Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Game 24- Penguins @ New York Rangers

The Penguins will look to redeem themselves from a devastating come from ahead loss at the hands of the New York Rangers that happened on October 25th at Madison Square Garden. The Pens were up 2-0 through two periods on goals from old friend Darryl Sydor and Sidney Crosby, but a late goal from Nikolai Zherdev evened things up with seconds to go, and Fredrik Sjostrom won it for the Rangers in a shootout.

Since then, the Pens seem to have gotten a little bit better at holding leads, but there are still some issues in that department. The dynamic duo of Crosby and Malkin has been doing work, and the secondary scoring has been present as well. Dany Sabourin has filled in well for the injured Marc-Andre Fleury, and Flower should be back soon from a torn groin muscle.

Phillipe Boucher is ailing with an undisclosed ailment. His status is unknown, but we'll say out.

For the Rags, you know the story---Henrik Lundqvist is a great netminder. Zherdev provides a huge offensive spark, Redden sucks, blah blah blah.

Penguins-
Talbot-Crosby-Satan
Fedotenko-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Dupuis-Zigomanis-Godard

Orpik-Letang
Scuderi-Gill
Goligoski-Eaton

Sabourin

Rangers-
Drury-Gomez-Callahan
Naslund-Dubinsky-Zherdev
Voros-Korpikoski-Fritsche
Sjostrom-Betts-Orr

Redden-Girardi
Staal-Roszival
Kalinin-Mara

Lundqvist

GO PENS!

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