The good ole Washington Capitals were in town last night for their first meeting of the year with the Pens. It's always a good time when the Caps come to town even though they've owned the Penguins in the regular season. The Caps can do whatever they want to us in the regular season, but when April and May roll around, well, you know what happens.
During warm ups Haagen Dazs was behind the Caps bench and our boy Cy (MalkinMania71) walked up yo the glass behind him and put one of his famous signs making fun of Boudreu up against the glass right behind Boudreu. Well saucy face turned around, saw the sign, and immediately turtled into the locker room.
1st Period
Its always a good idea to get on the board early against the Caps since they have unlimited offensive firepower. That's just what the Pens did. A little over 2 minutes into the game Malkin cut across the ice taking the entire Caps team with him basically, dropped the puck to Sullivan who dished an unreal pass over to James Neal who ripped a one timer past Vokoun to make it 1-0 Pens. The goal doesn't happen with out that pass from Sullivan. The Pens dominated the rest of the period. The only thing was, they couldn't score. They had chance after chance after chance to go up 2-0 but couldn't. Vokoun was Voukoun every time he plays the Penguins, shaky. He was leaving juicy rebound after juicy rebound, Stevie Wonder could have put one of them home. But not the Pens. They went to the break up only 1-0. Pens out shot the Caps 12-3 in the 1st period.
2nd Period
The 2nd period start for the Caps similar to how the first started for the Pens. With a quick goal. Mike Knuble powered to the net and somehow the puck found its way through Johnny to tie the game at 1. That goal woke the Caps up. After that goal they were in the Pens mouth for most of the period. I remember saying to my friend the Pens needed some kind of stoppage or Washington was gonna score. They almost did multiple time. Every time the Caps had the puck in the Pens zone for about a 10 minutes stretch it felt like they were going to score. But they didn't. Johnny and the defense held the fort and kept the game tied at 1. The Pens finally got their chances later in the period but they couldn't put anything home either. We would go to the 3rd tied at 1.
3rd Period
Business was about to pick up. The Caps got another quick goal early in the period when Vespa shot one at the net and Ovi deflected in. Green celebrated like he just saw God but the play kept going. The puck was in and out of the goal so fast it looked like it just hit the crossbar and bounced out. But the play would be reviewed and it was determined the puck went in the net and the Caps were up 2-1. We were just waiting for the Caps to get another one but this happened:
GO TO SLEEP
That got the crowd and the Penguins fired up. Asham told Ovi to fuck off at one point. Ovi's balls were so wound up after that he forgot how to play hockey. The Pens were flying. Ovi was trying to dance around everyone but he was stranded on Mickhalek Island all night.
The Pens kept buzzing. It felt like they were going to get one. And their golden opportunity came late in the period on the power play. The Pens had about 935637586 power plays last night but couldn't score...until this one. Malkin flew into the Caps zone dished one across to James Neal and before Vokoun could realize what happened Neal and the Pens were celebrating and the game was tied at 2. Both teams would have a bunch of chances late but no dice. On to OT. Take that point any day. Pens out shot the Caps 18-3 in the 3rd.
Overtime
The Pens were buzzing in OT. Malkin and Kunitz both had chance to win it. The Caps hadn't had a power play all game. But then when Jordan Staal, who probably had the worst game of his life, "tripped" Ovi the Caps got their power play. Ovi dove but whatever. The Caps got the power play and out course cashed in on it when Wideman beat Johnny to give the Caps the win 3-2. RAISE ANOTHER BANNER.
3 Stars
1. Dennis Wideman
2. James Neal
3. Mike Knuble
The Aftermath
So much fallout from this game, where do we begin?
John Carlson is a dick. He said this to some girl on twitter
Asshole
Ovi and Karl Alzner cried.
"It's not [Beagle's] job to fight. It looked kind of unrespectful (sic). I don't know … I think it's kind of unrespectful."-Ovi
"It doesn't surprise me. I'm not surprised by a lot of things that happened. [Media relations director] Sergey [Kocharov] should probably listen to me talk here before I go stupid. Just some of the comments by their fans and stuff is just unbelievable. It's classless. But I know that happens in fights. It's really crappy to see. Have some class a little bit, ya know?" - Alzner
Not sure if Alzner has ever fought anyone in his entire life. Not quite sure who Karl Alzner even is.
Asham didn't do anything wrong in our opinion. When he did what he did he was getting the crowd and his team fired up and it worked. He wasn't taunting Beagle he was playing to the crowd. If he would have stood over Beagle and chirped him a la Trevor Gillies to Tangradi, then that's different. Asham skated away and played t a crowd. Ovi just needs something to cry about and Karl Alzner is just a pansy. Get over yourselves assholes.
Puck Daddy has more: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy
Puck Daddy has more: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy
Flyers fans even got into the mix
Go down to the mentions from 14 hours ago. Business picks up then. First tweet was someone telling me to eat shit because I called Flyers fans out for booing a Hockey Fights Cancer add. Business picks up after that.
Sabres come to town Saturday at 7
Go Pens
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