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The Tampa Bay Lightning came to town last night. It was Sidney Crosby's first game against the Lightning since Victor Hedman ended his season and sidelined him for months and months in 2011. It was also the Pens first game without reigning MVP Evgeni Malkin who was diagnosed with a concussion. Almost vomited typing that. Since Crosby and Malkin have been Penguins it has usually been Evgeni Malkin carrying the team when Sidney Crosby was injured. Sid has never really had to carry this team. But now its his turn. Crosby is going to have to put this team on his back and carry them while Evgeni Malkin is on the shelf. If anyone says the Pens should trade for Ryan O'Reilly we will personally punch you in the face.
1st Period
Pens got on the board early. Tampa turned it over in their zone. Kunitz fed it to Best In The World. Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiipe. 1-0
Pens were flying. Tons of chances early for them. Tampa looked completely uninterested. Then the Pens made it 2-0. Pretty bizarre goal actually. It originally looked like Chris Kunitz poked the puck in to the net. The goal wasn't waved off so you know that wasn't the case. Then upon replay we see that the Paul Martin shot from the point hit Best In The World's stick. The puck then sat on Lindback's pad before falling to the ice. Then Lindback kicked the puck into his own net. We'll take it. The Pens could of had like 15 goals that period. TK had a chance to walk to the goal all alone but chose to take a bad angle shot. Typical. As much as we hate TK you almost want to see him score to drive his trade value up. It looked like the Pens were gonna take a 2-0 lead to intermission. But then the Pens went in 3 on 1. The puck made its way to Paul Martin. 3-0. The Redemption tour continues.
Gonna use this every time Paul Mart scores.
Joe Vitale fought Adam Hall before the end of the period. Adam Hall sucks.
2nd Period
With the way this season has gone the Pens could have been up 100-0 and you would have still expected Tampa to make a comeback. The 2nd period has been the Pens Achilles heel all season....Too soon? Speaking of Achilles this Leafs fan tool this sign to Ottawa and trolled the hell out of Sens fans.
This is pretty damn funny if you ask us.
Anyways. Garon replaced Lindback to start the 3rd. Some idiot named Killorn scored to make it 3-1. The Pens then found themselves on a 5 on 3 after Simon Despres and Craig Adams took penalties. Adams' penalty was a joke in our opinion. Bolts when to the power play. Stamkos lined up on Stamkos street and buried it to make it 3-2. Pens were on their heels. They looked like they forgot to come out of the locker room for the 2nd. But then the Pens were given a 5 on 3 of their own. Kunitz drew an interference penalty and Bennett drew a hooking call. The Pens came out with Best in the World, Kunitz, Neal, Letang, and.....Beau Bennett. It payed off. Bennett got his first chance to succeed this season since being called up. He was on Stamkos street for the power play. Best In The World fed an unreal pass over to him. One time cittttttty. 4-2. The Pens still had some power play time to work with. Nate Thompson had a breakaway but MAF told him to suck it. The 4th line did work all game long. They almost scored a goal too. Vitale tracked down a loose puck and Tanner Glass blew by Matt Carle and almost deflected the Vitale pass by Garon.
3rd Period
Some tool named Conacher made it 4-3 early in the 3rd. No one marked him back door. Might have been one of the worst defensive plays Brooks Orpik has ever made. He was right by Conacher and never put a body or stick on him. The pass also went right by him. Whatever. Pens were in Anit-Chernobyl mode. Some dick named Panik had a breakaway but MAF told him to shove it. Bolts couldn't scored and started to show the signs of being on the 2nd game of a back to back. Matt Cooke iced it with an empty netter. 5-3. The Lightning pulled Garon again and MAF tried scoring but no dice. Game.
3 STARS
1. Best In The World.
2. Steven Stamkos
3. Beau Bennett
Stuff:
- 3 point night from Best in the World.
- Kunitz-Crosby-Neal line looked good.
- Another big game from Paul Martin. He had a goal and an assist. He also has like 11 points in his last 10 games or something like that.
- Kris Letang is too good. He mad a couple great defensive plays last night. He also had 2 assists.
- Can you have 2 Norris trophy winners? Letang and Martin should both get it.
- Beau Bennett now has as many career goals as Eric Tangradi.
- Speaking of Tangradi he only played a little over 6 minutes for Winnipeg yesterday.
- Dustin Jeffrey had a pretty good game yesterday too.
- Simon Despres had a solid game as well. He had 2 rough shift and was immediately demoted to play with Deryk Engelland. He was with Kris Letang to start.
- Joe Vitale was 89% from the faceoff dot yesterday.
Pens take their talents to South Beach on Tuesday for a game against the Florida Panthers at 7:30
Go Pens
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