The Penguins jumped all over the Caps at the game's outset. Washington seemed somewhat lifeless, and the Pens took advantage when the game's least defensively responsible player, Alex Ovechkin, decided not to backcheck and allowed the Pens a two on one break.
Ovechkin took a run at a Penguin with an attempted hit from behind/punch to the back of the head. Fortunately, he missed the head and got his hand stuck in the camera hole along the glass.
Chris Kunitz than broke it out with a pass to Billy Guerin, who had Sidney Crosby on his right wing. Guerin passed around a defenseman to a trailing Crosby who beat Jose Thedore easily to make it 1-0 Pittsburgh.
The Caps would tie things up when Kris Letang put the puck on a platter for Nicklas Backstrom. Letang held the puck for ten seconds or so behind his own net, and then tried to make a lengthy breakout pass through two red jerseys. The pass hit Backstrom, who then found Alexander Semin streaking down the slot. Semin got the puck and deked Marc-Andre Fleury for the backhand goal.
The Capitals got three rather ticky-tacky powerplays in the first period. The Pens got none.
Brooks Orpik slid a fine stretch pass through the neutral zone that nearly sent Tyler Kennedy on a breakaway. The puck bounced off Kennedy's tape, however, and the Pens had to chase the biscuit. It wound up with a scrum in in the netmouth that resulted in a four on four.
The Pens got a powerplay right after that when Backstrom hooked up Crosby off the draw.
After some trouble entering the offensive zone, the Pens did just that, and new father Sergei Gonchar rifled a slapper through a Guerin screen that got past Theodore.
Guerin picked up his third point of the day and his first goal as a member of the Penguins just a few minutes following the Gonchar marker. Guerin took a between the legs pass from Sidney Crosby, toe-dragged around Shaone Morrison, and snapped a wrister into the twine.
With only a bit more than a minute to go in the middle period, Tom Poti uncorked a brutal slapshot from the right side that looked momentarily like a goal. Thankfully, the naked eye was decieving, and the rubber never found the back of the cage.
The Caps got a powerplay with 30 seconds and change left when Orpik accidentally clipped the visor on Mike Green's helmet. Green screamed at the top of his lungs as if he had been shot.
And people call Crosby a whiner and a diver?
Ovechkin tried to run the gauntlet and skate through the entire Pittsburgh line with seconds left on the clock, but Jordan Staal effortlessly pokechecked it off his stick.
The Penguins of old would return for the start of the final frame.
Still with the man advantage, Ovechkin beat Fleury with a slapshot from the right point. 3-2.
Before that goal could be announced, a shitty line change allowed Brooks Laich of Washington a breakaway. Laich lost the puck for a brief moment, but got it back in due time to undress Fleury and tie the game.
This team lets its leads evaporate like rain.
After that, the Pens and Caps exchanged blows for regulation's duration and that of overtime, but nobody managed to score and end the game.
So things went to a shootout.
Semin was first...and Fleury denied him.
Letang went...and Theodore didn't bite.
Kozlov fired into Fleury's pillows.
And Sidney Crosby roofed it on Theodore, setting up Ovechkin vs. Fleury to decide the game.
Ovechkin goes five hole, but Fleury kicks it out.
Game over!
Notes--
-Caps fans, Crosby just wanted to say "F*CK YOU."
-Have fun bowing out of the playoffs in the second round.
GO PENS!
5 comments:
Hey at least we'll make it to the second round.
the shootout was epic. six in a row, baby!
Craps are all pussies and divers. And ovies def a homo the way he runs at men from behind
^^^That's the pot calling the kettle black.
lol Helmut.
These are the new Pens.
8-1-1 under their new coach, and undefeated with their new acquisitions (Kunitz, Guerin, Adams) in the lineup.
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