Sunday, April 20, 2008

Pittsburgh Penguins update

ok, while i pull my size 12 foot out of my mouth, lets take a look at the NHL playoffs so far. Actually let's just talk about how well the Penguins did "While the men in Pittsburgh look in the mirror every day at their ever growing playoff beard, and unfortunately the ladies too who are not shaving their legs, we all must wait" Game one started off just the way Ottawa didn't want it to; with Gary Roberts (the man who survived abortion and created giraffes when he uppercutted a horse, and the only man in history to ever beat a brick wall at tennis) scored a backhand goal. The Penguins the proceeded to tear the Senators a new a**hole for 4 games and swept the Sens. I will be the first to say I was wrong about the Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis trade, because both were amazing. Pascal on the penalty kill held the Senators powerplay to under 10% on the series and both played on the line with Sidney Crosby. Marian even got off the schnide by scoring a playoff goal (granted it was a garbage goal but its a start). The steel city line continued to show that they are the best line in hockey, Ryan Malone scored 2 goals in the series as well as Petr Sykora scoring a handful. and of course, Evgeni Malkin is in the top 5 in playoff points only playing 4 games, while every other NHL playoff series has gone at least 6 games. But perhaps the best thing that we can take away from this series is the play of Marc-Andre Fleury. The flower has finally blossomed into the number one pick we hoped he would be. The flower was more like the Venus Fly-trap allowing only 5 goals in 4 games and the best save percentage in the playoffs. The series was summed up when 4th liner Jarkko Ruutu, the man who was suppose to take stupid penalties and not contribute to the offense at all, scored a break away goal by spinning away from a defender and going 5 hole on Martin Gerber on his back hand. The Penguins got every break and the Senators were left stunned. The only bad thing about sweeping our biggest rival and getting payback from last year is now we have to play the waiting game. The Penguins will most likely not play for another week! The only thing we can do now is practice hard, stay sharp, and hope that our age (besides Gary Roberts) gives us the extra legs we need that will keep us moving through these playoffs.

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