STUNNED-QVIST. PENS WIN.
When the margin of error is little, and intensity is high.
That is when you find out what a team is about.
And tonight the Pens showed a glimmer of the team we know can rise to a big0time occasion.
The breaks and bounces we have grown accustomed to the last two years finally started happening again.
But it was hard work and a tone-setting fight that set the stage for one of the more important wins of the season.
With a daunting three-game road trip ahead, the Pens had to have this game.
And thanks to another lackluster Mellon Arena appearance by the Rangers and a coming of age performance by Kris Letang, the Pens got it. [/earlmann]
We hate to use an old joke, but Henrik Lundqvist must be pregnant, because he missed a period.
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Ranger coach Renney pens in Colton Orr in his starting lineup. Therrien says all right, and throws Godard into the starting lineup. Three seconds in, the gloves were dropped.
This is why fighting is so important in the NHL.
This fight wasn't for the fans, it was a reminder to the New York Rangers that the Pens aren't going to tolerate any jobbing by Colton Orr of Sidney Crosby or anyone for that matter.
And what happens? Orr gets his ass beat, and he is too messed up to start stuff with Sidney Crosby.
Crosby in turn has a four-point night and doesn't have to worry about some dude coming at him with cheap shots all night.
That is what it is about. It is about sending a message.
You never want to see someone get hurt, much less die.
But there is a code that has to be served, and it is proven to work.
Don't like it, go watch a ballet.
Three minutes of Rangerblog after that, Ryan Whitney trips on a pothole.
Zherdev undresses your mom. Rob Scuderi gets a front-row seat.
Nasty move.
1-0.
Almost immediately, it is apparent that the Boucher/Gill defensive pairing is as useful as a condom at Lilith Fair.
But we don't notice the pairing again.
The Rangers wouldn't stop coming early on. Zherdev ate his Wheaties.
Finally, though, the Pens start to move the puck around.
Chris Minard gets it the net. Isaac Newton takes over as Minard interferes with Lundqvist, but no one cares. Sykora somehow gets it home. 1-1. Like his 80th goal of the season.
That goal pretty much woke the Pens up.
Bjork, never end a sentence in a preposition.
Malkin gets to cruise in all alone, Satan and Letang get a 2-on-1 that goes ultimately nowhere, and then Satan tried to wrap one into the pooper. No dice.
Penalties can change a game in the blink of a pube, and the Rangers had a chance to make that a realization when Dupuis went off for a high stick, but MAF was coming up huge with some big saves while getting a steady diet of Chris Drury's butthole.
The Bing got crushed by Orr somewhere in there. Clean hit, so whatev.
Dupuis had an unreal chance, but he isn't Sykora. Save.
The Bing gets in a nice little cheap shot at the end of the period.
That's what we're talking about.
Just a follow-up on Petr Sykora.
Someone on [LGP] translated an article the other day with some Czech newspaper.
Q: And on Sunday, he had not let you play according to your wishes. How does it look like, does Therrien let you know prior to a game, how much you would be playing?
Sykora: No, not at all. Sometimes you play almost the whole game, he sends you on the ice all the time. Then another game comes – and boom, you sit on the bench. You are getting cold; then you don’t want to even go on the ice anymore.
The Q&A is pretty good.
Rangers were taking over the planet to start the second, complete with Kory Kopajoke mauling Mark Eaton, all the while MAF was making some routine saves in a 1-1 game.
Geno and Bing both tried to get stuff going, but the Rangers weren't gonna let it happen.
After some jobbing, poor officiating strikes again.
Max Talbot gets called for doing nothing. Good times.
But the Pens come through with a big-time kill.
Our friend David Staples had a big time column about bad contracts in the NHL.
He mentions Drury's contract for the Rangers, but how about Micheal Rozsival's $20 mill over four years?
And guess what? He is making $7 million this year.
What a disaster.
Talbot was headed to the box again. Unreal.
The only thing more ridiculous was the Pens PK unit. Killed again.
Pens change up lines for like a minute, and then they switch back to the Mega line.
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Yawn city to start the third. Both teams were playing not to lose.
You're waiting for the Rangers to score with about ten minutes to go, so you can vomit everywhere.
But out of nowhere, the puck is in.
Minard gets a phantom assist for screening Lundqvist as Staal passed it in front to an invisible player. 2-1.
And just like, things can change.
The Pens had a humongous power play soon after, but they spend the whole time in disbelief when they're told that the word "humongous" wasn't placed in English dictionaries until recently.
Rangers come back after the kill, as we all expected. Naslund tries to cheese one past MAF, but MAF is a manual goalie.
After some jobbing, the Pens again innocently enter the Rangers' zone.
Bing somehow gets it over to a wide-open Kris Letang.
Is he gonna try to pass through 80 peop-- Goal. 3-1.
what a shot
This initiated the collapse of the Rangers.
It was aided by a Pens 5-on-3. Petr Gunn. 4-1.
Is there anyone that does more with less ice time?
Big time player.
A "Go Home Rangers" chant breaks out.
Games in MSG and games in the Mellon are two entirely different beasts.
The Rangers get all worked up and try to job Biz Nasty.
Big bad Voros backs down from a fight with Biz.
The Staal brother who people mention only when they're doing a piece on the Staal family scores late in the third. 4-2.
Letang says, hey homos, start the chant again. 5-2.
Naslund attacks Whitney because Whitney cleaned his clock.
How big of a moron is Voros? He takes a penalty then gets kick out of the game.
Then he goes to the wrong locker room.
The Bing throwing the Rangers over the top rope at the end was merely a formality.
He takes some salt and throws it in King Henrik's face.
6-2.
And game.
To put this Consol T-shirt contest THAT STARTS FRIDAY into perspective, can anyone honestly say they would have predicted a 6-2 victory tonight with Kris Letang scoring the game-winner?
Oh, wait:
Oh, so close. But not really.
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Chris Drury makes how much money again?
- Does Scott Gomez play on the Rangers?
- Everything makes more sense when the Pens win.
- The Bing.
- If tonight was any sign, Kris Letang may have arrived. But then again, he may disappear.
- Malkin: 52 assist this season. Jesus.
Go Pens.
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