[ Wilsmith ]
7:00
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[ Nate B. ] -------------------- [ Pav ]
Do you hear that rumbling? That's a Photoshop Expo on the way.
Here we go.
We find out tonight whether this is a series or a speedbump.
It's a Game 7 for the Rangers.
Steve Avery will feel at home in MSG.
The Rangers will come out smokin'.
And as many astute Pens fans have already said,
the Rangers may be a little desperate and want to come out with guns blazing in front of the MSG crowd.
It'll be up to the Pens to stick to their own gameplan
and take advantage of the mistakes, because the opportunities will be there.
And let's not forget:
The return of Steiggy, Errey, and Potash.
Maybe their swan song for the 2007-08 season.
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Here are links where displaced Pens fans can watch games online.
[ Credit goes to the community that is C-blog ]
We've actually lucked out for this playoff series.
A dependable outlet to see a game is at [
Justin.tv/Rags2Riches ]
He is a Rangers fan, and it's already guaranteed that the game will be there tonight.
There is a live chat during the game right beside the embedded video.
As mentioned in Cblog, don't do anything that will get you banned.
Other sources:
[
ChannelSurfing.net ] -- Very highly regarded
[
MyP2P ]
[
Sports Talk World ]
[
Yahoo NHL ]
[
Hockey Webcasts ]
[ Pensblog Chatblog ]
[ PensUnderground Chat ]
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[ Ian ]
:: Gary Roberts is a healthy scratch. [
PG ]
It's unbelievable that we're saying this, but we're indifferent on the matter.
Adam Hall has been winning some huge faceoffs, killing penalties, and hitting 3-pointers.
:: Will Avery pay for slashing Bing?
"I'm working on that right now." -- Therrien [
Trib ]
:: Henrik Lundqvist: "The pressure is all on the Pens." [
PG ]
What
:: Geno Malkin is an MVP Finalist. [
PG ]
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Check out this bag of pubes:
This is Mike Ozanian.
Never heard of him? Join the club.
If the smugness permeating from that picture isn't enough to make you punch yourself,
he spewed an unreal amount of garbage on the Forbes.com webshite.
We had to post the entire article because it is just too great.
Who is the greatest diver of all-time? Greg Louganis? Any member of Italy’s last World Cup soccer team? My vote goes to Sidney Crosby, the young superstar of the Pittsburgh Penguins who has tallied 294 points in his first 213 National Hockey League games. He flops, he falls, he scores! Crosby, who is an awesome skater, playmaker and shooter, might be the most complete player in the league. But, amazingly, the 21 year old loses all sense of coordination any time an opposing player gets within five feet of him.
Crosby’s dive in game one of the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the New York Rangers when Martin Straka barely touched him would have him a unanimous 10 in the Olympics. It had great timing (only minutes remained in regulation) and was choreographed beautifully (eloquent head first slide). On television the hockey pundits were quick to point out that, technically, Straka did interfere with Crosby. PLEASE! I know the NHL is desperately seeking its next Gretzkey. But does the Versus network actually believe its coverage does not lose credibility when former hockey players Brian Engblom and Keith Jones ignore reality? Since when are playoff games decided by acting ability?
The only analyst who got this call right was MSG analyst Stan Fischler, who has never been one to be intimidated by the league’s political correctness squad. Fischler correctly pointed out that for greatly embellishing the supposed foul Crosby should have been giving two minutes for diving—even if Straka did commit interference.
When the referees do not call the other team for being in the same area of the ice as Crosby, Mr. Penguin whines like a 12 year girl old shut out of a Hannah Montana concert. Up next: a guest appearance on Oprah. Shame on NHL commissioner Gary Bettman for allowing this sham to ruin the game and, if the center iceman’s academy award winning performances continue, Crosby’s legacy.
If you were counting factual errors, your abacus probably broke.
The dude can't even spell GRETZKY.
Jesus.
[
He has comments ]
Thanks to Brian C. for that link.
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:: DVE Morning Show unveiled some more musical greatness about the Rags.
[
DVE MORNING SHOW ]
:: Another clandestine shot of the FREE CANDY van on CMU Campus.
[ Sean G. ]
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Do it
We approached Hacksaw early on Tuesday morning and asked him if he was ready to go.
He adamantly refused to get the nod.
" I WANT GAME FOUR, DICKS "
If you're at all concerned with this pick,
find solace in the fact that we're headed into New York City.
And Mr. Dufresne is no stranger to crawling through rivers of shit.
GO PENS
1022 comments:
first.
OOH RAH
Go Pens
First of probably 49495589598 posts,
DO IT
Eric K,
Thanks.
Dick.
scuds
no quarter
Trying to be first is so last summer.
wooooooo
Does anyone know when the puck will actually drop? I might miss the anthems, but I might be able to get out of here and be home for the drop.
We haven't held a lead in MSG this year at any point in the game.
Stunned.
HOLYSHITBLOG.
Hip is gonna be making out with the television tonight.
GO PENS.
Jagr on Sportsbeat.
Who advised him to configure his facial hair that way?
http://www.pensunderground.com/pugchat/
Pens vs. Rags Chat Room.
Instructions:
Instructions:
1. Pick a username and password
2. Pick your preferred language.
3. Chat!
sk, Himmler?
Earlier today on the WWL
Barry Melrose: What is best in life?
Steve Avery: The open styling shop, perfume on your wrist, and the mousse in your hair.
Evgeni the Malkinian: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
5 minutes to go!
GO PENS!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As we prepare for the upcoming game, let us pray..
Our Roberts, who art in Pittsburgh, Gary be thy name.
The Playoffs come, The cup be won,
to Pittsburgh in the Arena called Mellon.
Give us this day our daily Pensblog
and forgive us our reporters as we job those who job against us
And lead us not into Philly, But deliver us from the Rangers,
For thine is the Crosby, and the Malkin, and the Fleury for ever and ever.
AMEN!
Now, LET'S GO PENS!!!!
@ FH, my bad man. it was my first first. get faster, joke.
haha.
the JJ interview on Sportsbeat was brutal. Jagr claims that he didnt really want to be traded, he just said that so the front office would "come up with the money." what money? there was no money to come up with. he woulda been better off buying Patrick some scratch off lottery tickets instead of making a statement like he did.
apparently in the Czech Republic, they can grow $ on trees.
eric k,
wooooo
MEIN FUHRER!
killer job by his teammates stopping him from shaving that stache in that way. wow.
Let's do this shit!
Amen, Whistler.
Bob Errey's waterproofing commercial is awesome.
Few minutes.
That shot of MSG looks like a toilet.
If it looks like a toilet and smells like a toilet, then I guess it's a toilet.
F the Rangers! Looking forward to Photoshopblog soon
I've missed Steiggy and Bob. And Dan the Man Potash, of course.
GO PENS !
If I buy some Dockers will they quit playing the f'ing commercial?
i cant get into pens underground chat, and the pensblog chatblog isnt working either!
i need help!
nevermind, i got it
Look in the bottom of the toilet, that is MSG, somebody took an Avery!
HOSSAAAAAA!! What a call!
YEAEEEAAAAHHHH BABY!
HOSSA!!!!! Good call tPB staff!
WOW! Called it.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HOSSAAAAAAA
GOOD GOD IN THE GOOSE FAT!
PLAY THE LOTTERY PENSBLOGGERS!
HOSSA!!! BURIED IT!
"I done it!"
-Marian Hossa
Hossa "Burries it!!!"
Pensblog guarantee is gold.
HOSSA!
pensblog = psychic
HOLY SHIT.
GUARANTEEBLOG.
66 buries it!
HOSSSSSSSSSSSA!
HOSSA + MILLION DOLLAR BELT = MONEY IN THE BANK!!!
1-0 Pens 18:58 1st
BURIED!!!!
GUARANTEED!
The Hossassain!
hosanna Hossa!!!!! Woooooo
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
What a goal.
Shanny was out of breath in the pregame interview on VS. Is he that old???
Thats the way to "weather the storm" with the Hoss goal!
you guys are seriously prophets
what's the powerball number for tomorrow going to be?
Holy fuck guys, way to call it.
18 buries it.
Jokes.
Hossa is unreal
tPB -you called it!
HOOOOOOOOSSSSAAA
What a guarentee.
Avery was like a bug on the windshield of the creepy candy van man.
HEARD IT HERE FIRST
Pensblog guarantee = money in the bank.
HOSSA BURIES IT!!
Please tell me what is next, Nostradamus!
Nice DIVE Jagr, no call!
I am completely speechless...
Is staff from the future?
STAND UP JAGR
go invade poland jaromir, stfu
Hossa - 1 Goal/ 1 Dive...
JAGR IS A DIVER! what a little p*ssy!!
Hey, I just got back from feeding my chinchilla. Has anything happened in the game yet?
JAGS IS PIST
Looks like the crying is working to get a diving call though. It may have been a dive, but you know it was called because of all of the whining. Bad sign if the refs are being influenced by whining and the home crowd.
Oh God, here we go Edzo...
M. Staal nice hit on your baby bro.
66 buries it Malkin!
66 buries it.
@ m vanderlasser- game update: Jagr is in the manic phase of his bipolar disorder and, oh yeah, Hossa fulfilled part of his tPB destiny.
Geno caught Hossa-itis
where is everyone chatbloging?
Prolly in chat Chris E. I prefer to stay in cblog personally.
Yea, but the normal chats dont work....I joined that new one but didnt recognize anyone.
@dhudson.. watch it on fsn
I don't see the advantage over c-blog anyway. I'll stay here, thanks.
Hossa levels douchenozzle!
i just counted 6 SOLID hits
@ jimmymo
I'm in VA and stuck watching it online :(
I'm in that flashchat...but its full of strangers and it is scary.
whitney tryin to get a piece of jagr = GOLD....
ps..i think its a goal
Jagr is the biggest crybaby I have seen in recent memory.
If they call that a no goal, rags fans' tears will fill the ohio
If Jagr and Malkin fought proper, I'd give up drinking.
Didn't the NHL say a guy in the crease means no goal. Even if the net wasn't off, where was Jagr???
shit....
Rags fans lose all right to cry about anything in this series after the high stick goal and this one.
Lame city.
Apparently goaltender interference isn't a penalty.
worst goal chant ever
this officiating is fucking awful
HCMT....aweful suit tonight...
IF THAT'S RULED A GOAL...BUTTMAN, THE NHL & THE WHOLE WORLD WANT THE RANGERS™ TO WIN THE CUP. CONSPIRACY. CONSPIRACY. CONSPIRACY. [/acting like a rags fan]
I am pulling my hair out listening to Edzo suck Jagr's dick. Fuck you Edzo!
Well, I say send BGL into His Majesty.
Agree dhudzin. I can't stand Edzo though. It seems like every time the Pens are on VS, he is calling the game and he always seems like he is still bitter that he got fired. Somehow he doesn't realize he was only there to be a lap dog for 66. Suck it Edzo, you are no HCMT.
bubba hollweg shoulda been in the box serving a 2 minute charging penalty, IMHO.
meh. they'll get it back.
[Hossa]
These officials make me want to vomit. I guess they changed their minds and allow players to go in the goalie's crease now. Fucking ridiculous.
I thought that the puck was on top of Fleury and not over the line until the net went off, no? My stupid choppy HD signal makes it hard to tell.
p.s. hi, I'm a lurker who's been pulling for you guys (my childhood team's long gone). Don't get me started on the ways I think the Rangers suck (and I didn't hate them before these playoffs!)
BGL scores!!!
BGL!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
27 buries it.
BG effin L!
ahahahahahaha
Yea baby!!!!
BGL!!!!!!
BGL! Don't run em' just score on em!!!
@sooska
OR GOT OUT TO SCORE A GOAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VIVA LARAQUE!!
I changed my picture for a reason. It's staying up now.
quick one-two punch to end the 1st
do it.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BGL!! and Geno skating in behind King Henry
Doubleminorblog.
GEORGES!
Malkin! 3-1
Geno Scores!!
Rags = STUNNED!!!
I LOVE THIS TEAM.
HAHAHAHAHAHA 71 BURIES IT!!!!!
HELL YEA!!!!
OOOOOOO WEEEEE
@ largefarva
PROPHET.
sorta looks like were toying with them
'they dont want to give the penguins a four minute power play here'
bullshit
you dont call an even up on a blood drawing high stick, thats not a 50/50 call
wahooo
GENO!
What an unreal period!
wheres Dancin' Larry at??????
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
is that Avery's theme they're playin' after Geno's goal!!!!!!!!!!!
@ dr turk- my crystal ball was fogged up by the Rags crying..close enough. I'll take it.
Rangers paging Valiquette... Valiquette please report to the bench area...
That's a goal-scorer's goal too.
Boo yaaaa.
HOLY SHIT MALKIN TOO!!
SUCK-IT COCK RAGS!!!!
Geno means Goal.
The first rule of bitch club is:
Don't let the team enforcer roof it on your Vezina candidate.
Our 4th line > your 1st line
What a great series...
CBC quote: "the only thing these young Penguins have had trouble with this playoff season are their playoff beards".
Fucking Versus is blacking me out for no apparent reason whatsoever. So gutted to be missing this. Keep fighting the good fight though, guys.
Scott Gomez just used 6 hockey cliches during that interview. That has to scare you if you're a NYR fan.
No doubt they are STUNNED
That's the difference between us and the Rags. We get jobbed on a goal and respond with 2 quick goals that completely demoralizes them. They get jobbed and Jagr shaves his pubes and listens to Boy George records.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Wow, that's about the best first period we could have hoped for.
Amazing.
I shat myself one-two-three times!
Potash is interviewing BGL. He is one happy hockey player - and he just kissed Potash!!!
This is going to be a great game!
BGL KISSES POTASH!!!
I love this team more than life.
rumor has it BGL borrowed Roberts' shampoo in the shower after practice yesterday. Today, his life has changed forever.
Unreal period. Gotta keep it goin. Orpik needs to drop Jagr 4 or 5 more times.
Unreal on the guaranteeblog.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOssa.
Holy shit, people!
Things I couldn't say while driving home:
1. Ignore the Forbes jackass. The irrelevant blowhards who write for them know as much about hockey as they do about having sex with women. They may as well just call it Fucktard Monthly.
2. HOOOOOOOOOO! Damn, there wasn't even any suspense on the guarantee! (Hey boys, can you guarantee that I win the next Mega Millions?)
Damn, now I have to go back and read all these comments during the rest of the INT.
@sooska
Don't forget the N.C.!
@sooska
BGL was out there lookin' for Jags:
realized he was in the box, so he figured he'd try scoring a goal.
YoWzA!
any update on the Pirates v. Mets?[/jokeblog]
Danny Potash just got sexual healings.
Pensblog Charlie=stunned
1 more goal, and the series is over.
Oh, and also...since I am not in Pittsburgh, I am getting the Utterly Craptastic Versus Broadcast, which FROZE juuuuust long enough to miss the Laraque goal. Literally, the puck goes in the corner...and then like 15 seconds later they're showing Weeping Tom Renney and talking about how BGL put one home.
Fucking Versus.
Is Sean Avery playing?
Pensgirl, I'd take the Utterly Craptastic Versus Broadcast over the Nonexistent Versus Because Of Ridiculous And Completely Nonsensical Blackout Rules Broadcast right about now.
Add another one to the North Carolina column...I just moved to Fayetteville this weekend to take a baseball play-by-play job.
Thank God for P2P viewing online, because the cable people haven't gotten to the apartment yet!
Holy shit psychicblog.
Make more predictions.
@eileenover, I work for a company that is HQed in Edmonton, BGL's summer home.
Man, they LOVE that guy up there...when he played for the Oilers, he did a ton of work for the community, hosted a popular radio show, etc.
They still miss him.
Add AZ to your geographyblog.
GO PENS!
Hossa in front of net... SCORE!!!
BGL in front of net...
SCORE!!!
Even though Mr. Roberts isn't in the line up tonight, you can see his influence on these guys.
WWGRD?= Go to front of net...
SCORE!!!
That's what!!!
Didn't Lundqvist promise they would win this game? That only works if you're wearing #11 and look exactly like Destro.
Wow, Tom Renney is an idiot. This is the game where the Rags want to trade chances with us?
Stunned
Shit! I knew I should have left work at 3:45. lol
DO IT!!!
Sooska... Geographyblog submission...
Add another one to the MD tally.
C-blogging from Baltimore...
@m. vanderlasser
I really hope they win the Cup for guys like him. It's a guarantee Malkin, Crosby, and Staal will win Cups in their careers. BGL and Ruutu are UFAs after this season, and I would love to see them win a Cup with this team because it might not happen again for them. This team is unbelievable.
Pensgirl... I got the same Versus Freeze before the BGL goal.
I just assumed it was too awesome for my cable box to handle...
text message log:
chad-i bet your penguins choke at the garden tonight! haha
me- who is this?
chad-chad, the sig(ma chi), we met a lou's (a bar) a few weeks back, im the rangers fan.
me- oh hey whats up man? hossa goal tonight
chad- drury will match that
chad (7:14) - wow i give you props for callin that one haha
the only reason im taking credit for the guarantee is to make chad feel like a homer. thanks staff! in tPB I trust.
Hossa: 1G 1A
Malkin 1G 1A
still running geographyblog 15 states (PA, NV, TX, ID, OH, WA, IN, CT, MD, CA, NJ, TN, NC, VA, AZ) and 2 provinces: ONT and BC
versus online is buffering and I am getting a 19th century flip card and blurred action and hic cupping audio. better than nothing.
@ Flyer Hater
No! He's lying face down @ bottom of MSG!
@eileenover: The young guys may not appreciate how hard it is yet, but its no guarantee they win one just because they are good. Plenty of great players in various sports don't have rings when they retire. Every single guy on this team deserves a ring!
I have VS and had a freeze earlier when there was basically no action, but no problem at all on the BGL goal. Weird!
@sooska: The online feed from the Ceeb through RagstoRiches has been behaving pretty okay. And you also get the fabulous Jim Hughson instead of frelling Edzo.
One more catchupblog: on the Rags' goal, Malone and Sykora stupidly shoved Jagr further into the crease and knocked him into Fleury. They came in from the right and front and they should have come in from the left to shove him away from the net. That's why no goalie interference was called.
Awesome game so far
also Sooska add nc to your list in acid queen country from indiana,pa
Hall on the PKforecheckblog. Nice work.
@ jyo
Let me put it this way: I would be extremely surprised if they didn't win Cups. And I agree that all those guys deserve to win.
Refs trying to get the Rags back into the game. CONSPIRACY!!!
BTW, did the fans leave at the first intermission. Its pretty quiet in there.
gracias theNWchica! it us better.
is it me or is Jagr wearing yellow skate laces?
MAF IS A MADMAN
"us" is "is" in my last post.
eileenover, the same could have been said of people like Ray Borque early in his career, and it took a late career trade to get him one. A good example from the NFL is Marino, who got to the big game early, lost it, and never got back. Take nothing for granted.
Let's see how many times we can shoot our foot until it bleeds...
@sooska: De nada!
WTF is going on with the parade to the box!? This is not how to hold onto a lead boys! *sporks*
USS Gill was completely amazing on that play.
!@#$%^&*DDDDFYDAYA VHDAU USS GILL DHGU&F H&&A^^^^$%^$
Sooska, the yellow laces are favored by many European players. Someone did a story on it early in the season. I believe Ovechkin also wears them. I am thrilled that none of our players do. They're horridly ugly anyway, but they look especially bad with the Rags' unis.
October 17thblog with these penalties. Fuckin' A.
You can hear all the jobbers in their crowd yelling "SHOOT" on the PP! Priceless.
And then the USS Hal Gill performed evasive manuevers...
The Douche Rags can suck a dick about preferential treatment a penaties go after that series.
two five on threes killed... when you can't score on two five on threes in a row, you can't whine about diving ruining the game for you.
ok thanks.
epic penalty killing
the Pens just WANT it more....
POINT.BLANK.
[Hossa]
Pens PK RULES!!! Just hoping noone is really hurt after blocking those shots. Way to lay your bodies on the line guys!
if i could name my first born after those five minutes of PK, i would
Apparently the Rags players are in on the league-wide conspiracy to get the Pens and Sid a Cup. How else do you blow that much PP time, including two 5-on-3s??? CONSPIRACY!!!
killing two five on three's = solid
I think the ref's are trying to give the game to the RAGS
Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelieveable PK.
Hey, and the Rangers fans were booing even when #87 was off the ice!
Scuds with F.I.V.E. blocked shots up to now....
A Man amongst boys tonight.
I think that was the worst series of power plays I've ever seen. And I follow the $%&*ing Leafs.
I hate to use the "they don't have the swagger" cliche, but could the Rangers' age be catching up to them? They seem to have no sense of urgency.
Talk about potential turning points in a series...oh my. My heart stopped and I've never wanted a commercial break so badly.
That last sequence of penalty kills will be narrated by Earl Mann one day.
Bibbs:
"These stats I'm looking at right now are just garbage!"....
-describing the Pens with only 4 blocked shots when he got the stat sheet.
Drury injured celebrating a non-goal? Classic!
It seems like the Pens keep track of when the TV timeouts are and use it to their advantage. I don't know if the players on ice are aware, but they have had a few TV breaks at opportune times in the last couple of games. If they do it on purpose, good for them.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
balls.
SHIT
Alright, time for another Pens goal to settle things down.
another Rag hurt.
Here I am, on the road again. there I am, up on the stage.
Here I go, playing star again.
There I go, turn the
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