Penguins get loser point at Rangers

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

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some Saturday afternoon hockey
in New York City.

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Well, this afternoon the
Pittsburgh Penguins took on the

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New York Rangers and they
managed to eek out a loser

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point.
Unfortunately, they weren't able

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to get that second point.
That's right.

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It went to a shootout.
And you know what happened to

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the Pittsburgh Penguins?
One and seven in the shootout

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going into tonight, this
afternoon.

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And now they're one and eight.
So the Pittsburgh Penguins lose

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3:00 to 2:00 today.
I'll tell you what, this was the

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story of two games, the first
period and the rest.

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Oh, man, Stu Skinner was in goal
tonight.

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Didn't was really not tested
until the second-half of the

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game.
I think that the Rangers only

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had two shots with until about
like 14 minutes left in the

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second period and then the
Rangers decided to turn it on.

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For some reason.
Gerard was labeled as

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day-to-day, but he did on
playing tonight.

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So it was essentially the same
lineup that they had on Tuesday.

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No real changes to the lineup
other than Skinner and and

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honestly in the first, the
Penguin Penguins came out

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flying.
Avery Hayes drew penalty and

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Mantha tip right from Carl's
one.

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Nothing right off the bat, power
play score.

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That's exactly how you want to
start the game, especially

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against a team like the Rangers.
You know, they're down, they're

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not in the playoffs.
They're they're everybody's

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talking about getting traded.
It's it's just a bad situation

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in New York right now.
So you're like take advantage of

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it.
And then you get another power

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play right after that and Rusty
scores and you're like, oh,

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baby, 2.
Nothing but hold your horses.

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There's the good old goalie
interference penalty.

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Let me talk about the goalie
interference penalty for just a

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few minutes here.
I cannot understand the goalie

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interference penalty.
Can can somebody please explain

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to me why a defenseman can get
thrown into your goalie, but if

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you get pushed into your goalie
by your own guy, it's not goalie

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interference, even if he knocks
him outside of the goal.

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But when a goalie comes out to
play the puck and he actually

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makes contact with guy in the
blue paint, that's goalie

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interference.
I can't figure it out.

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It just drives me nuts.
I get it, you know, you got to

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give the goalie a chance to make
a play, but my goodness, that

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just drives me crazy.
That being said, plenty enough

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time for the Penguins to score
another goal that should not

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have been the one that, you
know, that that turned the tide

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and it really wasn't.
But man, that goalie

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interference, I just can't
figure it out.

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Muse is terrible at it.
Maybe Sully's just better at the

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reviews.
I, I don't know, maybe.

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Maybe that's this.
That's the sign of a veteran

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coach.
Don't know, but still.

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So it goes back to 1.
Nothing.

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And Russ hits a crossbar with
about 6 minutes left.

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You know, there was a phantom
slash on on Sherry by I think it

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was, I think it was by Raquel
maybe.

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Anyways, New York Rangers
penalty power play couldn't do

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anything.
They didn't even get any shots

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on their first penalty kill.
And Pittsburgh gets another

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power play goal, but that it
bleeded into the 2nd and really

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didn't yield anything.
I thought the rest were

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absolutely horrible in the first
period.

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I, you know, I don't like to, I
don't like to call, you know,

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the refs.
It usually evens out.

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But my goodness, there was a lot
of pull downs and that goalie

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interference just set me off.
I apologize to my wife for

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sounding like an absolute crazy
man, but I was I was going nuts.

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You know, the second period
comes along and really nothing

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like I said with the power play
and then the fourth line gets on

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the ice and they get some magic.
Shay put it in.

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But I'm telling you, I I was
screaming come on 4th line,

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let's get some magic.
Let's get some magic going.

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Sure enough, Shay Shay puts it
in it on a defense bin Achary

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can standing right there, You
know, just great.

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I love it.
I love that fourth line.

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Just keep rolling them.
Absolutely great.

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And then what happened?
Oh, the Pittsburgh gets another

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penalty.
And honestly, the New York

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Rangers power play in this
instance look fantastic.

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I mean, they did the right
thing.

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What they did was they did the
2, the two guys down, a guy

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trailed the other guy, The first
guy took the defense bin nice

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pass from the corner.
Shay couldn't stop it booms.

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The bandage ads get a barrier of
that every time actually really

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nice play by the New York
Rangers there had to give it to

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him and honestly the New York
Rangers at that point were were

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really coming hard and they
deserve that goal.

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So 21 there was some other
things that happened you know,

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Malkin could have got called for
an elbow penalty look like that

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the rest pretty much swallowed
the whistle at that point.

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I don't really know the, the
interesting thing was the, the

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ref on the, on the, on the far
side of the wall.

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He, you know, early in the game,
Avery Hayes knocked, he knocked

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Avery Hayes almost out and Avery
Hayes knocked him into the New

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York Rangers bench.
Then at the end of the period,

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he just basically stopped the
play from happening.

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Right at the end of the period.
You can see Sully going off the

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ice shaking his head.
So, you know, you go into the

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third period and you know, after
Thursday night, I'm like, OK,

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maybe they, they, they cured
your third period problems.

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Maybe they can do it.
And you knew right away they did

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not. 17 minutes left and and the
Rangers already score a goal.

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And here's the thing, you know,
the Rangers had a huge draw.

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They were winning all the draws
tonight.

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There were 29 wins versus 9
losses going into the third

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period.
And that's a bad sign for a team

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that's trying to hold on.
You got to win those draws.

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You know, Trocheck's great at
draws, etcetera, etcetera.

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The thing that drove me crazy,
I'd love to show this as a

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highlight, and I'm not going to
do it tonight, but go back and

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watch. 18 minutes, 30 seconds
left in the period.

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Brian Russ jumps on the ice at
17 minutes, 30 seconds.

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He had a chance to get off the
ice before they score the goal.

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And I don't know what he was
doing.

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He was just kind of like skating
around the center ice, just kind

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of not doing anything.
Get to the bench, get to the

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bench.
What happens is they shoot it

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in.
Russ can't track it down couple

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times and then a real nice play
to get radish and you know, to

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tie this thing up to to Oh my
God, I was screaming at Russ.

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Get off, get off, get off.
Terrible change there by Brian

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Rust.
I hope he goes back and looks at

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that and sit next time thinks
get off the damn ice.

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Pretty much from that point on
it was back and forth screaming

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for a goal.
Didn't get it on both sides.

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Really.
Both sides had a chance.

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Skinner and of course Shisturkin
played a pretty good rest of the

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third period.
So we go the overtime.

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The good old three on three
didn't look like Olympic three

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on three did it.
But none the less, you know,

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neither team really has a
superstar.

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Gino had a couple chances,
showed a little bit of burst

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there.
But you're not going to get past

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Chisturkin at this point unless
it's going to be, you know, a

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point point blank shot or maybe
a, you know, one timer to a wide

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open guy.
And that didn't happen.

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So we go to overtime.
And like I said, I was hoping

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that Stu could save the day.
He's the only guy that we

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haven't seen in a Penguins
outfit, in a goalie uniform to,

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you know, help save the
Pittsburgh Penguins shootout

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worries and problems.
But not even Stu could do it.

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I mean, Mantha, Yuck, Vinny
scored on a nice goal.

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Cheney couldn't get it past the
five hole.

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Miller.
Stu stopped Miller, but Tommy

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wasn't even close.
I don't even think he hit the

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net on it.
So.

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Oh, my goodness.
So, yeah, that's their 8th

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potential point that they could
have had.

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They could have gained by going
there.

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Now, you could say, well, at
least they're making it into

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overtime and they're getting
these loser points.

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I think they're the number one
team.

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I could be wrong on this, but
they either have 12 or 13 loser

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points tops in the league.
I think Avalanche is right

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behind them.
Even if they get half of those,

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you know, it's it's something
that the Penguins just they got

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to fix, you know, they got to
fixed it.

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But overall, you know, I guess
the only other thing you know,

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you can say is they got a loser
point out of it.

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And all points count when you're
not playing with Sidney Crosby.

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And tonight the Pittsburgh
Penguins do get a loser point.

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They're back in action tomorrow
afternoon at home.

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The Las Vegas Knights are
probably just waiting for them

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in town.
Jack Eichel's in town.

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And it's a it's AI.
Think it's a three O clock game,

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23330 game, something like that.
So Pittsburgh Penguins get a

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chance to kind of correct what
happens in the third period.

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Look, they're great in the 1st 2
periods.

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In the first period, they got
the best gold differential in

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the league.
In the second period, it's still

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really good.
It's like a + 26 or something

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like that.
But in the third period this

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year, garbage.
It's like a -, 3.

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So something the Pittsburgh
Penguins are absolutely going to

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have to work on if they want to
make the playoffs, if they want

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to be relevant in the playoffs,
you got to play a much better

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third period.
But tonight, Pittsburgh

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Penguins, this afternoon, the
Pittsburgh Penguins lose to the

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New York Rangers 32.
The New York Rangers who aren't

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going anywhere.
It's kind of a lost point.

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They should have gotten this one
but did not.

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So that's the way the puck
bounces, as they say.

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Hopefully they can get back on
that first line.

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Still not looking great.
They had Kendall up on the 3rd

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on the first line for one shift.
So they didn't really even.

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Maybe that was just because
that's what happened in the

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rotation.
So back at it tomorrow, enjoy

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the rest of the afternoon
hockey.

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I know the fires are on right
now playing Boston.

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That's kind of important for the
wild card race, so check it out.

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I'm going to go for a walk with
my wife and make make amends on

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all the screaming I did the last
two hours.

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So you go enjoy the rest of your
day and I'll catch you tomorrow.

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