Pens Lose 2-1 in Boston

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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 Boston Bruins

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tonight.
Well, what an absolute snooze

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fest tonight was 21 loss tonight
for the Pittsburgh Penguins in

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Boston.
And I tell you what, they they

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lost one nothing to them earlier
this year.

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I don't know what to say about
the Boston Bruins.

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But first, let's say what
happened to the Pittsburgh

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Penguins.
Lizzo was out.

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I guess he got an injury this
morning.

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Hopefully it's just day-to-day.
I don't think it's anything to

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be too concerned about at this
point.

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They already were planning on
putting Kendall on the top line.

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So that was already going to
happen.

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So that means Kevin Hayes had to
come in.

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He centered the third line.
Avery Hayes moved down to the

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fourth line and I guess Dewar
was doing the center duties down

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there.
Him or Acharya can center that

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line.
They got three centers actually

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on that fourth line down there.
So, yeah, so they had to jumble

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up things a little bit.
Defense pairs were still the

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same.
And hey, right off the bat, Pens

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get a goal, another first goal
of the game, 39 or 40, I think

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on the year in the, in the 60
games that they've played so

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far.
So, but that wasn't enough.

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That was all they got.
You know, one minute in and then

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5 minutes later, Bang Bang,
boom, Boston puts two behind,

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behind Skinner in less than a
minute.

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And that was it.
That was it for the whole game.

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That was the whole scoring.
You know, there really wasn't

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much to say.
The one thing that I did notice

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about the Pittsburgh Penguins,
Well, first let's talk about

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Boston.
They have the biggest defensive

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team, I think maybe maybe the
NHL.

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Mcavoy's their smallest guy and
he's 6 foot one.

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I mean, when you saw Sammy
Gerard out there and Avery Hayes

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skating around those defenseman,
it was like forest.

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It was like they were, you know,
dwarfs in a forest out there.

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They're just so hard.
They're just so hard to play

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against because the the thing
about big defenseman is they're

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usually slow, but not not
Boston's defense.

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They they can really move the
puck.

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I like the way they attack in
the in the offensive zone.

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I I mean, when the Penguins are
trying to bring it out, they'll

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send two guys down and a lot of
times that was causing a bad

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pass out of the zone that was
picked off by the third guy

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coming in for Boston.
Skinner was good tonight.

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Skinner's save percentage
tonight was 929.

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That's usually good enough to
win a game.

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But Swayman's was much better,
971.

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Swayman looked really good
tonight.

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He's a very good, he's a very
good goalie.

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He is absolutely solid when when
he's in his game, he's not

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giving up any rebounds and he
didn't give up very many

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rebounds tonight.
Oh, man, I think the Pittsburgh

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Penguins and I, I alluded to
this earlier on a couple other

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shows.
And by the way, I'm your hockey

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Jesus.
I'm here after every single

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If you like what you're hearing,

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smash that subscribe button
because I am here after every

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single Penguins game, giving it
to you, even when it's an

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absolute snooze fest like
tonight, a boring game.

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But if you're a winner, you love
it.

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If you're a loser like the
Penguins, you're just like, oh

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man, if we could have just
somehow snuck one by Swayman.

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They had some opportunities, but
they needed to get a bounce.

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They needed to get some puck
luck.

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They needed to.
They just needed to do something

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different.
But that wasn't happening

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tonight.
The thing that the Pittsburgh

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Penguins really are in trouble
with and you know, got a couple

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days until the trade deadline,
if they're going to go out and

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get somebody, they got to go out
and get somebody who wins

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straws.
Since Sid has been out, so since

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the Olympic break, they have
been out drawn, you know, losing

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face offs 138 to 68 in in the
four games that they've played.

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Now they've won three of those
four.

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Tonight it was 31 to 16, Boston,
and you could see it like Boston

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was not afraid to shoot the puck
down the ice, get that and get

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that icing when they had the man
advantage when they pulled the

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goalie because they knew they
were going to win the draw.

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I mean, they put achary in
there.

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He's probably our best, best
defenseman to win that draw.

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But I think they might have to
go get somebody to win draws

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because Kendall's just too
young.

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He just doesn't have the
strength quite yet, doesn't have

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it down.
You know, Novak's OK, but not

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great.
Kevin Hayes on the third line.

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Come on, let's go.
Yeah.

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I mean, you're not going to
expect him to win too many draws

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and that's hurting the that's
hurting the power play.

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Power play was over for tonight.
If they get one power play goal,

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they get a point.
And that's usually what's been

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happening with the Pens.
They've been getting timely

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power play goals and
unfortunately tonight that that

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just wasn't in the cards and
it's a loss.

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And there's really not much else
to say about this game.

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You can't win them all.
You know, Pittsburgh Penguins

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now are 31 and 29 on the season
with stuck at 75 points.

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They're still in second place.
You know, when I was looking at

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all the standings tonight, and I
don't like to look at the

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standings.
You know, I like to look at the

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points.
They're still trending for over

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100 points.
So there's they're they're fine

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when it comes to points to make
the playoffs, but when you play

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against a team like Boston,
who's also probably, you know,

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they're in kind of the wild card
now.

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The Atlantic is just a bugaboo
for the Penguins right now.

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And they've got to play, they
got to play against the Atlantic

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their next games against
Buffalo.

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They got Boston coming back into
Pittsburgh on Sunday.

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And in between we get to play
the Philadelphia Flyers.

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So and they're pretty hot.
I think they won two in a row.

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So we'll see what happens.
I mean, you can't win them all.

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But the Pittsburgh Penguins, no
harm, no foul.

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They didn't get any points
tonight, but you're not going to

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win them all.
That's all I got to say tonight.

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That's it for me.
I'll be back Thursday.

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Bam, I'm going to be at the
game.

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I'm going to try and take my
headphones down there, maybe

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give you a little post game down
at the arena.

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So Pittsburgh Penguins lose
tonight in Boston, 2 to 1, still

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in second place, weren't able to
make up any ground on Carolina,

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who lost.
But at this point, they're just

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looking to get some points.
So that's it for me tonight.

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I will catch you in the next
one.

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See you.