Hahaha, Jokerit pulled the goalie with multiple seconds left in the game. Pascal Dupuis manages to not lose control of the puck and pound it into the empty net. 4-1 Pens.
We're confused.
Game over: 4-1 Pens
We'll be back on Saturday for the season opener against Ottawa. Hopefully we'll get to see some hot Dan Potash action.
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Janne Pesonen, our favorite player, has shined in place of Petr Sykora. We wish he wore the gold helmet that he donned when he was pillaging the Finnish Elite League.
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In the background, the arena was playing The Final Countdown by Europe, which is played in the States ironically because the song sucks and Europe is the ultimate cheesy Swedish rock group. There, it must be considered the greatest rock song of all time.
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Fedotenko nearly scored on a nice pass from Crosby, but all he seems to have accomplished is debilitating the Jokerit goalie.
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Some weird sounds coming from this feed. In case we didn't tell you, this feed is basically some dude in Finland pointing a web cam at his TV. His TV appears to be nice, though. But there is background noise, which kind of sound like they're coming from monsters.
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Kennedy puts a one-timer from the slot off the rush past the Jokerit netkeeper. Pesonen floated the pass into the slot for TK.
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Goligoski just made a nice play on a Jokerit player coming down the wing trying to cut to the center. Very reminiscent of the type of play that Scuderi allows the guy to come through on a breakaway on a regular basis.
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Another Pens power play: Satan, Malkin, Crosby, Staal and maybe Goligoski out there.
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Thanks to the posters at HFBoards.com, we were able to find an alternate feed, albeit very choppy and distorted but it's still a feed.
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Well, the Internet stream is currently down. But we have received word from Finland that Janne Lahti scored for Jokerit on a penalty shot to make it 2-1. Supposedly, Brooks Orpik hooked Lahti, preventing him from having a breakaway.
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The Pens don't score on the power play and the second period ends shortly thereafter. It's time for more creepy Finnish TV ads and hopefully another interview conducted in broken English. 2-0 Pens.
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SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!
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Power play: Letang, Malkin, Crosby, Satan and Staal after Jeff Taffe was tripped up, I believe. Malkin replaces Gonchar at the top of the umbrella.
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Feel free to shoot either Shorts or myself any questions you've got about the game, and we can try to answer them on here.
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Tyler Kennedy, skating between Matt Cooke and Pascal Dupuis, looks comfortable at center and seems to be one of the fastest players on the ice.
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Jokerit's uniform is littered with ads. It makes us think -- if the Pens had to have ads on their jerseys, what ads would they have? For starters, King's Family Restaurants, Iron City Beer, Tony's Got It, #1 Cochran and 262-Ninety Tweeeeennnnnnttttyyyyy.
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Apparently this is the Jatkuu TV Network, that's what the screen had plastered all over it going to commercial break.
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Staal, Malkin, Gill and Scuderi are the first penalty-killing unit for the second time this game. We heard about Malkin's penalty-killing ability a lot before he came over, but this is the first time he's done it regularly for the Pens. Him and Staal make life very difficult for opposing defensemen with all that reach.
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Sidney takes a tripping penalty behind his own net. Looks like his stick just got caught under the Jokerit player's skate.
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It's Brooks with the "A". Well-deserved, we say.
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A couple of things to note: Malkin is wearing an "A" and the other one, we think, is being worn by Brooks Orpik or Rob Scuderi. Also, the station has this black and white ad with this creepy bald dude just standing there, eyes open. It's like we're watching Headbanger's Ball on MTV or something.
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Fourth line of Godard and Bissonette centered by Taffe out there now. Take that as you will, but it's likely an indication that scratched Bill Thomas will be the last cut after today's game.
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So far, Janne Pesonen has been playing on a line with Malkin and Staal, and looking more at home there than he did on the fourth line. I wouldn't put him above Sykora on the depth chart just yet, but it's good to know that he could probably step in for the consistently inconsistent sniper.
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I think they said Olli Jokinen.
The second period is underway and we're not sure what language we're listening to. It's either Swedish or Finnish but the channel did do an interview with Sidney Crosby in English. It's good to know that Sid is as boring in interviews overseas as he is in Pittsburgh.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins finish up their preseason today with a game against Finnish Elite League team Jokerit in Helsinki, Finland. Collegian sports copy editor Brendan Shorts and Web editor Ian Brown here to take you through second and third periods.
The score after one is 2-0, Pens. Malkin buried a one-timer from Goligoski on the powerplay, hopefully something that happens a lot with Gonchar and Whitney both out. Fedotenko also potted a short-side one timer from the right circle after a nifty behind-the-back between-the-legs Crosby pass.
