Bylsma Must Go-Hell NO

I thought long and hard about what to post after this game, as I found myself as irritated as I have been while watching the Penguins in a long time.  At times, it even felt as if this might truly be the lost season some are saying it is.  I really thought the good news about James Neal and Craig Adams, along with NECESSITY would create a "turn the tide" kind of game from our Penguins.  I thought that getting what might be a last long look from the Penguins would get Eric Tangradi playing at least like a large third line winger with a nasty streak and net front presence.  I thought there was no way Johnson could get tattooed again in a start.  Well, I was wrong about everything pretty much.  Again, the Penguins could only muster one goal, Evgeni Malkin's 17th and again they suffered mental lapses that allowed the opposition the kind of scoring chances good teams do not miss on too many times far too often to have a chance at winning.  I have not had as bad a feeling about this team since right before they replaced Therrien with Dan Bylsma.  Much of Yinzer nation is using this streak, and tonight's less than impressive response to their situation to call for the head of Disco Dan.  I would agree that this team needs some sort of shake up or they might be on the verge of losing this year, but is that really the fault of the coach?  Yo, Yinzerzzzzz.......isn't Bylsma the "player's coach" that rescued a flat and floundering 10th place team and led it to the franchise's third Stanley Cup Championship barely two years ago?  Isn't Bylsma the same coach who took a team without either Malkin and Crosby for the entire second half of the season, Staal for the first half, Orpik, Cooke and others for long stretches, to a 106 point season and a 4th seed in the playoffs. The same guy who guided this depleted team to a 7 game series with Tampa who only lost to eventual Stanley Cup Champion Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals?  The same guy who won the Jack Adams Trophy as the NHL's Coach of the Year?  Is he the same guy who had the Penguins near the top of the league as recently as mid December despite having injury issues that made last year look like a day at the beach?   So, after having everything  but locusts fly out of his ass, he has a tough month or so, and we need to fire the COACH??  Are you fucking kidding me?  I bet there are plenty of young coaches we can pluck off the street to do what Dan did in 2009 and just take this team to the Finals...........IDIOTS!  I am not saying that the injuries may not have caught up to us....I am not saying that this 5 game losing streak hasn't been brutal to watch.  But remember this from recent history.  The 2007-08 Flyers had losing streaks of 6 and 10 games, and still landed in the Eastern Conference Finals before your Pens spanked them and sent them home.  The 2010-11 Capitals, led by BBQ Bruce no less, had an 8 game losing streak so gloriously documented on 24/7 and still won the top seed in the Eastern Conference, before doing their annual choke job at the hands of the aforementioned Tampa Bay Lightning.  Hell, the 2009-10 Chicago Blackhawks lost 8 games in a row the year they won the cup?  Remember BBQ using that as motivation during the Caps struggles last season?  These recent examples should confirm that a 5 game losing streak in January is not the kiss of death by any means.  That said, neither of those teams faced anywhere near the amount of injuries to upper echelon players that the Penguins have withstood since the beginning of the 2010 season.  To be sure, coach Disco is faced with the toughest challenge by far of his young coaching career, but he is not the problem.  I am quite confident that in the end, you will find that again, he, along with Ray Shero are a part of the solution.  I BELIEVE that these guys will find a way to bring post season hockey to Pittsburgh this season, but if not, I am going down with the ship.  Who is going with me?