Vomit City. Pens LOSE. Series tied 2-2.

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Not a lot to say about this game. Vomit city. Twenty five turnovers for the Pens.  Assuming a shakeup coming in Game 5.  You might also see Tomas Vokoun in net.  Not sure how we feel about that.

Game had a pretty good feel to the beginning.  Pens kind of weathered a storm early, and both goalies were making saves.  Brian Strait did the first relevant thing all series and shot the puck on net, it hit something, and got by Fleury. 1-0 Islanders.  Pens answer 48 seconds later with a nasty snipe by James Neal. 1-1. Rest of the period was pretty meh. Islanders fans were crying all night when a player would fall over, wanted a penalty every time.  Refs called some shit penalties, all were killed.

Second period had a weird feel to it.  Pens killed off the remaining 1:35 of a penalty to start the period.  Six minutes into the period, Mark Streit threw a puck on net after the Cooke penalty for goaltender interference ended, it looked like Tavares tipped it past Fleury. 2-1 Islanders.  Pens tied it less than a minute later when Malkin sniped one past Nabokov. 2-2.  Sutter, Cooke, and Morrow went to work and the Islanders left Brandon Sutter all alone to the left in the slot from Nabokov, Sutter shot off Nabby's shoulder and in. 3-2 Pens. You had the feeling that if the Pens can get to the intermission leading, then they might hold on.  They weren't playing bad other than a few turnovers throughout that stretch, then with about 2 minutes to go, Kyle Okposo flung one from behind the net, Fleury wasn't tight against the post, puck hits his pad, goes in.  Probably the first bad goal Fleury has let up all series.  The Coliseum was rocking.  Very tough to go into the 3rd tied at 3.

The 3rd actually was a good start for the Pens when Crosby left Kunitz a drop pass, who then shot the puck, hit Dupuis and trickled in. 4-3 Pens.  Then a few minutes later, Mark Streit shot a puck that appeared to go wide, until it hit Douglas Murray's skate and went in. 4-4. Really tough break for Fleury and the Pens.  Midway through the 3rd, Evgeni Malkin turned the puck over to Brad Boyes, who dropped it to Tavares.  Tavares stickhandled through a phone booth, got an initial shot off that was stopped by Fleury with a blocker, but no one covered up Tavares and he buried a rebound.  The rest of the period was pretty much mud.  Pens had a couple chances but really nothing happened. Nabokov decided to show up down the stretch.  Casey Cizikas scored after another turnover by the Pens to take a 6-4 lead.  At the horn, some stupid shit happened and the Pens were trying to send a message, I guess.

1. John Tavares

2. Mark Streit

3. Evgeni Malkin

Thoughts:

- Can't really say Fleury was to blame for much in this game, turnovers and breakdowns on D cost the Pens. Isles got a couple lucky bounces also.

- TWENTY FIVE TURNOVERS

- See thought above

- It's time to try Dupuis-Crosby-Iginla and Kunitz-Malkin-Neal

Game 5 Thursday at Consol. Series tied at 2

#RemembertheIgloo on Thursday

Go Pens.