Gameday- Pens recall Tangradi and goalie Brad Thiessen before New York Rangers game

pretty shocking to see Tangradi get a start instead of Jeffrey.

Orpik out tonight with an upper-body injury that Bylsma said isn’t serious. (But then again January 2011 he said Crosby would miss 1 week).

Looks like you nailed it with that bit in parentheses, Hooks – per Bylsma, Johnson is sick and can’t suit up today. I believe DB also specifically said it was a short-term move, so Johnson’s job appears to be safe (for now, at least).

Additionally, Bylsma commented on the Tangradi callup, noting that he’s looking to get some more physicality and snarl in his bottom-six. If so, I guess that explains the impending Jeffrey scratch; he’s clearly the least physical of the guys currently on the bottom two lines. I don’t necessarily agree with it, but that seems to be Bylsma’s rationale.

You put it right Hooks:

Or is this just yet another chance for the young power forward to get an opportunity.

How many opps is this guy going to get before finally doing something. And don’t forget about DJ’s knee. Those things can tighten up out of no where, so maybe he’s having some stiffness/soreness after this past week where we played a lot of hockey.

But I will give you that I don’t agree scratching DJ. You say you need other players than the top line scoring, and the one guy who is you take out?

Conklin is done. Tangradi is another “Caputi trade”, in the making for Shero.

I surely hope that Shero is smarter than trading Tangradi, especially as only a throw in for another rent-a-player.
One of my biggest gripes with Dylsma is his use of Tangradi. I’m sorry but you don’t plug Tangradi on the fourth line, play him under ten minutes a game and expect to see anything resembling his game from the AHL, where he gets top line minutes and PP time.
You see this all over the NHL and it’s flat out not fair to the callups. On most teams these players domintating the AHL are called up and instead of putting them into a role similiar to the one they were called up for in the first place, they get relegated to the third and fourth lines. Max Pacioretty flat out said last year that if they’re gonna call him up and play him on the third line that he’d rather stay in the AHL, he got huge flak for it but look at him now. Looks like he was bang on.
So let’s put these guys in roles they’re comfortable with and thus have the best chance at success. I for one believe in Tangradi’s potential, i mean how many 6’4 220 pound behemoths with a nose for the net do we have?
And is it possible that Tangradi will never be anything more than a carreer AHLer? Sure, but the Pens have yet to actually give him a chance to prove otherwise…