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Originally Posted by Bluenote
Crosby was an elite player. Jen is still a top player. But I wasn’t really knocking off Cindy anyway. It was the remark the the second top goal scorer in the league isn’t an elected player comment made by whatever his name was is a joke.
I remember years ago lots of Your slamming Scheiff also. Then he became one of the best players in the nhl. Laines paired with little. It doesn’t work for them. The rest of your line has to jive with you. Put Mathews or McJesus or Cindy with two guys that don’t jive and their points would drop substantially.
Either way. I cannot stand sucks on the ice. Hence Cindy and my dislike for him. He is like PK. Always crying about something. He makes so much money he shouldn’t act like he does. In fact isn’t he the highest paid in the nhl or the highest paid contract. An insane one at that.
As for cups........... Buffy has a few cups. Ladd had a few cups. So What? It takes an entire team. Look at the Caps this year. Not doing so good are they amd they do have a cup. Look at. Vegas they are a joke this year as I predicted btw.
Had the jets beat them last year we’d have probably had the cup. Now would that have made Laine or Scheif or Wheels superstars.....like Cindy and his box of tissues.
In fact they should make a tissue box with his mugshot on it. I’d buy that.
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Crosby took a huge pay cut so that the Penguins could ice a good roster. He was supposed to get around 10-12 million but asked 8.7 million. He is at 10 or something now, but that is still really low for him. You're delusional man.
2 of the last 3 Cups were led by a Crosby team. Sure as hell is still elite. The year before last he led the league in goals scored. Sure as hell is still elite. He was tenth in points last year after winning back to back cups. Sure as hell is still elite.
One thing to remember is that the longer you last in the playoffs the more toll is taken on your body, and the less time you have in the offseason to recover. To go back to back cups he must have been hurting pretty bad.
I honestly expected the Penguins to do worse last year than they did. But he still ranked top ten in points. Crosby has ranked top ten in points every full year since joining the league. He is still elite.
He also made plays last year that blew everyones mind. Especially in the playoffs.
Crosby is also not a suck. He receives more cheap shots than any other player in the game, which is expected if you're the best. 90% of the time he sucks it up. 10% of the time he cheap shots back or whines about it. Which is also only expected.
To call him a suck is ridiculous. He is one of the strongest players in the game. He has more leg strength than anyone in the league. His edgework is off the charts. There is not a single player that can out man him against the boards, and in a lot of cases there are two players at once struggle take him on when he is fighting you below the net. Take that and his ability to find an open man whilst fighting off two players at once, and to do it pretty much every game...
Crosby to me is still the best overall player in the game. McDavid is surely going to pass him, and probably soon. But McDavid still has some things to work on. McDavid, is already a better offensive player in most aspects, but his overall game just needs a tiny jump to be better than Crosby in my opinion.
On to Laine. Laine is one of the worst players on the team this season (offence only). He has obviously spent the entire summer playing fortnite. His hands have regressed. His shot has regressed. He lost some weight so he is a little faster, but it doesn't show, because he is so damn lazy. He is by far the weakest forward on the boards, to the point where he easily gets trapped in his own end if the puck ends up near him, and if he starts with the puck on the boards offensively he will almost assuredly lose it, if any battle is needed.
Also, the patented Laine skate by with a stick wave drives me insane (reason for the Nurse OT winner, that and Ehlers terrible pass). It could honestly be a college drinking game. He is strictly a one dimensional player at this point, and even then his shot has regressed, so that dimension has taken a hit. Especially since teams are now catching on to him on the PP.
His passing is also questionable. Unless he is not under pressure or if it is a drop pass, which is the equivalent to grade 1 hockey. Passing under pressure is a part of the game at that level, and it is something he doesn't do well.
At this point to put him even at the same level of an overall player as even Matthews is laughable. Let alone Crosby and McDavid.
One note his Fortnite account has him playing several hours daily. It really shows on the ice. That remark about Vancouver banning Fortnite is biting him in the ass. We'll see tonight when he faces off against them.
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