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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
da

I'm starting to think that perhaps it's just the Pens core (especially Sid, Geno, Flower) that occasionally get labeled as chokers - as opposed to the Pens franchise/team itself. Could this be what's causing the disconnect?

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Dion Phaneuf, lol

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I was waiting for someone to bring up CBJ. They're just bad, I don't see them as scrappy misfits. They have a Vezina winning goalie and young stars; none of them are misfits. They just suck as a team because they weren't properly built.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
da

The way the MSM seems to think that the core is the entire team and that any failure of the team is in fact a failure of the core (see: articles after game 5 of the TBL series of Sid being a bad leader despite having both Pens GWGs in the series at that point), I'm not sure it makes a substantive difference.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Why is his nickname Tishy. Is there a story?

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
What do you mean by not properly built? What should they have doing instead? I was under the impression that a lot of their issues were down to money and coaching.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Presumably there is, but no one on the team is telling.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Also can we take a moment to discuss the terrible article in which a basketball writer from the sporting news suggested that they strip Sid of the captaincy.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
They are pretty scrappy, at least.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I feel that's the truest statement ever made on meme. Dion Phaneuf. Lol.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Was that the one where he said one of Sid's problem as a leader was that he didn't physically threaten his team enough? Because boy was that a doozy.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't any other article eary into the season basically "trade him while there's still value tl get in return?" or some crap like that?

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
a-ayrt-rt

Yeah, when people talk about the Pens being chokers, they're very much talking about the Crosby/Malkin Pens. The choking/underachieving narrative attached to these Pens teams is really an extension of these same narratives attached to the star players themselves, so the previous cups that Mario's Pens won have nothing to do with it. Whereas people make fun of the Caps as a franchise, and while there are plenty of hot takes that talk about the Caps' lack of playoff success as a personal failing of Ovechkin's, the Narrative of the Caps being chokers far exceeds whatever part of that is attached to Ovechkin (who as far as I know, for all the shit he gets, isn't widely panned as a player who disappears who in big games).

Re: World Cup of Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
And Marchand, too! I'm excited for them both. And it's kind of a reunion, since they played at World Juniors together:
http://65.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhwt19jL6A1qfhpypo1_500.jpg

If fic appeared where they'd had an awkward teenage hookup at World Juniors and now they're adults together again with old and new awkward feelings, I would read that so hard. I'm just saying.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Let's talk about Marchand's eyebrows in that picture, though. (That's adorable. and I would so so so read that.)

Re: World Cup of Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm excited for Marchand, too!

Oh my god, they're literal babies in that pic. ... Adorable.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
More scrappiness:

- Zatkoff winning Game One when he had no business doing so.

- Murray, a prospect with very little NHL experience, coming in and owning the net like a boss.

- A defense that people were calling the worst in the playoffs holding it together and withstanding Letang's suspension, Daley's injury, and Maatta's rough patch.

- Maatta responding to his scratches by playing insanely good hockey.

- Conor Sheary, an undrafted undersizer stepping in and tearing it up against the best goalie in the world.

- Tom Kuhnhackl journeying all the way up from the ECHL to make an impact.

- Kunitz silencing some critics with an awesome Tampa series.

- Matt fucking Cullen, 39 years old and still stomping teams.

You can go on and on about Crosby, Malkin, Kessel and Letang but they're just a part of something bigger than them right now. These guys have had so much shit go against them and they keep on swinging. That's the definition of scrappy.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Stop. Please. This is unhealthy.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Haha. Just let them be irrationally fond of their team. Everyone has blinders on about their favorites. I mean, mostly everyone. Maybe not us jaded cynical folk.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
By these definitions literally every team is scrappy, you do realise that?

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. I just attempted to read it again and backed my ass right out because my life doesn't need that kind of negativity - yo.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
LOL

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I am a fan of the Pens, is the issue. Like, I get that we're all homers and I'm also a big homer about the team, but like, be cool Sodapop. This is like peak #narrative.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
da

I mean, exactly, money. You can't have a properly built team in a salary capped league if you're overpaying guys like Foligno and Dubinsky and Jack Johnson on long, expensive contracts. Every team has some of those, but CBJ has too many.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm revoking your jaded cynical folk card if you're gonna let someone being Wrong on the Internet slide.