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He's too slow to play wing now. He's almost too slow to play anything. Sundin is not what the Pens were looking for (a winger for Crosby).

Theirs don't. This was the first season where Malkin displayed any sort of worth playing on the wing instead of center, and Staal has never been able to do so. Add to that the fact that Vancouver had a standing offer for $10m/season, and there's little doubt that Sundin wouldn't have signed with the Pens.

The last thing the Pens needed was another center.

Second day, but the Pens had from the end of the season (or, ostensibly, the second they traded for him) to negotiate with him exclusively. I honestly have a hard time seeing who the Pens "missed out on" by waiting for Hossa, even though Shero was negotiating with multiple players simultaneously. There's no way they were going to offer anything close to what Tampa offered Malone, and most of the other Pens to leave were inconsequential. Ask a Pens fan to identify which players the Pens didn't/couldn't sign because Hossa "led them on." Their silence is your hint that you won the argument. As an ancillary point, the Pens would be in absolute cap hell if they had signed Hossa, and they would've lost Staal. What it boils down to is that Hossa played very well for the team, meshed with Crosby better than anyone else has to date (he who makes everyone around him better sure has a difficult time finding someone he's comfortable with), and Pens fans are angry that he didn't stay with their Golden Boy because, in their minds, it's every hockey player's dream to play on Crosby's line.

He's not even playing poorly. He's doing everything but scoring and the Wings are winning. Babcock said the exact same thing.

Great point. That bum only scored 40 goals in the regular season. I've seen you rail against Hossa on more than one occasion. Did he not sign your puck one night or something? Grow up.

This will be the first time all series that the Pens will face a well-rested Wings team. I like the Wings odds, but it's far from a certainty.

All this from an LGP site where many posters legitimately thought that "the home team supplies the sticks," and that the Red Wings had tampered with those supplied to the Pens for Game 2, thus causing Dupuis' stick to break when he slashed Hossa. That followed the period of time when every single poster was absolutely convinced that Hossa hooked, slashed, roughed, high sticked, and interfered with Dupuis before Filppula's goal. The "other angle" provided by the CBC cleared that up quickly. It's clear that most Penguins fans recently started watching hockey (there's an easy way to spot the bandwagoners: they wear the powder blue jerseys to home games), which is why they lack the capacity to make any intelligent observations about what's occurring on the ice. Instead it's "kill/injure/maim [Red Wing]." What a depraved existence to wish bodily harm to another person over a game.

Might as well credit the stuff you take from /sp/.

Not seeing much of Malkin..

Hossa atones.

What looked like an inadvertent bump on their backup goalie? No. If it were Fleury, you may have something barely scraping the edge of a point, but it was Garon.

AND there are two days off between the next two games!

What a ******* bulls*** play by Talbot. That's why the guy has no business winning a Stanley Cup.

Why do the Penguins' "superstars" devolve into dirty play when they're losing? That's not competitiveness, it's stupidity.

More Penguins dirtiness, more Wings goals.

Should be a powerplay for the Wings. Can't start hitting someone.

Talbot's suck a dick.

DON'T SIT BACK Hit their confidence now.

RAFALSKI

Give him a five minute major.

WHAT A MOVE BY KRONWALL LOOKED LIKE A FORWARD

GOD that was close.

Post for Hossa, apparently. Didn't hear it.

More of the Hossa obsession on NBC. *click* Television off.