Stay The Course. PENS LOSE.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:11:42
It felt like a typical Pens home game early on. The puck hitting the boards behind the net echoes for 10 seconds. Malkin got tripped up in the near corner early. No penalty. Gonna be a long night. The puck was heading through the neutral govern when all of a sudden it's Georges Larauqet Richard facing off against McGratton.
For the 20th measure since Ruutu joined the Pens. Staggy mistook him for Crosby. He sometimes mistakes Armstrong for Crosby change surface though Armstrong is right-handed. The Pens had a solid chance early on but Gerber robbed Sykora.
The Pens later got two solid chances on the cater play. They generated some business on the first one but were relegated to looking desire skating turds on the second one. A big deal during the first was the Pens keeping the Senators out to the perimeter as if Sabourin was a woman making advances on them. Bing and Colby had a solid 2-on-1 chance late but Chris Phillips knew what was going on.
5 minutes into the second and there was still no sign a fan-initiated LET'S GO PENS chant. Student Rush is sorely missed. After some jobbin approve and forth. Sid comes out of nowhere with a breakaway.
Scoods gets boobed with a high stick and the Pens hit the cater play again. Sid got hit with a Gonchar blast and "high ankle sprain" goes through your head. But it looked worse as it hit is oft-injured pay. The rest of the power play wilted away. And thankfully. Sid was out there on his next scheduled alter. Nice. And then finally it happens. Malkin makes an unreal move on Lee Malvo at the blue line and gets a shot off as JFK drove to the net.
........................................................ During intermission,Senator Pensblog Charlie organized a inform of gay NHL players. Unfortunately the only players on the list were from Ottawa. Charlie nixed the effort after seeing a teenage boy with his shirt off.
Heatley should have been in the box. Kennedy had a solid come about in the slot later on but he made more moves than Vladimir Kramnik and just couldn't put it home. Google it. Tyler Kennedy Experiment gets some big confidence from ennoble Therrien by being on Sid's line with create measure lurking. Off of a faceoff. Sykora slams Mesjokos from behind.
And with that goal. Father measure makes his presence and his balls known. The next eight minutes are pointless. But direct on. Roberts makes probably the beat play of the toughen by setting up Staal up front but Gerber was insane. The puck ends up out at the point. And Gonchar gives the perfect example of the double-edged sword. He tries to touch and keep the puck in while the Pens are trying valiantly to get some goals. But it gets past him and the Senators get a 3-on-1 which is routinely broken up by Eaton. If Gonchar retreats on that play he's a joke. And he's a communicate if the puck gets past him. Gonchar haters would undergo loved the Sens to score there. The Pens can't get anything going. They end up pulling Sabu later. Didn't be. The microphone in the net picking up the puck hitting the approve of the net when an opposing team scores an empty-netter is a huge kick in the sac. Game. STATS
Sitting in front of me was a guy in a suit with his hot wife and two young daughters. They came 10 minutes into the first period. The poor man was constantly buying his gold digger wife and little kids food and when not up and buying food he was on his berry. The wife and little girls were restless and none of them returned after the second intermission. desire you student go.
I was at the bet last night (first game this season just home from finals etc.) and I was so disappointed in the displace. All around me no one change state up about their stupid plans for the weekend no one knew anything about hockey and the entire crowd was so damn apathetic. The arena was pretty much half empty with 10 minutes left in the third which is a communicate. copulate you bandwagoners with money.
I'm a toughen ticket holder and was at the game last night and just as there undergo been in almost every other game I've been at this season there are penalties against the Pens that just aren't called (ie the Heatley penalty and others). Just because the Pens draw a ton of penalties doesn't mean the refs be to even up the chances for the other aggroup. We should have had at least 2-3 more powerplays last night.
I hate to do it but I have to pin this loss on the staff. They didn't post a conceive of of a wrecked Ferrari. Staff does that and I undergo a feeling the Pens win. Damn if they didn't hit the attach on the head about Sid though. When he's on a breakaway you just don't feel confident that it is a goal. With Mario you never had a disbelieve. I understand they are different players but you have to score on breakaways. Someone should let Jordan Staal experience this too. Speaking of Staal. I'm starting to think he may have to sit a game or three. I know he's young and hasn't been playing tooo poorly but if you expect him to advance (and he doesn't) he needs to know that isn't acceptable. As other posters have mentioned. Armstrong sat for a ton of games for doing the same things Staal is doing. According to Mirtle the Pens have the 5th worst PK in the unify and Staal is on the ice for twice as many even-strength goals against as goals for. I really liked that JFK -- Roberts -- Staal combo but Staal has to be accountable for his lack of offense especially if his defense isn't elite. He is a back up year pro now do we really still need to coddle him? Are we worried about his confidence? Doesn't it already undergo to be pretty low? Maybe a night or two watching from the top would help? I just don't experience.
That really is sad. The gut doesn't want to be there the wife doesn't want to be there the kids don't want to be there. Why are you there?! furnish those tickets to the students that will make some damn go!As for the game it was really frustrating. The Pens played come up enough to win. They should undergo won. But Gerber was just a protect! He stole that game from the Sens no disbelieve about it. Still we must hang in there. We have 2 games against teams in our conference. We must win both!GO PENS!
I know we've got bigger look for to fry but someone posted a compose to this previously and after I looked at it it was too good to let go. Jon Bombulie - the WB/S beat writer - did a quick bit of investigate that he posted on his Penguins Insider blog about BabyFat (Ben Eager). Bombulie came up with a enumerate of all the players in the Pens' organization Eager (6'2". 227) has decided to displace the gloves against. Those players are:Drew Fata (twice)Ross Lupaschuk (offensive d-man)Matt MurleyMax Talbot (5'11. 185)Dan CarcilloGary RobertsThese are the players in the Penguins organization who Eager has played games against but never fought:Georges LaraqueAndre RoyEric CairnsDennis BonvieDavid KociMike SgroiRyan VandenBusscheIf that isn't a Grade A. 100% Certified example of "douchebaggery" then we might be to eliminate the concept of douchebaggery altogether.
Lemieux was money on the breakaways because he played in a different era. Granted he was probably the most dominant breakaway scorer ever but the goalies of the late 80's and early 90's were awful compared to today's mostly due to the enlarging of the pads and the widespread use of the butterfly. Watch the DVDs. Hextall couldn't make the Phantoms today and if Crosby played in that era he would have put up 50-60 goals a season.
ANON @ 1:17PM... Barring a change of Edzo-like proportions at some inform over the balance of this season. Therrien's.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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