Pens have several days to right ship

The Pens, still winless this season, have had since Saturday to improve their schemes for Thursday's game against the Devils. The team has mainly suffered from poor play in their own end, as evidenced by the previous post about minus numbers. Coach Edzo has taken the blame upon himself and said he needs to do a better job.

Jocelyn Thibault was recalled from injured reserve in the past day and MA Fleury was sent down to Wilkes-Barre to make room. Edzo said that T-Bo looks looks more confident now than in training camp. He is probably worried about losing his job to Caron or Fleury seeing as he was pedestrian in the only game he played. He is fixing to be between the pipes for Thursdays game in a rematch against the Devils.

Sidney Crosby leads all NHL rookies in scoring with 9 points in 6 games. I don't think he's hit his stride yet. As he continues to get more comfortable I think he will start scoring more goals. Right now he only has two. There is a big difference in how to beat a junior goalie and a NHL goalie, but I'm sure big-boys on the team like Mario and Recchi will learn him. I actually think if he finds his goal-scoring touch soon he could lead the entire NHL in scoring in his rookie year, which would be incredible. I don't even think Gretzky did that.

Scoring per game is up by 2 goals since last season! The games are so much more exciting and the players seem to be having more fun. The way things look now we are going to see many 100 point scorers this year. We may even see one or two guys get 60 goals (Jagr, Naslund).