Neal and his dark visor had a hat trick. Malkin put home a pretty one. Juicy had two goals.

Shit is about to get real. Ottawa/Boston Sunday night will determine the Pens' opening-round opponent. If Ottawa wins or the game reaches overtime, the Isles will be coming to CONSOL. If the Bruins win in regulation, the Senators will be coming.

Just wow. What a season.

Carolina Hurricanes (19-24-4) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (35-12-0)

ROOT, FS-CR - 7:30 pm/et

Consol Energy Center - Pittsburgh, PA

The last game of the regular season. You can almost taste the playoffs. Jordan Staal returns to Pittsburgh for the first time since his trade. Jokinen and Sutter are also facing their old team.

There will be approximately 203 Staals in the Carolina line-up today. It's been a pretty bad season for both Staal and the Hurricanes.

For Pittsburgh, Paul Martin and James Neal will be in the line-up. It's also "Shirts off our Backs" night.

After the break, a bunch of Jordan Staal videos because we're emotional like that.

Two playoff-clinching OT goals last night:

Gonch takes the Sens to the dance:

Pittsburgh Penguins (35-11-0) @ New Jersey Devils (18-18-10)

ROOT, NBCSN, MSG PLUS, 7:30 pm/et

Prudential Center - Newark, NJ

Two games left, both against non-playoff teams. The Pens can't go anywhere in the standings, so we're just hoping for no more injuries.

Oh man. Grab yourselves. Some huge ones.

The big one is Ottawa heading to Washington. The Pens' recent game in Ottawa has us really pulling for Ottawa to move up in the standings. It's not that we think the Pens would have trouble with them, but it's just that the Matt Cooke stuff is already pretty tired. Actually, take a look at betting on the Sens tonight in Washington. The Caps have nothing to play for, while Ottawa has everything to gain by winning.

For what it's worth, we'll take Toronto or either New York team in the first round. The Toronto storyline would write itself. John Tortorella is always fun. And it'll be cool to see what Tavares does in the big dance. An Ottawa win and Rangers loss tonight would probably keep the Sens out of that 8th spot. Good.

Hey guys, Long time reader, big time fan here. I remember you guys helping a pens fan win a bunch of chipotle a couple years ago, and we've wrapped up the 1 seed, so I thought I'd give this a shot. I'm from Pittsburgh and have been a Pens fan my whole life. A little over a year ago I went vegan, and I recently entered this ridiculous PETA's "sexiest vegan next door" contest. I made it to the finals- here is some coverage from WTAE.

The contest has everything you could ask for: villainous looking candidates, probable rampant cheating (they don't verify email addresses when you vote), and unreal judging criteria (1/3 votes, 1/3 enthusiasm, 1/3 PETA's assessment of your physical attractiveness). Anyways, I'm writing because I need the votes. If you guys are able/don't

mind, a shout out in a link-city type post would be huge. Here is the link to vote for me, Thanks and go pens, -Jayshiv

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Came across this pic and thought it was worth sharing:

pic via penguinspoop.

We have no idea if the Penguins are going to do "whiteouts" during this year's playoffs. But we just put a "whiteout" shirt in Storeblog anyway.

This IS NOT an American Apparel shirt, because we wanted it to be cheaper than the rest of the stuff in the store. You can get one here if you're interested.

Also, if you're wondering why some of the other Storeblog designs disappeared, it's because of copyright stuff that we can't do anything about.