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The Penguins resumed their second half of the season yesterday night facing off against the Winnipeg Jets at home. The Penguins were without class act hero Sidney Crosby due to the NHL's great shitty rule that prohibits players from playing in their first game back if they miss the all-star festivities. Malkin was placed on the IR Monday with a lower-body injury injury, however it was retroactive to January 20th, so he's good to go any time now. Kris Letang and Patric Hornqvist were game time decisions and boy did both of them show up. In summary, the Pens played a complete solid game of hockey and got the two points they deserved.
Spaling doeeeeee
(GIFS courtesy of the Penguins website)
Spaling (7) tallies first with 12:51 to go in the first thanks to an unreal pass by David Perron. This was Letang's first of 5 (five) (FIVE)assists.
About 2:13 into the second period, former Penguin Chris Thorburn gets his 5th goal in the NHL this season. That's mind boggling considering Chris Thorburn even thinks Chris Thorburn sucks. Anyways it was a pretty sweet pass from degenerate Adam Lowry (only because he nailed Kris Letang from behind, so we wish the worst on him). Thorburn tipped it past Greiss for a 1-1 game. The Jets also got the next goal with about 7:13 to go with an absolute bomb by Jacob Trouba. Byfuglien made some pass to Kane who passed to Trouba who just unloaded past Greiss who couldn't even see the puck. 2-1 Jets. Then #Downie316 happened with an unreal pass to Kris Letang who shot it off Pavelec and Downie found the garbage for his 9th of the season from Letang and new St.Louis Blues player Marcel Goc (More coming).
Downie doeeeeee
Basically a minute into the third Adam Lowry snaps a puck past Greiss. It was pretty much an absolute rocket and Greiss was just like 'meh YOLO we're gonna score three more goals anyway.' From then on out the game was all Pittsburgh. David Perron strikes on the powerplay as of course none other than Kris Letang fired it on net, and Perron just kept poking and jammed it home. 3-3. Perron's 7th goal in 10 games as a Penguin.
Perron doeeeee
Less than three minutes later Brandon Sutter wanted a goal and he scored too, from some weird angle and Patric Hornqvist tried jamming the puck past Pavelec like 53443 billion times. Sutter's 10th from Martin and Letang.
Sutter doeeeee
That empty net thooooo
3rd star: Chris Thorburn (LOLOL 1 goal, 1 assist)
2nd star: David Perron (1 goal, 1 assist)
1st star: Kris Letang (0 goals, 5 asssists)
News: The Penguins have acquired center / grit guy Maxim Lapierre from the St. Louis Blues for Marcel Goc. This literally happened .343 seconds after the Penguins had defeated Winnipeg. Lapierre is 6'1 207lbs while Goc was 6'1 196. Lapierre is a gritty guy, not quite comparable to Steve Downie but he'll certaintly toughen up the bottom six. He also has a better faceoff percentage than Goc, so the Penguins surly did not get any weaker in the faceoff dot. Lapierre is expected to be in the lineup for the game tonight against the Capitals.
Apparently Lapierre makes 100k less than Goc so could this mean it's a piece to a bigger part of the puzzle.... GMJR SAY IT'S TRUE...
Game Notes
- The Penguins and Jets combined for a total of 112 hits, which would make a Ray Rice / Chris Brown party seem weak
- The Penguins powerplay went 2/3 last night and looked very good
- The 'Iron Man' Beau Bennett played in his 10th game so props to him
- The Penguins are 9-0-1 in their last 10 games without both Crosby and Malkin so they should never play again ever
- Despite 534,545 hits there managed to just be 20 penalty minutes in the game counting a fight
- #Discipline
Next game: In about 8 seconds against the Washington Capitals @8PM
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