RECAP: Ovi's House. Pens LOSE.

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Pens played well early but the Caps are actually pretty solid on defense. Pens have yet to score on Holtby and the Caps yet this season. Pretty bad effort all around for the Pens minus Fleury. He made 32 saves and was actually pretty good.

Here's all you need to know with what happened in this game.

• Elite deflection by Ovechkin in the first. 1-0 Caps
• Ovechkin in his office on the PP in the 2nd. 2-0 Caps (no clue what planet Andrew Ebbett was on during this play).
• Pens let Eric Fehr get 4 clean shots in on Fleury, Fleury made 3 saves. 3-0 Caps.
• Pens had a horrible dump in, Holtby controlled it and sent Caps on breakout. Ehrhoff with a bad pinch. Kuznetsov found Green on a 2 on 1. 4-0 Caps.
• Downie got 10 for abuse of officials so thats fun.
• Troy Brouwer jumped Kris Letang in last 30 seconds because you're not allowed to dish out a clean check.

Here's the bigger news as pointed out by our friends over at The Pensblog. The following happened in the 3rd period. NBC caught the gif of Crosby on camera while Pierre pointed out that there was a lot of frustration with the Penguins. As tPb said, this may be nothing but remember the news dropped by Mark Madden on his show yesterday that the Penguins are actively shopping Chris Kunitz because he's not happy here and as we've thought about this a lot over the past 48 hours, it makes sense as to why Kunitz hasn't been quite as engaged this year.

The first gif happened almost immediately after the 2nd one. Also to note, the very next shift that Crosby took, he took it between Perron and Hornqvist.

Brandon made a good point to us. 2 players (Paul Martin and Chris Kunitz) were known to be Bylsma boys. Player 1 (Martin) has bought into HCMJ's system and has played really good hockey this year despite having the option to sell out because Johnston isn't Bylsma. Kunitz on the other hand has sold out and has become Bylsma's bitch.

This just makes #JagrWatch more intense. We're ready.

#BringDoubleJHome

Speaking of Double J, Pens are in New Jersey Friday.

Go Pens