Sunday, October 9, 2011

RECAP. Flames Extinguished. Pens WIN

The Pens traveled to Calgary last night for their second game of the season as they took on the Calgary Flames. This was the Flames first game of the season.

1st Period

You could tell it was the Flames first game of the season.  Other than the sirens, lasers, and bizarre drums, the Flames came out flying.  The had multiple opportunities to score early in the first but couldn't find the back of the net.  Geno took a penalty early in the period but the Pens killed it off.  The Pens then had a power play about half way through the period but it looked like some 3 year old drew up the game plan for it.  15 minutes through the period the Flames would get on the board first when Curtis Glnncross beat Fleury on a one timer to make it 1-0 Flames.  The Pens didn't look to good in the 1st period and were lucky to only be down 1 going into intermission.

2nd Period

The 2nd period was a whole different story for both teams.  The Pens had some unreal bounce in their step the entire period and the Flames looked so disinterested it looked like they were forced to be at a high school dance with Ugly Betty.
Guarantee the only reason the Flames showed up to play this period was because they actually had a lead for once.  The scoring got started a minute into the 2nd when Tyler Kennedy came out of the box an walked in and sniped Kiprusoff to make tie the game at 1.  5 minutes later Matt Niskanen scored on the power play after his shot was blocked 56 times to make it 2-1 Pens.  4 minutes later Craig Fuckin Adams found the back of the net to make it 3-1 Pens.  2 minutes after that Evgeni Malkin tallied his first of the season on the power play to give the Pens a commanding 4-1 lead.  Then things started to get a little chippy.  As Matt Cooke came down the right wing Corey Sarich came in and elbowed Matt Cooke in the head.  It's already been confirmed the Brendan Shannahan will review the hit and Sarich may be punished additionally.  He was given a 2 minute roughing penalty on the play.  A few minutes after that happened Malkin has his stick slashed out of his hand and when he went to pick it back up Curtis Glencross pushed the stick away and Malkin got into it with Glnncross.  Punches were thrown and Malkin's jersey was pulled over his head because it wasn't tied down.  Luckily Malkin got away with only a roughing penalty.  If he would have gotten into a fight he would have been kicked out of the game.  

3rd Period

The Penguins are kings of having horrible 3rd periods.  This one was no exception.  They had a few chances early on but couldn't do anything with them.  Both teams played pretty horrible for most of the period.  Then the Flames started to pick shit up.  About 9 minutes through the period Rene Bourque tipped a shot in to make it 4-2 Pens.  The Flames would get within 1 when who else, Olli Jokinen scored to bring the Flames within 1 at 4-3.  But the Pens would hold the fort.  Chance after  chance went by the waste side for the Flames and they just couldn't find the equalizer.  Jordan Staal would ice things away with 4 seconds left when he found an open net to give the Pens a 5-3 victory.  

3 Stars
1. Kris Letang
2. Mark Giordano
3. Curtis Glencross

Pens play again in like 2 minutes against the Edmonton Oilers

Go Pens

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