March of the Penguins 

The receipts are organized, itemized, double entered, scanned AND backed up off site

Yeah, Tree does his homework. It's why I keep coming back, even when he dumps on my teams - because while I might not always agree with or like what he has to say, I always respect it.

How did Pittsburgh hire Mister Philadelphia and not expect him to submarine the team?

Receipts and invoices

So _that's_ why he was so eager to work with Established Titles: to offset his paper footprint! EDIT: I apologize, Lord Tree. I had to -explain the joke- put 2 and 2 together.

Same here man

He’s a undercover agent for the Flyers out to destroy the enemy from within

Still working for the Flyers undercover lmaooo

Yet another example of the consequences when you refuse to acknowledge reality. The window shut years ago Now the rebuild is going to be even worse than it otherwise could have been

Same here as a Bluejackets fan, we are in hell right here and the Pens flopped so hard it even screwed us.

At least Dan Snyder is no longer the owner of the Commanders… maybe?

​@@darealconmanthe organization will still suck, because the culture is not "pretty damn good". Just the mere mention of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth regardless

At least the Caps Ownership knew it was time to blow the team up. Pittsburgh is screwed for years to come.

@@qshot9848 It was more of a Retool than a rebuild, but yeah, I'd have been livid if we'd bought at the deadline this year and kept Laviolette. At least now we have Sandin and a high pick in a great draft to go along with decent prospects, and no matter what we get to watch Ovi chase Gretzky for the next few years.

If anything, his rants about his own teams are the MOST brutal

@@PigeonLord21 Oh, yeah, especially when he goes off on the Steelers.

Tree says everything we already know but need to hear again.

​@@PigeonLord21 was just about to say that

@@PigeonLord21 as a Mets fan I can most firmly attest: As much as we get clowned on by other teams nobody wants to scream and yell about how shitty and cursed the Mets are more then Mets fans. We will rip into our team so much that really other fans don't have to do anything but watch and chuckle. Obviously it's the same with Tree lol.

yeah i gotta say im happy they botched that. certainly a reason we are in the playoffs rn

Pain

We never deserved McCann anyway.

Yeah, but have you even seen Big Jeff Carter

He’d be on the third line in Pittsburgh so glad Yinz have him. He’d have like 13 goals and play like 10 mins

Like a certain baseball team in Anaheim....

​@@fpjrzman even the Mighty Ducks was a less humiliating name

Same, but then again we need to start embracing the future of Blues hockey and build on it

I'd love to bring O'Reilly back if the contract is right. Only exception is if we land Bedard, Fantilli, or Carllson.

Was just thinking this myself. Seems we got Vrana for a steal and Blais definitely seems invested in the team still.

Yeah at least Doug Armstrong seems to actually have a plan. Unlike Pittsburgh

People were and still are sleeping on Vrana. I think Blais was extremely happy to come back to St. Louis and it showed. Kapanen I believe will be as tree put it, a player that will end up “flying” after leaving the Pens. The best part about it? We still have 3 first rounders 😂

Wait that's illegal

Bob'll fuck it up somehow

at least they're not the A's ;_;

I never thought I'd see a day like that come

Imagine having more faith in the Pirates than the Penguins. Even Tree can’t believe that that day might be here.

"Father Time is undefeated"

@@Damian_1989 Ain't nobody bringin' him down.

He wasnt really struggling with the Pens. McCann was a quality depth piece here, and I honestly didn't want him to go.

@@UrinatingTree fair I don't know much about then pens and all I had to go by was a coworker who said he struggled but him finding his potential and role in Seattle is definitely helping him and the team clearly

@@UrinatingTree yes I thought he was pretty stellar, he led the team in power play goals (mostly from the 2nd unit) the year before he was shipped out prior to the expansion. He wasn’t 40 goal great but he played in the bottom 6. Would’ve been a crucial piece in keeping the Pens relevant

McCann didn't struggle with the Pens

McCann was awesome with the pens.

At least U-Tree has many Cups to savor over ... it's been nearly 50 years for us, with no end in sight

It's funny how many Flyers fans legitimately kindly told us Pens fans that Hextall was going to completely mangle the team. Could not have been more honest or correct.

Penguins fans 🤝Flyers fans Hating GM Ron Hextall

Until Holmer and Clarke are shitcanned nothing will change. They have still managed to stay in the organization despite the rotating door of GMs and Coaches.

@@douglasschultz9808 This is rumor but word is, they might be on the way out. Dave Scott actually went behind their back and fired Fletcher. THEY wanted to keep him.

Philly saboteur, mission accomplished...

Unfortunately the Flyer in him was probably what caused him to underachieve even with the odds in favor

If it was up to the Yinzers, Hextall would never have been hired. Instead, the most likely candidate would have been Capitals GM Brian MacLellan and his "Jedi mind tricks" to make other teams retain salary. Of course, trying to lure him away from DC, especially after the Capitals won a Cup with him as GM, would have been too tall an order to begin with.

You guys forget how we dismantled the Flyers and brought them Into Obscurity😮

The dark age already started.

They saw what the Steelers were doing and liked it.

and we were ACTIVELY TANKING. i never thought id be so pissed at a win, much less one over the pens

They lost to an AHL team. Which ruined the tank, so both sides get to be embarrassed. What a triumph of sport.

better than losing 4 straight to CBJ in 2019

That was the most hilarious thing to me about that. All they had to do is win one game and they're in, and they're playing the Cleveland Lake Monsters and the Blackhawks, with one of those at home. And not only did they fail to win both games, they got blown out by Chicago at home. Like damn, that's even more embarrassing than just coming up short, they had to actively choke those games to turn down the NHL's free playoff voucher like that.

😂 nah its still the Steelers but the pirates are better than the pens tho

Whenever that SeatGeek ad appears I'm already geared up for the best 10 minutes of my day

The Flyers, Penguins, and Capitals. Three former Patrick Division rivals facing uncertain futures. Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Ovechkin won't be around forever, and once they're gone, HELL AWAITS!!!!!!!

@@CJEstradaMartinez With those long term, no-trade, buyout-proof contracts? Crosby, Malkin and Letang WILL be around forever.

At least the Capitals won a Cup while they could. And the Penguins were dominant for a good decade or so. Now the Flyers though? They’re kinda fucked. At least Hextall is gone.

I'm used to the monetary issues, so it doesnt bother me that much. Have to make the best possible video you can. The sponsor segments help out there, as well.

That's the problem, he never would've BEEN more than a depth piece in Pittsburgh. Sullivan's too enamored with Rust and Zucker to even consider McCann in a top 6 role.

He isn't anymore. He was in Pittsburgh.

@@N_manMETA11It was the same problem with Bryce Hopkins this past college basketball season. He was barely used at Kentucky at all and then when he transferred to Providence, he was amazing. He went from averaging not even 3 PPG into averaging nearly 16-8-2 for the season. He was the main reason Providence was even near the NCAA Tournament to begin with. It’s an out there comparison but it kind of works because John Calipari also has a consistent problem of being too stubborn and loyal for his favorites rather than use the best players and rotations possible.

That's a painful thing to know.

(He's also a Pens fan)

If it is, they should've thought of that last offseason. Maybe Zucker signs at 1/3 of his current price and Granlund becomes a 60 point player again. Although in a Mike Sullivan system... not likely.

@@N_manMETA11 I would like to think that Rakell would have a 60 point season. Granlund? Can that mf crack 20 points let alone 60?

Down the stretch I went on a binge of rewatching all the Pens wins in those series. I could feel it coming

i cant believe we lett mcann , rodrigues, blueger, AND marino and matheson all walk. hextall gutted us

@@raradenims like Tree said, Hextall turned us into the Flyers 😡

Flyers need one first

Good news: The Leafs won a round Bad News: They got nearly swept by the Florida Panthers

That man has burned more bridges along I-76 than that coal fire has been imploding for a thousand years

@@MarloSoBalJr yes

Yes.

Holy mother of bandwagon, Batman!

Was scrolling to see if something like this had been posted. Who knows what would have happened if the Pens made it.

Its like Yzerman all over again with how Guerrin has impressively worked around the Parise and Suter contracts from Fletcher to still keep building a good team. The Pens are gonna be regretting that decision for years to come.....

Lmfao are you serious? He is holding them back if anything. He should have gotten rid of dumba and merrill and kept fiala. He should have never gotten fleury or made sure fleury starts in the playoffs. Evason last season said that they would play the hot hand going into the playoffs. Talbot his last 5 starts had an over .915 save percentage, fleury in his last 5 starts had a save percentage of about .884% if not less. Please, I have a hard time remembering, who started in the playoffs last season? Who was the one who made sure fleury still was the main guy all season despite having the 2nd best goalie statistically in the league? Oh yes. Guerin. And I won't be surprised if fleury starts one of the next couple of games despite gustavsson dominanting these playoffs. Only one goalie that started game 1 for all 16 playoff teams didn't start game 2. That was gustavsson. Don't use the whole "he was tired and needed a rest" excuse, oettinger played the next game and still played good. Guerin didn't bother asking parise and suter to waive their no movement clauses. We lost several guys just to keep dumba around. Dumba had his worst pro season in his career. Took a crap ton of penalties, didn't produce offensively, and surpressed his value so low that we didn't get any calls about him at the deadline. I won't be surprised either if guerin decides to keep dumba on and even gives him a pay raise. Guerin has said time and time again dumba is important to this team. Guerin wouldn't cough up 7.5 million for fiala because he had "only 3 good months of hockey" but then holds onto dumba to the point where we will lose him for literally nothing if he doesn't get resigned, while dumba hasn't played actual good hockey in 5 years. Also remember goligoski? Yeah signing him to a 2 year deal worth 2 million a year was totally smart. Goligoski was healthy scratched a lot this season, is like the 8th dman on the team, and we can't move the contract or buy it out due to him being over 35 years old. He 0aid goligoski an extra 4 million dollars for 2 months of good hockey and he was on the decline. Also how has rossi worked out? Horribly. 1 point in 22 or 23 career games. He played half of those games with boldy lol. Yes I have evidence that they did play on a line together with gaudreau being a part of the line. Boldy wasn't able to produce at all when they were on the ice together. Once rossi got sent back down, boldy started playing better. Guys who are younger who got drafted after him played way better with less ice time in fewer games played as well. He is just so bad.

​@@qshot9848 lmfao yzerman wouldn't have been that stupid to buyout both suter and parise just to keep dumba. He doesn't mix business with personal life like guerin has with fleury. Yzerman would have been smart enough to ask to waive their no movement clauses so that way they could have been moved for a cheaper cap hit or they would have been exposed and with how much their contracts were they wouldn't have been taken anyways in the expansion draft. He would have had the balls to call them and ask them to actually come and talk to him before buying them out. Guerin called them on their cell phones to tell them over the phone they were being bought out. You don't do that to two guys who gave so much to the community and who loved this team. Parise would have definitely waived his no movement clause. Remember that people were all upset about fleury being moved by vegas and him finding out online, despite the fact the team had already told him that they were looking at possibly trading him to chicago a few weeks earlier. Suter and parise found out they were being bought out when someone called them to tell them guerin was trying to get ahold of them and that they were being bought out. Everyone attacked vegas for their treatment of fleury, but no one will criticize guerin for pulling the same shit but this time not even warning them they were being bought out and the reason why.

Crazy how many missed opportunities the Sharks endured from late 90s til recently. Had that squad been an ounce of the Penguins, they'd win 4 Cups and rule the West for a decade

He's had an excellent season. The Pens paid way too much for him, but he finally managed to stay healthy and thrive. Sad thing is that he's probably priced himself off the team because of it. He'll get paid.