dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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This SI feature on Olli Maatta is just so much http://www.si.com/nhl/2016/05/31/stanley-cup-playoffs-pittsburgh-penguins-sharks-olli-maatta-cancer-update

How has the bruise on his back not faded from November? Like that was a killer hit, but even a deep bruise shouldn't be lingering like that, should it?

Some can last years if it's very deep. Especially if it's over a muscle.

Wow, I'm genuinely surprised. Does there have to be continual bleeding into the bruise or does it just take that long for all the hemoglobin to break down and be transported out?

It's not really continual bleeding, when blood pools on a muscle it can just stay there for a long time. Sometimes it doesn't even hurt.

Well shit, now I'm lowkey shipping Olli/Jeff Zatkoff.

Me too, nonnie.

Right there with you.

You know, I always thought Zatkoff seemed like a good guy, but in the last couple of months suddenly all this stuff that is making me realize that he's the greatest, and now of course he's going to leave! Like, the interactions with Phil in that ITR ep a little bit ago were really fun, and did you see he's blogging for nhl.com?

I kind of want him to just join the Penguins front office, or maybe sign an AHL deal to mentor Jarry and stick around. He doesn't have a place as a goaltender on this team anymore and a Murray-Zatkoff full time tandem of the future would make me die of hypertension, but he's such an awesome dude and you can tell his teammates really really love him.

Yeah. It's the Fleury problem all over again, except with a lot less money and talent involved. :(

I don't know if there'll be room in WBS for him either, though - in addition to Jarry, the Pens also have Maguire and DeSmith in the pipeline. (I think? I can't seem to find hardly anything on DeSmith except that he played fifteen games for them this season.)

Maguire seems ripe for a future in Wheeling, at least initially. DeSmith was a bandaid PTO from the Nailers when Murray got called up while Jarry was injured, and he stuck around to back up Jarry because Murray stayed in the NHL post-deadline.

At one point, DeSmith and Jarry got injured and Maguire became the de facto "starter" until they could pillage the Nailers again, but when they both got healthy DeSmith took the starter job away from Jarry during his cup of playoff coffee and didn't give it back. Jarry had a rough year in general but I don't think the organization views DeSmith as a prospect in the same way as they do Jarry or even Maguire.

The WBS goalie drama was a long and winding journey this year, man.

Wow. That is so much drama. And I thought the big Pens had goalie issues towards the end there!

I wonder a lot about whether the farm teams get frustrated when the NHL team grabs their best players. Like the WBS Pens lost their starting goaltender, most of their best forwards, and Pouliot to the Big Pens. And then the Big Pens injured a couple of those guys and sat Pouliot indefinitely, and meanwhile WBS is trying to go on a Calder cup run.

There were definitely some frustrated and upset WBS fans, for sure. And in addition to all those players, they also lost their coach!!

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I definitely wonder how frustrated Pouliot was, sitting on a bench in Pittsburgh, and how many of the WBS team have thought about if they could have beaten Hershey with him.

Pouliot was their best defenseman. Imagine if Letang had to spend games hanging around with Burkle and Lemieux, fully healthy and capable of playing with his team. He was certainly frustrated and I don't blame him or WBS fans who felt the same.

Building on that, there's been a distinct lack of Pouliot in all the WBS togetherness features and he never seems to hang out with the rest of them based on social media; he's always off with his girlfriend while the rest of them constantly double and triple date. I think he's done with the team for multiple reasons (Justin Schultz being the main one) and will be traded but I also just wonder how popular he is as a teammate. Adam Clendening seemed more of a part of the team when he was a perpetual scratch.

Yeah, at this point I have enough trust in the Pens' front office and coaching staff that I'm convinced there must be off-ice issues with Pouliot, otherwise their treatment of him makes no sense. I expect he'll be traded, I just wonder when would be best to get good value.

I think GMJR even intimated earlier in the season that there were off-ice/character issues going on, when asked about his plans to call Pouliot up from WBS.

Didn't he get arrested for drunk and disorderly recently?

Yup.

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Yeah, unlike Johnston, Sullivan has no problem trusting younger players, and he knew Pouliot in WBS just like he knew the rest of them.

AYRT

I actually don't have that trust (maybe in JR) because this is the same front office who's mishandled several younger players in the same manner. I wouldn't be shocked if it's something in the middle, maybe Pouliot has attitude issues that the front office should shut up and deal with properly because he's an 8th overall pick and those don't grow on trees.

I'm from Portland and I'm pretty sure Pouliot is going to go on and be an impact player somewhere else. He's a special talent. He'll be better than Schultz. I was really pointing out that it's likely better for Pouliot to get traded if he's not fitting in here, off-ice issues or not.

If he's got a drinking problem, getting traded won't help.

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On more than one occasion, veteran players like Sidney Crosby have approached strength coaches and front-office officials to ask that someone—anyone—convince the baby-faced blonde to leave the weight room, lest he tire himself out.

Sidney Crosby's teammates don't do the right thing when he asks them to? Bad leadership! /s

Maybe this is why Sid and Olli have been spotted out together a number of times this season, trying to make sure Olli actually takes a break?

I used to think I crackshipped this ship, but with the various recent photos and now this, I think I for-real ship it.

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