During the game yesterday, my brain was pretty much defeated by the strangeness of the happenings down on the ice.
It seemed like I was watching an all-star game the way goals were being traded back and forth. The other thing that made it odd was the Penguins seemed to be in control of the entire game once they tied it up 2-2… except goals against kept finding their way into the net. Fleury looked pretty mad at the end of the game. He had every right to be on a number of different fronts. Some of the goals allowed were pretty weak and he should feel pretty dissatisfied with himself for that. You can’t be the best in the league and let up soft goals, strings of games in a row. It already cost us the Habs game when he gave up a super soft goal in regulation and we ended up losing in the 8th round of a shootout… although, Geno’s shootout goal was nasty.
Fleury is also justified with being upset with the constant lapse of defense after we would score a goal. He faced a lot of unnecessary scoring chances that should have never been allowed to happen. I find nothing wrong with him being disappointed in the help he wasn’t getting in front of him.
Enough of trying to make the game make sense… we scored a lot and some of them were really nice goals and a few were milestone notable. Lets just watch those and forget about the rest of the game. Cool? Cool.
(all of these videos are flash-based. sorry iOs users.)
After falling behind 2-0 fairly quickly, Dusty J wipes the goose egg off the scoreboard for the Penguins. Assisted by Staal and Letang.
To tie it up for the Pens, The Real Deal, James Neal snaps one in beautifully off the faceoff draw won by Geno.
Kunitz gives the Pens their first lead of the game on a powerplay goal. Assisted by Geno and Fleury.
Letang gets a beautiful chipshot in off an odd man break with Geno to make it 4-2. Assists go to Malkin and Kunitz.
Geno puts the Pens up 5-3 with a goal that makes it look like the NHL is a farm league to him. Kunitz and Neal with the assists.
Richard Park gets his 100th goal on a deflection while putting the Pens up 6-4. Orpik and Adams with the assists.
After missing 15 games with a bum knee, Jordan Staal gets a welcome back goal to put the Pens up 7-4. Assisted by Dupuis and Cooke.
I’m starting to learn how to use the force to create positive jinxes…
After seeing 7 goals and no repeat goal scorers, about 40 seconds after I made that post, Letang breaks the mold and scores his second goal on the powerplay to make it 8-5 Pens. Just like the last Letang goal, Malkin and Kunitz get the assists.
The Letang goal proves to be the last one of the game and the Pens go on to win 8-5 over the Jets. I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what the hell I just watched.
