HEYYYYY FANNNSSSS: RECAP. It's Only a Maatta of Time. Pens WIN.

The Pens got back into Pittsburgh in the wee hours of the morning, this game was supposed to favor the Wild. It was the exact opposite. Minnesota would be 2nd in the Metro if they were, but they're not so that's kind of a dumb comparison. Matt Cooke made his return to Pittsburgh. Pens haven't trailed on home ice in like 317 minutes. Pretty unreal stat.

I missed the first period because I had another thing I had to attend to, so I'm going to summarize from Brandon's texts who was at the game.

Duper. 1-0
Unreal standing O for Cookie
Chris Conner just did a hand stand, so theres that
End of 1. Still 1-0 Pens

So thats what happened in the first period.

Early in the 2nd, Brandon Sutter decided he wasn't done from last night. Olli Maatta with just another point. Then 2 minutes later, the Wild took some penalty and the Pens made them pay. Niskanen rifled a shot from the point and I'm pretty sure no one saw it because it was in the back of the net in no time. We've been hard on Niskanen in the past, but he's playing unreal hockey right now, stick tap to him. The period seemed to be humming by and Sidney Crosby decided to be Sidney Crosby. Unreal pass by Best in the World to Kunitz. If Kunitz makes Canada, they might win Gold just because of those two. Take a look for yourself because that goal was too unreal to describe.

Thanks for our buddies over at the Pensblog for putting that into gif form. We give credit to where credit is due because we don't copy other blogs work without giving credit.

Anyways Pens looked like they were gonna run away with it but Jason Pominville made an unreal deflection and scored past Zatkoff. Pens probably still mesmerized by dat pass. Period ended with the Pens up 4-1.

A few minutes into the 3rd, half the Pens quit playing when Craig Adams broke his stick. Dany Heatley decided he was a hockey player and somehow scored under Zatkoff. 4-2 and it had a hold on to your butts kind of feel to it. Then Olli Maatta got called for hooking Nino whats his ass and then some jagoff decided he was gonna stop skating in front of Craig Adams and somehow they called a penalty on him, no clue. 5 on 3 for just under two minutes could've been what to doctor ordered for the Wild, but Robert Bortuzzo is on PCP right now and Zatkoff was impressive. Really impressive kill by the young Penguins. Right as Maatta's penalty ended, he broke up ice and someone hit him with a perfect pass, he got hooked and the ref gave him a penalty shot. Apparantly it wasn't the same ref in New York last night because it was no different than the Crosby breakaway. Here is the penalty shot courtesy of The Pensblog once again.

First Pens defenseman to score on a Penalty Shot since the Johnson Administration, seriously.

Not much happened after that except a couple jokers from the Wild decided to take a boarding penalty or whatever. Who cares, didn't matter at that point.