 All right, GM Lee from the Pittsburgh Penguins are ready for the year two playoff season 2021-2022 and we are taking on the Philadelphia Flyers first round. So it's going to be an interesting matchup. Last year we had Washington in the first round. We ended up beating them and then we got eliminated in the second round. So, going into this playoff series, looking at our team, we know our lines. We got Eric Stahlkrasby, Gensel on the first line. We got Captain Malkin Zucker. We got Jankowski, Granlin and Raquel who we picked up at the trade deadline and then Brian Ross, Jared McCann and Tanev. On defense, we got a rude wheel with Chris Latane. We got Joseph with Travis Hamanik and John Marino with Marcus Pedersen. And then in net, we decided our starter was going to be Tristan Jari and knock on wood. We hope nothing happens to him because we do not have a solid backup goaltender. Now, looking at our depth, we got Sam Lafferty and Teddy Bluger scratched in the AHL. Not too much on forward to be honest where we can call someone up. On defense, we do have Ricola who we can call up. We got Weber Trotman and that's about it. So, we don't got the best depth. So, we're hoping and praying that we don't run into injuries like we did last year. Speaking of that, let me go turn that on real quick so we have everything ready to go going forward into this video. So, injuries are now on. Now, let's quickly look at this Philadelphia Flyers team. Let's see what has changed in two years with this team. So, looking at the first line, we got JVR, Kladru and Jakob Voricek who is only in 83. So, a decent first line, I think we beat out their first line. Their second line, Travis Konekny, Kevin Hayes and Oscar Lindblum. I think we also beat out this line. Interesting on the third line, we got D'Zingo Couturier and Farabi. Don't know why Couturier is on the third line. They might take our third line because of that. And then their fourth line, I think we do take easily. We got Carson, we're going to call him. We got Nolan Patrick and then Nicholas Ube Kubil, sure. And then on defense, they got Ivan Probera with Philip Myers. They beat our first line because we do have a root wheel. Second, Sandheim and Braun, we match up pretty good with their second pairing. And then Hagen Loud, who we take over that third pairing easily. So, that's not too bad. And then in next, they got Carter Hart, who is a beast. They take gold tending for us from us and then they're back up. They don't really have anyone back there. Scratch, they got Michael Del Cole, Carl Gunnerson and Rupestov. So, yeah, an interesting team and they're a good team. We know they're a good team. They went 50, 29 and 3 last in this season. So, they did, you know, we did do a little better with them given we had more overtime points, but they did have a 51 season. So, we're not going to take this team lightly. Obviously, they're a good hockey team over there in Philadelphia and it's going to be an interesting first round series. Alright, so here we go. Game one being played in Pittsburgh. We're looking to take that first win of the first round of the playoffs. Here we go. First period, it's a 2-1 hockey game. So, Hegg scores one to open it up. A shorthand goal, which I'm not a fan of. Evgeny Malkin gets his first of the playoffs and then Travis Kneckney with a minute 41 left in the first scores to make it 2-1. Alright, okay. Second period, 2-2. There it is. Mikhail Grandlin tying it up. So, we're in for an interesting third period. The shots are 20-21. So, it's a pretty much even game here. It's a goal-tending duel right now. So, here we go. Let's resume the sim for the third period. We need someone to be a hero cross. We need to step up. I want to see Richard Raquel maybe do something. Ooh, power play and we do not kill it off. Ivan Proverov blasts one in. 3-2. And ooh, Jason Zucker now tying it up. An even strength goal. Make it 3-3 with a minute to go. And game one is heading to overtime the battle of Pennsylvania. Game one, heading OT. Who's going to be the hero for the Pittsburgh Penguins or the Philadelphia Flyers? We will see. Only time will tell. Who is it going to be? And it is Richard Raquel, the trade deadline pickup. His first of the playoffs is the overtime game winning goal in game one. A 4-3 victory for the Pittsburgh Penguins as they take game one. These three stars, Jason Zucker with a goal and two assists. He had a great first game. Raquel with a goal and an assist. And I'm getting Malcolm with a goal and an assist. Great stuff from the team there. Looking at these stats. Zucker with a 3.9. Malcolm with two. Kaepernan with two. Raquel with two. Good stuff to see. A 9-19 from Tristan Jari. We like to see that. Good from him. A good first game from this Pittsburgh Penguins team. Yannick Weber has been injured in the AHL. We'll just do best lines down there. And now we're heading to game two with a 1-0 series lead. We are in the driver's seat for the time being, which is nice. Game number two here. We're looking to continue with our winning ways here. First period. It's a 0-0 hockey game. Man, this series has been so close so far. 0-0. Second period. Ooh, 3-2. So Mikael Grandlin gets 2 on Carter Hart. And then we give up 3 straight to Chakateria, Oscar Lindblum, and Travis Konekni. It was a great start to the period. And then a horrible end to the period. So we need someone to tie it up here in the third. Again, shots are pretty much dead even. 21-20. Third period. Who's going to be the guy to tie it up? And it's Ricard Raquel, the trade deadline acquisition. He is having himself a great start to the series here. Tying it up for the Penguins there at a weird angle. 3-3. Tend to go. JVR, though, gets one. And then Ivan Prorov gets one a minute later. And it looks like the Philadelphia Flyers will be taking game two of the first round. 5-2-3. Again, a great start to the period. And then a horrible end. Not good stuff defensively from the Pittsburgh Penguins. First start going to Grandlin. He had 3 points. Konekni had 3 points. And Prorov had 2. Again, not what you want to see from the Pittsburgh Penguins team. Again, Grandlin with 3 points. Ricard Raquel with another 2. Jankowski had an assist. Stahl had an assist. And then looking at the Minuses here, Zucker with minus 3. Not the greatest. And Tristan Jari with an 8-21 safe percentage in that game. Not a good performance from the netminder. From the team in general, to be honest. Just not a playoff performance you want to see. So the second line did not have a great second game. But we're going to keep it the way it is. If Ricard Raquel keeps going, man, I think I'm going to swap him and Kaepernan next game. But for the... You know what? We're going to do it now. Kaepernan's been doing good. But I think Ricard Raquel, I see something clicking here. And maybe that'll be the change to this line that they need. So I think that's going to be the only change we are making for game 3. Is we're heading over to Philadelphia with the series tied 1-1. First period. And it's a 1-0 game. Cindy Crosby checking into the series. He gets his first and makes a 1-0. We are out shooting them 22-7 in the first period. My goodness. Let's keep it up. Pittsburgh's second period. Still a 1-0 hockey game. Shots are 37-16. 37 shots through two periods is absolutely crazy. Carter Hart is having himself a game, clearly. Third period here. We need that insurance marker to make us feel safe, obviously. I have a feeling Ricard Raquel is going to answer that bell. We take a penalty and we kill it off. And then Kevin Hayes scores even strength to make it a 1-1 hockey game. We have 45 shots on Carter Hart. And oh my goodness. The fourth liner. 75 overall. Gets another one on Tristan Jari. Wow. Carter Hart. We'll give him a round of applause to Carter Hart. He had a 49 save performance in game 3. We had 50 shots on goal and could only get 1 by him. They had 25 shots and they got 3 by us. Tristan Jari not good. Carter Hart first star as you would expect. The fourth liner with a goal and an assist. And Patrick with two assists. Naka Stub from the Pittsburgh Penguins team. I'll tell you that right now. It's not looking good. Tristan Jari with another horrible performance in 8-80. And maybe we chose the wrong guy to be the starter for this team. And now Jason Zucker is injured with a hamstring. Oh my goodness. It's just going all downhill right now boys. So we're going to put Teddy Bluger in for the time being. We'll put Jan Kelski up there. I'm going to put Malek in back on this first line. We'll put that plus 3. We'll see how cross we were killing Jan Kelski plays. We need something to change boys. We had 50 shots on goal last game and only scored 1. We need something going here. And a plus 3 is going to help these boys out a ton. Tristan Jari to say the least. Not happy with you at all. Three games played. One win. An 877 save percentage of 3.66 goals against average. That's not going to win you a playoff series to say the least. Not good from him man. Not happy with it at all. Anyways we head to game 4 down 2-1. We don't want to go home down 3-1. So this is a must win I want to say for this Pittsburgh Penguins team. Malcolm I'm giving you first line responsibilities. I know people in the comments aren't going to be too happy with it. But I need something going here. So first period it's a 0-0 hockey game where you're getting outshot 10-6. Which isn't great. Second period still a 0-0 hockey game. My goodness we got a closer game here. We need someone to step up. And Ricard Raquel on that second line. We moved him up. He gets a goal. Makes it a 1-0 hockey game for the Pittsburgh Penguins. We need an insurance marker. If that first line can click that'd be great. And as I'm saying that Travis Konekny ties it up. My goodness this Pittsburgh Penguins team cannot defense this series. We needed that insurance marker. No one was able to get it for us. We got 2 to go here in this third period. And we were heading 2 overtime for the second time in this series. Like I said this is a must win game I want to say. I feel like we go down 3-1. We're pretty much kissing our playoff hopes. Goodbye. So someone's got to step up. Malkin I gave you first line responsibilities this game. If you could step up that would be huge. Overtime period we got a power play. And Evgeny Malkin I know it's not the first line. It's a power play unit. But he scores the goal to give us the OT win. 2-2 heading back to Pittsburgh. Which is huge. Good stuff from Geno Malkin. Looking at the 3 stars. Tristan Jari finally with a great goals against average. A great safe percentage. He gets for a star. Carter Hart gets second. Who's been having himself a playoff series in Evgeny Malkin. The overtime hero gets the third star. Good stuff from him. Good stuff from the team all around. We're heading back to Pittsburgh now. With the series tied. Which is what we really wanted. Now I know this first line didn't really get anything done. And I know Malkin got it done on the power play unit. We're going to go with Crosby and Raquel. I think for the time being we're going to keep Malkin there. Actually you know what? No. We're going to switch it back. I think Malkin's been clicking where Ricardo Raquel. And you know what? Crosby deserves the first line minutes. He's the captain of the team. He's been pretty quiet this playoff series. But we're going to trust it here. So we're heading to game five. Series tied 2-2 in Pittsburgh. Alright here we go. Game number five. First period. It's a 1-1 hockey game. Jacob Vorachek opens up the scoring. And then with a minute 31 left, Brian Russ ties it up. Good stuff. Heading into the second. Still a 1-1 hockey game. The series has been close. We're getting a shot by almost 10. They have 28 shots to our 19. We need a huge third period here. Who's going to be the hero for either team of this game? We're hoping Crosby back on that first line does something. And the fourth liner again. He is going off on this Pittsburgh Penguins team. And now Claude Giroux makes a 3-1. My goodness. What is happening here boys? This is not good. This is horrible. Horrible performance from the team. We lose 3-1. 3-2 now. The Flyers lead the series. Horrible stuff. Horrible stuff. Claude Giroux with a goal on assist. Carter Hart getting another second star. He's been amazing this playoff series for the Philadelphia Flyers and forward check in a third star. Not happy with this team at all. If I'm going to be completely honest. Crosby a minus 1. We're going to have to do something for next game. And Tristan Jarry had a good performance. So you can't even pin that performance on him. Just we couldn't get any scoring. So we're heading to game 6. Bax against the wall in Philadelphia. And we're going to do something crazy here. We're loading up this first line. Bax against the wall. Malcolm will now be playing with Crosby and Jake Enzel. We need to load up this first line. Second line doesn't look as great with Jankowski's stall and Ricardo Caldwell, but I have faith in them. Kaepernan, Grandland, Bluegrass. The bottom 9 stay the same. Defense. We're going to keep it the same. Maybe throw Joseph up here. Give Rudeweel a plus 1 with Haminik. Maybe we'll do that. See if that does anything. Again, we're throwing. We're throwing stuff at the fan. Throwing it at the wall and seeing if it sticks right now. So game 6. Back against the wall. We loaded up the first line with Malcolm and Crosby. Let's see what they can do. First period. It's a 2-2 hockey game. So Vorecheck and Dazingo get the first two goals of the game. And then Grandland and Crosby get the second two to tie it up to the two. Not what we really want. But hey, we're in a tied game. One more can you ask for. Second period. Still a 2-2 hockey game. Backs against the wall. This first line needs to do something here. That's all I'm going to say. You guys are loaded up. Malcolm, Crosby and Gensel. Do something boys. Power play. We kill it off. We need someone here boys. Someone, please. We want to force a game 7 against his Philadelphia Flyers team. Who is going to be the hero? And it's going to be Claude Giroux and then JVR. I'm just so disappointed in this Penguins team because I had a feeling that maybe this was going to be the year. And potentially the last season of Evgeny Malkin with the Pittsburgh Penguins is going to be a first round exit. Carter Hurd with another star. He was the difference maker in the series to say the least. He made it impossible for our stars to score. Our first line being loaded up. I mean, Malcolm got two points and Crosby got a goal. But he was a minus one. Tristan Jari with another lackluster performance in the series and a 46 save percentage. 4.07 goals against average. Now I'm not going to pin it all on him. We don't have the greatest defense. Absolutely horrible from our team. Man. You're looking at it and you're kind of just thinking like my god we might do something with this team and we're just not doing anything with this team. So it sucks. Grandlin glad we brought him back. He had a great season. A great playoff run with us. Great acquisition. Had a great run with us as well. Malkin did great. He did all that he could. Crosby was lackluster man. Look at these minuses. Minus three, minus two, minus three, minus four. It's not going to get the job done. So we'll simulate to the draft. We'll see who wins the cup. It's going to be interesting to see what we do this offseason with Geno Malkin. I'm going to try to bring him back. But if I do bring him back, I'm going to look to move him in all honesty and start rebuilding for the future. We had a two year window with Crosby and Malkin on the same team. I think it's time to try to bring Malkin back and trade him away. Let's see who wins the cup here. Now Jason Zucker is available. Figures, once we get out he would have been available for game seven but we couldn't force a game seven. What? What? Oh my God. Good for the Florida Panthers. So let's stop simulating here and let's see how they got there. So the Panthers beat the Leafs in seven. They then won a series in five against the Lightning. They won the conference finals in six against the Flyers and then won the cup against Arizona in six. What a run from the Florida Panthers. What a run from Arizona as well. Wow. Okay. Good for them. The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions. So looking at the team awards Stanley Cup goes to the Florida Panthers. Congrats to them. The President's Trophy went to the Tampa B Lightning who lost in the second round I believe. The Clarence S. Campbell went to the Coyotes who lost in the finals in six. They had a great season. The Prince of Wales went to the Panthers and then looking at the individual awards Yar Ross went to Nathan McKinnon and went to Matthews last year. The Hermit Memorial goes to Nate Mack again and went to Matthews last year. The James Norris Memorial Trophy goes to Morgan Riley. Good for him. He wins the James Norris. The Lady Bane goes to ADB. Matthews won it last year but ADB won it in the Lady Bane. Good for him. The Calder Memorial goes to Tolvainan. The Consmite goes to Alexander Barkov. The Vezna Trophy goes to Ilya Samsonov. Interesting note Miko Koskinen won it last year. That's crazy. The William N. Jennings goes to Vasilevski who Koskinen also won last year. What kind of year did Koskinen have last year? The Bill Masterson goes to Alex Petrangelo. The Jack Adams goes to Brown who's won it two years in a row. The Frank J. Selke Trophy goes to Jonathan Taze. The Ted Lindsay goes to McKinnon. He's been cleaning up. That's his third trophy I believe. And the Maurice Richard goes to John Tavares who Matthews won it last year so Leafs won it in back-to-back years. So that's all the trophies that have been won. And that is it for the 2021-2022 season with the Pittsburgh Penguins. We are going into year three with some... I think we still have our first round pick if I'm not mistaken. So we're looking to draft some good rookies this year. And we're going into the free agency and signing stage with an open mind we're going to look to bring back Evgeny Melkin and then possibly trade him going into the season but it's going to be interesting to see what happens. But yeah, next video is an off-season video and sadly we couldn't get it done this year. We're hoping year three is the year with this team. We will see. Only time will tell.