God knows Pittsburgh has some of the best skaters in the NHL, yet so far this game feels like a contest between Marc-Andre Fleury and Alexander Ovetchkin.
Go Pens!
***Update***
I’m used to events proving me wrong, but jeebus. 2 Pittsburgh goals in thirty seconds.
Pooh
The Caps do seem noticeably quicker, don’t they?
Pooh
Well that changed right quick…
Tim F.
Yeah, that face-off goal was insane. A Penguin took another ballsy shot straight from a face-off earlier in the game.
Pooh
2nd goal was terrible play by the Caps right wing, and possibly poor goalkeeping as well.
rob
Ovetchkin’s shot that hit the butt end of Fleury’s stick was pretty lucky. Fleury was already down, and the shot went high.
BARRASSO
If only the pens defense was more than Fleury.
John Cole
From last night’s Rescue Me:
How do I tell Tommy his daughter is a slut?
By phone.
Pooh
This got boring quickly…
Sean
this suxx
Litlebritdifrnt
I am going to repost this cause everyone has obviously gone upstairs….
Some assembly required. I have a crafts table in the dining area. On that crafts table (brown paper for backing photographs, glue, etc.) I also have a shoebox with envelopes full of seeds that I have collected from my plants over the years. The cats have dragged some brown paper over to the box and it is now the primo bed in the house, however in order to fit in said box the cat has to sort of dissassemble his parts and reassemble them in a way that makes no sense. Exhibit A Max
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Exhibit B
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Insert head part A into body part b attach leg part c, d, e, and f, then find and attach tail part g, rearrange.
shoutingattherain
“A stunned sea of red.” 5-zip PIT
Yeah. Go Pens.
Comrade Stuck
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Cats are weird.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Comrade Stuck:
True dat.
geg6
This may very well be the kiss of death but…damn. 5-1? Damn. One more period to go…
guyermo
You should have watched college hockey play-offs this year, John.
youtube.com/watch?v=IgveHcea0kc
youtube.com/watch?v=b5THX7td0rU
asiangrrlMN
@Litlebritdifrnt: How in the hell can he be comfortable like that? I love it when my cats twist themselves in order to fit in an unlikely spot.
Did the Penguins win?
geg6
Yes. 6-2. Awesome.
FupDuck
Arghh. Congrats John, and good luck.
Being a Bills fan and a Caps fan is the very nexus of sports futility. If I was a baseball fan, I’d probably root for the Cubs, and if I was a basketball fan, I’d probably root for the Clippers.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Man, folks on the train were m-i-g-h-t-y quiet on the way home tonight.
JasonF
As a former DC area resident, this makes me sad.
As a current Chicago area resident, I know this game doesn’t matter anyway — the Hawks are going to take the Cup.
SLKRR
@JasonF:
It doesn’t sound like you’ve been a Chicago resident for very long…
Ked
That’s just too many frakking goals for one game.
I learned to love playoff hockey in the worst stretch of the no-scoring era, about a decade ago, when EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. would go into overtime, and if a series didn’t have a couple of games at least into double overtime, something wasn’t working right.
Sure, sure, it made regular-season hockey completely unbearable, but the playoffs, oh, the playoffs, where a game could last six hours, where forty or sixty minute stretches would strain under the sweet tension of sudden death. Soccer scores. Worse, really. But the current game just doesn’t do anything for me.
(And yeah, I think tournament international soccer should go to unlimited sudden-death periods too. It would make the Cup about 80% less stupid.)
J. Michael Neal
@guyermo: Uhm, you’re missing BU scoring to beat New Hampshire with 15 seconds left, Cornell beating UMass-Lowell with 15 seconds left, Vermont beating Air Force in double overtime on a goal that went through hte net, and wasn’t counted until three minutes of play and ten minutes of review later, #16 seed Bemidji State making the Frozen Four, and BU scoring twice in the last minute to tie up Miami in the final, and then winning in OT.
It was the most insane tournament ever.
JasonF
@SLKRR:
We’re due!
(Seriously, how can you not love a team that uses this as its celebration song?)
MysticalChick
UGH! Epic fail for the Caps. I felt bad for Varly, though. He was a HUGE part of the reason the Caps were even there for game 7 so to just implode like that was a bummer.
Congrats to your Pens!
canuckistani
I’m just pleased to discover that I can still see the name “Malkin” and not try to pull my own eyes out.
guyermo
@J.Michael Neal:
I know, but I could only find the two videos. And no one wants to sit through a 5-10 minute video of ref’s debating whether the puck did or did not go through the net.
Most insane tournament ever, indeed!