Win at Vancouver seals a perfect road trip

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Hey sports porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus, and I'm back with

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analysis of the Pittsburgh
Penguins at the Vancouver

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Canucks this afternoon.
Well, really early this late at

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this afternoon.
Early this evening, the

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Pittsburgh Penguins win 32 today
in Vancouver, despite it being,

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you know, AFCNFC Championship
weekend here in the United

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States of America.
But the Pittsburgh Penguins will

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not be undetermined.
They get all eight points on the

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road trip.
What a Great Western Conference

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road trip this was for the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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They won in so many different
ways and tonight was different

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than the others.
They win 32 mostly on the heels

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of a great outing by Skinner.
Stew Skinner had a great game

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today and Ben Kindle gets two
goals in front of his 180

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friends and families in
Vancouver.

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I guess that, you know, that's
where Ben grew up, kind of his

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first trip out there as a rookie
and he just shined, you know, he

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didn't have a game in the last
19, last 19 games that he played

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in.
So, you know, he was really kind

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of feeling the pressure.
He never looks like he feels the

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pressure, though.
Ben Kendall fits the spot.

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He's been an absolute breath of
fresh air for the Pittsburgh

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Penguins this year.
Also to note, the Pittsburgh

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Penguins played with the Big
three for the one thousandth

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time in franchise history, which
is hard to believe.

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That's right, Latang was back in
the line up.

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You know, Vancouver and
Pittsburgh are two teams that

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are going in absolutely
different directions right now.

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But hey, kudos to Vancouver for
making it a game in the third

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period.
How did this all happen?

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Well, in the first period,
honestly was a bunch of nothing

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except there were two goals
scored, even though it ended up

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00.
Chinikov scored, but he was

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clearly offside on the play
where he did get a goal and

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Connor Garland scored a goal.
But I don't know about this

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call, you know, But they said
Bluger was in the blue paint.

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He was technically in the blue
paint.

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I guess he was right in front of
Stewart Skinner.

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If I'm a Vancouver fan, I'm
looking at that and I'm saying

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bullshit, but I don't know.
That's the way it goes.

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I guess when your team's not
playing very well, you just

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don't get those kind of calls.
That's the way it works.

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So first period ends with
Vancouver out shooting.

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I actually think they outshot
the Penguins the whole game.

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They were out shooting the
Penguins just by 1/8 to 9 and

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and shots in the first period.
Not it was it was an OK period,

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not really much going on.
Second period opened up and

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Mantha got a penalty and
honestly that was the only

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penalty the whole game.
Pittsburgh Penguins haven't

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scored a power play goal in
quite sometimes, probably

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probably like four or five
games.

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If I'm if I'm guessing off the
top of my head.

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It's been a while since they've
scored a power play goal, but it

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doesn't seem to matter because
they seem to be getting

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secondary scoring even though
the first line hasn't scored

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much.
That second, that second line is

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just been red hot.
So is the third line to be

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honest with you.
But the second line got hot

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first.
Tommy Novak, my buddy, I know,

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you know, I'm the hockey Jesus
and I love Tom.

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I get, I love me some Tommy
Novak.

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His pastor Gino was just
absolute sweet.

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Gino did not miss an open net.
He got the goal to make it 1.

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Nothing.
And you know, the Penguins are

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22 and 9 and have scored fifty
of their six now 63, 63 points

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on the season.
So they're pretty hot when

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scoring 1st 22 and 950 points.
And Shay kept it going with the

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sweet pass to Kindle.
Honestly looked like it went

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right off his stick.
Ben didn't even move his stick

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right in the sloth puck went
right in the back of the net.

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And you know, few minutes later,
Kindle gets another one.

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Looked like he was going to get
the Hattie there for a while.

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But three nothing after the
after the second usually is good

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lately.
We know the we know what

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happened to the Pittsburgh
Penguins when they're not

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playing well with the three
nothing lead.

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And honestly, I was getting
ready to do the game and I'm,

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you know, do do this post game.
And fourth line scrambled and

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the brass got a goal.
Only a second, five on five all

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year long for the brusque, who,
you know, came over from Boston

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a couple years ago, maybe last
year.

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But with 13 minutes left, I
wasn't too worried.

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And then with six minutes left,
Bluger, I guess got the goal.

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It tipped off of quite a few
guys, made it 3-2 and I don't

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know, I just had that bad
feeling coming back again.

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I, I know there's only 6-6
minutes left.

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I personally don't like to see
the first line out there when

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there's less than 5 minutes
left.

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I don't know why, just don't
have a lot of confidence in

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their ability to get the puck
out of the zone lately when when

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the puck gets into the zone,
they can control the puck well.

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But man, I, I don't know, I just
don't have a lot of faith.

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And Skinner was to the rescue.
There was a 2 minute scramble

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period there where looked like
Vancouver had a couple good

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opportunities, but Skinner every
time came up with a puck or at

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the very end with 10 seconds
left, nobody came up with a

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puck, but it didn't end up in
the back of the net and the

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Pittsburgh Penguins win 32
didn't really even get a chance

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at shooting it at the empty net.
But we'll take it all eight

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points on this road trip.
The Pittsburgh Penguins looked

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absolutely marvelous on this
trip.

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And I don't know if you got a
chance to to see it.

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I meant to mention, I meant to
say this earlier, but on their

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way out, Connor Clifton.
Oh my goodness.

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You got to see this guy and do
some interviews on the plane out

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to the West Coast.
What he did up up in the air

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with the with the microphone was
just absolutely magical.

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Go go Google it.
Connor Clifton West Coast plane

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interviews, I promise you it
will come up.

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You will be absolutely
entertained.

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The one thing I did notice when
he was doing, when he was doing

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that, those interviews didn't
realize that Nola Chari sat by

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Sidney Crosby on the plane.
That's interesting.

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I wouldn't have thought that
those two would have been seat

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buddies.
Maybe it was just for this trip,

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but you know Sidney Crosby, when
he sits with somebody, he sits

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with somebody.
He doesn't.

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He doesn't usually make any
changes to his seating

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arrangements once that once that
set.

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So I thought that was pretty
interesting.

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There were some guys playing
poker, I think it was Carlson

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and Latang and they basically
told him get the F out, which

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was interesting.
He made a he made an

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interesting, he made a funny
beeline up to the coaches area

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and you know, interviewing
Benino and ask him if he used

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the same wax on his head that
Muse did pretty funny stuff.

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Check that out if you can.
So tonight the Pittsburgh

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Penguin and all eight points on
the road trip, you know, I said

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if they get 5 or the 8, I'd be
happy.

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I said 4 would be OK with me.
But I know that, you know, these

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last few games in the next 3
coming up, they got three home

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games called the Rangers,
Ottawa, They got to win these

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games.
I know they're in second place

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and all the other teams seem to
be kind of falling apart right

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now.
But well, I'm, I promise you,

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you know, five games in eight in
eight days.

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They're going to be put to the
test these last five games

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before the Olympics and to me,
they've got to win three of the

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five.
I would love to see them beat

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the Islanders in Buffalo, both
on the road right before the

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Olympics.
Those are going to be good game

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to watch.
I'm finally going to get to see

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this team live again.
I'm going to the Rangers game on

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Saturday afternoon next weekend,
so I'm going to try and do

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something live there.
I think it worked OK with the

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headphones.
I hope you liked that last last

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show.
I was trying to use some use the

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wireless mic.
I hope that worked out for you

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guys.
Hey, if you don't know who I am,

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Bowl hits and I'll be back not
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The next Pittsburgh Penguins
game is not until Thursday when

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the Pittsburgh Penguins take on
the Chicago Blackhawks.

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Don't know if Conor Bedard's
back, but we'll know on

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Thursday.
So good job Penguins.

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next one.