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Post Game Thread: Dallas Stars at Pittsburgh Penguins – 24 Oct 2023

  • October 25, 2023


[Recap/Boxscore](http://nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020088)

|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|FINAL|

|Teams|1st|2nd|3rd|Total|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/dallasstars)|0|2|2|4|
|[](/r/penguins)|1|0|0|1|

|Team|Shots|Hits|Blocked|FO Wins|Giveaways|Takeaways|Power Plays|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/dallasstars)|35|12|18|45.9%|4|6|0/2|
|[](/r/penguins)|39|13|10|54.1%|12|11|0/3|

|Period|Time|Team|Strength|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|19:22|[](/r/penguins)|Even|Bryan Rust (5) Wrist Shot, assists: Jake Guentzel (6), Sidney Crosby (3)|
|2nd|07:37|[](/r/dallasstars)|Even|Jason Robertson (1) Backhand, assists: Craig Smith (1), Roope Hintz (2)|
|2nd|16:03|[](/r/dallasstars)|Even|Evgenii Dadonov (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Matt Duchene (1), Thomas Harley (2)|
|3rd|05:22|[](/r/dallasstars)|Even|Thomas Harley (1) Snap Shot, assists: Joe Pavelski (3), Jason Robertson (3)|
|3rd|13:51|[](/r/dallasstars)|Even|Wyatt Johnston (2) Backhand, assists: Jamie Benn (2)|

|Period|Time|Team|Type|Min|Description|
|:–:|:–:|:-:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|1st|08:45|[](/r/dallasstars)|Minor|2|Mason Marchment Charging against Drew O’Connor|
|1st|08:45|[](/r/penguins)|Minor|2|Drew O’Connor Slashing against Mason Marchment|
|1st|10:06|[](/r/dallasstars)|Minor|2|Wyatt Johnston Hooking against Ryan Graves|
|1st|19:53|[](/r/dallasstars)|Minor|2|Wyatt Johnston Tripping against Jake Guentzel|
|2nd|04:37|[](/r/penguins)|Minor|2|Jake Guentzel Interference against Wyatt Johnston|
|3rd|02:42|[](/r/penguins)|Minor|2|Kris Letang Interference against Mason Marchment|
|3rd|09:35|[](/r/dallasstars)|Minor|2|Craig Smith Interference against Jake Guentzel|

20 comments

  3. Call me a doomer all you want, but man I feel like the rose colored glasses from the off season came off. I saw everyone writing off this team as “barely making or likely missing the playoffs” and was like wtf? But man, all the worst of this team over the past 6 years are on display for the world to see and I’m understanding the sentiment of a lot of those analysts. Is it Sully that needs to go? Is sitting Carter really going to change anything? Man, idk but this blows and we’re hardly into the season. I’m here for the team regardless, but I hope this isn’t what the rest of the year looks like.

  5. Watching your teammate get rocked on the ice and have no emotion the rest of the game. Congrats on your game checks, seems to be the only thing this team cares about

  8. They can’t score or make saves. I’m not expert, but it seems tough to win if you can’t do either of those things.

  9. Coaching staff needs to go.

    Pens haven’t won a playoff series in years and you have maybe 2-3 seasons left with the core. Have to roll the dice

  11. i dont get it, when film sessions happen, does that trash ass PP pass their eye test wtf is this coaching staff on?

  13. Problems with this team are two fold…

    1. Coaching. There’s a reason why coaches don’t last this long with one team in this league. His system does not match this roster and assuming it was his decision to bring Reirden back, it’s a bad indictment on him as a coach. I really feel like this team isn’t responding to him anymore either.

    2. Roster construction. Dubas did a great job with getting Karlsson and getting rid of a ton bad contracts and dead weight from the Hextall era. However, and while I see what they were trying to do with the bottom six, you cannot have only two lines that generate any sort of offense and expect to win in this league. You just can’t. They needed to get at least a couple guys in the bottom six who can finish and that’s absolutely a failure on Dubas for not addressing. Hopefully he does with a trade.

    Powerplay has to be at least 25% too if they can expect to win since only the top six can produce any sort of offense. Besides a coaching change and some much needed moves to improve the bottom six, I don’t see this team doing much this season at all.

  15. I’m done entertaining people who still think Sullivan should be the coach of this team.

  16. I’m not sure how to feel about Sullivan anymore.

    I was willing to give him a pass for last season. Given his past record with the team plus having to deal with Ron Hextall, I was willing to give him a pass. Now, you’ve changed ownership, management, and players. Coaching is the only thing left.

    It’s only 6 games into an 82 game season, so I’m not on the “Fire Sullivan Immediately” train quite yet, but if things don’t improve soon, maybe a coaching change would help. I like Sullivan, but I don’t know what else the Pens can do.

  17. Power play sucks balls.
    Bottom 6 still anemic.
    Carter needs LTIRetired.
    Rakell needs to sit after that performance.
    Coaching staff has hit it’s expiration date

  18. I’m confused, the Pens have to make a genius passing play to score and the other team’s guy are like: “Let’s do four perfectly convenient bounces, popping up from the boards, down the pant leg of that guy, hops over the stick of this other guy, and finally it hits the post and bobbles in off the goalie. Hmm, yes. Simple geometry.”

  19. Way to take all of the excitement about this season and ruin it right off the bat. Perfect start!

  20. There’s not a single rational point in keeping Sullivan anymore, it’s like a relationship that is crystal clear to absolutely everyone (including the people involved) it went past its expiration date.

    Hope Dubas don’t keep him based on a dumb “it’s early in the season bro” and let the guy go, better for him, better for us

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