just getting in the way of Gensel. Really nice deflection

and able to tie the game with 50 seconds left. That is a goal, scores goal. And, you know, who else but Jake with that situation? Cindy Crosby was able to open the scoring, gets his 12th of the season. Really nice job, I thought, from P.O. Joseph to spring Gensel in the offensive zone who was able to then to get it to Crosby. We got it past Coochie. Just, you know, that breakout pass from P.O. was awesome. He's really starting to feel it. I think right now he's playing some of his finest hockey of this season. I'm definitely looking like he belongs in, you know, Gensel and Crosby, their connection is money. At this point, overall, underlying numbers wise, the hurricanes led the way at five on five with 52% of the shot attempts with the penguins led the way in

scoring chances with 63% high danger, 64% of those chances that they actually held the hurricanes to only one high danger chance in the third period at 5E5. Very nice job. fending wise for the penguins. And then with expected goals, the penguins had 51.2% of those. If you go to all situations, the hurricanes, they led the way in shot attempts with 55% of those, but the penguins led in spoiling chances, 59%. They also led in high danger chances, 17 to 12. But the hurricanes did lead in expected goals, 52% to 47%.

So this game, you know, it was dominated in spurts by both teams. I thought the penguins for the first 13 to 15 minutes of the first period, they were a better team after that i think that hurricanes were the better team from the five minute from about five minute mark to the first period through the entire second period and then the third period i thought the penguins were the better team throughout that period before overtime was just a wash until the hurricanes got their lone chance and they were able to score on that so you know kind of a kind of what i would expect you know you're not really going to dominate a team like the hurricanes for a full 60 minutes they're going to get their chances the penguins are going to get their chances it's all about

matter of, you know, who can finish the last one. And unfortunately, it was Carolinas. But, you know, I thought Crosby and Gensel looked great again. POJ was really good. A couple of players that, you know, did stay out to me in a negative way. I thought Tristan was mostly okay, but that second goal just can't go in. The pain was kind of got a little bit of an unlucky bounce. I thought on that second goal, wait in that second period.

I went off. I believe it was, was it Dumlin's skate in the neutral zone goes right to, Aho. He rips the shot. Should have easily been a glove save by Tristan. Don't know how it wasn't. And, you know, he just wasn't able to, you know, fully grip on it. And then the puck goes behind the net. Setshanakal comes and gets it.

And Jari is just way too late to react to getting to the other side of the post. Stetschnikov has an easy wrap around for a two one lead. That one can't go in. It was just, I think, a total brain fart from Tristan. Just not good enough for me. You know, he, otherwise he played a really good game, made some nice saves, had a couple nice saves on the two-on-ones, at least in the Penguins Power Play,

was just absolutely awful. But, you know, other than that, and other than a couple other good saves, I just did not like the play that he had on the second goal. That's just, you know, there's too many gaffs like that sometimes in his game. He just really needs to, I think, get those out of there, you know, if he really wants to be more consistent in the league.

Other negatives-wise, I think Brian Dumas was a little bit soft in that first goal that the hurricane score to tie it in the second period and that that goal felt like it was coming for a while but hurricanes were really rationing up the pressure there um on the penguins you know jari really no chance on a dupumelin just kind of standing there not really doing much i feel like he needs to have a little bit more of an active stick if you ask me those are the main negatives that i kind of point out tonight um don't know why jeff carter is getting meaningful meaningful ice time late in the third period and in overtime also honestly don't know why he's getting meaningful ice time at all right now

considering how bad he is. The third line continues to be an absolutely black hole. I could give you all numbers. They're right out there for you all to see on Natural Statrick. Money puck, whatever site you want to use. Evolving hockey, it's bad. You can switch out wingers all you want. As long as Carter is your third line center, it's going to be bad.

And I think not enough people are talking about how awful he's been for most of the season. And it's not pretty. Anytime that line is on the ice, they're not getting any chances. They're defending the entire time. That line is where offense goes to die. And if there's one area that this team really needs to upgrade in, I do think it is that third line. The fourth line, I think, is playing a lot better right now,

especially after Teddy Bluber turned. The Malkin line's been great. Crosby line's been great since Raquel went up there. But that third line is an absolute joke. And, you know, even tonight, just not going to. And honestly, you know what? I am going to give you the numbers for tonight. The, it was McGinn, Carter, Capnin.

They actually had, they were even in shot attempts, 11 to 10, but, you know, expected goals, actually not too bad either. Scoring chances were okay. But, you know, still, it's, you know, for the actual expected goals, 0.41 expected goals for when they were on the ice compared to if you look at the crosbie line 1.09 the zuckermalk the zuckerman russ line was 0.61 the third line was a bit better than the paling blue garter ball that one actually got caved in tonight funny enough but in that third line it really is just not doing enough right now and it's it's tough to watch so

um those are i think are my main most of my main negatives i'm going to spend the entire third I've been going over the power play and what the heck is wrong with it and all that. But, you know, overall, I thought it was mostly a fine performance from this team. They got outplayed in spurts. They outplayed the opposition in other spurts. You know, when it comes down to a coin flipping overtime, you win some and you lose some. They got the point. And, you know, I think that should be, at least that should be celebrated a little bit.

You know, I know it's not good to start off the homest game with one out of four points. Like, it's still got three more games. Yeah, Vegas coming in on Thursday. They got St. Louis coming in after that. They have another home game after that as well. But, you know, they got to keep banking points. You know, the Islanders lost tonight, which was big. The Flyers actually beat them funny enough.

The Capitals, you know, they could win tonight. They're out in Vancouver. Last night, I checked, they were up to nothing with two of Etchen goals. But, you know, yeah, they got to keep banking points in those situations. But, yeah, that wraps up this second segment of this recap episode. Coming up after this. commercial break, excuse me, we're going to get into the powerplay and just why it continues to be absolute mud. So stick around for that coming up right after this commercial break.

All right, I'm back on this episode of the Locktown Penguins podcast. I am your host, Honour Hodes. Remember to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hodes and also follow the shows Twitter at Elmastor Penguins. And of course, thank you also much for making this your first listen of the day. So a couple times tonight the Penguins were able to get power plays. And no, I think I'm just at the point now where they should just decline them. They're not making any changes with the, you know, with the, what's the what I'm looking for here. With the deployment on his silver sign, same five players, the last few games with Petri up there, they're not putting Rickel up there for some reason, even though he has a booming shot and has a great first,

has a great pass in the offensive zone. They're continuing to have Petrie quarterback. And yeah, I know Latang was out tonight, so that makes sense. But still, why is Raquel just? not up there. I don't really understand. And even when Latang probably comes back on Thursday because he was out with a knownness, it's probably just a little stomach bug. You know, it's probably going to be the same deployment that you see. And they're not going to be making any adjustments. And, excuse me, I understand a lot of blame should be at Ta Reardoncy because he is the one that

wants this unit. But also Mike Sullivan does have a hand in this as well. He can change up that deployment whenever he wants. He has a hand in this as well. And Honestly, I think Jesse Marshall of the athletic summed up the powerplay even better than I ever could. He said tonight, it's reactive in everything they do. The system is still. Opposing penalty killers know exactly what they will be facing from breakout to the offensive zone. Lack of creativity is directly tied to their best players consistently being bullied to the perimeter of the ice. Jesse, that is 1,000% accurate.

And I've been seeing that almost every time they come on to the ice, their best point, players. Three surefire Hall of Famers are not getting to the prime scoring areas and they're being pushed to the perimeter where that's a low danger area. You're not going to get any good schooling chances from that spot. Other same issues occurred tonight. They're still going backwards to go forwards. You go into the zone. You get one shot on net. It goes back the other way. Even when it sometimes goes in the offensive zone. They make a pass. It gets intercepted. You're going back to the other way for two-on-ones. Evgeny Malkin had a couple brutal passes in the offensive zone that led to a couple chances that Trish and Jerry had to, that he had to save, excuse me. It's just a awful unit right now.

And I know I get paid to do this podcast to give you the best analysis that I have when it comes to this power play. I'm honestly running out of things to say when it comes to how awful this unit is. It sucks. It flat out sucks. I don't know how much more clear I have to be than that. Nothing about it is good. This is probably the worst penguin powerplay I have ever seen in the Sydney Crossley of Guinea-Malk and Christensen era.

It is unacceptable for a unit with that much talent, even outside of those things with Jake Denzel, Brian, Russ, Ricardo, Raquel, Jeff Petrie, unacceptable for a unit like that to be that bad. Honestly, at this point, I would start throwing out the second unit to start the powerplays to see if they can get anything going. putting out the first unit, you know, and see if they want to start scoring in that situation. But it is costing the Penguins numerous chances to take over games.

It's killing momentum for them. Everything about it is gross. As Jesse said, it's stale. The best players are being forced to the perimeter of the ice. And another great thing that he said as well, the opposition's penalty killed, they know exactly what is coming every single time. it's so easy to game plan for it. Honestly, I hate saying this and comparing sports. It's honestly like preparing for the Steelers offensive scheme. And you all know, if you are

Stewart's hands to listen to my show, you'll listen to Chris Carter blocked on the Steelers, who does a great job. You know, Matt Canada is doing a horrible job over there with his scheme. And even though Kenny Pickett's showing some strides each week, you saw that Colts player on Monday Night Football, if you guys were watching that game saying, it's the same damn place. Well, I think other penalty killers are saying right now, it's the the same thing every time with the penguin's penalty kill, with the penguin's power play deployment, and with the way they're playing on that unit,

it stinks. Like, and they got to make some changes with it because, again, it is killing them right now. So, I know I was fired up about that. I apologize if hopefully all didn't turn, tune me out because then I didn't want to turn into a much,

more of a fan or anything, but man, that unit just sucks the life out of you. It really does because of how awful it truly is. But I honestly think that will probably do it for this episode of the Locktime Hengen's podcast. I don't really think I missed anything from this game. It was a lot of fun to watch. I would love to see these two teams play in a playoff series. They got the point.

Just stinks how the game ended. And, you know, the top line can you know, to play well. I thought the Malkin line created some good chances. The fourth line was fine, the third line. still needs work and then the power play of course continue to just be a joke but also will say the penalty kill you know almost basically I think they're at 20 for 20

right now since we were to come back on November 15th two weeks ago the PK is back in the top 10 league wide it is humming right now to say the least so again that will do it for this episode of the Locktime Penguins podcast I apologize I was not on the restream account for this one I will have my

intro from the restream account whenever the person has recording I now finishes but for this episode you will be hearing it via Zoom audio and via a Zoom video. So again, that will do it for this one. Hope you all enjoyed listening to it. I'll be back with another episode on Wednesday to preview that game against the Vegas Golden Nights.

And then Thursday, I'll be coming to you live from Pittsburgh, either from my new house or from the hotel room that we'll be staying in that night before I officially fully move into my house on Friday. So again, thank you all so much for listening. Hope you all have a great rest of your Tuesday. I will talk with you all on Wednesday.