Kid in the hat (who is from Shaler) was a dick all night. Left when Malkin tied it.
The Leafs and their annoying fans were in town last night and the Pens for a while looked like they were still on break. The Leafs dominated play for about 2 and a half periods. The Pens fell behind by 3 goals in the 3rd period and well you know what happened.
1st Period
The Leafs looked like they got out to an early 1-0 lead but the goal was waived off for goalie interference. Half the Leafs fans were chanting "Go Leafs Go" even after the refs waived the goal off. Idiots. The rest of the period was meh. The Leafs committed unlimited penalties but none were called. It's apparently illegal to call penalties against Canadian teams.
2nd Period
The 2nd period could be summed up in one word. Vomit. The Pens gave up an unrealistic amount of breakaways not only in the 2nd but all game. Graballsky had one early in the period but hit a pipe. It was only a matter of time. Graballsky eventually was around the net and stuffed one in to make it 1-0 Leafs. Then after Malkin got hooked behind the play Graballsky sniped one to make it 2-0. Nasty shot. To bad it should have never happened. The Pens could have been down 7-0 at this point but MAF was in the Leafs mouth all night. Got left out to dry on all the goals. It looked like the Pens were going to go into intermission down 2-0 but Paul Martin put a shot on net and Matt Cooke tipped it in to make it 2-1.
3rd Period
The 3rd period couldn't have started out any worse for the Pens. First Tyler Bozak beat MAF to make it 3-1. Then Clarke MacArthur scored to make it 4-1. The game should have been 10-1 at that point. You had that feeling the game was over and the streak was over. But part of you still had some hope. After winning 7 in a row you knew this team wasn't going to roll over and die. The comeback started when Steve Sullivan ripped a slap shot to make it 4-2. When Sullivan wound up to shoot that if you weren't saying "Why are you winding up" before that shot went in that's a lie. But Jonas Gustavsson is in goal so any shot has a chance to go in. Joe Vitale continued the comeback when he fought to get the puck in close and beat Gustavsson to make it 4-3. You had that feeling. The feeling from the Montreal game. You knew what was coming. Although it looked bleak because the Pens couldn't get the puck out of their zone. They finally did and got MAF out of the cage. They still couldn't get any shots on goal. They finally got a shot on goal. James Neal put a one time on goal it hit Malkin in the arm and went in. 4-4. They would take a 2nd look at the play in Toronto because the Pens were playing the Leafs. The goal stood. Jesus.
OVERTIME
Back and forth during OT. Both teams had some chances. The goalies were in everyone's mouth. Game went to a shootout.
SHOOTOUT
Malkin would be the only one to score in the shootout and the Pens would come all the way back to win 5-4.
Pens/Leafs tangle again in like 5 seconds.
If any Leafs fans actually read this...Suck it.
Go Pens
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