Pens let yet another lead slip away in 4-3 shootout loss to Sens

The Pens outshot the Senators badly in the early going, peppering Brian Elliot with nine of the game's first ten shots, many of which were accrued on the powerplay after Mike Fisher took a stupid roughing penalty for trying to cross-check Matt Cooke.

Elliot made a beautiful save on Bill Guerin after Chris Kunitz walked around the back of the net and hit Guerin at the left post. Elliot slid over and kicked the puck out just barely.

The Pens struck first with a goal from the least likely source. Eric Godard drove down the left side protecting the puck with his body and one hand on the stick. He threw it in front, and it bounced off Chris Campoli's skate past Elliot.

The Sens almost scored when Mike Comrie got a miniature breakaway, but Marc-Andre Fleury managed to do a perfect split and block it with his leg pad.

Ottawa did tie it up not long after.

Kris Letang commited a brutal turnover which lead to an offensive zone faceoff for Ottawa. Former Penguin Jarkko Ruutu won the puck back to Campoli, and his wrister hit a body and went in.

The Sens found themselves with a five on three powerplay after a garbage interference call against Pascal Dupuis for making roadkill out of Nick Foligno.

After Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza clanked pucks off the post and Dany Heatley brutally missed a half empty cage. Chris Kunitz skated the puck out to essentially kill the penalty, and he almost scored on a two on one with Jordan Staal.

Dupuis took another penalty, this time a legit call for tripping. It wasn't pretty, but the Penguins did manage to kill off the penalty.

Pittsburgh took the lead again when Mark Eaton moved along the left wall, froze the play, and moved the biscuit to Sidney Crosby at the right side of the net. It was a slam dunk for 87 that made it 2-1.

Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy had a few nice rushes, and both looked good on them. Unfortunately, the finish just wasn't there either time, as Elliot was up the the challenge.

That was, until Matt Cooke came down on a two on one with the Manbearpig.

Cooke blocked a shot off the stick of Campoli, side stepped him, and passed through the defenseman covering the passing lane right to Kennedy, who snapped the puck top shelf for the insurance marker.

Heatley drew Sergei Gonchar's blood with a high stick, but the Pens did not convert on the extended powerplay that ensued.

Nick Foligno fired a nice wrist-shot through a screen, and it beat Fleury to set the score 3-2, and the momentum had turned.

The Sens made it 3-3 when Chris Phillips banged home a rebound off a Dany Healtey crossbar snipe with 6:06 remaining. Not good, not good at all.

The Sens toyed with the Pens for the rest of regulation, and Gonchar took a tripping penalty. It was a trip by Gonchar, coupled though with a 10/10 dive by the murderer, Heatley.

In the overtime, the Sens had a powerplay. They got their chances, but Fleury saved the Pens' bacon time and time again. Things after that passed quietly until the shootout.

Letang blows it up the ass.

Alfredsson scores.

Sykora blows it up the ass.

Spezza is stopped.

Crosby scores.

Ruutu is stopped.

Malkin blows it up the ass.

Fisher is stopped.

Kunitz blows it up the ass.

Mike Comrie, Hilary Duff's bedroom sex slave, scores on MAF to end the game.

Damnit.

Pens lose. Another lead evaporated for another horrible loss.

Do these guys even want to make the playoffs?

Jokes.

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