Pretty exciting OT so far.. Tyler Kennedy looks really good. Scuderi flubs up again. Good chance by Letang. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Pascal hammers it from the left wing side, beats Nittymaki. Pens win, Pens win, Pens win. 3-2.
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Evgeni Malkin is a man. He dominated the last 45 seconds or so although he was unable to get a goal.
Headed into OT, 2-2.
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Did we mention that this game is sloppy? We are getting increasingly frustrated and we're beginning to have conversations that can not be reprinted. Scuderi takes an awful penalty with under 5 minutes left. Patrick Kane is an awful actor.
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The U.S.S. Hal Gill sinks Mike Richards, it was awesome.
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Mike Zigomanis celebrates his first goal as a Pen by taking a penalty with less than 10 minutes left. As Mike Lange would say, Dupuis takes the heat out of a hot, hot kitchen.
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We were doing our actual real work so we won't get fired so we missed out on another pathetic power play performance. Who knew how important Gonchar and Whitney are?
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All right, back here for the third period, we're 50 seconds in and the Flyers have taken a penalty. On the power play, Goligoski refuses to shoot. I think he wants me to break a computer monitor.
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Another Flyer scores.
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Scuderi makes a mistake, there's a shock. Some Flyer scores. 2-1. On replay, the puck went off of Hal Gill and into the net. That's Gill's second "goal" in two games.
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The Pens must have had some Igloo nachos because they've turned the play around in the last five minutes.
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Rob Scuderi, Brooks Orpik and Mike Zigomanis have more goals than Sidney Crosby.
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The offensive juggernaut that is Mike Zigomanis scores on a nice pass from Cooke. Assists from Cooke and Godard.
2-0 City of Champions.
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FREE CANDY!!!!!!!!!! BROOKS ORPIK? Are you kidding me? Free Candy scores on the PP with a wrister, but Ian thinks ManBearPig deflected it. Letang and Kennedy with the assists.
1-0 Pens
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This team frustrates the hell out of us. Nitty is allowing a ton of rebounds in front of the net, but no one is there.
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The Pens kill the two-man advantage, but just miss on two great chances in front of the Flyers net. An empty net was missed by Satan after a one-time went just wide.
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Rob Scuderi gets a free pass from criticism for four weeks from Make Plays after playing goalie after Fleury was out of position on the power play.
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Fleury is standing out but the Pens are called for another penalty. We didn't see it. Free Candy gets called for slashing.
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We've knocked Nittymaki but he's made some big saves. Matt Cooke takes a dumb penalty, cross-checking a guy behind the net, Pens to go on the PK.
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It's coming, we can feel it. And the Pens are gonna go on a power play as Braydon Coburn gets a hooking call. Edzo gets it wrong, it's on Andrew Albers.
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Letang knocks down Gagne, Gagne probably got concussed. Really good offensive shift by the Pens, especially Make Plays scapegoat Pascal Dupuis. We miss Sidney Crosby's white trash beard.
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Just got back from a quick errand at my house. In my vehicle, I have XM radio and I was listening to the greatest voice in the world, Mike Lange. It's a shame FSN Pittsburgh took him off the TV and replaced him with Steiggy. But then again, it's the same channel that employs the worst "reporter" in the world, Dan Potash.
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The announcer says something about it being an election year and relates it to penalty-killing. The Pens fans are booing Richards!!! I've never been so proud to be from the 412.
Period is over. 0-0. Time for Brian Englomb's mullet. 20 minutes down and the Outdoor Life Network is still awful.
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Lots of sloppy play here. We'd like Edzo to explain why the game is sloppy, but instead he's probably talking about how he coached great players like Kelly Buchberger, Rico Fata and Lasse Pirjeta.
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The Pens need Jesus Pesonen in the lineup badly. Another awful power play without any shots.
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Geno creates a good chance with Eaton pinching low, good save by the AHL goalie playing for the Flyers. Hell breaks loose in front of the net. And the biggest whiner in the NHL, Mike Richards, takes an unsportsmanlike conduct and complains to the ref. I hope the Pens fans behind the penalty box pours hot coffee on his head.
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The Outdoor Life Network is showing an ad for the NASCAR Technical Institute. I don't know about Ian, but I'm filing my papers to drop out of Penn State and enroll to the NASCAR Institute after this game.
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Max Talbot had a breakaway but decided to go five-hole on the Finnish guy, the reaction here at headquarters was WTF?
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Sidney Crosby gets penalized for some reason...stupid call.
We're watching this online and there's a chat going on next to the video. Here's a real line from the chat: "da3mon_the_pothead:IS THERE ANY FLYERS FANS HERE"
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Eric Godard beat the hell out of Riley Cote, but of course Versus' feed freezes. I hope Comcast -- which owns Versus -- suffers the same fate as AIG and Lehman Brothers. Working for Comcast must be like be a black-tar heroin salesman.
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If my wife made me name my son Joffrey, I'd leave her.
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Free Candy with a nice shot block, Scott Hartnell, who we wish terrible, terrible things upon, rings it off the post.
Versus still sucks.
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Dupuis -- Crosby -- Satan
Staal -- Malkin -- Sykora
Fedotenko -- Talbot -- Kennedy
Cooke -- Zigomanis -- Godard
Orpik -- Letang
Gill -- Scuderi
Eaton -- Goligoski
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Antero Nittylongfinnishlastname is in goal for the Flyers, this should be ugly.
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Allow us to introduce ourselves we are Web editor Ian Brown and sports copy editor Brendan Shorts. The awful commercials on the Outdoor Life Network have ended and the puck has dropped at the Civic Arena.
Kill us now. Pascal Dupuis is playing the left wing on Sid's line.
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The much-ballyhooed NHL matchup between the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins is set to get underway tonight at 7:30. For the Versus-impaired amongst us, the MAKE PLAYS blog will provide a running account of the game.
The Penguins will hope to get a much-needed offensive shot in the arm with the return of sniper Petr Sykora, while the Flyers will look to shore up an injury-riddled defensive corps with the addition of Andrew Alberts from the Boston Bruins.
