Ice Cold in Boston: Pens Frozen Out by the Bruins

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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 versus the Boston

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Bruins.
Well, this afternoon, late this

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afternoon, 5:00 start in Boston.
I guess they wanted to try and

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get the game in before they
start the football game up

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there.
Kudos to all the Boston fans who

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actually went to the game.
I know how much their football

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team meets to that talent just
like the Steelers mean to the to

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Pittsburgh.
But tonight the Pittsburgh

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Penguins continue.
They're losing ways.

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They lose 1 nothing in Boston.
And you know what a very similar

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game to what happened last night
to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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They just couldn't seem to get
things going.

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I mean, I, I, I really, I think,
I think the problem a lot of

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the, a lot of the problem is the
chemistry.

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There's just not a lot of
chemistry with this team right

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now because it seems like with
Russ being out, that first line

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has just lost.
They've lost it all.

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They've lost the ability to just
do anything on that first line

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and all the all the other lines
were jumbled up tonight.

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Let me see who was out there
tonight.

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Yeah, Amantha was playing with
Crosby tonight.

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Malkin was playing with
Chinnikoff and Hayes.

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So Hayes moves up to the second
line.

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Kindle was centering a line with
Novak and Brazil.

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And of course, the fourth line
stayed together.

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I think the time may have come
where that fourth line

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absolutely needs to be broken up
because it's not doing anything

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and, you know, there's just
nothing happening on the first

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line.
Hayes clearly isn't going to be

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the solution here anywhere.
I don't like Novak and Kendall

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together because they're both
playmakers and Brazil's the only

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guy there that's going to really
shoot the puck.

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Chinnikov can shoot the puck,
Hayes can shoot the puck on that

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second line.
Gino can shoot the puck on that

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second line.
So to me, it looks like looks

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like that's a that's a problem
right now.

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That news has got to figure out
and I'm I'm sure he will.

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You know, I'm not going to get
too worried about losing two in

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a row.
I'd love to beat Boston or get a

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point up in Boston just because
they're an East Coast team.

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But it's not the end of the
world right now.

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Penguins can go, you know, 500
hockey for a little while and

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still be relevant.
The only changes for Pittsburgh

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tonight was Connor Clifton was
in and St.

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Ivany was out.
That wasn't because St.

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Ivany, you know, played bad or
anything.

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It's just that Connor Clifton,
you know, used to play for

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Boston, so he looked good
tonight.

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I mean, I don't have any problem
with most of the defense the way

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they're playing.
And Geeky was out for Boston, so

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I think that's probably why the
game was so such a low scoring

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game.
Plus they both played yesterday.

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So that's the way it works
sometimes.

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Really the first period was was
was really the only goal that

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happened was in the first
period, a lot of penalties for

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Pittsburgh.
Today they had a six penalty

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kills and they killed them all
off.

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So I mean, that didn't hurt them
at all.

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But what it did hurt was the
flow of the game because they

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weren't able to get anything
going on those five on five

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pairs and you know, they're not
playing together anyway.

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So for them not to have a lot of
time on ice together, that did

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not all that also kind of
contributed to the one nothing

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debacle.
The only goal was by Arvis in

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honestly was a little bit of
puck luck.

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Skinner, who played well enough
to win tonight but didn't get

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the win, got the loss.
You know, there's just some puck

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luck there.
Arventon Arvinson made a good

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job of getting to the backhand,
shooting it off the post, off

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the pad and into the back and
then that that was really it.

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The Pen was really had a their
most of their top plays for

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scoring happened in the first
period.

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After that it looked like they
really kind of lost it.

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But what I do want to show a
highlight tonight.

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It's been a while since since I
have shown a highlight.

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Hey MK, what's going on?
Good to see you in the stream

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tonight.
Yeah, 27 shots on goal.

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The problem is the reason the
Pens can't score is they're not

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getting good opportunities.
The other defenses are not

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really that good.
They're just not getting quality

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shots and that has to do with
the chemistry of the lines right

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now.
MK That's why I want to show you

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this highlight.
It's a short it's a short

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highlight.
It's actually kind of a low

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light, but it shows you how
chemistry matters.

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This is the first line with
Mamtha on it that I'm that I'm

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going to pull up.
So let's just let's just go

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through it now.
What's going to happen here is

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Carlson's going to go back and
get the puck.

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And I know you still can't see
my my cursor.

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I really wish you could see it
because it's really super big.

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But let's just play it forward.
OK, Let's stop it there.

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So Carlson goes and retrieves
the puck Boston was dumping.

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So on the ice, you've got Raquel
down here on the boards.

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OK, down here on the boards and
you've got, I'm not sure if

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that's Sid.
No, I think this is Mantha and

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and SIDS over here, right.
So Sid, Mantha and Raquel not

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really good.
Normally when you go up the ice,

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you want the puck in the center
of the ice.

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It's OK that's on the board.
It's OK that if it goes to Sid

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or Mantha here, let's just play
it out and let's see what

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happens.
OK, so so Raquel opted to go to

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Mantha.
Mantha was fine.

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He had some pretty good speed,
so I got no problem with that

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outlook.
They've got five guys back.

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So this is this is not a good
situation for the Penguins right

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away.
That's fine.

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Thanks for the sports sports for
letting me know that my mic is

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not on.
It's on my computer.

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It's fine.
People can hear me.

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Nothing wrong with that.
So, OK, so let's just play it

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forward.
OK, So right there, Mantha

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really didn't have much to do.
OK, So what he what happened

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there was he just dumped it to
the corner.

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Now he's going to get to the pup
first.

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All right, so he's going to get
to the pup first.

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Watch what happens.
Now, you can still make

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something out of this.
Boston has five people back, so

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maybe you can't make too much
out of it.

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But Mantha right here can dump
it, and he's going to dump it

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over the CID.
But watch Sid over here on the

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circle over here, Watch.
Watch what he's going to do.

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So, So what happened there was
Sid had no idea where where

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Amantha was going to go.
If Sid would have just made a

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beeline to the to to the boards,
the IT would have been no

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problem.
He could have gotten to it.

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But instead, what had to happen
was Raquel had to come down here

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and get to the puck.
And now what happens is you've

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got two guys right here, Raquel
and Sid, which would be fine if

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the puck was there, but now the
puck is already outside of both

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of their grass.
So now they've got three,

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They've got numbers here.
Mantha's still down low and now

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they're going to get an
opportunity to to help the ice.

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So you can see what happened
there.

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What what what happened was
essentially they they didn't

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have the puck.
The puck came out, Kulak

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couldn't make a play at the blue
line and they got a good scoring

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opportunity from Boston did now
they didn't score.

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Skinner made a nice save there.
But that's what happens when you

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don't have good chemistry.
We don't have good chemistry.

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What what, what can you do?
There's really nothing you can

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do about that other than just
try and work through it.

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And the Penguins right now are
not able to work through it.

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And honestly, that's just the
way it's going to work

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sometimes.
So tonight, that's just the way

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it worked.
So Pittsburgh Penguins lose

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tonight to the Boston Bruins,
won nothing.

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They've got a couple games
coming up Tuesday.

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They've got three games at home.
So maybe we can get some home

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cooking.
Maybe we can.

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Maybe we can make some magic
happen.

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Maybe we can make some magic
happen back at home again, go

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back to a three-game win streak.
Going to be tough though.

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These three next games are going
to be a lot of fun to watch.

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They're playing Tampa Bay,
Philadelphia and Columbus all at

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home. 7:00 starts Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday.

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So I say it's make or break time
for the Pittsburgh Penguins

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because they they can win these
three, these these last two that

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they lost really aren't going to
be a big deal at all.

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And I think we can we can move
on from there.

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So like I said, Pittsburgh
Penguins lose tonight in Boston

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one not then.
They need to get the sticks

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going.
They're they're definitely still

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trying.
It's not like they're not

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trying.
Hopefully muse can get something

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together or tomorrow practice,
maybe practice will be optional.

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I doubt it.
I they'll probably have a

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practice tomorrow and make
Tuesday mornings practice

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optional.
So Penguins lose their own two

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games skid.
Let's not get too worried about

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it right now, but hopefully we
can get back on track with a win

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or at least a point versus Tampa
Bay.

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