It's the first game back from the all star break so, as far as i'm concerned, everything that happened before tonight is erased. The Pens will start the season tonight against the Rangers. There is no better first step in turning your season around than to put it to the Rangers.
Godard gets the Penguins started by dropping Colton Orr off the opening faceoff, it was an even fight until the last round house that put Orr to his knees. When is he going to learn, every game he fights Godard and every game he gets his ass handed to him.
The Rangers would get do one better by getting the 1st goal of the game 2:30 later. Zherdev fires a Wicked Wrister© from the circle that cleanly beats maf'er.
It took a while for the Pens to get their legs under them. The Rangers were controlling every aspect of the game early on. Winning the loose puck battles, creating turnovers all over the ice.
The Pens would fight through all of that and get a garbage goal to tie it up. Minard throws one to the net, Sykora puts the rebound past Lundqvist to tie it up. A goal is a goal and the Pens don't get enough goals of the garbage variety.
The Sykora goal seemed to light a fire under the Pens asses, as they start to show up for the game. Crosby dishes one to Malkin right inside the Blue line, Malkin tries 5-hole against King Hank, nothing Doing, Hank gives it, then takes it away. It's the little mind games these goalies like to play.
The first Penalty of the game would come at the hands of Pascul Dupuis. Hes called for a high stick in the offensive zone. The Pens would kill the Penalty, but the Rangers kept it in the Pens zone for almost the entire 2:00.
5:00 left in the 1st Period Malkin would spring Dupuis in on King Hank, he goes back hand, but he just couldn't get it up. He Puts that upstairs, it's a goal.
The Pens almost get a goal late, Malkin tries to jam one past Lundqvist, but the door is shut.
End of one.
The Pens were lucky to survive the early part of the game. The Rangers were all over the ice.
Most of the 2nd period was Mud, nothing to write home about, until the refs decided to make up some new rules to call the Pens on. The 1st one comes at 12:20 of the 2nd. Max Talbot gets called for crashing the net for a loose puck. The Refs call 2:00 for charging. No wonder Lundqvist has such good stats, if he gives up a rebound the refs blow it dead. What a terrible call. If the Rangers would have scored on that Power Play, the remote would have went through the t.v. screen.
The Pens would have to kill another Max Talbot Penalty. Malkin makes a few bad decisions, The Rangers control the Puck for at least a week and a half, Bob Errey is bitching about some shit, and Max Talbot throws the puck into the stands for a delay of game Penalty. The Penalty kill again bails them out, but not before Crosby splits the Rangers "d" only to get hauled down with no Penalty called. The Pens are 3 for 3 on the Penalty kill.
3:00 left in the 3rd the Rangers come in on a 2 on 1. Saves don't get any bigger than that one. Fleury manages to get from one post to the other to stop the back door pass. A tie game, that saves was huge. The 2nd period would end even as neither team could crack the goalies.
This may have been the best 3rd period I've seen in a while, at least since the Detroit game earlier this season. Staal would start the scoring in the period by beating King Hank from behind the net. That was not a good goal to give up. Staal throws it out in front, it hits Lundqvists skate and slides into the net. FLuky goal but again, I'll take it.
With 18:35 of the 3rd period the Pens get their first power play chance of the night. Letang would get tripped by the blue line, the refs decide that 5 on 3 would be to unfair at this point in the game, no call. I was unaware that the Rangers Penalty kill was the best in the league. The Pens should have declined the Penalty and let the play stand.
Letang would get an insurance goal with 13:42 left in the 3rd from a sick pass from Crosby. Letang beat s Hank with a short side wrister. 3-1 Pens.
Malkin draws a Penalty 2:00 later. The Pens go on another power play. To make it better some rnager d-bag throw one to a lucky fan, Delay of game, 5 on 3 for the Pens. Satan rips one off the Pipe, But Sykora wouldn;t be denied. 4-1 Pens. The Pens still have 1:21 of Penalty time that would be killed of by the Rangers Penalty killers.
Mark Staal gives the Rangers and their idiot fans some false hope with a meaningless goal with 6:00 left in the game to make it 4-2. Whatever go home.
The next 2 goals by the Pens were for the highlight reel. 1st Paul Coffey, or was that Letang, goes coast to coast to beat Lundqvist 5-hole. 5-2 Pens. Simply amazing, That is what we should expect from Letang.
A 1:40 left Crosby would show us some magic of his own, some sort of spinning backhander that kisses the crossbar and settles in the net behind King Hank.
The 1st game of the season couldn't have turned out better. Pens Win
Now for a quick note on the Steelers. The "Here We Go" song needs to stop. We know the Steelers are in the Super Bowl. That song was alright back in 95. i would like to go atleast 15 minutes without hearing it. I bet they don't play it after Big Ben chokes this weekend.
Go Pens
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Your Steeler jokes are not funny.
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