Penguins/NHL
Canadiens 5 – Penguins 1 (F)
PIT Goal Scorers: 2nd R. Sheahan (1) 17:10
MTL Goal Scorers: 1st: B. Gallagher (1) 11:08; P. Byron (1) 15:56; 2nd: P. Byron (2) 3:43; J. Armia (1 SHG) 14:04; 3rd: C. Hudon (1) 10:08
Post-Game Buzz:
Dreadful defensive play and goaltending followed the Penguins for the second straight game in a 5-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
The Penguins have opened the season in allowing 11 goals in two games, albeit an improvement from last season when they allowed 14 goals through two games.
This was a game where the Penguins dominated possession through 40 minutes but were outscored 4-1 through two and Montreal limited the Penguins from getting odd-man breaks through the neutral zone and countered the Penguins poor puck management and loose play defensively by putting the puck in the back of the Penguins net.
Montreal was willing to play a workman-like style by getting to the tough areas and Pittsburgh just wasn’t in that mode tonight.
Players Buzz
— Riley Sheahan scored the Penguins lone goal and played well over the final 25-30 minutes of the game. A positive for the Penguins in the loss beyond Sheahan was the 4th line showing some life as a whole. They produced a goal late in the second and had some strong territorial shifts early in the third when Pittsburgh still had time to get back in the game. Cullen and Sheahan especially got in on the cycle effectively.
However, it wouldn’t be a shock if we see Cullen-Sheahan-Grant against Vegas.
— The Olli Maatta/Jack Johnson pairing looked slow and sluggish. They got caught for the first-2 goals against To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
KEY MOMENTS
Evgeni Malkin doing Evgeni Malkin things in the defensive zone leads to Brendan Gallagher’s opening goal
— Max Domi had an impact on this game in the first two periods. His speed game caused the Penguins defense fits, notably Kris Letang when retrieving pucks and Domi walked Letang below the goal to setup Paul Byron for his second goal of the game early in the second period. He showed a lot of traits with his style of play that you can see why the Penguins looked hard into him as a reclamation project.
— Charles Hudon puts Penguins away for good at 10:08 of the 3rd
Sheary has 2 – 1 in three games… when did Crosby get to Buffalo?
2 on pp
Oh that’s right I forgot… PP points are meaningless… I mean ignoring the fact that Crosby is among the league leaders in PP points over the past decade it only applies to players you dislike
Also… how many fringe NHLers play and succeed on a teams top unit?
One more ?… who was in goal that lost to Buffalo today?
Hey D this last GIf of Murray is priceless if only npl can save it and post it on regular basis instead of posting fraud Murray hoisting the cup
Looks like the Karlsson experiment is a failure in SJ, considering he looked rough last year too… ONLY three games but clearly this is enough to assess its Time to sell the assets and start a new
He will be traded for few reasons number1 he never wanted to play in west in the first places. 2nd he is playing 2nd unit he wants to play more
3. Him and burns are both right handed shooters this will create massive ego issue on the power play
Thanks for the hot take Sam. Even though that sentence was ridiculous.
These says all we have to about your comprehension… it was a joke, three games! He seems to be having a great time early despite the slow start. I’m just laughing at judgement calls this early in a season
But it is the truth he wants to play east and the other factors makes sense too
I seen him say he is not signing in Canada but nowhere does it say not in the west
Interestingly, Murray gave up the same amount of goals on the same amount of shots in the first two games last year. His third game, he shut out the Preds in a 4-0 win. Just a funny coincidence. Hopefully he finds his game. This team is always vanilla until it doesn’t have to be.
Crazy, they said “all the right things” but I’d like to see them play that way. Murray had a significant portion of the base turn on him last year… it won’t take much more of this to have even more do so.
Defence needs more commitment and he needs to close the holes.
wow is it quiet in here 🙂
It’s two games. DePaoli acting like the season is over. His articles are fake news.
That and sam ejaculating all over his keyboard as his favourite team beat the Penguins was not worth responding to.
Two games and the sky has fallen. If after ten Murray’s still Swiss cheese, deal with it but I think “blow it up” with a deficiency in net is fucken retarded. Then again that same poster tried to convince the board he only said that for a brief period in 2016 not a party to the same from about 2011 until the cup run in 16
Totally agree. Nice to see a few of the people on here understand hockey.
Usually people turn off their tv when they are down 2-0. Didn’t know losing 5-1 will make them disappear for few days. Imagine Crosby era ends
Imagine when the Crosby era ends? Well we know you’ll get those Habs tattoos on the side of your little dink filled in with the bleu, Blanc et rouge and we won’t fucken see you ever again…. the silver lining to the end of the era.
Montreal deserved to win. They were the better prepared team. Lucky for us it’s early.
So there’s no fallout?!?!?
Apparently toews playing bad this year
Meanwhile tonight fleury was 2nd star of the game
Blow it up! Seriously, two-game sample. But it appears that The problem with this year‘s team, like last year‘s team, is that too few players are willing to play a hard game. Too many players rather play pond hockey. Nobody touches anybody. Guys like Kunitz were a biitch to play against.
Wasn’t the case last year playoff only few showed up
Where is gaydogg and his favourite signing maattaa.
I’m hearing nanana hey hey hey good bye song in Pittsburgh wtf?
Price 13 road game losing streak ends
Murray must be suckking. Scum sully real good 11 goals he has allowed and hasn’t been pulled. If it was fleury scum sully would’ve pulled him long time ago
He did, then we won two cups.
They say the care, but they no care
I wonder what the Fallout will be.
How’s the ahl team doing ?