The Penguins, hockey and more, by Seth Rorabaugh.
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Playoff Stuff
Penguins
-Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game. The Red Wings know how to use the boards at Joe Louis Arena.
-The Detroit Free Press' recap. Chris Osgood's save on Evgeni Malkin's second period breakaway was huge.
-The Detroit News' recap. Did Marc-Andre Fleury need to play better?
-The Associated Press' recap. "It's good. We don't have to think long about it." - Maxime Talbot on playing games on back-to-back days.
-NHL.com's recap. "We have to get goals like that." Detroit coach Mike Babcock on some of the goals his team got off bounces.
-Mike Lange's goal call.
-Dan Bylsma hates those Red Wings.
-If you like hitting, this was your game.
-Ron Cook says don't worry.
-The Penguins got ripped up in the faceoff circle.
-Adam Gretz of AOL has a solid breakdown of the faceoff numbers.
-SIdney Crosby brushing off Kirk Maltby's shin pads:
-Kudos to Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! for the find.
-Postgame comments from Ruslan Fedotenko, Maxime Talbot, Marc-Andre Fleury, Kris Letang and Hal Gill:
-Is Game 2 a must win?
-George James Malik of MLive.com's Snapshots has all of the NHL's official postgame transcripts.
-Yinzers were everywhere yesterday.
-"He's a better player than I was at the same age, for sure." - Mario Lemieux on Sidney Crosby.
-The transcript of Lemieux's press conference.
-Assistant coach Tom Fitzgerald took a long road to arrive at his position.
-You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy:
Red Wings
-Forward Justin Abdelkader chose a good time to score his first career playoff goal.
-Abdelkader is used to scoring big goals in big games.
-Goaltender Chris Osgood kept his team in the game during the second period.
-Osgood made critical saves and critical times.
-How did that one puck stick on Osgood's back?
-Forward Henrik Zetterberg acquainted himself with Sidney Crosby once again.
-Detroit had a lot of luck on its side last night.
-Ty Conklin used to play for the Penguins.
-Hit up the HockeyTown Cafe if you're in town.
-The NHL can't do much better than Penguins-Red Wings.
Non-Playoff Stuff
-Former Penguins goaltender Hank Bassen passed away. He was 76. He was the team's starting goaltender in its first game in 1967.
Central Division
-Don't lend Gary Bettman your weedwhacker. The NHL had to pay $500,000 for damages to Wrigley Field from this year's Winter Classic.
Smythe Division
-Gary Bettman (right) said the salary cap will probably remain the same or could even drop five percent.
(Photos: Crosby and Scuderi-Bruce Bennett/Getty Images; Bettman-Harry How/Getty Images)
When the puck landed on Osgood's back and Zetterberg covered it with his hand there should have been a penalty called immediately.
The rulebook clearly states that is an infraction and that the Pens should have been awarded a penalty shot.
Before this game, even I knew that the Penguins needed to watch out for those active boards at JLA.
What I don't get is why the Penguins haven't seemed to catch on to that and don't at least try to use the same boards in the same way the Wings do??
Of course, I did notice that Osgood is well aware of them and is sure to come out to the side of the net early to stop pucks from coming out in front when the Pens accidentally shot the puck there.
Dah...For a team that spent the morning working on that....why on earth is Fluery outside that post ...hanging there....dumb!!...We'll take it:)
Shouda,woulda, coulda things happen a zillion times in every hockey game to both teams. Singling one out is just a form of whining and very unproductive assuming. Just makes the whiner look like a whiner (a.k.a. sore loser). If you want the Pens to have a chance to win this series, you should put out an Amber Alert for Crosby.