First Period:
The igloo had a good reason to go nuts within the first 10 seconds. Georges Laraque and Bobby Orr's daughter throw down.
It was pretty obvious early on that the Pens were looking to respond after their heartbreaking loss to Atlanta at the arthritic hands of Mark Recchi.
The Sid and Malkin combination is working out just beautifully right now. It's really a fun thing to watch. In the first few minutes they were skating circles around the obviously disinterested Rangers. They eventually drew a penalty after some sustained pressure in the Rangers zone.
With the way the powerplay has gone over the past two months you almost expected the Pens to give up a shorthanded goal and for this to be the start of a long losing streak.
"That's why you're writing on a blog, joke"
Malone provides an excellent screen in front for Michael Roszajoke (who would make many appearances later in this game) and Malkin walks out from behind the goal and roofs the puck topshelf.
The Pens didn't let up after this however. Shortly after the PP goal Crosby takes the puck coast to coast, Henrik doesn't see where the puck landed and Malkin crashes hard to the net to get the Pens their second goal.
Picture: "All-star" Scott Gomez's contributions in the first period.
After some jobbing around, the Rangers take another penalty and then Michael Roszival decides to punch Kris Letang in the face to get the Pens a 5 on 3. Shortly after the joke goes to the box, Gonch wires the puck in from the point to make it 3-0Pens.
Evgeni Malkin was all over the ice, he threw the body extremely well including a great hit on Michael Roszajoke late in the first period.
Second Period,
Apparently the Pens forgot that hockey was still played for 60 minutes.
Picture: Penguins locker room after the first intermission.
Only one Penguin decided to show up in the second period, Ty "conkblock" Conklin. The Rangers were pinning the Penguins into their own zone the entire time but Ty kept coming up with big saves. He's a battler and even though he doesn't look great making the saves, he almost always finds a way to make them.
"I guess this isn't spectacular enough for you"
It was obvious that the zebras were doing their best to get the Rangers back in the game. Penalty after Penalty were called on the Pens and most of them were very marginal calls.
Nothing much going on here, the Pens get some huge kills and go into the third still up 3-0.
Third Period,
The thought of another Malkin hat trick danced in everyone's head.
Speaking of heads, tonight was a ski-cap giveaway night.
If the writers weren't on strike, i'd say this was scripted.
Digressing, the Pens could afford to shove Malkin into the spotlight to get another hat trick.
It almost signaled the end of the world.
The next two penalties on the Penguins were legit.
Crosby is a jobber and definitely interfered.
He's smart. He knows what he's doing.
The Pens kill that off beautifully.
As Crosby gets out of the box, the Pens go right back in.
Malkin was racing with some terd for a loose puck.
If you hit someone who does not have the puck, it's a penalty.
When you knock a person down in a race for a puck, that's interference.
The emotion was running high, and it was culminated with Jagr spoiling the shutout party.
I take the time to give it to Doc Emerick, for his jobber remark back in the first period.
Something along the lines of:
"And here are the Penguins fans booing Jagr.
They must have forgotten about those two Stanley Cup championships."
And then he just jumped right back into calling the action.
What a line.
Right after that Jagr goal, morale was lower than Rosie O'Donnell's metabolism rate.
You could feel the Rangers being able to come back.
Crosby headed into the zone after that Jagr goal, and he was decked.
HE HAD THE PUCK. HE GOT HIT. That's what hockey is about. Good no-call.
Just as Crosby is ready to take the next faceoff, Therrien shuts everything down and sends Laraque onto the ice.
Laraque came on and hit some ass-clown in the Pens zone. Huge roar.
The Pens were helped with a ticky-tacky slashing call which sent them on the powerplay and sent Malkin back on the hunt. No dice there.
The puck wasn't gonna get past Conklin. It just wasn't gonna happen.
Malkin ended up delivering on the hat trick with a Gretzky empty-netter from center ice.
It is met with a raucous roar from the Mellon Arena faithful.
An unbelievable roar.
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