Letang's overtime blast nets Game 3 victory for Penguins

What a freakin' series, eh? Games 1 and 2 were the Sidney Crosby/Alex Ovechkin Show, and Evgeni Malkin was nearly invisible. In this game, Malkin stepped it up, and Kris Letang scored on a long slapshot in overtime to send the Penguins to a victory that keeps them alive in this series.

After a Crosby faceoff win, Mark Eaton slid the puck over to Letang at center point. Letang wound up a slap shot that caromed off Caps' defenseman Shaone Morrissonn. After hitting Morrisonn, the biscuit took a nice course that saw it slip just under the cross bar and past Simeon Varlamov, who robbed the Penguins time and time again throughout the contest.

Overtime nearly wasn't necessary, but Nicklas Backstrom tied the game on the powerplay late in the third period. Backstrom tried to find Ovechkin at the back door, and his shot richocheted off Marc-Andre Fleury and into the net.

The Capitals did take an early lead in this game when the puck took a bad bounce off the end boards behind Fleury, who had lost his stick. It bounced out to Ovechkin who fired into an empty net.

The Penguins could have folded, but Ruslan Fedotenko and Malkin scored goals that set up Backstrom and Letang's late game heroics.

Notes-
-The Penguins dominated the game tonight, and deserved to win.
-Varlamov is absolutely outstanding.
-Letang was bad tonight, but made up for it in the end.
-Series would have been over. Whew.
-Wooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Go Penguins.