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You'll have to jump for our newly christened Bour-cap.

Bour-crap.

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Ryan Whitney returns.

Maybe the Pens can try and convince him to suit up for them, because there's more bad news on the blue line:

Alex Goligoski is out for 2-3 weeks.

We're not kidding.

PENGUINS MEDICAL WATCH
Player, Injury (Date), Time Frame, Current Progress
Maxime Talbot, torn labrum (July 7), 4 to 6 months, practicing (cleared for contact)
Sergei Gonchar, broken left wrist (Oct. 20), 4 to 6 weeks, practicing (cleared for contact)
Evgeni Malkin, shoulder strain (Oct. 29), 2 weeks, returned after missing 7 games
Tyler Kennedy, undisclosed (Nov. 5), day-to-day, no ice participation
Kris Letang, shoulder contusion (Nov. 7), 2 weeks, no ice participation
Brooks Orpik, lower-body (Nov. 10), 2 weeks, no ice participation
Chris Kunitz, lower-body (Nov. 13), 2-3 weeks, no ice participation
Alex Goligoski, lower-body (Nov. 16), 2-3 weeks, no ice participation

That list could be an all-star team.

 

 

 

Had to be done. Why, you ask? Because it is fun. We haven't had something to gripe about since the days of Ouellet.  We need this kind of stuff.  No one ever said you have to be blindly in love with players just because they play on the Penguins. This isn't Steeler Nation.  For the record, signing Bourque was a vintage Shero move.   Low-risk, high-reward.  We simply dislike Chris Bourque.  Here our are reasons:

This is like our Zapruder film.

Seriously, watch that again.

That is just terrible.   Bourque didn't want to pay the price to get that goal.

By comparison:

Dupe's goal on Saturday night.

Yeah, there was no one around him.

But still, he patiently took control of the puck and flipped the puck to his backhand.

On a side note, back when 66 retired the first time, their was a game in Boston where Ray Bourque presented Buries It with a seat from the Boston Garden or something.   It was before the game, and while Bourque was skating to hand him the gift, Bourque tripped over the carpet laid on the ice.  We've mentioned this before, but this footage needs to be found. We know FSN has it.  If they show it, we will never bash them again.

Seriously, watch him next time. We don't have any video evidence to back up this claim, but that doesn't matter.  First sign of a good hockey player is him/her/it taking a puck off someone in the corners.  Never happened in his entire career.

Everyone believes in omens to an extent.  Remember when MAF  fell coming out of the locker room in Game 1 of the SCF back in '08?  In Bourque's first game in a Pens jersey, he did some bizarre flip when he was trying to get the puck off a defender.  Omen city.

This is the fourth pic you get when you Google him:

Ouch.

Next seven reasons after the jump.

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If we actually cared about doing recaps, we would have said this.

There is a reason Evgeni Malkin has been the MVP of the Pens the last two season. And there is a reason he should have been the MVP of the league last year.

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What happened at the end of this game shouldn't happen.  A broken stick sprung the Pens on a last-second chance.  Malkin steals a look at the clock at center ice and carries it in.  Crosby fills the lane.  Everyone forgets about Guerin.  Bill Guerin puts one home with 0.4 seconds left to tie the game.  Chalk up another unforgettable Mellon Arena moment.  Maybe lost in the drama at the end was how great the game was to watch.  The Capitals series was last year was fun.  A Boston series would be better.

And chalk up another failure on FSN's part.   Malkin leading a 2-on-2 rush.  For some reason, the producer decides to zoom in on Malkin.  Why?  It robbed all of us from seeing Guerin sneaking in late.  Malkin passes, and by the time the camera cuts wide, Guerin scores.  Just frustrating.

Tim Thomas shitting his pants in OT was a given.

Signs of the Apocalypse:
-- Jay McKee scores.
-- Mark Eaton scores.
-- Pascal Dupuis scores twice.
-- If Chris Bourque scores, the four horsemen kill themselves.

Some pics from the game came in, and we'll post them sometime Sunday.
Guerin's goal with 0.4 left in a period has nothing on Alain Nasreddine scoring with 0.2 left.  [ BOX SCORE ]

Go Pens.
Go Home, Bourque.

Unreal.

What a meltdown by the Bruins.

Video updates as they happen.

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UPDATED:

From inside the arena:

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Malkin's back. Mark Letestu's in. Kunitz is out.

Uh.... Kunitz is shutdown for two weeks.. and the Hope returns [Trib]

And yea this is to bizarre not to share.

Thanks to [Phil Quinn]

thanks to Jeff H for the find on that.