Steel City Sweep.

One helluva day in the Burgh.
The Pitt Panthers beat Oral Roberts by a mile in the NCAA Tournament First Round.
The Pens take out the lowly Lightning 4-2 at the Igloo.
Pitt played at 3.
The Pens at 7:38.


PENGUINS
Starting off, let me just say that Jarkko Ruutu is a straight-up beast. His goal was life-changing, and his play with no stick, moving the puck up the ice and setting up Talbot for a near goal was beastly, plain and simple. And I hate soccer.

PITT
Starting off, let me just say that Levance Fields is a straight-up beast. His double-double was life-changing, and his assists, moving the ball downcourt and setting up Gilbert Brown for alley-oops were beastly, plain and simple. And I love the NCAA's.

PENGUINS
It all began sometime in the first period when Jarkko buried the aforementioned goal with blood gushing from his face.
He was high sticked, and he bled severely, drawing a penalty. He puts home the Orpik rebound.

PITT
The Oral Roberts Eagles hit a few longballs and stay close to Pitt, but the Panthers tie up going to the timeout.
Then Pitt begins to pull away. It becomes a big, big lead midway through the first half.

PENGUINS
Vinny Lecavligay puts home a cheap one on Fleury. Nobody's fault, just a bad break on the goal.

PITT
This game is just a blowout. Over at halftime. Levance Fields continues to be a monster.

PENGUINS
The play continues to be boring. Then the big line gets out there. Geno is given time and space. Yup. Goal. Easy.
We seem to notice that Hossa is really awesome. What a player he is. No points, but he dominated the ice. He's a man.
And Dupuis is just solid. Always plugging away. Atta boy Pascal.

PITT GAME IS OVER AS IT IS A BLOWOUT

PENGUINS
First of all, I suck for missing these goals. I flipped channels VERY QUICKLY to check Duke vs. Belmont. '
I barely blink. I turn back to FSNHD, and I notice that the score is now 4-2.
The replays show awesomeness in both goals for the Pens, and cruddiness in the one for TBL.
Staalsie gets one from Pascal DuBeast, and Sykora does his thing with Geno, who did his thing as well.
Kuba gets a weird one on Fleury, but that would be all.
At the very end, with the empty cage, Geno passes ahead to Hoss with 2 seconds left.
Tragicly, Hoss loses track of time and doesn't score, negating a point possibility for Geno, but who cares.
WE WON. Twice. Hell yeah.

Notes.
PITT has a chance to do something great in this tournament.
The Penguins are cup-worthy right now
Marian Hossa is great. No points but he's a man.
Dupuis is great too. Solidity.
Letang is the same.
And so are most of the guys on this team
Iceburgh needs to watch his weight.

3 Stars of Pitt Game
1. Levance Fields was nasty
2. Gilbert Brown can dunk
3. Dejuan Blair, class of Schenley

3 Stars of Pens Game
1. Jarkko Ruutu, life-changing. I wanna be him.
2. Evgeni Malkin, it still doesn't get boring watching him get points
3. Sergei Gonchar, just never makes mistakes these days

HUGE GAMES OVER THE WEEKEND. Pitt plays Michigan State.
Pens MAMMOTH game with Devils for first place in East.

Lets go Pittsburgh.