Looking ahead to 2020 2021 forecaster part 2

Team: 2020-21 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: May 23, 2020

Published: May 27, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

THIS IS A SIM.
Trade deadline day(Mar. 1) :

-BOS trades 1st to WSH for J. Vrana

-PHI trades M. Niskanen, 2nd, 3rd, 7th to DET for E. Svechnikov

-PIT trades M. Lapierre, 2022 1st to MTL for P. Danault

2020-21 Season Is completed.

League Leaders

Forwards:
G-Kucherov(55)
A-MacKinnon(71)
PTS-Kane(116)

Defense:
G-Letang(20)
A-Karlsson(85)
PTS-Karlsson(100) WOW!

Goalies:
W-Bishop(39)
GAA-Jarry(2.38)
SV%-Korpisalo/Bishop(.913)
SH-Jarry(6)

PIT record: 53-20-9, 115 PTS (1st in league) 310 GF, 208 GA

PIT season(2020-21) stats.
Forwards:
Rakell----------82 GP, 43 G, 57 A, 100 PTS, 243 S, 19:22 TOI
Guentzel------82 GP, 45 G, 51 A, 96 PTS, 271 S, 18:37 TOI
Crosby---------82 GP, 26 G, 69 A, 95 PTS, 204 S, 18:37 TOI
Malkin----------80 GP, 30 G, 47 A, 77 PTS, 214 S, 17:08 TOI
Zucker---------78 GP, 26 G, 45 A, 71 PTS, 177 S, 17:10 TOI
Rust-------------82 GP, 22 G, 35 A, 57 PTS, 188 S, 16:07 TOI
McCann-------82 GP, 22 G, 25 A, 47 PTS, 212 S, 13:47 TOI
Sheary---------74 GP, 16 G, 29 A, 45 PTS, 120 S, 13:47 TOI
Simon----------82 GP, 12 G, 14 A, 26 PTS, 120 S, 12:10 TOI
Tanev----------82 GP, 5 G, 12 A, 17 PTS, 124 S, 11:26 TOI
Zacha----------51 GP, 5 G, 6 A, 11 PTS, 82 S, 10:31 TOI
Blueger--------62 GP, 4 G, 6 A, 10 PTS, 52 S, 10:27 TOI
Danault--------19 GP, 4 G, 5 A, 9 PTS, 37 S, 14:05 TOI
ZAR--------------34 GP, 2 G, 0 A, 2 PTS, 20 S, 10:31 TOI
Rodrigues-----12 GP, 0 G, 1 A,1 PT, 9 S, 13:09 TOI

Defense:
Letang----------80 GP, 20 G, 53 A, 73 PTS, 388 S, 23:44 TOI
Miller-----------64 GP, 9 G, 11 A, 20 PTS, 129 S, 16:48 TOI
Dumoulin-----82 GP, 6 G, 9 A, 15 PTS, 92 S, 23:44 TOI
Pettersson----80 GP, 2 G, 11 A, 13 PTS, 127 S, 19:33 TOI
Marino---------80 GP, 6 G, 4 A, 10 PTS, 124 S, 19:34 TOI
Riikola----------82 GP, 3 G, 7 A, 10 PTS, 77 S, 16:51 TOI
Rutta-----------20 GP, 2 G, 5 A, 7 PTS, 41 S, 16:38 TOI
Hunt------------0 GP, 0 G, 0 A, 0 PTS, 5 S, 16:38 TOI

Goalies:
Murray-----41 GP, 26 W, 11 L, 4 OTL, 2.62 GAA, .905 SV%, 1 SH
Jarry---------41 GP, 27 W, 9 L, 5 OTL, 2.38 GAA, .912 SV%, 6 SH

Below are lines to start the playoffs:
Malkin is still injured for 20 days.

2021 Playoffs.

Round 1 v/s PHI
PIT over PHI in 4---That felt good.

Round 2 v/s CAR---PIT goes down 3-1 with Jarry in goal. 3 things happened.
1. The switch is made to Murray.
2. The Zucker-Malkin-Rust line(which was getting dominated) was juggled with the 3rd line. McCann moved up to #2LW and Zucker moved down with Danault-Sheary.
3. The pens win the next 3 games in a row and move on to the 3rd round.
PIT over CAR 4-3

Round 3 v/s TBL
Game 1-Miller suffers back injury--out 1-2 months. Pens lose big in game 1(7-4).
Game 2-PIT goes back to Jarry and gets a crucial win(4-2).
PIT loses next 2 to go down 3-1......again. Murray in but to no avail.
PIT switches back to Jarry with the season on the line.
They win game 5 and 6 with Jarry only giving up 1 goal.
Game 7 is a heartbreaking loss on home ice(4-2).
TBL over PIT 4-3.

Playoffs Stats notables(in 18 GP): (lines at end of playoffs)
Guentzel(8 G, 17 A)----------Crosby(8 G, 19 A)----------Sheary(3 G, 8 A)
McCann(5 G, 9 A)-------------Malkin(12 GP, 3 G, 6 A)--Rakell(11 G, 11 A)
Zucker(4 G, 5 A)---------------Danault(4 G, 6 A)-----------Rust(7 G, 6 A)

Letang(2 G, 15 A)

Murray-----5 GP, 3 W, 3.80 GAA, .874 SV% 1 SH
Jarry--------13 GP, 8 W, 3.15 GAA, .898 SV%, 1 SH

Season takeaways.
-Simon regressed to more a 4th line role.
-ZAR/Erod have done next to nothing when healthy.
-The goalies, although spectacular in the regular season, let the pens down big time in the playoffs.

SC FInal:TBL v/s VGK
SC Champ: TBL 4-1

Moving into the 2021 offseason...

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