Marek & Friedman: Will the Pens Add Some Toughness?
The Jeff Marek Show
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know I thought we pushed back. We had a lot of quality looks. You know I |
| 0:08.0 | this was a it was a similar circumstance I think to the way the game was played in Long Island. |
| 0:14.8 | Instead of finding a way to win, we found a way to lose. |
| 0:16.8 | We made a couple of mistakes that ended up in the back of our net. |
| 0:22.4 | Okay, so on the program today, we're going to talk a lot about squandering opportunities and yes, Calgary Flames fans |
| 0:28.0 | we're going to get to that game against the Flyers yesterday, but that was Mike Sullivan, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and for two periods, |
| 0:35.0 | Pittsburgh looked pretty good and took a lead into the third period and then only watched this thing crumble. |
| 0:41.1 | And one of the things that we've talked about with the Pittsburgh Penguins for a number of years |
| 0:44.4 | here is that when the Pittsburgh Penguins are really good, they're elite and they look like world |
| 0:49.3 | beaters and you say that's a team that can still win the Stanley Cup but when they're bad |
| 0:55.5 | when things go wrong and they can't correct it when there's turbulence and they can't |
| 1:01.3 | pull out of it. Pittsburgh Penguins can look really |
| 1:05.8 | awful. If they take the foot off the gas even a little bit, they kind of crumble. |
| 1:11.8 | That's the thing that makes the Pittsburgh Penguins one of the more |
| 1:14.6 | weird teams to me in this generation. They're capable of winning Stanley Cups. They have |
| 1:19.4 | Hall of Famers in the lineup, but if that elite level skill isn't matched with a work ethic or an effort the whole |
| 1:27.4 | thing kind of falls apart right it's kind of like the oh what's the |
| 1:31.8 | fray the bicycle theory you guys heard of the bicycle theory. |
| 1:33.0 | theory. |
| 1:34.0 | You guys heard of the bicycle theory before? |
| 1:35.7 | As long as you keep pedaling, you won't fall off. |
| 1:37.7 | You just keep pedaling fast and you won't fall off and you don't hit a stumble. Some of us have that bicycle theory for our careers. |
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