2) Pens fans are not the only ones that specifically feel the Flyers are cheap shot artists and try to get under the other teams’ skin by dirty play.

3) So far this year, the Flyers have more penalty’s (minors and total) than anyone in the league…at 52. The Pens are 4th lowest, at 28.

As for the overuse of Kris Letang – a) its pretty common to have him bring the puck up on the powerplay, b) I wouldn’t say he quarterbacks the powerplay – he is on the point but the powerplay operates primarily out of the half-wall, and most importantly, Kris Letang hasn’t exactly been the issue on this team. He’s playing well this season.

As for the PK – its actually been a lot better than you probably realized. If you take out the 5-3 garbage time goal against Toronto they’re a top 10 unit in the league (I was shocked too).

Cool your jets here fellas – you don’t fire him 6 games into an abbreviated season in which he had no training camp and no preseason to get things sorted out. Crosby being at full strength, Staal gone, Sutter and Glass in – this is a different unit that takes some sorting out. Need some time to get things together.

Keep in mind that the year the Pens won the Cup they still had remnants of Therrien’s defensive system ingrained in them. Since then, they’ve underachieved and lost to lower seeded teams 3 straight years in the playoffs (although they get a pass on the Tampa Bay series since Crosby and Malkin were both hurt).

I just want them — as a whole — to get their heads out of their keisters. They’re losing to all the bad teams and beating all the good ones. I really don’t want to have to suffer through the 48 game version of the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers.

They haven’t been dumping the puck because they haven’t had any luck retrieving it. They wanted Kunitz on Crosby’s line to do just that, and he hasn’t done great, but not bad. They’ve tried several people. I do agree that they should still dump and chase, but I think they’ve been hesitant to do so.

I agree completely on the Power Play. Hopefully this fixes it. But I don’t think it will, unless they shoot.

The other thing they need to get over is themselves. I’ve screamed myself hoarse yellnig at my TV telling them to dump the puck into the zone. Teams have been putting up a picket fence in front of them on the blue line ever since the trip to Winnipeg (3 games ago), Sid and the boys have been acting like they’re “too good” to do that, and are trying to skate thru the wall every time.

The one other thing I would do is let Geno on the bench for an extended period of time. Malkin continues to make dumb, unexplainable turnovers, game-in, game-out. He needs some sort of wake-up call. Leaving him to ride the pine for last 10 minutes of a game — regardless of the circumstances — might get the job done.

You want to fire Dan Bylsma – the Stanley Cup winning and Jack Adams winning coach – 6 games into an abbreviated season? Yes the team has made mental mistakes against some teams that on paper they should have beat, but they also have wins AT Philly, New York and Ottawa.

And Shero too huh? The guy who was able to bring back a 40 goal scorer and a top 4 Dman for one borderline top 4 Dman? The same guy who was able to pull a true 3rd line center, the 8th overall pick and a SOLID defensive prospect for a (albeit very talented) center who had no intention of staying with the team beyond this year?

As I said in my post above – there are problems that need to be fixed, but the idea that the answer to is to can Bylsma and Shero is absolutely absurd.

I’m not sure what else to say about your comment because it’s extremely vague, they brought in Vokoun, made changes on Defense, etc. What is “it” that they didn’t address?

You just have to be good enough over 48 games to get in and to get yourself in a position to be rolling by the start of the playoffs.

Going 1-14 on the PP is unacceptable and I was happy to hear all of the beat writers reporting that Neal was being moved off the point (which wasn’t a good idea) and putting Malkin up there instead. He’s proved in the pass that he can take those shots as well as dish from that position.

Finally I’m encouraged by some of the play of Dustin Jeffrey on the Second line with Malkin and Neal. That could work really well for the rest of the year. Still think we need to add a D-Man at the deadline but this team is still a contender, for now.

Please…for the love of all that is good and holy….shoot the puck.