HEYYYYY FANNNSSSS: RECAP: Columbus Got Nealed. Pens WIN

Well it looks like Haylie was burning down doors or cutting people with her vampire teeth or some shit instead of doing a gameday so this is awkward but whatever. Pens rolled through #Lumbus and ho hum got another 2 points. James Neal had another outstanding game and Jeff Zatkoff was solid in net for the Pens. Pens look like they have a pretty solid 1-2 combo with Fleury and Zatkoff in net.

Not really sure what happened the first 5 minutes because I missed it but apparantly Brandon Dubinsky remembered he was an NHL player or some shit and scored. James Neal sniped one on the Powerplay to tie it up. Pens ended up getting like 2 more Powerplays the remainder of the period with one carrying over to the 2nd period. 1-1 after One.

Pens didn't do much on the overlapping Powerplay, and then play just kind of continued for a couple minutes. About 9 minutes in, James Neal deflected a pass out of the Columbus zone which fell right on to Sidney Crosby's stick. Crosby found Neal in the slot, Snipeeeeeee. 2-1 Pens. After that, Corey Tropp thought he was playing NHL14, dangled Olli Maatta, went backhand-forehand and slid the puck under Zatkoff's pad to tie it at 2. Can't really be mad when someone pulls a move off like that, we just wish we knew who Corey Tropp was. Underrated aspect of this period was that Zatkoff made some big saves to weather a storm by the Jackets.

Third period was kinda of tentative in the early going. It was tough to get a feel for how this game was going. Both teams got early Powerplays in the 3rd but nothing really happened on them. Period seemed to be humming by and both teams kinda seemed okay with getting atleast a point and then the Penguins sort of kind of took over. Crosby made some unreal play with a bouncing puck, fed it to Kunitz who gave it back to Sid. We're not really sure how the puck got in the net but it did which gave the Pens a 3-2 lead. Crosby has like 939 points already this year, that may or may not be an exaggeration. A minute or two later, some jobber on the Jackets decided to hit Craig Adams with a high stick and Team Canada's top line went to work on the Powerplay. Neal to Crosby with a dirty sauce pass to Kunitz who one timed it into the back of the net. Pretty sure Kunitz tried to shoot it through the net. 4-2 Pens. With about 5 mins left in the period, someone tripped Crosby and it looked like the Pens were just gonna work the powerplay and let time trickle off, but James Neal wanted a hat trick and somehow scored.