This is the SPARK Pittsburgh needed...

This is the spark Pittsburgh needed as Sidney Crosby finally ends his goalless drought with a goal in last night's loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. In this video, we're going to break down how this is the spark that this team needed going forward and how they can carry this momentum into their next game and try to get a win. So we're going to break down everything about last night's game, what went wrong, what needs to be fixed, talk about Crosby being the spark this team needed, seeing him get on the goal sheet is the factor for them going forward to to have some more success so you're not going to miss this episode of Penguins Digest before diving everything here just want to say we're on the road for 3,000 subscribers around the channel so if you're new here you want to stay up to date on the latest news around the Pittsburgh Penguins or you're home for it here on YouTube, scroll below hit that subscribe button it is completely free to do so but yes today we are back talking about the Pittsburgh Penguins as unfortunately it was a devastating loss against the Chicago Blackhawks in Connor McDavid's return last night it was a win that we were hoping that we could go out and get and just carry some momentum forward into some tough tests that we do have ahead but there was some bright sides out of this game and one of them was Sid the Kid coming back scoring a goal which is great to see getting his first of the year and ending his drought over the last 28 games where he only scored three goals he gets two last night and was really the bright spot of this team last night as you see here Sidney Crosby breaks his goal drought which is great to see and we see Chicago now we see them they beat us obviously for five to three last night they beat us five to three in a in a devastating loss was a game that we expected going in that we would win and we wanted to win but unfortunately the the didn't roll in our favor last night and you know we do lose this game but like I said the big thing coming out of this game was Crosby scoring two goals we see him getting two goals last night in the loss but you know in a game in you know the beginning of the season where you know the bottom six has been really producing a lot of the offense now the big guy in Crosby starts producing and the bottom six falls off we need to level it out right we need to see the offense coming from both sides of the lineup and unfortunately we didn't get to see that last night but Crosby had a great game two goals on the board but I'm sure he don't really care about that he'd rather just you know win the game and not have any goals but that's just the way Sidney Crosby is and over his last seven games you see here no goals to start the season then he finally gets two last night to make up for it which is great to see so hopefully going forward now he you know he's got it off his shoulder that he scored one and now we can just keep the goals flowing through Sidney Crosby here great to see him get his first one just gives him a little bit of confidence for sure and if we just kind of see here Sidney Crosby gets a gets on the board for his first of the year he was looking off Raquel then the whole way he buried the shot far side so that was a great great goal there by the captain on nice feed by Erik Carlson and And Erik Carlson has really been a great piece for this team this year. He's been playing so good this year. And I think he's playing himself into a potential trade deadline trade, to be honest with you guys. If we can't get it going here and, you know, get up in this Metro Division, I think we'll be seeing a lot of our older guys shipped off here at the deadline. But I'm not counting them out yet. I definitely think we can still get there. You know, we just need to put some things together. We see here, you know, Crosby ends his drought. Crosby ties it again 3-3. And then Tavares breaks the tie and scores the game-winning goal 4-3. And then the empty netter seals it for this team. So, you know, 5-3. You know, it sucks to see us lose that game against Chicago, not against Pittsburgh. But, yeah, you know, it does suck to see that. And we kind of would want to see that win for us as we got some tough competition coming up. But who knows? You know, maybe we can knock off one of these top teams. I definitely have faith in this team. And now that Crosby's back on the board, I definitely think I have a lot more faith in this team for sure. And if we just kind of look, Pittsburgh must fix its power play. That's one thing that has been glaringly bad this season for this team. It has been their special teams. 16.7% on the power play just isn't going to cut it. You need to get that number up with all the talent that you do have on that power play. You want to see more points being generated, more goals being generated. And hopefully we can get that going as we kind of just look at, you know, the top power play unit. They don't have any goals when all of them have been on the ice, which is pretty glaringly bad, to be honest with you guys. And, you know, you see here, they've had zero goals, but the whole power play as a whole has had two goals. So, you know, none of these guys, when all of them have been out there, have scored a goal. So hopefully we can fix that, get something better going. But Eric Carlson has, like I said, been a key piece of this power play. He was just absolutely teeing it off for most of the Penguins power plays. He had at least 10 shot attempts. That was from Pens' inside scoop. So, you know, Eric Carlson has been doing his thing and just trying to create some offense here from the blue line on this power play. Just putting shots on, waiting for tips, and getting stuff out in front. But the power play just isn't converting. But we need to work on this more in practice. We need Dan Mews to kind of maybe shift up the power play or something to do. Give it a little shake up so that these guys can get going and get a few power play goals. When you get the extra man advantage, you know, not scoring on the power play could win or lose you games, depending on certain games you're playing. So hopefully we can get these numbers up and see more power play goals flowing here in Pittsburgh. And we see here now, this will help Crosby's momentum translate as he enters the zone possessions, recover loose pucks after shots, and move the puck with a scoring purpose. Just this is kind of the way to, you know, fix this power play. Just, you know, move the puck more. Like, try to find, you know, try to see what's going to happen. try to see all the chess pieces move and see where people are going to end up and then those goals will start going in so we just need to see that maybe they just need to work on it more have more time as a unit but i definitely think that this power play will get better i just need some time but obviously we saw Miroshov facing a costly lesson last night uh having his bad his first bad start all of this season uh and yeah you know we see here only 15 saves .789 uh save percentage but a lot of these goals were not his fault i know it was a tough to see him maybe finished with these numbers but you know i still got a lot of faith in Miroshov and i do think that he is a great goaltender you know just you're just gonna have bad games right and this just was a bad game i see here by you know his other starts at a .914 uh then he had a .956 just having great games and now you know obviously putting up that .789 not good to see and then a late goal kind of hurts this team uh side scores too was about the only positive thing is what Josh Hill said for the Penguins this evening, Mearsoff was uh with a terrible play on the game winner but i can't say the Penguins deserve to win this one since Mearsoff mishandles the game the game winner from Tiravainen and it goes in the back of the net and ultimately we do lose because of this but this is a learning moment for this young guy you gotta remember this guy's only young we can't just go in go after him right away and he needs to grow uh be a better goaltender and making these mistakes unfortunately it's costing us a game here but these are mistakes he won't make going forward, and it's just a lesson that he has to learn, and unfortunately, like I said, it does lose us this game, but I know that's it, but Malkin, you know, kind of picks him up here. He says he played unbelievable tonight, too. He played really good, like one mistake, but it's fine. We need to support him. Everybody has mistakes. He's a good goalie, just first year. You're a little bit nervous, maybe, so Malkin just saying, yeah, he made a mistake, but everybody makes mistakes. We just got to lift him up, you know, not let him, you know, dwell on this too much, because he He played good tonight, too. He made some good saves. So, a lot of people are going to look on the glaringly bad things, but he did look good. Like, I don't want to rip on Mearsoff here because, yeah, he made a mistake. He's a young kid. He's going to make mistakes. And, you know, that's how they learn, and that's how they become better goaltenders. And I'm sure Mearsoff, when he gets a chance to get in for his next start, he will lock in and, you know, get back to the goaltender that we've seen earlier in this season. It's just a bad game. Everybody has a bad game, guys. Across an 84-game season, not everybody's going to be perfect. That's for sure. But let's just kind of keep going here with Pittsburgh must build on Crosby's spark going forward. Like I said, this could be the spark that could really ignite them going forward here. We see from Sidney Crosby here on this quote. He says, I wasn't our best, but I think we did enough to be in the game. You don't play hockey that way, though. I mean, you've got to play the right way or you leave it up to chance. And that's what happened tonight. You kind of just got to do the right things, try to win the game. And, you know, obviously it wasn't the way it didn't roll their way last night and they didn't do enough. so next game they gotta go out put a little bit more effort in and try to close out a game like this as we see here the record when leading they're two and one when tied this is what going to overtime uh they're one and oh and then when they're trailing they're oh two and one so whenever they trail in a game they do lose it at this point so we need to go out there score first right we need to score the first goal and and we will probably win this win a game so hopefully going into next game uh we can see them uh obviously you know take take control here and try to do something and try to score first and win the game and as we see here pittsburgh is still third in the metro right now seven points as the rangers and carolina have been unbelievable here to start the year so we're still third in the metro we're still in the playoff spot at this point there's still a lot of time to turn around and like i said crosby is a spark that we needed going forward and you see damn you saying it's disappointing you walk in uh we want to be stacking games together like a lot about our dallas game but now we had to look at this, address it, correct it and we're going to move on like you just say yeah we're just going to learn from this, these mistakes that we made and go into the next couple of games on the road trip that we need to win right like these are tough games guys like we got the Avalanche and the Golden Knights and the Mammoth were the first in the Central right now then we're going up against the Panthers who had a big game last night so the next four games are against big big opponents and if we can you know go into this road trip now or even you know yeah go into this road trip and then obviously the first game back at home against the Panthers and we can split this two and two i'd be happy with that because this is our tough competition if we can prove that we can beat two of the best competitions in the in the league i'm fine with it i take two losses to that obviously i'd like to see them go four and zero oh but i'm being realistic here i think two and two uh is what i would go with so hopefully we can see that going forward hopefully we can fix these mistakes and go into the next game against the Avalanche uh and try to take it right on the road so hopefully we can do that and now we can see can uh Crosby's a breakthrough spark uh Pittsburgh let me know what you guys are thinking yes i think the captain is going to help drive this team now that he's got some goals on the board uh only if the power play improves do you think if the power play improves that's the only way we're going to win these next couple of games on the road or do you think the structure and goaltending needs to uh you know kind of be be better uh for us to win games let me know down below what you guys are thinking while you're down there leave a like subscribe to the channel As always, I'm your host, Casey. Keep your stick on the ice.