Penguins/NHL
PENGUINS – CANADIENS FALLOUT
The talk of the Penguins being the Columbus Blue Jackets without Marc Andre Fleury continued prior to Wednesday night’s game with TV analyst Eddie Olczyk being the latest to make such a statement.
It’s not a radical suggestion for anyone who’s watched this hockey but again they keep finding ways to win, now 10 of 12.
[PENGUINS PLAYER GRADES VS CANADIENS]
Last night’s win vs the Canadiens is starting to becoming the norm for the Penguins on a game-by-game basis, stretches of quality hockey and stretches of bad hockey. For most part they continue to come out on the winning end through 15 games, now five games above .500.
Against Montreal there was the good Penguins (first period) where they traded chances with the Canadiens and got two first period goals, Pascal Dupuis 13 seconds in and Olli Maatta late in the period.
Then there was the really bad Penguins (2nd period) where the ice was completely tilted in the Canadiens favor, Penguins out-shot 13-1, and saw the Penguins star players running around frustrated like chickens with their heads cut off.
“I’m happy about the win, but I didn’t like our second period,” said Mike Johnston after the game. “I thought that second period stands out to me. We just cannot play that way. We have to get that out of our game.”
Johnston ripped into his team during the second intermission, players said, and another sign Johnston hasn’t lost his hockey club and still has a feel of when to pick his spots, the Penguins responded in a big way with 17 shots in the period and finally broke through with just under seven minutes to play on a goal from Patric Hornqvist off a 2-on-1 rush.
While the Penguins second period was really bad and unacceptable, they still prevented it from being a disaster of a period despite being outscored 2-0 in the period, out-shot 13-1.
Trailing 3-2 and unraveling, killing off a Sidney Crosby unsportsmanlike conduct against Tomas Fleischmann was a pivotal point in the game in the Penguins keeping the game a one game score.
From the Penguins end it was a quality win from being able to deal with some adversity and battling back to win.
“When you look at the third the Penguins really pushed the pace,” said Michael Therrien. “You have to give credit to the Penguins. They played really well and they were tough to defend in the third.”
From the Canadiens end it was more of a frustrating loss from the standpoint of letting the Penguins off the hook.
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Early morning Buzz: Npl Has Crushed his Hot dog cart Into a Donut store after reading the sign Drive Thru.Good news is no injuries but some sad Customers like Stan
“crashed” you fucking moron
Someone disagrees with my correction? You believe it is actually crushed? You’re as dumb as fatsam if that’s the case. Or you are fatsam which is the most likely down vote here. Fatsam is down voting the correction because he dosen’t know he is wrong lol
Pretty sure it WAS sam that did that – because his pudgy finger slipped.
Early morning buzz: Sam gained 10 pounds overnight. Or is it meters? Damn metric system…
Same racking up the thumbs down!
I’m still looking for the deserved to win standings or the convincing win standings. If you have a link to either one Sam please post.
Come on man, you’re slipping. Your posts are usually solid. Last few are nothing but played out deserve it jokes, getting almost as bad as the sam is fat joke.
Sorry mwall. I’ve been extremely busy at work so I’m probably a little off my game.
All good man. With the site change, actual discussion has become less the norm. Your one of the few that still contributes to actual discussion
Hey, the sam is fat jokes are awesome. They may even have the same shelf life of a momma joke… which is long time unlike the food at fatsams house. We never know its shelf life because fat fuck inhales it as it leaves the grocery bag… sweaty fat fuck
I’m so upset right now, got busy at work and missed a full day of Sam going full Same. I may quit my job just so that it never happens again.
for people that thinks crosby is old and done here is some intresting names http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=787488&navid=DL|NHL|home
Those players have nothing to do with how crosby plays
Feeling far more bullish on this team than last year. They are winning and clearly are not playing 100% so have room to improve. Pouliot could be a second half spark and adding a vet defenseman probably for a 2nd is very possible. Team could round out well later in the season. would still prefer a change in coach.
with the Garbage Defense that pens have they need a coach like this Imagine DB was the coach this team would score 6 goals a game and get scored 5 a game and come playoffs while other teams adjust and DB doent with the garbage D they have they will have blown out games 5-0 6-1 games and make the average fans like stan and Yoda bash Fleury for a trade
would i want pens score a little more yes i expect more with all the fire power they have but because of the Defense they have no choice
can I buy some punctuation? My god, that’s painful.
i hope that Gayjoy gets injures Soon i cant watch his game it is Very Depressing already when he is on the ice the team becomes into 4on5 mode and now he tries to injure fleury hope he gets a puck in his face that Quagmire
Compared to expectation, Letang is much harder to watch. Lovejoy has been above the line considering I thought he’d be an abortion. That frog that’s manning our top power play looks like a nice third pairing defenseman at the moment. One that can’t pass.
how is your scuderi doing the guy that most of you drooled the guy that was suppose to teach letang how to be a D the guy that was suppose to shut Ovechkin ahahaha
Literally who are these people that drooled over scuderi – just making things up doesn’t make you look any smarter – it makes you look retarded.
Obviously you have a pea brain so i dont expect you to rememeber anything when scuderi was traded back from LA people were exited the shut down guy for Ovi the guy that was going to teach letang the guy that was on the ice for the stanley cup final seconds
What I remember was that the VAST majority of people, here and everywhere else, shared my opinion. Which was pretty much, too much money for too long of a term, especially for a player that age. If there were people who lauded the return of Rob Scuderi at 34 years old for that contract, they were few and far between. I’ll ask anyone else here other than your retarded fat ass to correct me if I’m wrong.
I pretty sure we all agree no one on this board was thrilled about Scuds coming back, most shrieked in horror, myself included.
That’s what I thought. Not surprising. 15 minutes ago, Chubbster was also claiming I did an about face on wanting Fleury gone, which has literally never entered my mind for a minute.
im pretty sure the same way you dont rememeber you and the clowns said IGGY is done when i said its because of DB pee wee system he cant play. And he will score 25+ goals with bruins and he did last 2 seasons . If he is not injured he might even this year .
No one lauded the signing of scuds….only a french p***y would make that up to push whatever retarded agenda he was pushing
You can tell he has no idea. He just jumps from player to player – wrong about each one. He feels like if he throws enough shit at the wall, some of it is going to stick.
the only thing you jump and it sticks is on NPL .good job keep up the good work Weido
I usually don’t get too upset when fat kids take shots at me. Especially after that fat kid had just been outed repeatedly as being an utter retard that just makes things up when he has no idea what he’s talking about. It’s really all that you do good.
Well – that and just POUND food. You fat fuck.
You’re telling people that they have a pea brain? Really? Your posts are painful to read, you have no punctuation, and have nothing but run-on sentences.
Easy with the Tomlinism, Tim Benz will write an unnecessary article about it
Wishing injury upon people, that’s really mature. I hope you figure out how to use punctuation soon.
If only Gaydogg was pens coach he woulve Been happy with their victory last night
MT suckss. DB Rocks
MT just lost to a team that can’t score over 3 goals a game. Pretty embarrassing, IMO. Especially since you’ve been talking about how bad this Penguin team is. He should be winning those games. Chubbs.
oh Tumbs down i guess you agree MT doesnt suckk anymore
87 wasn’t just careless with the puck – he was careless in general. He almost cost them the game.
AND Malkin wasn’t Specially in Overtime and his Poor drop passes
I’ve already commented that Malkin was awful. Try to keep up, fatty.
yes but you are going back saying 87 almost cost pens game when the russian on several occasion did that last night while pens elevate their game in 3rd perriod and overtime the russian did the opposite .thats when same is right when game matters the russian Fades away and cant deal with in game pressure
That’s because…he almost cost the Pens the game. To be so frustrated that after a team goes ahead, you pitch a little bitch fit and put them on the power play, all while being the CAPTAIN is goddamn embarrassing. He should be ashamed of himself. Malkin did nothing of the sort. Malkin just played bad. He’d didn’t start pounding his fists on the ice, threatening to take his ball and go home.
And I’m fairly certain the Russian doesn’t fade away consistently due to in-game pressure. That’s why he has a conn smythe trophy. He showed up when they needed him. He just happened to play like shit last night.
yes when he wasnt getting the Big $ Btw How is Semin another one that was Drooled on and doesnt play in the League anymore lost count on the amount of washed up players you guys were Drooling about and they all gone
Everyone drooled all over everyone! The talk has been non-stop Semin and Scuderi for two years and chubby is the one who saw through all of the bull shit! get fucked.
Why are you capitalizing drooled? Why don’t you proof-read and punctuate your posts?
Sam’s fat.