GAMEDAY 49 - OILERS

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9:30 PM

Rexall Place

Listen to the game at [WXDX]

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Another late game.

They Oilers are 15th in the West and have lost their last five games and 13 of their last 14.
Their only victory in that stretch came in a game against the Maple Leafs on December 30th.

Brooks Orpik is still out of the line-up and Fleury will play tonight, despite playing last night.
Brent Johnson is injured and John Curry is the backup.

If you want a Talbot "SHHHHH" t-shirt, find all the details in THIS POST.

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The Ron Cook Is A Douche Photoshop Expo

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Ron Cook is such a douche.
After his Malkin-bashing earlier this week, we have had enough.

 

We learned from an unnamed source that Cook has been to one Penguin game all year.

 

Meaning, he has no ground to say Malkin is sulking.

 
 

Haven't had a 'shop expo in awhile.

 

 

This one felt good.

Expo after the jump.
 

Out For Justice. PENS WIN.

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We have a winner from this game's Twitter contest.
It's after the jump.

Also, go to the BUSINESS section of the recap or click HERE
for details on the Edmonton contest.

***We now have three (3) T-shirts left.***

 

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Strange night in Calgary.
The mystique surrounding an unfamiliar foe.
The Stanley Cup champs coming to town.
And the champs' fans making their presence known.

MAF rose his game to another level.
The Flames were not going to beat the Flower in the third period last night.
He had a high-ankle sprain to avenge.
When you're getting goaltending like that, you win games.

And it helps to score a powerplay goal, which they did.
Speaking of which...

The winner of the Twitter contest and.........


NEWWWWW


owner of a Talbot SHHH T-shirt is.........


Talbot "SHHHH" T-Shirt Contest

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Let's try this again.
We're giving away four (4) Talbot "Shhh" T-shirts.



THE CONTEST:

 

1. Get yourself a Twitter account.

2. Guess who will score the next PP goal for the Pens.
In your Tweet, include the goal scorer, primary assist, and secondary assist.

3. Tiebreaker: Include period and minute-mark of goal.
Ex: Goal scored at 14:33 is the 14-minute mark.

4. Place #tpbpp in your Tweet.

EXAMPLE:

 

VERY IMPORTANT:

Follow the template above EXACTLY when putting in your goal scorer.
Because we will be searching the trend for "G: Crosby" for example.
(No need to put @TPBadam or @TPBderek in your Tweet)

*If you're new to Twitter and don't know what's going on,
just follow the directions laid out above.

After clicking "Update",
you will see the Tweet you just typed pop up on your shit.

Just click #tpbpp in that Tweet to see if your entry was submitted.

 

SUBMISSION RULES:

1) Time of your submission on Twitter DOES NOT matter.
Just get it in before the puck drops in Calgary tonight.
***ONE ENTRY PER PERSON***

2) Primary and Secondary assists are not necessary.
We'll see who picked the correct goal scorer and start whittling down from there.
So it won't hurt to put guesses for the assists in there.

3) Tiebreaker: People closest to the minute mark wins.
Example: Joke#1 guesses the 14-minute mark.
Joke#2 guesses the 15-minute mark.
Goal scored at 14:33. Joke #2 wins.
If the Pens score at 14:30, kill yourself.

4) Good luck trying to cheat.  Once the puck drops, we're screenshotting the Tweets.  We'll find the winner(s), then cross-reference the screenshots.  So don't think you're gonna be slick and do 20 entries then delete all but your best one when the Pens score.   So load up the ballot box if you want to be a dick.  You won't win.

The funniest thing is we made all these rules...
thinking the PP will actually score tonight.

Go Pens.

 


 

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Kovalchuk to the Pens

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Trade Goligoski.
Bench Malkin.
Fire Bylsma.



Are the Penguins playing great hockey right now?  No, they're not.
Is the power play struggling?  That's obvious.

But we can promise you something:
At some point in time, Evgeni Malkin will score a goal.
It may even come on the power play.

Everyone hitting the panic button right now needs to relax.

Just because you'd make a trade in NHL10, that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do in real life.
Ray Shero is paid to be a general manager of an NHL franchise.
He put together last year's Stanley Cup Champions.
He just might know what he's doing here.

Man vs. Powerplay. PENS LOSE.

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It is so nauseating. Seems like every week we get to watch either some joke goalie (sans Broduer) or some joke player play out of their mind and help beat the Pens.

Last night was another push-your-grandma, make-short-talk-with-your-significant-other game of the season. If you're Ron Cook, you can actually kill both birds with one stone.

Guilliaummeiue Latendresse had unlimited points and helped the Wild beat the Pens.
Make it a point to watch Latendresse do nothing against whoever the Wild play next.

Get it?

But no matter how well Latendresse played, the Penguins again outshot an opponent,.
And they let 6 (six) powerplay chances go by the wayside.
It's just a sad state of affairs.

Worse yet, the Pens might be without Gonch for a little while after what he did to Clutterbuck.

Even worse, FSN is on trial for hockey fraud after hiding the footage of that Flyers goal the other night. [ Red Wings Korner ]

Continuing with that theme, there may be a crooked ref in the NHL ranks.
After the jump.

And then, on a personal note, we get word that we didn't make a top-ten list of hockey blogs. [ Buzz Manager ]
We didn't read that whole post because we have to shine up our Bloggers Championship Belt™ every 20 minutes.
Wonder why we didn't make the list.


So all of a sudden, this season has become like the ending of The Ususal Suspects. Good times.


GAMEDAY 47 - WILD

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8:00 PM

Xcel Energy Center

Listen to the game at [WXDX]


Game two of the road trip.


The Pens lost 2-1 at home to the Wild earlier this season.

Former Penguin Petr Sykora will not be playing tonight.
This is the third game in a row that Sykora will be a healthy scratch.
His agent, Alla Walsh, isn't happy about it.
"The coach is treating Sykora with less respect than a rookie."

-- Allan Walsh on Twitter
Walsh was echoing comments originally made by Michael Russo of the Star Tribune.