Get Simon out of town before he ruins another run Sully will play him

Équipe: 2019-20 Penguins de Pittsburgh

Date de création initiale: 22 févr. 2020

Publié: 22 févr. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I was at today's game. Outside of bad turnovers and the team not waking up for 15 minutes. This was a striking issue. Zucker and Sid were fighting. They were making good plays. Who is left open? Simon. Simon proceeds to stick handle his way out of scoring range or he misses the net. When he does well.. He puts a weak wrist shot right in the emblem. What does Sully do? He moves Zucker down to the Blueger line and leaves Simon up there. If there were ever a moment for Jim to realize Sully will never pick the right lines with this player on the roster... Today was that moment.

Rust could have been bumped up to the top line and his preferred spot on the RW. Horny could have been bumped up to the top line and Rust could still go back to RW. Simon could move to LW on Malkin's line even in that scenario. But instead of getting our best goal scorer back on his comfortable wing... Sully insists on Simon staying on unit one and bumping Zucker down... The guy we just traded our best D prospect and a first for.

I think the only way to fix this terrible judgment is to trade the guy, even though he is probably a serviceable middle six wing.

This goes back to our quest for a 3peat. Simon had no shot, surprise surprise, but he also committed huge turnovers. Anyone else remember that god awful penalty in the offensive zone in the first period of game 5, i believe it was... He takes a late penalty in a really good period for the Pens and the Caps immediately score and flip the momentum of the game. I'm done with him and Sully bumping Zucker today before him was the last straw for me.

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