Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins

Musings and In-Game Scribbles

My English is as good as yours, I just write these in a stream-of-consciousness mode that I insist excuses me from small things like rules of grammar or general etiquette. Let’s call it conversational English, hopped up on beans. You know what kind of beans (no, Carl Mellesmoen, not the magic ones).

Montreal Canadiens (17-21-8) visit Pittsburgh Penguins (24-18-2)

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Game Forty-Seven (score posted following scribbles)

Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. A written transcript typed during the game, posted and edited about thirty minutes afterward.  Based on the RDS French telecast of the Montreal Canadiens game, Musings take about 23 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with morning coffee. Or late-night chocolate.  A unique way to re-experience the game.

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Fleury and Budaj are the goalies.

First Period

Puck floats straight down to Fleury in his crease. Kevin Pollock is one of the refs.  Who cares about the other one.

Habs flow in.

Fleury traps a puck lost around the net.  Coach Bylsma is one knee up and then back to shoulders square as he talks rapidly behind the Pen bench.

Faceoff to Fleury’s left.  Kept in.

Skittles to the slot and it’s off something and slowly crosses the goal-line.  (Ed note: Something was a stick)

Eller shot it around the boards, a Subban advance and pass across followed.  Eller got almost nothing on it.  And it crossed the line.

Montreal 1, Pittsburgh 0

Not enough joy on the visiting bench.

Eller takes the draw.  Wins it.

Crowd boos Subban lightly.  He’s a favourite target.  Easy to dislike for some.  People were more apt to dislike Terrell Owens as opposed to Bill Romanowski.  The former deserved less hatred.

The former is also black.  (Ed note: And he has much, if not all, of the Ontario hubris)

Two minutes gone.

Cunneyworth said that Budaj can face any NHL front and that’s why he was selected tonight.

James Neal.  Left side.  Three on two.  Coverage.  The shot.  Off the post.

Skirmish.  Pacioretty.  Cole was hit.  Kunitz and Pacioretty are going to go.  Denis says he’s standing up for Cole.

They circle, they hold, they swing.  Then a pause.  Pacioretty is looking to the officials to end it but they don’t.  Once Kunitz says it’s done, the officials respond and separate the two.  Nice league.

Chris Kunitz.  From Saskatchewan, Canada. Pacioretty, not from the chosen country’s reffing brigade.  Rather he’s from New Canaan, Connecticut.

Pacioretty is learning quickly and he’s more of a team guy than last season.  The backchecking is much improved and so is the support.

Cunneyworth listens to the officials’ explanations.  Seems unsatisfied but accepts.

Blunden is in the box with Pacioretty now.  Pacioretty, helmet off, is leaning from the open door, arm out and gesturing in complaint.

Penguins entry.  Sullivan is knocked down.  And he’s called for interference.

Tried to take out Moen.  Could have been accidental.

Replay is unclear; Moen skating sideways turned from the Penguin blue and knocked down by a forward-facing Sullivan.

Timmins, Ontario.

It’s going to be one of those periods.

Letang is in.  Finds a hole.  Cheap backhander beats Budaj.  Goalie seems out of his element.

Letang is allowed to waltz in along the perimeter and his shot from under the end line is an elegant lifter but with no angle.

It’s in the net.  We go to fours.

Pittsburgh 1, Montréal 1

Gomez carries.

Malkin watches a puck go straight onto his stick.  Bourque is there to interrupt and carries through the slot, bumped but balanced.  His shot fails.

Fifteen left.

Brief Pittsburgh advantage.  Nothing happens.

Kaberle.  Long pass.  Kostitsyn.  Shot.  Rebound.  Cole.  In.  All slot, all fine.

Fleury has no Montreal demons (as suggested by RDS).  He’s just a below-average goalie.  Accept it.

Montreal 2, Pittsburgh 1.

Consistently in the bottom half of the save percentage column on a team with good defensive play, prone to meltdowns and generally skittish, March-Andre Fleury is one of the least-deserving starters in the NHL.

Always happy to see him in net.

We have one demon.  And he’s blond.

Gill plays the puck and is tripped in the corner to Budaj’s left.  Stick got caught up in Gill’s waist.  Gill may have been clever on the play and Neal smiles in doubt of the call.

Montreal man-advantage.  Last in the league.

First entry is annulled.  Penguins are aggressive and shoot first.  Two deep and a quick pass and crease-shot.

Stopped.

Gomez is in.  Snakes.  Weaves.  Leaves it.  Controlled.  Three seconds.  And turned over.  Cleared.

Kaberle.  Moen.  They bumble.

The confidence has declined.  Anything that’s accented becomes a point of stress.  This team can’t take the pressure.  It’s not going away so it’s up to the Canadiens to learn how to deal with it.  There is more pressure on a team today than even two seasons ago.  I blame Twitter and the up-to-the-moment public commentary now available.

Penalty ends with no set-up, no shots.

Eleven.

Gill winds and launches a puck around the boards.  Too far gone and on the opposite hash, Penguins carry it out.

That doesn’t last.

Eller line.  Darche and Blunden with him.

Eller has been demoted.

He has it on the right hash.  Long cross-slot pass.  Through sticks, legs and across placid ice and off the uncaring boards beyond.

Pens possession.  One long left-point shot.  Off the mark.

Turnovers ensue.

Huge hit by Campoli on Pittsburgh’s Kennedy.  A whistling boulder.

Habs lead on shots five-four.  Houde calls it a revenge hit.

Stoppage.

Be likeable. Be good.

Nine.

Replay: Pacioretty was shown asking for explanations from the officials.  Houde says that Pacioretty and Francois St. Lauren both carried themselves well. In discussion.

Delayed call.

Pens clutch.

Subban punched Vitale in the corner.

Punch in the back.  Nothing that defencemen don’t ordinarily engage in.  But it’s not expected from a rookie.  Subban is beyond brash and the league will have to adjust to the youngsters and not the other way around.  It’s a new generation and all workplaces are seeing the change.

Penguin power-play.

Mistake. Plekanec jumps it.  Goes through.  Two collide with him.  Houde exults as Letang is one of the two involved.  Adds that Plekanec was at shift’s end.

Thirty seconds.

Malkin.  Dupuis.  Right side.  The work the perimeter.

Great coverage, says Houde.

Puck appears at Budaj’s feet and he clams it.

Pens win the draw.  To the right point.  Kennedy dodges and weebles and then the rubbery shot finds its way to the crease.  Cooke is in the crease.  Is able to return but can’t reach it and the players flail into the crease, falling and lurching.  Budaj sees and traps it.

Faceoff to his left.

Kaberle climbs from a fallen pose and crabs up to play the puck out on the let.

Now he’s retrieving behind his net.  Move it.  Pays for it.  Habs are in the zone.

Cole.  Turns and torques a backhand pass to the low slot.

Around the net.  Desharnais.  Pacioretty is knocked down in the slot.  And the puck is out.

Gomez line.  Bourque.  Blunden.

Subban loses the puck on a quick, unexpected pass to the right point

Pens are out.  They close.  And Budaj’s high glove ends thing.  Acro-cat.

Pascal Dupuis bears a dim resemblance to Craig Rivet.

Five minutes left.  We’re shown Pierre Larouche and Regis Labeaume in the luxury box, guests of Mario Lemieux.  Disappointing to see Lemieux allied in any way with the controversial Labeaume.

Malkin.  Dupuis.  Neal.

Cycling.  Malkin emerges at the high perch and rounds the bridge under the blue.  Swath hockey.  And he can yo-yo. Damphousse said Malkin is far and away the best player in the league today.  Or rather, right now.

Three minutes.

Cooke.  Dumps it forward.  Follows.  Takes it.  Around the net and a pass.  Sullivan is stopped.

Out.

Pens resume.

But a fanned shot on the blue leads to a three on three.  Nokelainen’s shot is wide.

Penguins still playing the full team game Bylsma expects from them.

Penguins rush.  Another upset penguin.  And the glass is off the mooring.  Fully blap on the ice next to the net.  A young captain’s jersey-wearing kid is insisting on appearing in the gap and waving.  His father pulls him away.

Bourque took a puck off the face.  He’s still being looked at on the bench.

Malkin leads all scorers after a hot segment.  He’s’ being considered as league MVP, says Denis.

We wait for the glass to be fixed.

Too many strangers on this Montreal team.

So it’s been for far too long.

It’s more than disparate personalities.  It’s more than management and culture.  The pressure molds it all.

Pens lead on shots 10-5 with 2:14 on the clock.

Glass work is done.  Malkin line hops on.  Kunitz and Neal are with him.  Kunitz pats Malkin’s butt with his stick, vaguely reminding me of Tie Domi.

Around the net.  Subban et Malkin.  Subban whap-whaps Malkin’s shin pads.  Pens retain

Gorges and Malkin now.  Gorges digs and wins it.  Bourque carries from the hash.  Long lobber.  Icing.

Ninety seconds.

Desharnais line.

Dupuis has the first chance.

Shot.  Stopped from the left.

Cole responds.  Pushes, skates, froth in water.  And the shot while interfered with.  A hook.  And it’s called.

His backhand pass was off the mark.  Brooks Orpik is in the box.

Forty-two seconds.

Plekanec on the left point.  A return to the old formation.  Gomez.  Nearly scores on Fleury, the right arm betraying the Sorel native.

Pens stutter and work it out.

Late hit on Craig Adams.  Bourque.  Big boooom.  Rattler.

Horn goes.

Penguins led on shots 10-6.

First Intermission
Montreal 2, Pittsburgh 1

No Crosby talk.  Alain says it’s either Ovechkin or Malkin, laughing.  Which is it?  The response is Malkin, of course.  And that’s a more sensible question.  So easy to critique the Russians.  Isn’t it.

Second Period
Montreal 2, Pittsburgh 1

Eighty seconds left in the power-play.

A lot of hesitation.  But the goal comes.  Kostitsyn.  From the slot.  High.  Shoulder-beater.

Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1

Kaberle moved forward, no-looker to Kostitsyn, freed by three defenders drawn to Subban advanced from the right point, seconds before.

Kaberle’s pass is the best of what he can be.

Boards.  Hitting.  Tumble-over and trunk on concrete sounds.

And the hitting ends and the puck skeets out, culminating a pentagonal perimeter pattern.

Seven shots.  Three goals.  Houde calls it great Montreal efficiency.  You can call it below-average goaltending.

Skit, skit, skow!  Yars Revenge.

Dupuis. Left side.  Useless slapshot off a big wind-up.  But he big rebound says all shots on Budaj are worth it. What a huge rebound.  Penguins were not around. Receipt point would have been the right point.

Stoppage.  Habs win the draw, Gomez.

Gomez takes one away deep but the Pens are right back, Kunitz passing to Engelland for a graceful cruising slapshot sailing over and beyond the blue. Crack.  Budaj’s mask, perhaps.  He’s ok.

More Pens.

Campoli loses Sullivan.  Gorges traps it.  Around the net.  Campoli again.  Up for the forward.  Deep.  Cole.  Holding.  Orpik.

A fourth power-play.  Montreal has gotten so many in recent games.

But not scoring.

Adams is in the box, rather.

Subban gives it away.  Michalek.  Scores.  Low slot.

Hockey.  Sudden.  Savage.  Sanguine.

Subban didn’t look and just released a quiet backhand pass to the hash where nobody was posted.

Just an easy advance and shot.  Budaj and his panic.

Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2

Habs establish.  One minute.  Pacioretty on the right hash.  Confidence from this line.  Just play as you would in five on five.

And they do.

They work it and Kaberle is playing a smart, alert brand. Tries the high stick whick-whack to keep it in and now it’s out.  Two Penguins.  One Hab is back.

Along the bench, Ladouceur waves a swearing Subban into the present.  Moments later, Subban is continuing the conversation.  He’s not happy and likely blaming someone for not being in position.  Cunneyworth walks over to calm the situation, nodding and talking.

Subban needs to focus on what’s at hand.  Blame is a loser’s game.  Let the coaches handle the errors.

Subban is now on the bench’s end, glued there remarks Houde.  It’s the right approach for now.

The rope has been pulled.

Twelve.

Malkin.  Shot.  Fans rise.  It’s wide.  Budaj is in the spot, and two Habs in the crease.  A third helps clear and the Habs have contained the Conn Smythe winner with aplomb.  So far.

Park.  Right side.  Space.  Fires.  Budaj spreads legs and drops.  Big rebound.  No sticks reply.

Budaj is such a nerve-wracker.

Stoppage.

Penguins lead 12-2 on shots this period.

Outside the Pen blue.  They win it.  They launch it.  Budaj has it and it’s around with Darche and Gomez missing a man behind the Pen net.

Penguin rush.  Right winger is past it all.  Closing man to the crease, no coverage.  And Budaj is across. Poorly aimed shot.

Canadiens rush.  Right side.  Cole.  To Pacioretty.  Over the goalie, flailing and beaten.  Looking very Palmateer.  And wearing his number.

Montréal 4, Pittsburgh 2

There’s a lift.

Bourque.  Moen.  Left side.  Corner work.  Strapping.  Kept in. Around the net.  Moen from under the end line for Plekanec.  Just misses the blade.

To the other end.  Bottled.  Habs are out instantaneously.

Pace is up.  Habs are enervated.  Eller.  Pens are hot to dot.  But they can’t get at the disc.

Kostitsyn.  Around.  Pass to the high slot.  Gloved.  Fleury shoves Eller in the low slot after the whistle.  Eller falls.  No call.  And Fleury looks as petulant as he feels.

Faceoff.

Nokelainen was hit hard earlier and he’s back on the bench.  We see the neutral zone bash.  Vitale. Legal hit says Denis.

Under eight.

Desharnais.  Around the net. Backhanded.  Cole and Pacioretty are there.  Puck has trouble.  And the Pens exit.  Cole shakes the boards first.

Dump-in ends the shift.

Nokelainen. Crushes a man under the end-line Michalek.

Fleury.  The great Marc-Andre Fleury.   Gloves one down and juggles briefly.  He’d be cremated in Montréal.

Instead of calling a guy Brook and having him be teased by the unisexual amibiguation, why not add an “s” and have him join the other woodsmen like Tanner and Colby?  Brooks Orpik has it behind his net.  There’s also Brooks Laich in Washington.

How about Barrel?  Or Anchor?  Widget?  Uh.

Handgun.

Four and nineteen.

Pens are allowed to control.  And then it’s out.  Those long possessions with Cammalleri parked and idling are done.  But there’s much more work to be done.

But it’s work of the heart and mind.

Have fun again.  Take joy in the game.  (Ed note:  Stop talking back to coaches)

Plekanec’ stick is knocked from him and he looks to an official.  Just play. (Ed note: And refs)

Two and a half.

This is close-out time.

Subban is finally back on the ice.

Engelland.  A shot-pass.  Jeffery.  Back-pass for Neal, all along the boards.  And then out.  Darche. His dump and follow allows the team to change lines.

Moments later, icing.  Fortunate, says Houde.

Faceoff to Budaj’s left.

Eddie Johnstone is first on the Penguin coaching list in wins. Bylsma is closing and in second.

Arms folded, he looks on in his progressive parent manner.

Bylsma is shown playing in a demo pick-up game this afternoon.  To the net.  And then around. Glasses on all the while in the slow-paced game.  Houde and Denis compliment the coach noting that there are no taboo subjects when talking with the coach.

Letang crosses the blue and fires.  After the whistle

His shaggy hair and scruffy beard contrast with his large, sparkling visor.

We resume.

Moen watching.  Turnover produced.  Plekanec.  Goes to the net, Moen from the blue.  The pass.  Shot goes over the net.  And a penalty.  Your buddy Letang.

Fleury stacked the pads and it coulombed over.

One in four tonight.

That’s a normal percentage.   A little high, even.

Kaberle.  Plekanec, Pacioretty and Cole.

Shot wide from the slot.

Siren.

Someone goes after Pacioretty.  Craig Adams wants to go.

Big, tough Craig Adams.  Removes the mouthguard for additional verbiage.  Kept from his target all the while by a linesman.  Houde suggests there will be a penalty for his insurgence.

Good.

Second Intermission
Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 2

Yattle, yattle.

Third Period
Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 2

Ninety seconds’ advantage.

Left over.  Letang still in the box.

Left side after some embittering circles.  Gomez.

The puck stops and two Habs watch it, indecision ruling.

Then it’s out.

Cole line. Fleury ends action.  Faceoff to his right.  Desharnais is helped by Pacioretty.  To the left point to Kaberle.  Subban to his right.  They go back and forth. Neither likes what he sees.  Now a wind-up by Subban.  Shot.  Turnover.  Out and then in.  Penalty is over.

Martin has it. Across for Letang.  Gill removes him.  Around the boards.  Another turnover.

Habs are given the puck.  Moen.  Short pass.  Left side, Plekanec follows.

Kaberle keeps it in on the left point.  Cross-ice diagonal.  Low circle.  Shot.

Better play from Kaberle.  Houde concurs.  Seventeen.

Budaj with a mild save.  Sullivan advances.  No.

Letang low.  Tries the turnaround.  Fails.  Pushes his stick into the forward.  Eller.

Delayed call.  Penguin entry.

Shot.  Over the glove.

One goal game.

Wrister.  Dustin Jeffrey.  An excellent shot says Denis.

Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 3

Denis says that Desharnais is very creative and makes his line go. Right he is.

It’s a rare compliment from a press corps hesitant to anoint its best player.

Its best Quebec-born Montreal player.  (Ed note:  He plays for the press?)

Penguins have control.  Malkin.  Kaberle easily gives the puck to Malkin on the boards.  I roll my eyes.  Habs survive.

Montreal rush.

Pacioretty and Desharnais.  Pacioretty shoots.  Stopped.  Cole chasing hard.  Penguins are pressing.  And Cole is called.

Slashing on entry.

Pittsburgh power-play.

Malkin shakes his doughnut face in response to a teammate.

I watch Letang look for a receiver and wonder if thinking oneself great is more important than being great.

It’s a disturber.

Penguin pistons slow.

Cleared out.

Back in.  Stoppage.

Malkin and Plekanec.  Plekanec wins it.  Kicks it back.  Some board work.  It’s out.  Moen gets to Letang a smidge after the puck is moved.

Eller gets back to interrupt the rush.

Budaj is down too soon.  Too often.

Cole is back.  Taxi-cab entry.  Found.  Coverage and the puck was behind him.

Nine oh six.

Eller line.

Vitale carries, slows and has it lifted from him by Eller.

Habs are hitting again.  Gill delivers one near his blue.

Gomez jams a man; finds Gill helping beside him.  A second Pen is shut out.  Puck is gone.

Malkin.  Tries to break through two.  Breaks but he puck doesn’t follow.  Stopped in skates and stick.

Kaberle.

Another rush. Dupuis.  Backhander.

Letang and Cole collide.  At the Pittsburgh blue.  Cole is called.

Replay shows it’s tight, Cole trying to stay onside, a sea-falling leg stretched to boat’s shore and the other into Letang’s stance.

Under seven.

Penguin power-play.

Kunitz hits Gorges behind the play.  Gorges is shaken up.

Just on the border.  Elbow to the shoulder that Gorges wasn’t expecting.

Kunitz shakes his head in the box.

Four on four.

Pacioretty and Desharnais.  The awkward gait.  Chases his own puck.  Knocked down on the hash.  Gets up to be knocked back down by Letang, but the puck work is there and he’s back up again and chasing.  Gaston Therrien’s comment that Cole is the perfect model for Pacioretty comes back to mind.

Five and twenty-two.

Budaj.  Faces Neal.  Loses the puck.  Another neighborhood uncle play.  Doesn’t know where it is.    Has no clue how to find out.  Two Habs cover his legs and Budaj keeps groping and staring in the wrong direction.  Flat on stomach, mask pointed to the end boards.

He makes up for ability with frenetic thought and wasted motion.

Marionette.

Four and a half.

Yes, I know he’s a nice guy.  So what.  Be nice somewhere else.  Not in Montreal’s crease.

Where’s Doug Soetaert.

I’ve decided I like the left-hand man behind the bench.  He can get a sense of what’s wrong with what players for himself.  Makes the coaches’ job easier.  They don’t have to hear two sides of the story.  Players can’t undermine Cunneyworth, Ladouceur and the other dude.  (Ed note:  There is no other dude.  Carriere, the left-hand man, is the second assistant)

Idiots bang glass like rocks scream at fish.

Penguin rush.  Malkin.  One-timer.  High.  Goal.  Budaj.  Ninny.

Malkin raises the stick and bangs the glass once, twice a third time.  He believes and can’t believe.  This crowd has gone Planter’s.

Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 4

Two oh five and Eller is chasing.

Bourque.  Hard shot.  But not so hard Fleury couldn’t trap it.  He doesn’t.  Bounces down.  And he has to scramble.  Covers it.

Stoppage.

Faceoff to Fleury’s right.

Go Penguins chant is brief.  So is the home team’s next entry.

Lines change.  Orpik fires it in.  But he’s on the wrong side of the red line.

Icing.

Bylsma is as calm as a rink French Fry vendor.  Seen it all.  Hey, won it all.  Jack Adams.  Stanley.  And so forth. One of the league’s best.

Penguins pressure to close the period.

Some watching.  Kostitsyn collects it.  And carries it personally through three zones.  And Campoli fires on Fleury to end the farce.

Budaj is over to talk with Price.

Cleaning crew is out, female and tightly-clothed.  Why don’t managers wear tight leotards and fuss-frou their hair?  Let’s go. Let’s go.  Get that thing on Leonsis, let’s go.  You too, Pierre.  Mario?

Yes, you look fat in it.

Overtime
Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 4

Four on four for five minutes.

Crowd anticipates.

Moen and Plekanec are first.

Defensive pairing.

Gorges and Subban low.

Gorges produces the first turnover. Passes to Subban.  Up for Plekanec.  Can’t be kept in.

Letang.  Over the blue.  Fires and stands to watch like a success-ridden pirate.  The cape flutters and so does the puck.  Budaj handles it.

It’s Budaj.  May as well shoot.

Stoppage.

Cole and Desharnais made a brief cameo.

Malkin.  Plekanec. Second shift of three.

I like it.  Play to win.  Or maybe they’re just on whenever Malkin is on.  More likely the latter.  That’s still playing to win.  Moen and Plekanec are on to shut Malkin down.

Emelin.  Falls forward, stick elongated.  And blocks the two-on-one viper pass.

Three minutes.

Gomez is on.  Speaking of scales and tongues.  And he’s in chase mode.  No pretending.

He may miss the playoffs for the first time in his career.  He’s talked about it.  Whatever motivates you.

They close.  Fleury falls.  Eller produced the turnover.  Letang on the ice.  Pacioretty in the crease.  And the puck stays out.

Pens call a time-out.

Bylsma asks Orpik a question.  Listens.  Nods.  Now he asks Malkin one.

On the Montreal side, Kaberle leans over to share a hockey insight and they return to the ice.

Eller loses the draw.  They chase.  Martin.  To Orpik. Malkin stays on.

No Plekanec this time.

Kostitsyn.  Entry dump and he loses balance and is shoved simultaneously.

Ninety second.

Gorges.  Cole.  Gorges to the net for a soft shot.  Fleury closes the pads.

Rebound is too short.

Emelin advances.  Follows a Cole entry and fires.  Short wrister is also blocked.

Kunitz.  Right side.  One minute.  Subban traps the puck.  Carries it out.

To Plekanec.

Letang tries to get Plekanec stick and arms high.

Letang’s overconfidence begins to fill the rink.  Tries a shot that does nothing.  Off a man and high.

Malkin on a re-entry.  Blocked.  Taken.  Carried.  And a last possession.  Malkin takes it away.  And the clock runs out as Malkin turns and wheels his way out of his zone.

Overtime
Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 4

Denis says if had a bit of money he’d bet on Malkin, Neal and Letang as the Pen shooters.

What, he’s a volunteer?

One of Eddie’s worst keyboard efforts blares through.  Van Hagar years. Remember, 1984 featured keyboards.

Letang is first.

Budaj in a shootout.  Great.

Very fast hands, says Denis.  Regarding Letang.

Budaj scrapes ice.

Needless.

Letang.  Little brake.  Another.  That move is always very frightening.  Man he’s good.  Misses the net.

Desharnais.

Fleury guns his stick.  Desharnais, the left-right.  Hole is closed.

Malkin.  Side view.  Black dot.  What.

Pens 1, Montreal 0

Kostitsyn.

Sticks breaks.

It’s all into the end boards.

Winner on Neal’s stick.

Shoots it at the five.  Turned away.

Gomez.

Why.

Shot and blocked.

All too easy. <you know the tone … and hiss>

Another five-four OT loss to Pittsburgh.

Final Score
Pittsburgh 5
Montreal 4 (SO)

I think it’s getting to me.

HDS Stars: Evgeni Malkin, Max Pacioretty, Alexei Emelin
RDS Stars: Evgeni Malkin, Erik Cole, Andrei Kostitsyn

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