By: rgd32162

rgd32162 — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:32:31 +0000

Absolutely, I’ve been taking alot of flack on Pens pages for bashing Dan and his staff but he was obviously outcoached by Laviolette. the Pen’s defensive woes began during the last month of the season when giving up 5 goals win or lose became the norm and nothing was done to correct this. I’m not necessarily saying to fire Dan but he and his assistants need to answer for the disasterous playoff performance. losing to the Flyers isn’t the issue, getting totally outplayed ans embarassed by them is. Shero also needs to take heat for this, ever since the 2009 cup he has made the Pens smaller, softer and alot less gritty

By: True

True — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:46:39 +0000

The title of the article says it all. Bylsma’s “system” is built for the regualar season only and now has 3 play-off exits to back that up. He was clearly unable/unwilling to make adjustments or tidy up the discipline, guys taking stupid penalties. Made me feel he may have lost the group – Undisciplined. All the chippiness and chatter and fights, and Malkin getting shut down by a 19yr old – Outclassed. Game one, Laviolette rolled out all 4 of his lines in OT and Dan chose to double shift – the guys were tired, couldn’t get to the puck – Outcoached – he should have called a time out when they tied it up at 3. Did he? Can’t really remember. Parts of me want the big changes, others just some tweaking. Just not sure really how to feel at this point besides incredibly dissappointed.

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