Saturday, January 19, 2008
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Be honest.
A Pens season wasn't complete until they went to the Forum De Montreal and got beat 8-1.
And although those demons have somewhat been exorcised since the move to the Bell Centre,
we old souls wish the Montreal Forum was still around.
But nowadays, the Forum is a shopping complex. [ Wiki ]
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Montreal has somehow stayed up in the thick of the Eastern Conference picture.
And they have done it quietly.
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AFTERMATH
Justin from [ EveryFacetOfTheGame ]
You always hear people use the cliche "Let me sleep on it."
Now you know what they mean.
You woke up this morning, rolled to the bathroom to do morning rituals.
And then it hit you when you looked at your disheveled hair in the mirror when you began brushing your teeth.
CROSBY IS OUT.
You stood there, contemplating life, and realized that it wasn't so bad.
Optimism aside, all the Pens have to do is job around the .500 mark till Bing returns.
Worse-case scenario, barring a total meltdown, they will be there in the playoff race.
But hey, guess who will be training together in rehab sessions for their returns in late February/early March?
Hold on for dear life until then.
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AND AS ALWAYS.....
We always visit our good friends over at [ boards.WashingtonCaps.com ]
Most of them have been surprisingly gentle.
AOforPrez -- The ONLY negative thing about Cindy hurting his little baby ankle is that now when the caps run over them like roadkill, all that will be said is that ,"CROSBY WASN'T PLAYING!!!" Yet again, the caps will get no credit for their talents.
Wow. No comment.
And Dave Molinari is probably penning a new column somewhere:
"Crosby's good, but he hasn't had any big games on home ice this season.
And then he went and got hurt. That's not the trait of a leader."
[ Going Five Hole ] explores the SI: For Kids cover jinx.
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Fleury29 sent us the NHL.com Frozen Moment.
Lots of good stuff in there.
"Possibly Pensblog Charlie's dad above Staal's right shoulder." -- Fleury29
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Perhaps it's fitting that the Pens are in Montreal tonight.
The rumors are flying now more than ever.
Best shape of his life.
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82 comments:
First line:
Malkin-Lemieux-Sykora
unreal
What a line that would be.
If Mario Lemeiux would return, I'd quit my job
go pens
ac
Colby Armstrong is indeed the man. What a photo.
If Mario would return, i'd weep like a toothing baby and shit my pants like one as well.
Since when do the Caps run over anyone like roadkill? Last I saw, they were still comfortably toiling near the bottom of the conference.
AOforPrez is delusional. As someone once said (here or at LGP), the Pens could ice a pee-wee team wearing Pens jerseys and still beat the Caps.
I was over at HF Boards and the Habs fans seem to think that they've got tonight's game all locked up before they even step on the ice. I even saw such precocious predictions as 14-1 Canadiens.
Is Therrien asleep in that photo?
. . .
I look more like Brad Pitt and Wyatt Earp's Love Child.
. . .
Go Pens and Mens Gymnastics! Yay!
man I wish all you guys would stop teasing me about Lemieux coming back. lol. I can't take it. I would run up and down my street naked.
thenick - I was thinking the exact same thing.
Go Pens.
We can do this.
Dany Sabourin in net, God help us all.
SABUUUUUUUU!!
kinda sad, I wanted montreal to get conkblocked.
:(
thenick: agreed. colby's face/act of standing up is what life is all about.
BGL doesn't even look like he knows what's going on.
for tonight and going forward, all i can remember is how dominant malkin was when crosby was out before with a sore groin. i think he's going to be the same way, if only lord therrien is smart enough to use sykora with geno instead of ruutu and talbot.
the real question is going to be if jordan staal can get himself off the milk carton and revert to his 29 goal season of last year.
Is there even a 1 % chance that he would actually come back? or are you guys just messing around?
Geno is calling a hat trick tonight.
Geno says the center of the hockey world is not Montreal.
If mario ever uses google, i want him to find this.
MARIO COME THE FUCK BACK AND STOP BANGING GRETZKY'S MOM!
remember to use the oft-forgotten GameDayChat site, it's really quite nice. www.gamedaychat.com
Dan Potash is money.
He makes Coatesey look like toilet paper...
omg whats going on! I've got no TV feed (Center Ice is just black on my screen) and i can't get any audio broadcast either!!
tafffffffffffffe and mr. laraque were working the office on the first goal!!!!!!!!
George Laraque Cycle Shop. One of you photoshop ninjas should make it happen.
wow you poor guys with center ice. if i paid for that shit, i would want some butts and want them now. I don't understand how they can black out something you dumped cash out for.
i setup a sling box at my parents house back home because I am poor.
I'm wearing my 1992 Stanley Cup Finals Lemieux home jersey so if Le Magnifique is coming back, I'm dressed appropriately.
For tonight, I think the Pens are going to blow people's minds. I think they feel like we do, they know losing Crosby is huge but even without Crosby they're still better than most teams in the NHL.
Staal is going to step it up, Malkin is going to explode, Sabu is going to netmind like Jacques Plante and stick handle like Tom Barrasso.
The Pens D is going to own Les Habitants tonight.
"A day may come when the courage of Roberts fails, when we forsake our Pens, and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of Sens and Devil's traps when the reign of The Pens comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!"
I have an HD flat screen and I get some of the center ice games on it. No need to subscribe.
Watching the Pens right now.
Not only has my Center Ice not been blacked out, I get both feeds of every Pens game, so I can pick between Errey/Steigy or the visitors. DirecTV is your friend.
I used the Slingbox last year, definitely a wonderful invention if you can't swing or get Center Ice. If anyone wants to buy mine though, let me know.
I'm wearing my 1992 Stanley Cup Finals Lemieux home jersey so if Le Magnifique is coming back, I'm dressed appropriately.
I see ur jersey and raise you to a 1985 66 CCM.
Long Live Le Magnifique!
P.S. Malkin is really flying. Laraque is man handling the habbers.
I couldn't take it anymore.
I buckled and bought Center Ice today.
Luckily it isn't blacked out in Northern Ohio or I'd shoot someone.
I pulled on my Crosby jersey, thinking that maybe the Pens could use a little good karma...and then Army promptly went into the boards like Sid did last night.
Me = stunned
I didn't think the jersey would bring 'bad' karma here...
Colby's face in that picture is amazing. I have a new desktop wallpaper.
It's going to be an interesting 4+ weeks. So sad there's no Montreal conkblock :(
not Colby too! seriously... wtf mate?
WOO
Sabu ran shutoutblog.
Word!
WOOOO Malkin!!
How many empty-netters is that for him this season? Three?
может быть я люблю нево.
:)
SABBBUUUUUUU!
Malkin is THE MAN. i'm so happy for him. he wanted a goal BADLY. good for him.
what a solid 60-minute performance. i'm so proud of the pens!
This is a huge win. No crosby, and againts a team you are fighting with in the standings. Huge.
It wasn't quite the offensive explosion I thought it'd be but frankly, two points is two points.
So much for 14-1 Montreal.
The Penguins are now the #1 team in the division.
Big game, huge win, nice to play a full 60 minutes of hockey tonight.
Malkin BETTER take Sid's place in the allstar game.
One of the best wins of the season, no doubt. Malkin was simply amazing, it was his show tonight. Lange was raving about him every 2 minutes.
How is Malkin not one of the game's 3 stars?
biiiig win. even more important, biiiiig psychological win. malkin is a beast. played great.
Thank you Captain Steven Hiller for inspiring me to believe.
WOW. can you say MALKINBLOG. hes soooo good.
Did anyone listen to Lange tonight? He was simply unreal.
also i was thinking how similar this is to the '90s teams when ron francis would hold down the fort when mario's cancer raged up or got some injury. any thoughts? no jags though
Malkin was player of the game.... anon @9:46
potato head - army left with a hip injury. hopefully it ain't a bad one.
but i agree that malkin was on fire tonight. i'm glad that he got the empty-netter, after everything he did earlier in the game.
the pens needed this win - and shutout - like nothing else. maybe a little momentum going forward??
anon 946 - Malkin was the third star on the CBC list, behind Sabou and Huet.
Ok so maybe no hat trick, but malkin gets the advil award for loading the team up and carrying it all the way home!
wooooooooooooo
Well Hats off to the boys.
Malkin completly out of his element
I have heard a rumor the surpases the one of lemieux returning to the ice.
Rumor has it that a unique procedure was done today in pittsburgh, Gary Roberts just donated his High Ankle to crosby so he could finish his quest for the Ross. WWGRD?
Ashley,
The NHL recap lists Komisarek 3rd, Huet 2nd, Sabourin 1st
Men. Real men. Real Penguin men. With hearts of steel. They bleed real blood for a flightless bird on their chests. Unreal. No they bleed for each other and for us.
Most of all they bleed for Bing. Words can't express what it frlt like to watch them slam the Habs into oblivion. To carry a one goal lead to the last minute in Montreal. Not an easy thing
You saw it. I saw it. It was real. As real as it gets. If I read one more Philthadephia blog how Bing faked his injury I am going to that dirty town. I'm gonna yank down the bell of freedom(liberty bell) and take it to where real honest people deserve it, the Burgh. You bastards cracked it and lie like dogs.
of course those fuck-face flyers douche-nozzles are already talking shit on the espn boards. god i hate those scum.
bestfeelingeverblog
but if army is really hurt, I do not lie, I will shed real tears
I could be wrong, but while the walls were crumbling all around Penguins Nation and people were taking to the rooftops, booking us April golf trips and the like, I could've sworn I read over and over and over on some of the message boards that Evgeni Malkin just can't carry a team.
I read that Malkin doesn't come across enough as a leader to rally the team...that he was incapable of elevating his game and getting the rest of the team to follow suit.
I read the opinion expressed that the rest of this team wasn't good enough to find different ways to win.
If Malkin didn't elevate his game tonight and if he wasn't inspiring enough to get the rest of the team to follow suit, and if tonight wasn't about finding different ways to win, introduce me to the business end of that Civil War-era bayonette, because I'm done.
All things considered, this was easily one of the most satisfying wins of the season. Between Komisarek doing his best Ben Eager impression and picking on no one else but Max Talbot, to Ruutu running around like an instigator possessed, to Sabourin turning into a brick wall, to Big MF'ing Georges Laraque opening up the cycle shop in the Montreal zone once or twice each period, to Malkin channeling his inner Lemieux tonight so much it was scary...what a game.
Hey Stoosh... How many times a week do you watch movies like "Braveheart" or "Miracle"??
"Fine speach. Now whaddowedo?"
Haha... just kidding bud. Keep it up.
Stoosh is on fire
stoosh...are you really gary roberts? or possibly his offspring or love-child? cause your inspiration is just too unearthly.
way to go, man.
I thought about this tonight, too.
From the end of the 2005-06 season through all of last season, this team played with this sort of "F You" attitude that I've never seen from a Pens team before, and they seemed to relish in that style of play.
For whatever reason, it wasn't there at the beginning of this year, but it seemed to come back full bore over the last 10-12, maybe 15 games. Maybe it was the Recchi fallout. Maybe it was all the people writing them off after Fleury, Roberts and Eaton went down. Maybe it was the energy brought by guys like Letang and Kennedy. Maybe it was there all along, but it just took them some time to find that level.
Nevertheless, they'd found it. And now the Pens to have another thing to rally around, to refocus around, and another reason to play with more of a chip on their shoulder like they did for much of last year. When Sid went down last night and people around the league already began writing the epitaph on their 2007-08 season, I hoped these guys would listen to what was being said, hear that people around the league were already writing them off.
Apparently, it sunk in and now it's on.
Laraque said after the game that every player knew going in tonight that they'd have to make themselves a pain in the ass to play against, and find new ways to win. He said the locker room was electric during the first intermission because they were up 1-0, they'd taken the play to the Habs, taken a little of the life out of the building and they were convinced they were going to win. He even hinted that some of the players said during that intermission that the Habs weren't taking them as seriously because Sid wasn't out there.
This was already a team coming together before Crosby got hurt, and Crosby's injury may have accelerated the process, refocused the entire team and made the chip on the shoulder even bigger.
How amazing will it be if tonight was a foreshadowing of things to come? You don't think this team is going to be incredibly focused for Washington and then again for Philly? If they approach those two games the same way they approached tonight's game, we won't just be seeing blood. It'll be scorched fucking earth by the time Crosby gets back.
I love it! I can't wait till Monday.
Stoosh isn't human
somebody please read this...the second bullet and paragraph, that is. then read the date it was published...
best shape of his life?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07264/819340-125.stm
^forgot to add link lol
BLACKANDGOLD66 - Love the movie "Miracle"...one of my all-time favorites.
Next Pens game I go to, I'm walking into the arena playing bagpipes, dressed in a black and gold kilt and my face will be painted like William Wallace. Problem is 1) I'm Polish and Italian and I have no clue how to play the bagpipes and 2) I'm not exactly in what one would call "game shape", so the visual might not work.
But it'll be fun.
Night after night, when things look grim, a man named Stoosh comes from la bastille and reminds everyone how to keep a level head.
Commentorblog loves Stoosh.
Now, with confidence like the Pens should gain tonight, they should be able to come out and challenge anyone. But don't start talking like everythings over and the pens are going to be just fine because they won without Sid -- because it was one game. Every game from here out is going to be a test, and no one is going to take them lightly because they lost Sid, especially after tonight.
The next few weeks are going to be very interesting.
stoosh is unreal.
Seriously. The Penguins, The Pensblog Staff, The Pensblog Photoshop Brigade and Stoosh have been on fire since December. It's like they've reached some level of consciousness that only people like Mario ever attain.
We're just lucky enough to be along for the ride.
stoosh, you can borrow my kilt anytime. It's not in the Barclay Dress tartan (which is yellow, black and white) but even still... I don't know how to play the bagpipes, either but I've often though it would be incredible to find 25-50 guys who love The Pens, get Barclay Dress kilts and wear them with Penguins jerseys and march into Civic Arena playing some Scottish Reel right before a playoff game or something.
How's that for atmosphere? (If you've ever seen The Tartan Army, you'll know what I'm talking about.)
WILSMITH - Completely agree. I'm trying to temper the enthusiasm after this win, believe it or not, because it's still going to be a tough month or so. Even when Sid comes back, that ankle likely won't be completely healed until next year.
I'm just hoping they come out and really take the play to the Caps and Flyers like they did to the Habs tonight.
steigy says 'they won it for Crosby'...i believe, they won it for THEMSELVES to show that they can win WITHOUT (not by choice) Crosby....H.U.G.E. W for the Pens: 1)on the road 2) 2nd game in 2 nights 3) outright division lead (for now, at least)
the jobber 'Montreal Media' that voted Komisarek 3rd star must have been on the sauce or forgot to take off their Hab coloured glasses before putting in their picks...should have just made Youppi the #1 star for a clean canadian sweep....
http://data1.blog.de/blog/c/canadianaca/img/canadiens_mascot.jpg
im worried about the 'they won even without sid' headlines on nhl.com, espn.com, pens site, etc. one, that takes away from how this team played tonight, and two its certainly a bad jinx to say things like 'so far so good'
fantastic performance but man i still miss kovie on the PP, just watching him out there ... i need a change of pants
MAF'S ANKLE SPRAIN - Dude, that idea would be unreal. It always kind of surprised me that you didn't see more of that kind of stuff with more pro teams. You see it with some college teams and obviously all the time overseas. Maybe it's because some of that stuff is more engrained in a culture or something...I'm not sure.
Maybe it's tough to organize that sort of thing long enough to have it catch on as tradition. And really, how do you compete with things like Cotton Eyed Joe? (I'm joking, but that has almost become some strange forced thing now, hasn't it?)
But even consider the Steelers, which is as close as anything this region has to religious devotion when it comes to sports. The best we can do is "Here We Go, Steelers, Here We Go" and "De-Fense".
during the juniors finals there were fans with drums and shit in the crowd, it was pretty cool. i wonder how nhl stadium policies would handle something like that, i could see them getting uppity about drums or pipes
MIKE GEORGER -
I'm saying this with all due respect because I definitely see the point you're trying to make. I don't want this season to go badly any more than you do.
But we've lost our top goaltender, our top defenseman, two of our top role players (one was our top ass-kicking veteran and the other was one of our top energy players), and now our top franchise player for extended stretches this season. I don't think we can "jinx" the season any more.
Yet Sunday morning, the Pens are waking up in first place in what is from top-to-bottom the most competitve division in the NHL.
And if this team starts losing games, it sure as hell isn't going to be because a few commentors on a blog relished a little too much in a satisfying victory.
Like I said, I know what you were trying to get at and I'm not trying to come off as a dick. But if things go bad, it's going to have a lot more to do with the fact that a team may only be able to lose so many key players before a step back is inevitable.
This was a big win and it's cool to enjoy it for tonight. This team could've come out and rolled over, especially considering they lost last night at home, had to deal with the internal shock of losing Sid PLUS all the questions in light of the injury, hopped a plane to a hockey hotbed and had to play in front of a hostile crowd.
They had a lot going against them and they came out as focused and hellbent on kicking ass as they have all season. Given where we were 24 hours ago, it's a very encouraging thing.
Stoosh and Co.
I like a kilt as much as the next man. But if we all start wearing them to Pens games we're gonna look like this assbags:
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/74170843?epmid=2
or this for the ladies and Charlie:
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/73899820?epmid=2
no i get that, i just get the feeling that if they win a few more soon there will be some 'it doesnt matter sid is gone' angles in the media and i cant stand shit like that
granted, id rather they win and the media say stupid things rather than not win of course. im just superstitious
Boys - kilts are sexxy. Solid idea.
stoosh is gay and has nothing to contribute.
Wow, did they play or what? The Canadiens didn't have a chance against Geno, and surprisingly Ruutu. Sabu stepped up so the Conkblock could have a break. I was kinda worried about the Pens after Sid got hurt, but then again I was worried after everyone else just not as stunned. BTW Stoosh, yuo rock!
As soon as i saw that pic, i clicked on set as background, colby's expression is enough to replace, a pic of him MAF and Bugsy, with there lids backwards last year vs. washington u know the one were they came back 4-0.
P.s. i agree with ac id probably quit my job too if 66 came back!!
haha that picture...
armstrongs face is priceless
talbot is obviously screaming something
sykora just looks confused/amazed
ruutu looks stunned
lord therrien is asleep as mentioned before
laraque totally missed it
andre savard looks cool
where is mike yeo.
-Jay
sign me up for the kilt thing.
I'll grow the beard extra giant to match.
EARL MANN IS narrating a show on CourtTV right now!
he is just warming up for later this spring
LETS GO PENS!
JD - send me that picture yo.
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