There’s a misconception in Pens fandom that involves people having no idea what the quality/life cycle of a prospect really is. They grew up seeing 87, 71, 11, 58, 29 basically hit the ground running, and somehow that’s become the expectation.

“Just bring up (young guy)!” like it’s a sure thing.

EASHL-ass jerseys.

AND MY AXE!

I like that future Starfleet personnel are accustomed to the Official Art Distribution Officer moving pictures around the ship to keep it fresh and interesting. It’s standard policy so no one ever asks “why do you have my picture from 5 years ago in your quarters?”

Not that good. I think their ceiling is higher thanks to goaltending but their floor is still way low thanks to general arrogance and lack of understanding their own limitations. Bad things happen because there’s no attention to detail.

That’s where I’ve been at all season.

It’s great that they’ve had some wins this year, but the same issues with tissue paper thin depth, poor finishing and terrible decision making are being masked this year by unreal goaltending that wasn’t there the last two years.

“toD Mar’tha!”

“qatlh pongvetlh Dajatlh?”

I love how all players, no matter their primary language, have a “hockey post-game interview LLM” installed that can produce an endless stream of talk like that without even thinking about it.