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Pittsburgh Penguins analyst • Semi-retired hockey coach • Combining video and data for comprehensive hockey analysis

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined October 2019
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2 years
Najee Harris trying to run like Le'Veon Bell instead of running like Najee Harris is becoming a massive problem.
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A team that had: Joe Thornton Jason Spezza Nick Foligno Wayne Simmonds just blew a 3-1 series lead to an inferior opponent in the first round. I never want to hear about "veteran presence in the locker room" ever again.
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Here’s Sidney Crosby on his game misconduct. “Can I really say what I think anyway?”
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10 months
Raise your hand if you had a Sidney Crosby fight on your preseason bingo card
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EVGENI MALKIN JUST WENT FULL-ON BEAST MODE
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2 years
Brad Marchand punches Tristan Jarry in the side of the head, then moments later swings his stick at Jarry's head. Suspend him.
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A lottery pick would’ve been cool. You know what’s cooler? Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and Erik Karlsson in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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2 years
Moment of silence for Franco Harris at PPG Paints Arena before puck drop.
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2 years
Crosby is dialed in.
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2 years
Sidney Crosby is back in town and out on the ice right now with some of his teammates at the Lemieux Complex in Cranberry. This is not a drill.
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Erik Karlsson threads a brilliant pass to Evgeni Malkin for a tip-in goal on the power play.
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2 years
We can split hairs about the Trouba hit on Jarvis for days. The reality is, there’s a very clear trend of Trouba injuring opponents while he and the Rangers go on unpunished.
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2 years
Welcome to the Sidney Crosby edge work clinic.
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3 months
For the Penguins to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs: PIT beats NYI PHI beats WSH (any fashion) MTL beats DET (any fashion) OR PIT OT loss to NYI PHI beats WSH (regulation) MTL beats DET (regulation)
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2 years
Brian Boyle has joined the goal of the year discussion.
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Mike Sullivan has been head coach of the Penguins for 9 seasons. There have been only 23 coaches in NHL history to spend 10+ seasons with a single team. Sullivan has missed the playoffs two seasons in a row and hasn’t won a series since 2018. It’s time.
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3 years
Evgeni Malkin picks up his first goal of the season with a bomb on the power play, along with a beautiful screen from Sidney Crosby.
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2 years
Incredible play from Sidney Crosby to hold the blue line on the sequence leading up to Rickard Rakell's goal.
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1 year
The Penguins are going to miss the playoffs for the first time since Sidney Crosby's rookie season. He and Evgeni Malkin were completely healthy and productive all year. It didn't matter. On an all-time failure in franchise history:
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1 year
Just a couple of guys being dudes.
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36-year-old Sidney Crosby is on pace for 111 points and leads the NHL in on-ice xGF/60 at 5v5.
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2 years
Really can't stress enough how ridiculous it is that, in a league full of young superstars, 34 year old Sidney Crosby keeps chugging as one of the NHL's premier drivers offensively. Just business as usual. viz via @JFreshHockey
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2 years
Imagine seeing this out of context 💀
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3 years
Remember folks,,, If the Penguins win tonight, they will win the Stanley Cup. If they lose, they are broken beyond repair and the world is ending.
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2 years
Sidney Crosby just hit the ice in advance of the Penguins’ practice at noon 👁👁
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9 months
Sharks might legitimately be the worst team of the cap era and they’re rostering multiple players from last season’s Penguins team.
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1 year
'FIRE HEXTALL' chant breaking out in PPG Paints Arena.
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3 years
Wounded Sidney Crosby is a dangerous man. He ties the game and cellies like a rockstar.
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2 years
Penguins can't score to save their lives for three postseasons in a row and follow it up by lighting up the soon-to-be Vezina-winner like a Christmas tree. Hockey makes zero sense.
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Pinpoint precision with each and every move.
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2 years
The Pittsburgh Pirates have won more playoff rounds than the Toronto Maple Leafs since 2004.
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Mike Sullivan’s actually gonna scratch Jeff Carter on Saturday. Wow.
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1 year
European players are constantly forced to don North American military warmup jerseys but wearing rainbows is a step too far. Unreal. NHL and some of its players are showing their whole ass.
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Eric and Marc Staal statement …
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Sidney Crosby points per game (career): 1.27 Sidney Crosby points per game (21-22): 1.27
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3 years
Cody Ceci leads all NHL defensemen with 10 points at 5v5 since March 27th.
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Penguins weren't losing after this.
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Sidney Crosby when asked if he might have earned the right to provide his input on re-signing Malkin and Letang: “Everybody knows how I feel about my teammates.”
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1 year
Sidney Crosby said he was laughing after his second goal this afternoon because Evgeni Malkin said he touched it. 😂
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2 years
Here's Kasperi Kapanen holding back Bryan Rust from going after Ryan Lindgren immediately following his goal.
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3 years
NHL teams with more wins than the Penguins this season: Vegas That’s it.
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When you leave Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on the bench to start the most important OT of the season
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2 years
The players are excited for a Thanksgiving feast at Sidney Crosby’s place before they take off for Philly later today.
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The Penguins have scored 11 goals through 3 games. Crosby (3) Rust (3) Malkin (2) Smith (2) Guentzel (1) They do not have a single goal from the bottom six or defense corps.
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Cracking up at this. “Per my tweet” — and the tweet is just a picture of a bridge.
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9 months
Cup contenders don't trot out Matt Nieto-Noel Acciari-Jeff Carter when they need a goal with 2.5 minutes left in the game. They just don't.
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Are the Pittsburgh Pirates legit this season?
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Reilly Smith coaching up Valtteri Puustinen on the Penguins' bench
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2 years
Brian Boyle has more between the legs goals in 2022 than the Flyers have wins.
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2 years
So spoiled.
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Over two minutes of Evgeni Malkin absolutely wiring pucks to the back of the net as a rookie:
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The Penguins are 3 points out of a playoff spot with 7 games remaining. 3 of those games are against teams they're chasing (WSH, DET, NYI).
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Ron Hextall has bemoaned the salary cap since his first season as Penguins GM. Yet he has the Penguins paying a combined $14.375 million for Jeff Petry, Mikael Granlund and Jeff Carter NEXT SEASON. This is entirely his own doing.
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Evgeni Malkin has: 24 points in 20 games 5 goals in his last 6 Only been held off the scoresheet three times this season The man is 35 years old.
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Unfortunately, I am being let go from DKPS. Saturday is my final day. Incredibly disappointed with how it’s ending, but working the Penguins beat was an incredible experience that challenged me in ways that I’d never been challenged before. Here’s to whatever’s next.
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DID BRIAN FREAKING BOYLE JUST GO TOP SHELF BETWEEN THE LEGS OH MY GOD
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2 years
This is your friendly reminder Heinen returned to the Penguins for a lousy $1 million because he loves this team and playing for Mike Sullivan.
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coming to a theater near you
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And then what happened?
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One team is rebuilding and the other is all in for the Stanley Cup 😂😂😂
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'FI-RE HEX-TALL' chants have returned.
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Brayden Yager with a shootout goal in his first NHL preseason game.
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Tristan Jarry stopped 39 of 41 shots he faced and saved 1.6 goals above expected tonight. Not bad. Oh, and he scored a goal.
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I walked into the locker room and asked Evgeni Malkin if he’s talking today. “I liked it better when it was COVID!”
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Erik Karlsson is massively underrated by PIT fans.
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2 years
Tonight’s my last night in Columbus. I’ve lived here for the majority of my life and it’s definitely tough to go, but I am thrilled to be headed to Pittsburgh and begin my new journey bringing you Penguins coverage.
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Forever and always the heartbeat of Pittsburgh hockey.
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Sid, this is one of the best starts to a season you’ve had in quite some time! “We can do better.”
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Happy 35th birthday to Sidney Crosby -- who is still among the league's best players. Here's an updated look at his 82-game point pace for every season of his career:
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Sidney Crosby has 9 points in 4 games this postseason. He had 6 points in 14 games over the past three postseasons.
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34-year old Sidney Crosby still taking over games and humming along at a 100-point pace over a full season. The Penguins are scoring 59% of the goals with him on the ice at 5v5 this season.
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Marc-Andre Fleury: “I always get such a warm welcome when I come back here. It’s always a special place for me to come play. I wish I would’ve done better, put on a better show.”
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I tracked Alex Nylander's zone exits and entries at 5v5 tonight. He did not fail at either blue line once. 4 D-zone exits, all with possession. 8 O-zone entries, 3 with possession. On-ice, 5v5: 2 goals 0 goals against 28 shot attempts 9 attempts against 79.2% xG share
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The Penguins have gotten completely healthy — and productive — seasons from 35 year-old Sidney Crosby and 36-year-old Evgeni Malkin. They have a negative goal differential and are out of a playoff spot 70 games into the season.
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Rickard Rakell's hands are ridiculous
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-Shesterkin sticks leg out and interferes with Carter -Lafreniere goes after Carter post-whistle -Penguins end up short handed Makes sense.
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EVAN RODRIGUES ARE YOU KIDDING ME
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Going to start a thread of Crosby rag dolling people
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2 years
A source told me Heinen's decision to return to the Penguins came down to taking money out of the picture. There were better offers out there, but Heinen felt strongly about staying with the Penguins and winning a Stanley Cup. He loves Pittsburgh, his teammates and Sullivan.
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The Penguins shored up their forward corps on Wednesday. One of their biggest sources of depth offense last season, Danton Heinen, is returning on a one-year, $1 million contract -- a $100,000 decrease in salary from the contract he signed a year ago.
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Still cracking up at Shesterkin crossing himself and then the camera immediately cuts to pandemonium.
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"The Penguins' inability to score on par with xG is a system issue" the shots they don't score on:
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Kris Letang just played 28:10 and scored the game-winning goal off one day of practice after a battle with Covid. What an absolute maniac.
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When Mike Sullivan was asked about what it's been like working with Kyle Dubas, he immediately brought up transparency. Reinforces that it was lacking with the previous regime.
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Ron Hextall lucked his way into enough cap space to make an impact addition and immediately threw it all away on Mikael Granlund, who has 1 goal, 1 assist and 13 shots in 9 games. The Penguins are stuck with him at a $5M cap hit for another two seasons.
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Kyle Dubas is either lying about trying to make the Penguins competitive or he’s just not a remarkable GM. Or both.
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The Penguins are SO back
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The Penguins have fired Ron Hextall, Brian Burke and Chris Pryor from their roles in the front office. John Henry and Tom Werner from Fenway Sports Group feel as though “the team will benefit from new hockey operations leadership.”
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The Penguins have signed Danton Heinen to a one-year contract with a cap hit of $1M. That is a massive steal, and provides another middle-six scoring option.
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The only acceptable answer
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JFresh
3 years
What's a third jersey you wish your favourite team would bring back?
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Erik Karlsson had quite a day for PIT: • 3 assists • +2 in 5v5 goals • +19 in 5v5 shot attempts • 83% 5v5 xG share He’s been playing well-rounded hockey at the perfect time.
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Unstoppable.
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I'm not certain either will become full-time NHLers, but Puustinen and Nylander are down in the AHL doing this while the Penguins' bottom-six is ... *motions vaguely*
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
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Dirty nasty dangles boys 🤮 The Official Comeback Goal Clip™️ for your viewing pleasure.
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2 years
Sullivan looks absolutely thrilled to be doing an interview during TV timeout
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3 years
when you take the satirical tweet a little too seriously
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Kris Letang hops out of the box for a breakaway and fires an F-you slap shot to the back of the net.
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There's a defenseman I'd take out of the lineup in favor of Dmitry Kulikov. It's not P.O Joseph.
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Bryan Rust had his OT winner taken away due to an offside review. He immediately got it back.
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2 years
There’s a few Penguins fans here.
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Rickard Rakell is on the ice for Penguins practice in a regular black jersey.
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2 years
I’m not sure I can take another ~2 months of NFL draft talk, and more specifically, Steelers QB talk. It is borderline insufferable.
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