Friday, October 21, 2011

RECAP. Priceless. Pens WIN

Montreal was in town last night and it marked the return of Brooks Orpik and Dustin Jeffrey to the Penguins line up.  The Penguins owned Montreal all from the first faceoff to the final buzzer.  Not even sure if Montreal actually showed up last night.  Most disinterested performance from an NHL team I've seen in a long time.  No clue how Brian Gionta is their captain.

1st Period
Half the lower bowl behind the penalty boxes is empty.  Unreal.  Habs look lost.  Pens pressuring everywhere.  No clue how man times the Habs took 65 foot shots right at MAF.  Pens had a power play.  Yeah that didn't go well at all.  Mathew Darche had a breakaway short handed but its Mathew Darche so you know how that turned out.  Pens got on the board first when James Neal rung one of the post that bounced back and hit Carey Price then trickled into the net.  1-0 Pens.  The rest of the period was kind of whatever.  Only thing that happened was Carey Price robbed Sullivan.  Can't wait til he finally buries one.  The lower bowl finally filled in...kind of.

2nd Period
Deryk Engelland lit someone up in the neutral zone.  Too bad it wasn't Subban.  Pens would get on the board early when Engelland threw the puck to the net and Joe Vitale deflected it passed Price to make it 2-0 Pens.  The second period looked like the Pens were doing some JV/Varsity scrimmage.  That's how bad Montreal looked last night.  The Pens did have to kill off unlimited penalties in the 2nd but the JV's had no clue what a power play even is.  Their power play looked worse than one that Mike Yeo ran.  Subban ran over Cooke even though the puck was no where near Cooke.  Finally the fans realized a game was still being played and P.K Subban is a dick.  Got boo'ed pretty much the rest of the game.

3rd Period
First stoppage in play people in the section I was in got up and left.  17 minutes left in a 2 goal game?  Come on.  Pens would make it 3-0 when Deryk Engelland dumped the puck into the zone and the puck bounced up in the air and Aaron Asham would bat it home.  Montreal was pretty much already in their hotel rooms.  Didn't care at all the rest of the game.  Michalek had a breakaway but was stopped.  With about 8 minutes left the first mass exodus from Consol started.  Jokes.  MAF was 1:36 away from a shutout when some joke threw the puck to the net the puck was deflected by someone and went in.  Then the 2nd mass exodus from Consol started.  Come on.  People started wooing too.  Whatever, Pens win 3-1

3 Stars
1. Marc Andre Fleury
2. Deryk Engellad
3. Aaron Asham

Quick Thoughts
  • Definitely more confident in this Penguins team without Crosby and Malkin than we were last season without Crosby and Malkin
  • Great to have Brooks Orpik and Dustin Jeffrey back
  • The mass exodus from Consol is embarrassing.  If you don't care enough about the game to stay the whole game quit renewing your season tickets and let the real fans have them.  There are thousands of people, including the students that stand outside for hours and hours and wait for a student rush ticket, that would like your ticket jokes.
New Jersey rolls into town Saturday at 7.

Go Pens

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