all hail floating crosby head

#sidney crosby: straight man kryptonite #dude: I love my gf or wife #also dude: I saw sidney crosby lookin cute and lost and locked eyes with him #had to shoot my shot y'know

Is he already taller than uncle Sid? 👀

#afsljsagfjlsagfa

youngninelifer

Not to be cheesy but in 2018 the concept of ‘cheesy’ is gone, we’re throwing it out…….. love what u love and wax poetic about it twenty four sev and keep ur heart glowing,, no more worrying about your happiness being ‘over the top’ ! Pursue goofy shit! Love urself!

087710

nickyj_holla: The best part about the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was the Sidney Crosby exhibit.

bonus:

a lot of folks are still unconvinced as to the only common factor to which you can trace the immediate upheaval of recently Cup-winning teams, but as of 2019 the evidence all ties itself up in a tidy singular point (and boy does that last bit from the new Canes HQ sting like hell for Pens fans after what Rutherford’s done this season):

every team is better off before and after Jim Rutherford is allowed sole management of it and he consistently uses the years he was aided by existing good fortune and good advice into Cup wins to cover up for his solo work producing the worst seasons - and he openly admits and sees northing wrong with that

sources:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2042739-jim-rutherford-leaves-behind-complicated-legacy-with-carolina-hurricanes

https://www.canescountry.com/2017/6/30/15900340/carolina-hurricanes-jim-rutherford-pittsburgh-penguins-nhl

https://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Ryan-Wilson/Jim-Rutherford-has-been-wasteful-and-directionless/177/99298

https://www.nhl.com/news/hurricanes-living-up-to-owners-vision-in-playoffs/c-307213946?tid=287339198

(sorry for the ugly layout of all this but it’s the easiest way to view it)

#jim rutherford #pittsburgh penguins #retire and save what face you can jim #before you become infamous in pa as well as carolina

At the end of ITR, Geno teases Sid about his grey hair after saying “we old”, but because he can never make Sid the butt of a “mean” joke he goes on to say “I lost hair too” AND POINT IT OUT!

Then! Sid looked like this when the age question was asked:

and then Geno swooped in with the "we old” jokes and made it ok and Sid ended up looking like:

It was so quick and good of Geno to make it a joke because Sid is obviously not into being called the old guys lol

#sir that's my emotional support geno

I just realized this is the same thing as Geno breaking the tension repeatedly when Sid wasn’t making the shots in the Keybank challenges. Whenever he beats Sid he always makes it a joke that includes Sid in it. Even joking about how Sid wouldn’t sleep all night after missing a shot was him getting Sid to relax about it. Or the “Crosby sucks” stuff and the complaining all the way through press days. Even the fact that Geno is the only one allowed to change Sid’s rituals. Those are all the times when Sid looks like he could could go into a bit of an anxiety spiral, but Geno gets him to laugh it all off. (and we already know how much Sid loves being teased and chirped as it is)

It fits really well with the fact that so many people who speak Russian with Geno say how intelligent he is - and with people saying Geno has taken on a very specific and strategic position of leadership where Sid gives the polite answers but Geno can come in and get away with saying certain things Sid couldn’t.

I wanna much would Sid be a nervous wreck if Geno wasn’t there for this stuff to jump in and take control of the situation. I’m not saying other guys in the core can’t make Sid feel relaxed on camera too, but even guys like Tanger Horny and Phil see it as ‘Sid and Geno’ when it comes to doing press about leadership. And with how dismissive and disrespectful the media are with Geno himself, do they even grasp how much of Sid’s authentic personality they have access to simply because Geno has stayed with him and learned him inside out? They may never value Geno for who he is but you can be damn sure they’d miss him if all they ever got from Sid was his media face. The press seems to think Sid feels more comfortable with them because he’s polite. But they don’t see how much good it does Sid when Geno says the things that he can’t.

“you need 💪BIGNESS 💪HUGEMUSCLE and 💪BUBBABULK to win the StanLRY CUP “

2019 playoffs:

#remember how the pens redefined how a team looks in order to win a cup #and that was with smaller players and more speed #and the rest of the league openly said they were changing their style to catch up #and then they did #and carolina offloaded their shitty gm to us and he traded away all the pens speed #remember that #good times huh

moonlightjumping

Getting older can be tough but the chance to roast your pal for getting old is priceless!

#interviewer: sid you're old #sid: >:(#geno: sid you're old #sid: XD

mitchmarner

sid is too focused on the aesthetics to get the interview done [x]

#sidney crosby fact: whenever he thinks he's coming across as cool and in the know #he is in fact four chins deep into looking like an absolute dork

#sir that's my emotional support geno

Then! Sid looked like this when the age question was asked:

and then Geno swooped in with the "we old” jokes and made it ok and Sid ended up looking like:

It was so quick and good of Geno to make it a joke because Sid is obviously not into being called the old guys lol

#trade talk for bl #long post

Geno to Cully: You going home or what?

Sid:

It wasn’t even that funny!!!

#cardigans_lovefool_.mp3

oh thank god you turned anon back on! thank you for listening to that dumb podcast but do you think Geno will look at all of this and decide he’s done with Pittsburgh? I don’t trust GMJR not to think about it and if Geno just decides it’s too much will he just take a good offer?

(Yeah, that previous topic was just too triggering for me and there was an apologist going around who I think finally gave up. So it’s back on!)

I’ve honestly never paid attention to trade rumours and theories before getting on tumblr, so I can’t tell you if this summer is vastly different in reaction to Geno than all the other non-Cup years he’s been used as trade rumour bait by the media. I can’t say if his clashes with coaching and management this season are as bad as they have been in times past. On one hand I’m seeing people say this is run of the mill for seasons where the Pens fared relatively poorly, on the other I’m seeing people say that this is all building to him leaving. Is it common for guys like Caulfield and Rupp to be asked about this stuff? I don’t know. I do know that the media have nothing to talk about with regards to the Pens because nothing official has come out of that head office since clean out day and a couple of brief soundbites, none of which say they’re definitely thinking of trading anyone specifically. So there’s everything to suggest that the media have seen how many interactions and excitement Geno trade talks are and they’re going to pump out as many stories as possible to keep revenue up over the long summer.

Because yeah unless someone has a source I haven’t seen, the only thing GMJR has said is he won’t talk about trades yet and that he’s keeping his options open about the core (which could mean almost anyone and anything, not just trades). But I also haven’t personally seen an actual quote from him to say that Sid is the only protected player now. (again, link me if there is one!) I’ve only seen journalists who say they think that he considers Sid the only protected player. Yes, GMJR said the jab about Geno needing to come back a more mature player or whatever but he’s also repeatedly said that he considers Geno elite and that he sees many more years of high performance from him. He also shot down criticism of Geno during his slump. The sum total of anti-Geno from management that we legitimately have is that they criticise his relationship with Sully. Would that be enough to trade Geno to another team?

The balance Geno would be weighing, if he were contemplating leaving, is if his chances of being happier and getting another Cup are stronger elsewhere than if he were to stay in Pittsburgh. I’ve said before that Flower isn’t a good comparison because for goalies, there’s only one net to be occupied at a time - he was already unhappy in Pitt and had no hope of changing it.

But for Geno, it would only be if he felt GMJR and Sully are squeezing him out of his own position on his own team. In that instance, considering the only actual direct source we have from Mario says that he will *not* allow Geno to be traded, that trumps anything that management or coaching is scheming to do. Management and coaching has changed many times with the Pens. So the facts we have suggest that if such a coup were raised against Geno to push him out, that ownership would oppose it. Mario and his word are the alpha and omega to this team and he personally fought to get Geno onto this team at all.

People understandably focus on Sid and Mario’s relationship a lot, but when you turn your attention to Geno and Mario it’s hardly less intimate. He viewed acquiring Geno with the same burden of hope in 2004 as he had been allowing himself to do hope for Sid. Geno was the original powerhouse forward to accompany Tanger and Flower in rebuilding the team, and these plans were happening at minimum a year before Sid’s draft. Mario has seen a lot of himself in Geno and he sees a way to heal the old wound of losing Jagr in him. That doesn’t count for peanuts when it comes to a coach not liking Geno or a GM who likes to dangle trades in front of players as bait.

Ultimately the media have nothing official to say that trading Geno is being talked about at Pens HQ. Even good articles like this one are mostly interested in keeping the clickbait going by saying “where there’s smoke!” - why kill off your only and biggest story? They all say that they “might” or “should” or “why not?” or “they could see it happening” and they grab anyone vaguely connected to the Pens to repeat the mantra of “they could” or “it’s possible” to make it seem more legitimate. The only thing GMJR said when asked about breaking up the core is that he won’t discuss it right now. All I’m seeing from wiser journalists is yawning over this as being a repeat of long summers past. And trust me, if a news outlet gets a legitimate quote directly from the Pens that say they’ve got Geno on the table? Then there will be no subtlety - they’ll print that before the words are halfway out. But we don’t have that yet. The media are carefully wording things so that they don’t perjure themselves and can backtrack on all of it by saying “we didn’t say we knew for sure! it was just fair speculation!” “don’t blame me, blame my friend of a friend who just said he thought he heard something!”

As far as if Geno feels like he no longer feels that there is a welcome place for him in Pittsburgh, only he knows that. He isn’t happy with himself this past season and he isn’t happy with Sully’s coaching style that favours coddling weaker players making poor decisions and then shutting down communication with stronger players who contradict him. (Sully truly is slipping into the old traps of former Pens coaches who think that the Pens core “need” a coach’s interference. Hint: they don’t.) Does that combined with the media and fan pressure and negativity add up to wondering if he might fare better somewhere else in his latter years? Only he knows.

(lmao sorry for the random British autocorrect throughout this - I’m on a coworker’s computer while mine is being fixed and I didn’t notice until I was rereading this before posting)

What the fuck is this? No.

Even if this is completely false, the fact anyone is even saying it (for what? clicks?) breaks my heart.

“Less valuable”? Malkin is still in the top tier of elite nhl players. He’s second only to Crosby on the Pens.

Malkin deserves better. Also, he has a NTC, how is this even a conversation? I’m serious, I don’t understand how this works. I’m still kind of new to hockey.

I am saying it now: someone wants Geno gone and is saying this shit to get him to wave. Pittsburgh is so fucked up for allowing this to happen.

This man did so much for this team and yet this is how they repay him after 1 mediocre season. Wow.

If you find out who it is, slip me a message. I got (cracks knuckles) some stress to work out.

guinastasia

I don’t believe Caufield said this. Bull-fucking-shit. People were claiming this back a few years ago before we won the Cup. There would be RIOTS if Geno were traded.

Recent interview w/ Caufield talking Pens trades, no mention of Malkin: https://937thefan.radio.com/articles/jay-caufield-penguins-season-nhl-playoffs

I do not know where this instagram got the idea that Caulfield said this. He’s just saying the same thing about a Cup-winning core needing to be shaken up, but much more in the sense of them not being hungry enough. Which is what Geno himself said about why he thinks the Isles beat them. But yeah, there was zero mention of Caulfield saying the Pens are thinking of trading Geno so wtf

Found it:

his bio:

and this guy:

but he^ seems to hate Geno ( https://pittsburghhockeynow.com/pittsburgh-penguins-do-you-want-your-favorite-player-or-a-championship/) so who fucking know.

#zetterberg and draper looking on with pride #zetterberg over there being margaery to stevie's cersei all like:#guess who is coming up for your title as best at ageing handsomely?

Someone with public twitter can let Dan Kingerski know: Jay Caulfield did speak, and he didn’t say that Mario or anyone in the Pens head office is thinking of trading Geno. Neither side has told Caulfield anything and he never intimates that they have.

I stayed up and listened to the full interview and no: Caulfield does not say anyone from the Pens are talking about trading Geno. This is not a scoop. He doesn’t mention talking to Mario or GMJR at all.

All he’s saying is that Cup-winning teams sometimes benefit from shaking up their core. He only said that - in his opinion - if Geno finds a team interested in him that he’s interested in return, he ‘could possibly see’ talks happening on both sides. Seriously it’s the first 7m of the interview and it’s so incredibly broad and vague and based solely on if Geno is thinking of leaving.

But no, he never says anyone in the Pens org has said to him in any way, even indirectly, that it’s even being talked about. This is entirely just his personal opinion on rumours from an outside observer and he never leads them on to think otherwise.

The original tweet about this interview and everything tweeted about it afterward is choosing to conflate Caulfield happening to know Mario with Caulfield broadly saying that “if” the Pens were considering shaking up the core then it wouldn’t be the first time in NHL history that it happened.

And hilariously, it ends up that neither of the hosts think Geno is going. Or Tanger. So these tweets using this as some kind of confirmation from ownership are based on nothing.

So the only source we have from Mario is adamantly stating that he is NOT going to let Geno be traded.

camera operator really knew to hit folks with this shot didn’t they

What the fuck is this? No.

Even if this is completely false, the fact anyone is even saying it (for what? clicks?) breaks my heart.

“Less valuable”? Malkin is still in the top tier of elite nhl players. He’s second only to Crosby on the Pens.

Malkin deserves better. Also, he has a NTC, how is this even a conversation? I’m serious, I don’t understand how this works. I’m still kind of new to hockey.

I am saying it now: someone wants Geno gone and is saying this shit to get him to wave. Pittsburgh is so fucked up for allowing this to happen.

This man did so much for this team and yet this is how they repay him after 1 mediocre season. Wow.

If you find out who it is, slip me a message. I got (cracks knuckles) some stress to work out.

guinastasia

I don’t believe Caufield said this. Bull-fucking-shit. People were claiming this back a few years ago before we won the Cup. There would be RIOTS if Geno were traded.

Recent interview w/ Caufield talking Pens trades, no mention of Malkin: https://937thefan.radio.com/articles/jay-caufield-penguins-season-nhl-playoffs