Pens survive 2-1, and on to game seven.
I was thinking about buying a home defibrillator during the last couple of minutes of that one.
Jeebus. Gold medal for Scuderi.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Everything is totally normal and fine!!!
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.
They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Optimism opens the door to great things.
Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.
Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.
Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.
Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
Books are my comfort food!
KRK
Sexist!
gex
Go Pens!
JGabriel
KRK:
Yeah, uh, John, you might want to rethink the title …
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Comrade Kevin
Heh. This is actually the first Stanley Cup finals I haven’t watched in quite a while.
JenJen
A fine evening indeed, for the Pens and the Coles.
Nice way to remember the night you adopted her, you know. Well-played, all around!
GAME 7!
shoutingattherain
Wow. Double wow…
Pens somehow survive the last two minutes, even after pure adrenaline LAUNCHES Fleury out of position. Never discount the value of luck.
On to DET. Anything can happen ina game 7.
cgp
Hopefully the Wings send’em home Roy style. (7-0 blow-out)
Laura W
Are YOU mocking my menstrual flow too?
I hate this damn site.
MMM
Not in our house….see you in Game 7 (nothing better)
MarkusB
It’s them dern fertility drugs, knockin’ everyone’s cycles out of whack. Ain’t natural, I tells ya.
burghpunk
Bought a portable AED for Steelers season…I’ve changed the batteries twice in the hockey playoffs…
canuckistani
I almost wish Detroit had won. Another hour of hockey at that intensity level will kill me dead.
Face
Malkin’s gotta step up in Game 7. He’s the true star on that team, and they’ll need a hat trick from him to beat the Wings in Joe Louis with 18K insane crazy drunk deadbeats.
Scott
@Laura W:
Laura, Whats that got to do with Hockey?
It’s a game with THREE periods in a row; each one with potential for breath taking anxiety…
Cheers,
S
Scott
I thought it was all over by the end of the second period. Red Wings way down on the shot count and really playing defensive hockey. But wait! There’s more!! The third was incredible. Some of the best hockey I’ve seen ever seen.
Enjoyed muchly.
S
Bootlegger
Also, Kobe’s choking free throws, Death to the Lakers!
And go Pens.
Laura W
@Scott: Scott, absolutely nothing, but I try to tie it in whenever I can.
Thanks for asking.
Cheers,
LW
Scott
Skidari should get credit as a goalie for those 5 seconds. Three saves while Fleury had left the building.
And how many times is Fleury going to lose his stick! Thats at least the third time this playoffs.
Yutsano
Funny you should say that. I have a friend who makes all other women around her fall into her menstrual cycle when living with her. Fortunately she’s married now, so the odds of that occuring are quite low. Just reminded me of that fact though.
Scott
@Laura W:
Hmm, maybe it’s the absence of three periods in a row that leads to breathless anxiety…
But then what does a guy know?
I know! 3 periods in a row is an ellipsis; the relevance to all this escapes me…
Good night
S
laxel
That was rrrough. Cleary couldn’t do it and you got a damn fine goalie out there. That’s alright though, because when the Wings win the cup on Friday they won’t even have to bring it home, it’ll be here already. Go Lions!
Laura W
@Scott: I think you’re clever and you know a lot, Scott.
Night night.
Joe Lisboa
they’ll need a hat trick from him to beat the Wings in Joe Louis with 18K insane crazy drunk deadbeats.
I’d cast stones for that characterization, but not from my shotglass house. Well-played, Pens. We’ll see you back in Motown on Friday.
Comrade Kevin
WELCOME HOME LILY
Wow, who put on that ad?
Silver Owl
LOL! Go Wings!
If you’re ever up this way, I’ll treat you to a burger and beer in Hockey town. We’ll even designate it Juice Day. Just keep that pens jersey at home.
burnspbesq
One assumes that, for a game seven in Detroit, there will be octopus.
Whatever became of that bizarre but time-honored ritual, anyway?
David Hunt
Just saw the Lily ad. Welcome home, girl.
Big E
without Scuderi, Wings win by 2 goals…
an amazing night for him.. clutch beyond clutch
Wish they would teach the lame ass trumpet player in the crowd
at Detroit how to play Hava Nagila….
Joe Lisboa
Whatever became of that bizarre but time-honored ritual, anyway?
Oh, it’s alive and well, i assure you. The trick (I’m told) is to boil the octopus so that it doesn’t stink nearly as much (and so that it bounces much higher when it hits the ice). Perhaps I’ve said too much. And if John ever does make it to Detroit, I’d be happy to pitch in to pay his bar tab, sans Pens jersey of course.
J. Michael Neal
I finally figured out why there are so many bad calls by the ref away from the play. I’m a big supporter of the two ref system, but, if I understand the rules, there’s a huge hole in the implementation.
It seems that there is no consultation between the refs as to whether they are making the right call. Everyone seems to be afraid to admit that the refs might make a mistake, and they shouldn’t have blown the whistle at all. When one of them makes a call, the two refs really need to talk to each other, and see if the other has a reason to think that it’s a bad call. If it was, just admit you had an improper whistle, figure out where the face-off should be, and wipe out the penalty call.
I realized this after the horrible goaltender interference call on Zetterberg. It was brutal, and it was called by the ref at the blueline, not the one down at the goal. Thinking about it, I could see how, from his angle, he could have missed that Zetterberg was checked into the crease, and thought it was a penalty. McCreary really needs to go to him, and say, “Here’s what actually happened,” and they give Detroit an offensive zone face-off and restart play.
Tim
If the Wings had played the first half of that game with as much jump as they had in the second half, they would be drinking out of the Cup right now.
The Pens certainly stepped it up after the embarrassment of game 5, but there’s no way Flower could have held off the Wings if they had actually been shooting the puck at the net the first 30 minutes.
Tim
@J. Michael Neal:
Yeah, that was poor call. Seems as though the ref nearest the play should have final say on any penalty. If he doesn’t see it, then fine, the call stands.
And how long would it have taken a replay judge to look at that and say he was pushed into the crease? 10 seconds?
Ah well. I’d be way more bitter had they scored on that powerplay.
After the first two minors they put their whistles away, apparently. There was a bunch of interference going on in both directions, but I’m sure Bettman just said “let them play, we’re in prime-time”
asiangrrlMN
I’m wondering if I should watch Game 7 given that it’s in Dee-troit and–oh, hell. I’m watching. I don’t believe that superstitious crap, anyway.
Ecks
Happy result, and while I’m not very optimistic about game seven, it would be absolutely DEE-LISH-US to hoist the cup in front of Marion “screw you guys I’m leaving for the Wings to win a cup” Hossa while the last few wing nut* fans boo his ass.
Footnote: Detroit edition, not to be confused with the political kind. (apparently starting a line with an asterisk bolds it in this crazy ass blog).
PS. I’m still bitter about CuJo leaving the Leafs to go play for less money at Detroit because he thought he could win a cup with them. With a little more time on it I understand the decision more than I did, but I still don’t forgive him…. Well except that he game back and played the good soldier second fiddle in the twilight of his career…. Ok, ok… We all do stupid stuff, you’re forgiven.
But not Hossa, the ass!
JGabriel
Joe Lisboa:
Ice? Wait, you mean the Pens are a hockey team?
All this time I thought you guys were talking about basketball.
Damn, I don’t know whether to feel embarrassed or superior. I mean, hockey ?
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bago
@Laura W: See, at first I thought that was a wings comment.
(Note to scott, this was before I read your sublime commentary)
Gerry
The longest period ever, for those of us old enough to remember was actually half of a period. The last ten minutes of the USA-USSR hockey game in 1980 was brutal. USA took the lead at the 10:00 point of the third period and then Jim Craig was just pelted with pucks for the rest of the game.
NutellaonToast
Some of us TiVo games, man. Put that shit below a fold!
rs
Exciting, but disappointing, third period.
Agreed about more referee consultation. The call was similar to Hudler getting called for interference during the Anaheim series when in fact he was launched into Hiller by Pronger. The Ducks scored on the ensuing power play, furthering the injustice.
Earlier in the series, the Penguins had six skaters on the ice for at least 20 seconds, never called. The lack of a penalty was arguably a momentum shifter when the Penguins scored a power play goal after a Wings penalty was called within the two minutes after the non-call. Seemed like an instance where an off-ice official is better positioned to make the call.
DMG
People actually Tivo sporting events with the belief they can go more than a couple hours without finding out the results somewhere? Really? Seriously, you’d pretty much have to stay off the internet completely to avoid any mention of it somewhere else…much less here where you know the guy’s a Pittsburgh fan.