Pittsburgh Penguins are 21-24 with 52 points with the 2-1 shootout loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight.
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Hey sports porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus and I'm back with
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the analysis of the Pittsburgh
Penguins tonight playing the
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Tampa Bay Lightning.
Well the Pittsburgh Penguins did
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manage to get a loser point
tonight but did keep that losing
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streak alive by losing in a
shootout tonight to the Tampa
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Bay Lightnings Score was 2 to
one.
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Look like it was going to be a 1
nothing game for the longest
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time.
Brian Russ was back tonight.
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That's good to get that first
line back on back on pace.
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Tampa was on a back-to-back last
night.
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They wanted Philly.
Some kind of slugfest went on
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there last night.
Didn't really see that game.
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And Gino was playing on a line
with Novak and Chinikov, which I
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actually like that line.
Although honestly I'd prefer to
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see Gino just playing back with
Mantha and Brazeau, put Novak
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and Chinikov with Kendall.
But I digress, the passing much
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crisper tonight, look like the
chemistry was much better.
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I don't know if it was the home
ice.
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Not sure what was going on those
last two games.
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But tonight, honestly, for a 00
game going into the third, there
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was just a lot of really good
skating, back and forth action,
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lots of shots, lots of quality
shots.
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Shiloft probably had one of his
better nights of the year
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tonight. 968 save percentage in
the loss, man, anytime you can
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get Sheila to get a 968 save
percentage, it's sure, sure is
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tough to only get a loser point
out of that kind of effort.
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But what are you going to do?
I mean, you're going to have
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that happen.
You know, getting the points,
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probably the most important
thing.
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Weirdest goal in the third
period by Thomas Moser.
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It looked like Sheila made the
save.
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You didn't see the puck and then
Ratch just kind of skates by him
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and then as as Rax is, you know,
skating by him, the whistle
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didn't blow and the puck just
drops right in front of him.
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Mosher didn't get a give up on
it, to his credit, and he poked
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it through the five hole.
Just a really weird goal.
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I don't know.
Clearly he didn't have control
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of the puck.
So, you know, that's the way.
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That's the way the puck bounces.
But good, good on Mosher, the
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stick with it, bad on Sheila,
did not actually put it in his
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glove or, you know, secure the
puck.
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Honestly, I thought that was
going to be how the game ended.
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1 nothing.
Depends.
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Just can't seem to get any
anything together to get the
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puck behind the net.
Maybe they're trying too hard.
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Maybe they need to just keep on
gripping it and ripping it
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anyway.
They pull the goalie lot of time
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left almost 3 minutes left and
almost right away Gino gets the
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puck.
Tanger had a nice steal off of
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Jake Gensel, formerly of this
parish and just ripped it home
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off the post and in really
needed a perfect shot to get a
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pass Vasilewski tonight and he
did so 11 pence kept coming, but
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they couldn't get the couldn't
get the winner.
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So we go to overtime.
Oh my, what what can I say about
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overtime?
You know that I'm kind of done
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with overtime just because I
think it's that three on three
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has run its course.
But boy, is it entertaining when
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it's good back and forth.
Not a single stop in action for
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the whole 5 minutes.
Hagel, I think, played three of
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the four, three of the five
minutes.
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Swear to God, he was out there
forever.
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That guy must, I don't know
what, what kind of lung capacity
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he has, but it's, it's immense.
Let's just put it that way to
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stay out there for that long.
But the Pens couldn't get it in
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the couldn't get it into the
back of the goal.
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She left me to nice stop on
Kucherov coming down Broadway
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there.
That was a Tampa Bay's only look
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at it and we go to the shootout
and anytime you hear Sheila
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versus Vasileski in a shootout,
well, you probably know how it
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ends, man.
Sid didn't even get a shot off
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tonight.
He just flubbed the puck, didn't
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look good.
Chinnikov did get a goal in the
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shootout to to send it to the
last shooter, which was
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Kucheroff, and he buried it.
No surprise there.
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Tampa Bay's got some really good
shooters on that team.
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And you know, Penguins get the
loser point.
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Tampa gets the two points.
I'm not so worried about Tampa
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getting the two points.
I'm happy that we got a loser
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point.
But man, we got to get some.
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We got to put some wins
together.
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I mean, 3 losses in a row, one
point in those three losses.
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I know Tampa Bay's a really good
team.
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So I probably shouldn't be is
down on the Pens.
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But you know, they're trending
towards 94 points right now.
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And that's that's, that's that's
dangerous area.
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And if you didn't know, Carlson
is going to be out for at least
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a couple weeks with a lower body
injury.
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Connor Clifton played well
tonight, got into a fight, bored
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of the guy, got 5 minutes.
That was all in the third
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period.
The third period, if you go back
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and watch this game, I, I don't
suggest to skip the 1st 2
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periods because there was no
score, because I thought the
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action was really good.
But all the, all the real
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action, the scoring and, and the
penalties and the fisticuffs all
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happened in the third period.
So if you do want to go back and
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watch it on replay, you know,
I'll bless you to go ahead and
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just watch the third period just
this one time because you know,
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I, I get it.
You know, your time's valuable.
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So is mine.
That's why I do these for you,
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my fans.
I'm the hockey Jesus.
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I'm here after every single
Pittsburgh Penguins game.
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Hey, if you like what you hear,
just smash that subscribe
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Love to have you after every
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Pittsburgh Penguins game with
me.
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Just giving it real.
Hey, I'm a lifelong Pittsburgh
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Penguins fan, love the game of
hockey.
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Just giving it to you how I see
it.
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There's going to be no highlight
tonight.
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There was too many other things
going on, you know, other than
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hockey.
I think you know what I'm
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talking about with the what's
going on in the in the land of
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of the Steeler world.
So yeah, tonight what?
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The Pittsburgh Penguins lose,
they get a loser point. 21 and
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23 on the season.
No, I will not give you that 3rd
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digit.
I don't do it. 21 and 23 on the
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season. 52 points.
Did you know that Jake Gentzel?
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Jake Gentzel has never scored
against the Pittsburgh Penguins?
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That's bizarre, isn't it?
Scored against every team in the
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league except for the Pittsburgh
Penguins.
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He's played against them, you
know, 5 or 6 times, maybe 7
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times and hasn't scored.
It's kind of a bizarre thing.
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Like it's really hard to
believe.
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But he hasn't.
He didn't tonight.
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Tonight's gay 1.
The shootout.
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Steelers, Penguins look great
tonight, but they didn't get the
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win, so I don't know how great
they can possibly look.
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Hey, next game's Thursday night,
it's home.
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We got the Philadelphia Flyers
in town.
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Oh boy, Flyers lost to the Tampa
Bay too.
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So I guess we gained a point on
the fires out of those two
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games.
Boy, I can't wait to see that
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game against the Flyers.
I hope you're there.
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If you're not, just stop by
here.
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After the game, I'll give you
the analysis.
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Hey, until then, enjoy your
hockey.
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I'll see you in the next one.
















