Tale of two teams. WE LOSE.

Awful game tonight. Screw everything I wrote in the pregame. The season goes on, and I am very optimistic still about our hockey club, but the D+ efforts will not cut it. Something about playing at Madison Square Garden just really seems to mess the Penguins up. Kind of like it used to be against the Flyers at the Forum. To lose a game in this fashion is not fun for anybody. Hossa and Dupuis were solid, and we are all reminded of what a P.O.S. Sean Avery is. What a dumbass.
The Pittsburgh Penguins blew an opportunity to position themselves first in the East and blew it, now well behind the Devils.
We can only hope that the showing will improve against a team with nothing to play for in TBL on Thursday. It better be.

(sighs) RECAP TIME.

1st Period-

Five minutes in, the aforementioned jagoff Avery picks up a rebound. Conklin was awful with it, letting a long slapper carom directly from his blocker to the tape of Avery who scored the easiest goal of his sad life, until later in the game.
I really hate Avery, and have a great nickname in mind for him, a women's reproductive organ, but unfortunately my folks read this blog too, so I'm going to have to pass on that one. A few minutes later, Callahan, who nobody's ever heard much about, somehow finds another rebound and scores a cheapie on Conks. Time expires soon after.

2nd Period-
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Not much happened for the first few seconds of the period, but then Sean Avery showed us why he is still a JV player.
He makes a terrible line change, leaving Jarkko Ruutu for a breakaway, where he is golden. Backhander. Goal.
Before we could stopping laughing at Avery and marveling at the last goal, Dupuis (who is everywhere you want him to be, according to the Pensblog guys) and Marian hook up to set up Staalsie for a sleek little flick to the twine for a tie game.
The rest of the game was quite regrettable. Some jagoff gets a turnover on a dumb pass from Whits, who was disgusting tonight, and breaks in for a goal. Conklin never has a chance. Time expires.

3rd Period-
All you need to know is that Sean Avery scored another crap goal on a rebound from Conklin. We cry as he does his very feminine fist pump, and pretends that he practices it a lot. He doesn't, actually. Conks had his worst game of the year.

5-2 Final.

3 Stars.

1. Marian Hossa. Class of the Pens tonight. Generally, I would choose the guy who scores 2 goals, but I hate Avery
2. Brandon Dubinsky. He threw his body around well and set up some things.
3. Henrik Lundqvist. He was unbeatable for all but 2 minutes.

Jagoff of the Game- Avery. Need I write more?