Petr Sykora questionable, Kris Letang healthy for Game 6
by FrankD on Apr 24, 2009 5:28 PM EDT
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PrintAccording to sources surrounding the team - and hey, even the player himself - Petr Sykora is healthy and capable of playing in Game 6 tomorrow afternoon in Philly. Perhaps the more pressing question here is, will he?
"It's not easy for me. I'm not going to lie to you. But I have to be professional and try to support my teammates whichever way I can and stay in shape. That's what I did today: I bagged myself."
Petr Sykora
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Some line combinations coming out of practice indicate that Eric Godard may get a call to man the fourth line in Game 6. I personally don't know how I feel about this. One has to ask if there is really any need. Would Godard's spot on the lines be better served to a scorer, albeit a weaker one, such as Miroslav Satan?
Evgeni Malkin may have a few new linemates for this one as well if the morning skate holds true. Max Talbot and a scoreless Ruslan Fedotenko may flank Geno in Game 6.
On the brighter side of things it looks like Kris Letang is a go for the blue line.
When it comes to switching up lines the risk outweighs the reward in my mind. Usually. On one hand you can try and catch the other team off guard and make them cater to you, but you also send a message that more or less proves that the other team is in your head. Hard to say how to categorize this one, but after losing on home ice I guess Pitt is willing to experiment.
Do you agree with the idea of shaking up the lines or is it better to stick with familiar territory?
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Satan didn’t seem to add too much. Godard’s only going to play 3-4 minutes anyways, so probably a lot of chances for Crosby/Malkin to take a shift on the 4th line with guys like Dupuis and Adams if the game is played largely at even strength.
I think having Godard in the lineup could be a good thing. It won’t change Philly’s style, and I think Riley Cote’s hand/finger is still hurt and he won’t be in for the obligatory Godard/Cote fight but still. If a guy like Carcillo gets uppity he’ll have to answer to Godard phyiscally in some way, and I’m fine with that.
“That’s what I did today: I bagged myself.” — Petr Sykora
To me that means he knows he’s too injured to make a difference offensively, so better sit out and hopefully let the arm/shoulder/whatever heal up so he can hopefully make an impact for the Pens in a future game.
No problems there, good move for Sykora to know what’s best for the team and do it.
I suppose Sykie not playing is for the best. He just hasn’t been himself the past 15 games or so.
However, I don’t think Godard should play, even knowing Philly’s dirty playing style. He just won’t contribute much….he’ll play like 5 min. at most, get in a fight, and be done. Satan could play on the 4th line, and maybe add some scoring ability to the line.
Also, I think that we shouldn’t throw Sid/Geno out on the 4th line, because they seemed pretty tired in the last game. I think the Pens should try to roll 4 solid lines, to keep everyone fresh. That way if they get a PP, they can put Geno/Sid/Kunitz in and they won’t be completely beat like in last game…
I got a good feeling about this next game though!! Flyers and Marty B are Toast
go pens!
There is no point having Satan out there if all he is going to do is be a fourth liner. His job would be to try to do what Sykora wasn’t doing and he isn’t going to do that on the fourth line.
Playing Godard makes no sense because all he would be out there to do would be to fight. He only plays five minutes a game. And he can’t kill penalties when the person who he’d be taking the place of, Craig Adams, can.
I don’t like the mentality of this team right now. They won three games out of four with the lines they had. Then they went and tried to change things for no reason. They are leading the series but panicking anyways. These are signs of an inexperienced team which shouldn’t be happening after last year. I think game six is a must win. I don’t want to see this series come back here.
"Get in the fast lane grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll" - The legendary Mike Lange
Sit Syko and Satan, they arent scoring and can do little else
Kunitz Crosby Guerin
Talbot Malkin Fedotenko
Cooke Staal Kennedy
Godard Adams Dupuis
Get Godard to engage with carcillo asham and who ever will drop the gloves hurt them or get them off the ice, if 2 guys are sitting off the ice, the shittier player makes his team better(assuming theres no instigator, but he’ll find atliest 1 dance partner on the flyers in philly.
Your not losing any scoring(based on first 5 games), your not losing any penalty killers, your adding toughness, what are you losing?
Phili B
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