Pens and Canes

Random thoughts from tonites game:

Evgeni Malkin pisses me OFF something fierce........plays lazy...........stupid ice capades perimeter plays trying to beat everybody........cannot remember Geno dominating many games..........

Dupuis is somebody who is gaining more and more of my respect.......involved in 2 of the 3 Pens goals as I type this with under 3 minutes to go..........skates hard........plays tough.............the third line was the best line in the game and Duper fit right in..........

The second line looked pretty average tonite to me..........Fedotenko bothers the shit out of me too.........just sayin..........If TK got the message riding the pine, put Duper on the second line, and give Feds a taste of the pine.........

If the Pens get at least a point out of tonites game, killing the 5 on 3 at the end of the second was classic............Staal, Talbot, Adams........beasts on that sequence....thanks fellas.

How many chances did the Pens have right in front of the net that they could not finish tonite?

Add a couple of posts tonite and man, it seems as it is just not meant to be............the Pens have dominated the shots and chances, and Peters stood tall............

Loved watching Cookie put one in tonite...........

Would love to see Poni end this one with a GWG for the Pens............

Moot point, and third softie of the night against Johnson...........tomorrows game will be huge.........hate to lose a game in which you outshoot your opponent 41 to 21..............The game was won and lost in the net tonite fellas......but at least we get a point.........

Despite the frustration of leaving a point on the table, the Pens have 15 games left with a total of 30 available points..........even .500 hockey gets them 100 points which should make the Atantic race a race between Pittsburgh and New Jersey...........Philly has 74 points with 16 games and 32 total points left to take.......they need 28 of those 32 points to beat the points of the Pens, and that is a tall order.....that is a 14-2 finish......possible, but unlikely...the Devils, Sabres and Senators are all 4 points behind the Pens, but all have 2 games in hand, so they are equal in point potential to the Pens........the Pens would lose the head to head tie breaker with the Devils, win it against the Sabres, and would need to go to the next level of tiebreaker with Ottawa as we split the season series with them. This makes the games against the Devils huge as those two games represent a possible 8 point swing in the race. Winning both would set us up nicely, losing both would really hurt the chances of winning the Atlantic.........splitting them would make the race TIGHT........so to simplify the Pens going 8-7 the rest of the way would force Philly to go 14-2 to catch the Pens.........the Senators would have to go 11-3-1 to overtake the Pens if we go 8-7 the rest of the way, and Buffalo would have to go 10-6-1, and the Devils 10-7 in the same scenario. Montreal could not catch us if we go 8-7, and Boston would have to go 15-1-1..........so, we really want to win at least 8 games or more, and root for New Jersey, Buffalo, and Ottawa mostly to lose....................Just to be sure, I would love to see the Flyers lose a couple quickly, so the focus is on only the three above referenced teams.......GO PENS