Pens fall to Caps on home ice, perhaps finally hitting rock bottom

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The first period started interestingly to say the least. The Caps were getting chances, and they were utilizing the center drive to near perfection, but Marc-Andre Fleury was keeping them in check.

Jordan Staal, Chris Minard, and Sidney Crosby had golden chances all alone, but not one of them could bury the biscuit.

Donald Brashear took a high sticking penalty for getting Kris Letang, but it's questionable whether or not he deserved it. Eric Godard and Dave Steckel were also in the vicinity, and their sticks were flying. No matter, the Pens went to the powerplay.

Just seconds into the man advantage, Jeff Schultz crosschecked Sidney Crosby while Crosby was standing in the low slot. That's two minutes, and the Penguins had a full 2:00 of 5 on 3.

Evgeni Malkin turned it over to Matt Bradley while manning center point, and Bradley had a relative breakaway. Fleury came way out of his net, and the puck bounced from Fleury, off Bradley's shin guards, and just wide of the net.

After the Pens had blown the five on three, Malkin redeemed himself. Miro Satan passed to Crosby in the left circle, who worked it back to Malkin up high. Geno's slapper caught Jose Theodore out of position, and it was 1-0 Pens.

Rob Scuderi slid to block a Mike Green blast, and the puck hithim in the face.

Scuds down.
A minute and seconds into the middle frame, Nicklas Backstrom broke into the Pens' end and went down the right side. He slid it back to Viktor Kozlov, who hit a knucklepuck off Fleury's pads and in.

Satan scored for Pittsburgh on an empty net a few minutes following that. Tyler Kennedy and Max Talbot did the dirty work, and Satan did not miss.

Alexander Semen scored to even it up yet again at 12:40 off a beautiful feed from the legendary Russian, Sergei Fedorov. This was a see-saw battle.

The ensuing third period was one of the most interesting in recent memory.

Prior to the start of the period, Crosby, Ovechkin, and others were involved in a brief verbal skurmish between the benches, right in front of Bob Errey.

Max Talbot and Kris Letang both went off with injuries.

As the Penguins were killing a 5 on 4, Brooks Orpik went to the box for tripping, setting up a Caps 5 on 3. While the Penguins killed the first penalty in its entirety, the Caps would not be denied in the 5 on 4. Ovechkin stood on the left post, picked up his own rebound, and he roofed it to give Washington its first lead. Man, that guy has a nose for the net; the fear-factor when he has it on his stick is just tremendous.

Ryan Whitney answered that on a delayed penalty, firing a wicked slapper over the glove of Theodore, top-right corner. It came on a delayed penalty.

Unfortunately, the Caps pulled back ahead on another powerplay goal. As Petr Sykora served a minor for high-sticking, Tomas Fleischman poked a rebound past Fleury to set the score at 4-3.

When you play shorthanded for eight minutes out of fourteen, you are going to get burned.

Ovechkin threw a puck to the net that hit Whitney's skate and caromed past Fleury. Ovechkin celebrated, again, like the arrogant prick that he is. The class he exudes, or lack thereof, is disgusting. How many other players taunt the opposing bench after scoring a goal in January?

What a joke. It's a shame talent has to be wasted on guys like this.

It was 5-3 Caps at that point.

As Nicklas Backstrom sat in the sin bin, Crosby made brilliant setups to both Malkin and Sykora, especially Sykora, who had an empty net in front of him before shooting six feet high and wide right. What Sykora was trying to there, I don't know.

Crosby then got hurt, and it looked bad. He "dragged himself" back to the bench with an apparent left foot injury. The Caps knocked out about six Pens in this game.

For the second time in the game, he went down the runway, this time with some sort of ailment.

As Crosby went off the ice, Ovechkin banged his stick on the boards. It may have been an act of sportsmanship, but given Alex's history, I'm not so sure. Maybe AO will provide an explanation.

While the Pens were on a powerplay, Schultz cleared the puck, and it spun into the net.

6-3.

Time and time again, we think the Pens have reached rock bottom, but I think it may have finally happened. They just keep sinking lower, lower, and lower.

Notes-
-I really really really really hate Alexander Ovechkin.
-Has there ever been a more arrogant piece of garbage?
-This team has no depth whatsoever.
-About the whole team got hurt tonight.
-If Sid's really hurt, the season is over right now.
-Damnit.
-Rock bottom.
-Why does Ray Shero still have a job? He's constructed such an imbalanced team
-Where did the trap go that worked so well vs . Philly?
-So much for the turnaround.

Highlight the text below if you want to see what we're all thinking right now.
FVCK THIS. THIS TEAM IS A FVKING JOKE.
At least two teams are playing well in this city.