Penguins Bounce Back with spring like performance
Now this was more like it for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
They were the faster team and the team play suffocating defense through the neutral zone and overwhelming the opponent in all three zones that resembled the team from last spring.
A five goal second period saw Pittsburgh score six unanswered goals in a 6-1 thumping over the Rangers tonight.
How dominant were the Penguins in the final 30-35 minutes of the game?
The Rangers were held without a shot for a stretch of 23:59 during the second/third period, with Pittsburgh outshooting New York 20-0 during that span.
A Conor Sheary goal late in the second period to put the Penguins up 5-1 saw the Penguins have possession in the offensive zone for a whopping 1:36 before Sheary finished off the sequence with his 4th goal of the season.
Pittsburgh outshot New York 38-17 in the game, including 28-10 over the final two periods. The Penguins had a massive 29-9 edge in 5 v 5 shots and 55-32 edge in shot attempts at even strength.
[PENGUINS PLAYER GRADES VS NYR]
Key Developments in Dominant Second Period
— The Penguins taking over this game was a lot of factors, notably from their stars and depth taking over. Matt Murray’s play, though, in the period can’t get overlooked.
Murray only faced 17 shots and was dominant in the second period when this game could have swayed in the Rangers direction.
Among the big moments:
A breakaway save on Michael Grabner who blew by Trevor Daley.
Then Murray made a glorious save on Rick Nash moments later.
The Penguins could have put a cone out there in the third period and won but Murray had a big hand on tilting this game in the second period. Pittsburgh benefited by his composure back there tonight. He was excellent with his positioning and angles.
— Phil Kessel was sensational in the second period. A Scott Wilson goal 2:02 into period saw Pittsburgh tie the game at 1-1 with Kessel delivering a perfect cross-ice pass to Wilson for the goal.
It was Kessel’s 15th assist of the season. Watching him on most occasions this season and Kessel has looked tentative shooting the puck and making many wonder if he’s playing hurt.
A goal like this will change that tune.
— Bonino, Bonino, Bonino? The Penguins were the most difficult to beat last season when Nick Bonino was a major factor offensively and playing a strong 200 ft game. There’s been very few occurrences of that this season.
That changed tonight in the second period. Bonino assisted on the Wilson, Kessel’s goal and his takeaway in the defensive zone led to the rush up ice on the Kessel goal. It was vintage Bonino from the spring.
Bonino had 2 assists, +2, 3 shots, 61.5 CF% (5 v 5) and was 57% in the faceoff circle.
— Sidney Crosby followed up his least impactful game of the season with 2 goals and 1 assist tonight. He had 6 shots and 8 attempts.
The stars having big nights in Kessel and Crosby combining for 5 points, to struggling depth players stepping up, the Penguins had everything going for them tonight.
Goal Summary
1st Period
NYR 4:22 Rick Nash (9, Power Play) | Assists: Chris Kreider, Mats Zuccarello
2nd Period
2:02 Scott Wilson (3) | Assists: Phil Kessel, Nick Bonino
4:58 Sidney Crosby (13) | Assist: Ian Cole
10:12 Phil Kessel (5) | Assist: Nick Bonino
12:57 Sidney Crosby (14) | Assist: Kris Letang
13:42 Conor Sheary (4) | Assists: Sidney Crosby, Carl Hagelin
3rd Period
13:05 Matt Cullen (4) | Assists: Eric Fehr, Justin SchultzPENGUINS PLAYER GRADES VS NYR
Another dynamite play by letang.
Dumo needs to spend a whole bunch of time at practice with a puck on his stick ffs!
Wow… unglued there. Murray starts the third I’m guessing
No I think Fleury is going to have to finish this debacle.
7 odd man rushes lol
sullivan should send out st.bleury so he disgraces himself even more. that way sullivan can rub the $$hit right in moreheist’s nose.
Damn… I had my fingers crossed that at your absence was housefire related
House fire! I love that line.
Edgelord password
Yes. Disgrace. A gaggle of odd man breaks and defensive lapses. Disgrace.
Proof that he is only looking at the box score while he is asking everyone if they want fries with that.
Cole just got owned on that goal.
Badly
This team looks fucking awful.
I think the box score will back you up.
Is there anyone that can get a shot off without fanning?
Here comes Yoda.
If you were actually watching SVU, you’d know the pens weren’t scored on because yoda disappeared this period
Yep. Exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah his glove looks strong.
if I’m Sullivan I suggest trying to shoot away from the fucking glove, at least 50% of the time as 100% have been stopped and trapped for the past while
Is letang on the take?
Best player on their team so far
Did the box score tell you that?
Corsi numbers lol
Nobody talks fenwick abymore
WHich is too bad because I thought it was a better stat
Bad Letang is dressed today. Fleury keeping this game close.
Remember that save by Fleury when we win this game.
They can’t win this game. Yoda told us when a goalie gives up a goal, teams just pack it in and concentrate on the next game. I started watching SVU
Yeah correct. He’s a prophet of useless info. #blowitup
Holy fuck this is good hahahahaha
Yoda only runs his mouth when Fleury is losing. Textbook. Biggest Fraud on this board. As Zero would say, die in a house fire. Zero, post of the year!
okay guys, time to complain about how the pens are leaving your patron saint hung out to dry. let’s hear it!
Pens are pens are on pace to surrender 42 shots after one you moron
there it is!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha! it’s everyone else’s fault but your patron saint!
Nonsense. It’s always the goalies fault. Everyone knows that. That’s why you neglect to mention any other player. Ever.
Either that or he didn’t let
You finish when the two of you made love, and you’ve never forgiven him. One of the two.
To yogurt, a goal has nothing to do with anyone on the ice other than the goalie who was beaten. It’s funny to read his senseless ramblings, especially when he acts like he has any clue of the position. “Everyone knows you only poke check bottom 6 forwards.”
I do agree though that we need to move on from him. Right now, he’s an average backup. He needs to play on a team that will start him. His cap hit is absurd for what he brings.
He didn’t even see letang on the ice for that last goal.
The best part of this is the fact that I said he was shakey not even a few minutes ago. You wanted to someone to make the claim the Pens hung him out to dry… a 42 shot pace is that by definition you fucken halfwit. How can you be this dumb this consistently.
marc fraudre bleury
Speaking of sucky Frenchman……nice fundamental play Lesuck.
Could end up being a game winner assist.
Sam must be in daycare… he’s too quiet
Maybe his mom forgot to pay his internet bill.
Excellent play by Letang to set Coyle up
nice assist by letang.
Sam the Frenchman will retreat or give up when he can’t win a battle. It’s a known fact. His French compatriots have been doing it for centuries.
Mstar missing for a
Couple days returns on fire lol
Good to be back. Big assist to you.
Hopefully it holds up as a game winner assist… they are a big deal
Sam. Unnoticeable Kessel with another point. You catching on yet?
Bout time we seen Kessel look visible on the ice… a PPG is not fucken good enough Chubby
Hahahaha. Sam hasn’t noticed him. Guy is on pace to be in the art Ross running. Sam can’t seem to find him.
I’ll judge Fleury once I see a box score.
Beauty
Just read Stan’s and Maloni’s epic verbal battle. The hatred is flowing.
Wow, Fleury has been a mess over the past 5 going on 6. Even retards like yodipshit must see this is not normal for him! He’s been meh since Murray got back… sad to see
Indeed. Shaky at best.
I hate admitting this because we both know dumbfuck is gonna bite on it
It doesn’t matter. The exact reason he’s useless. There’s nothing objective. He’s the boy that cried wolf. Him and Maloni bitch even when maf plays well. Or when the the team in front of him plays like shit. Negates anything they say
what do you mean? i thought he is a 1st ballot hall of famer. this is the same crap that’s been going on since 2009. is it really taking you this long to figure out he is shaky? omg
He’s been shakey the past five you dumb kunt… he’s still flirting with a 500 win career you Fucken retard. He has won a cup as a starter you dumb fuck. If you can’t see the difference in his game now vs other points of his career again it more evidence of how fucken much you don’t know what you’re watching.
It’s funny, the way you describe how you see the game reminds me of how I thought of it when I was 12 lol
Speaking of said idiot. Here he is. Right on time. Morons gotta moron.
pens need 4 to win today. same old same old. all hail st.bleury!
They can’t get 4. Probably time to tear it down. Or do you want to wait until April to prognosticate that again?
For the record… the Penguins have 8 goals in Fleurys last 5 starts
NBC just leaked our Stadium Series jerseys.
https://twitter.com/Sean_Leahy/status/802234241475981312
It looks like a practice jersey
I don’t know how I feel… I like some things but…
Fleury starting tonight. Guess sully was also ‘meh’ on murray’s 17 save gem
what stanch fails to realize is that one of the contributing factors to the rangers have zero shots for 21 minutes is how murray played in the beginning of the 2nd period. murray took the game over and stoned the rangers. the pens go down the ice and go up 3-1 and then the life was sucked out of the rangers. people who post have no idea what a great or bad goaltending performance does to a team psychologically.
This is absolutely right… every game I have ever seen a goaltender shut the door the other team simply gives up and wont muster a shot! Just as Ron Tugnutt… you’re so fucken ridiculous. You have this black and white view of things and it make you look like such a stupid ass-hole everyday. Do I need to start finding examples of goaltender peppered by buckets of pucks despite that same tender shutting the door completely? psychology plays a role but you don’t actually understand it so shut the fuck up
Yeah. I’ve seen this argument 100x from this goon. He thinks one save here or there just dominates the other 59 minutes. Murray had one difficult save the other night. One. A team doesn’t give up after a bad beat. The truth is, the team in front of him showed up, did so in a big way, and Andy Chiodo flirts with a shutout the other night.
Ron Tugnutt was awesome.
ron tugnett was better than st.bleury
186 career wins, 3.05 GAA and a .895 SV%. I loved Ron Tugnutt but this statement proves how biased you are. You can go ahead and account for era the fact remains Tugnutt became a starter in an era where 90% was a min for a solid starter and when you consider the dead puck era started in roughly 1995 he sure didnt do much to account for a slow start of sub .900 seasons in the next 9 years of his career. He was also not capable of handling a role of 60 games plus which had become commonplace… Read more »
But he did have that playoff run for the Pens when he was more clutch than Fleury will ever be.
That one where he matched Fleurys cup wins as a starter right?
you guys have obviously never played hockey in your lives because you have no idea how it feels to have a great goalie in there or a turd goalie in there. the goalie sets the vibe for the entire team. if you disagree, you are clueless.
HAHAHAHAHA, you have basically stuck your head up your ass with every post you have ever made and you are questioning the rest of us? DESPITE the so called deflating feeling from a bad goal or the confidence of a brick wall doesnt mean every night the team collapses or plays great. If you say this is your reaction to the net when you play it suggests you were a shit player with a shit attitude. There is incredible amount of documented evidence in the NHL that some teams go to sleep in front of terrific goaltending while others play… Read more »
Not true. Scroll down. Stanch informed me last night he played something called Dek hockey.
We. WE played dek hockey. Which unbeknownst to me, makes us smarter than everyone else here
Were we on the same team? That’s right, you were the guy wearing sneakers.
I can’t imagine how we would have been on the same team, rube.
So then please breakdown how it was possible that the Pens were able to comeback and win against the NYI after Murray coughed up the early lead the team gave him and got outplayed by Halak. Should they have just given up after the 2nd period when Murray tried to throw the game away instead of roaring back and outshooting them 14-5 in the 3rd period and eventually win in OT. If we applied the same rational that you just used the Pens should have been completely deflated by Murray’s poor play in the 2nd period and lost.
I was deflated.
Stanch, tell the board again about what a poor captain Crosby is. No, no wait, remind us of your theory that power plays are meaningless in the playoffs. With NPL gone you are now the dumbest piece of shit on this board. #umbrance
Forget hockey, you know nothing about hockey. tell us more about your trips to “Japan”, taking a limo (while wearing your suit) to the pens games and free WiFi at the Pitt airport
Not that it’s overly important, but we each know our lot in life. I spent more playing craps in vegas than you report on your 1040EZ. And we both know it. It’s just a shame that it bothers you so much, cupcake. You should see if your wife will increase your allowance.
You’re right. There’s no way I could hold a candle to a guy who feel the need to tell a group of complete strangers he rides in a limo to hockey games wearing a suit and is compelled to share his travel itinerary. Just how small is your penis?
And how could a guy who kills it like you do think umbrance is a word.
He doesn’t – and never did – but you know that. I mean, you’re dumb, but you’re not THAT dumb. Or maybe you are. Who knows – if you weren’t, the extent of your knoweldge wouldn’t be measured by which dishwasher detergent left the least amount of spots.
Name tag, or no name tag? Come clean
I mean, I know youre a pharm sales rep. Good work for a “man” with a small cock
Well no, again, you know that I have nothing to do with sales – because we’ve talked about it before – but you were probably trying to pay attention AND get your skid marks off of the bowl, so I can see how that would have been a challenge for you.
One little comment about your cleaning your wife’s panties being more pathetic than yoda, and you go into pretty much full on melt down mode, huh? That’s not a good look for you.
hmmmm. Not sure about the look. Figured you have so much fun cyber bullying Sam that I would toss you around like a ragdoll. This is fun.
Oh – you’re doing a swell job. The nametag thing is reallllly witty. C’mon – melt down for me some more. Cyberbullying! Maloni to the rescue! He’ll clean your shower, and patrols message boards and facebook in between loads of laundry! Our hero!
Boxscore, is your name tag a pin or magnet?
C’mon – break down Murray’s 16 save gem for us some more. From a dek hockey perspective.
Again, Boxscore, you’d never get it. Afterall, you think Fleury is a top 5 goalie. he looks so cool making those acrobatic saves.
Right – hey – i’d have said the same thing if I was called out for pounding my chest over a goaltending performance where the goalie barely faced a shot. But hey – you played the game – you know what you’re talking about.
you’re finally getting it. Ive played competitive team sports and you follow the boxscore.
shocking that a guy who never competed athletically at a high level ended up wearing a plastic name tag to work.
I pay people to do what you do – how does that make you feel?
seriously doubt it
Of course you do – you’re a moron.
Got me
Ehhhh, but kinda.
I liked the “nope” response better – why’d you change it?
Oh – I’ve played plenty of competitive sports. It just doesn’t make you some sort of expert. I’ve also played with people as dumb as you who thought it did. Remind me again – how hard is it asking your wife to cut that check for your league fees? Has to sting. Has to.
name one…send a picture please
Other than football, I’ve played ’em all. Jealous? Don’t be ashamed though – I’ve played dek hockey too.
Dude, you’re so easy. Im getting bored. How much money do you make?
Enough that I don’t need to get a check off of my wife for league fees 😉
Come on, Im really impressed by you. How much?
I know you are. And I’m impressed by your humility in the wake of being a housewife.
How much could league fees be in a pittsburgh suburb dek hockey league?
Does it matter? I mean – regardless, you still have to ask for the check.
I actually thought this was kinda fun, really broke up the online shopping monotony – and I learned something – I’m going to be keeping an eye out for all the stewardesses showing up in those limos. We should have hung out when I was out your way three weeks ago.
ok, you better buy me something for Christmas you rich ass bitch
What do you want santa to bring you
weren’t you the dude a few years back talking about your P90X? You strike me as a guy with an excercise bike in your bedroom.
That wasn’t me. Never done P90X. Although you strike me as a guy with a taupe mini van who wonders where it all went so wrong.
btw, you have to tell me what dek hockey is…never heard of it
Sure you haven’t’ bub.
Im telling you, it must be a pittsburgh suburb thing…do you mean street hockey
you know me, sweeping up the shit
it is kinda your specialty. Admittedly, I pay people to do that.
wait, do they wear name tags too…does that get confusing for you?
BUT….you do wear a name tag to work. That’s all I need to know.
You’re about as good at this as sam is.
do you wear your name tag to the Pens game too?
Wait a minute …name tag, limos, flights to Japan ….the puzzel is coming together …are you a stewardess?
Do stewardesses spend a lot of time in limos? Or was that just a bad oversight by you?
Hard to believe, youre such a people person. And smart too #umbrance
Of course it’s hard for you to believe – you spend your day running a vacuum.
Really thought you had more in you than that – really? That’s what you’re going with? You know what’s really sad – the person with the name tag? Still pulling in more scratch than you.
hahahaha…That’s awesome. I knew you sported a name tag to work. Good stuff Mr. scratch. Is the name tag so you rememebr who you are?
No no – there’s no way you can hold a candle the cleaning lady that works for that guy.
but your cock is small…this we know.
He brings nothing to this site other than thumbs downing people . You never see him comment anything only comments are replys to others comments trying to put them down
#StainTheScoreBoard
Have you addressed the Kessel question? Or are you still avoiding it like a smelly French bitch?
You literally think the goaltender accounts for all that is good and bad in the game, cite playing in a beer league as a form of “expertise,” and ride a woman’s coattails through life. I’m pretty sure where the “dumbest motherfucker on this board” lies.
True or false, you honestly thought umbrance was a word?
And dont lie…santa is watching you
Admit it, you have not had an original or correct observation about hockey over the four years you’ve posted on this site. If Im wrong please share one of your gems with us.
Tell me more about how strong Murray was last night – literally in the middle of the “Murray hasn’t faced a shot in 21 minutes” announcement on the broadcast. Boy can you break down a game!
Dont kid yourself, you dont actually watch hockey on TV. Not a guy who thinks scoring goals is the only way to meausre a player’s value. You’re pure boxscore.
Where did7 I say scoring goals was the only way to measure a player’s value? I’ll wait. You should have plenty of time to find it. I mean, it’s not like you work for a living. You have a 70 minute dry cycle in between loads of laundry – go fish it out.
But you do wear a name tag to work, dont you?
Do you remember? Like how embarrassing was it when you were outed telling us how strong Murray was and then realizing he probably never put his mask on that period? Does that sting? Do you think it puts a chink in this “i played beer league hockey, i know what i’m talking about” facade you like to roll with?
Boxscore, you sound desperate
What’s the point, you would never understand Boxscore.
Kesselmania!!!!!
With this being Thanksgiving I just wanted to take a moment to say how thankful I am for Sam & Yoda and the endless comedy/entertainment they bring, without their limitless stupidity this site would be irrelevant.
I am thankful that D added an instant buzz about thanksgiving lol
You’re short changing Maloni. That’s just rude.
I don’t find his lack of knowledge as entertaining as their flat out stupidity.
Reasonable.
And stain has the best knowledge when he calls sid and price frauds when those 2 are the 2 best players in the league this year so far. While his Russian hero is paid like a 1st liner and performs like 4th liner. I guess he is doing the tour of the penalty boxes in every arena since he is bored and have nothing more to accomplish in his career .that’s our Russian 9.5m worth every penny
Still waiting on that Kessel analysis sam. point per game pace – yet you havent noticed him – please reconcile.
Now you may go back to your civilized world and make sure you are ready to be part of a stampede when you shop on black Friday. Just make sure you can catch your breath and not run out of it
If I was coaching the Pens, and everyone on this site knows I should be, I’d flip Hagelin and Guentzel.
Doesn’t matter. It’s all goaltending. And neither of those two are goaltenders.
I’m shocked you know that without a team issued roster in front of you.
I’d expect you to be shocked. As a housewife, you’re skillset is rather limited.
Except for my hockey knowledge. Left more in the toilet this morning than you will ever have donut boy. Tell us more about how much Sid sucks as a captain.
No no. Especially your hockey knowledge. The beauty is, after you left it in the toilet, you got to scrub that fucker out. That’s your lot in life. At least you’ll always have dek hockey.
pssst…just left some more knowledge in the toilet for you donut boy.
That’s about what it’s worth, yeah. #DekHockey
For those that dont follow DK… I recently went back, took my time after he changed the site
“hairymoosejew
You obviously don’t know Yoda. Every comment is a fleury related comment and he will ruin this board. A truly obsessed weirdo”
Yoda’s impact over there is just like it is here ahahaha
I want honest journalism, not fanboy love.
You realize all you are is a fan boy on the other side. You don’t actually know anything. As evidenced by your tear it down march proclamation.
i know murray is 4th in the major categories and st.bleury is 31st and 42nd. you want the older dude who is 5 million dollars more against the cap and who has the crappy numbers. way to go. hahahaha
if you say so fan boy. But, I mean, you also said it was time to rebuild in the first round of a cup run. Which is pretty embarrassing. Not like Maloni level scrubbing his wife’s shit stained panties level of embarrassing, but it’s up there.
Wait… now Dk is honest journalism? Were you not the fucken idiot calling him and that page Hack news? Consistently inconsistent. You suck bruh
TK… I mean Sheary is legit! It isnt always pretty but he seems to show up on the score board a lot and often when it matters
Hey same, nice call on Halak not dressing.
The game before they did not dress him.
Everyone is waiting on your explanation as to how Kessel has been able to perform as a point per game player whilst remaining un-noticeable sam. Don’t dodge the question the way you dodge a stick of deodorant.
I think it’s safe to say that DePaoli, like the rest of us, knows Fleury is a fraud.
murray is so much better. i hope the rumors of the previous article are true. i hope the pens are now serious about moving the patron saint.
#fraud
Murray sucks…..Simply Dusty
He could have won tonight’s game if he wore a pair of soccer shinguards.
Doubtful.
Not really, though. Then again – what would you know – praising his play in the midst of 21 game minutes passing without him facing a shot – such a keen eye!
Everything you know about the sport you’ve learned from me.
That’s impossible. You don’t know anything about the sport. Although you could be a doll and explain to everyone what the fuck a thimble is used for.
Rich Coming from the guy who thinks goaltending doesnt matter, power plays don’t matter and the highest paid player should score the most goals. #umbrance.
Who’s Rich Coming? #KeenDekHockeyEye
Your moms sperm donor.
That’s really the best you could do with that? Who am I kidding. Of course it is.
I already explained last article why he should be traded.
I’m a Crosby ballwasher…..mstartari
Yep ball washed him to two cups. Simply Douche
This outta be good, why do you hate Sid? You just hate him because other people do. You’re so unoriginal and unfunny.
D you did not mention malkin’s name in this article. Why? He has important part of the team and was on board first one
I think the new York hotdogs gave kessel energy. First time this season he was noticeable
I guess he’s hard to see watching a boxscore her you dumbfuck
The league is full of PPG guys that just Coast quietly lol
I’ll ask again – Kessel is a point per game player. In an age where 85 points wins the Art Ross. If this is the first night he was noticeable, WTF has Mr. French Canada here been watching? you just passing out mid game each night from your own odor?