Next- Game 3 is in St. Louis on Tuesday night at 9:30. Among the surviving eight teams, he’s at the top of the list.
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With shots 28-10 through 2 periods in favor of Pittsburgh, it will be very interesting to see how the Caps respond in the first period of Game 3, when the series shifts to Pittsburgh.
And now it’s official: two games into this best-of-seven second-round series between the Penguins and the Capitals, the war of words has officially started. I don’t think you have to analyze it that much.
A key to Pietrangelo’s success is channeling attention deficit disorder and putting excess energy to good use.
“But the one thing about [Thornton] is that anybody who knows him personally knows he’s a pretty honest player and a pretty honest person and if he said he really regretted it and felt bad, he really did. We’ll let the league handle it”.
I wonder if she goes 2 games without a point if their fans will complain about her salary? He was instrumental in holding down Blackhawks stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. I think that was pretty black and white, and I said that during my hearing yesterday.
“We’ll just go forward”. We are so used to the league falling short on these plays, especially when it comes to the playoffs, that we see three games as a significant punishment. Nashville’s Roman Josi (27:22) and Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman (27:02) also are high on the list. “It was a bad hit”, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. He can be a calming influence, although inside he’s going 100 miles per hour.
The rest of the Penguins’ lineup will be a game time decision. It is one the lowest possible bars to clear, and it shouldn’t be a big deal when a league so apparently stocked with stand-up guys actually has one who stands up.
Earlier, they did get a call right when a Capitals goal was negated by goalie interference, but had they missed that call, the Penguins certainly would have called for a video review and the goal would have been disallowed. Despite being down 2-0, Nashville showed that they can fight back in late situation. It happened when Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik caught Olli Maatta with a high, rather dirty hit. “We understand this series is only to get tougher”. If the Pens power play was better, Game 2 could have been blown open, the adjustments that they make will be interesting as well. “Now, he’s deflecting pucks out of play all over the place”, Reirden said back in October. “When we needed him to be good down the stretch, he made that timely save for us”.
Orpik did not play in the remaining three games of that series but returned in time for Game 1 last Thursday. They outshot Washington 35-24 in game 2 and 70-59 in the series. “It’s a split-second decision you make and I just gotta live with it”. “The first two periods, the ice was tilted a little bit, no doubt….” Ovechkin only had three shots on goal throughout the whole game. Nothing more. Nothing less, and it really does not need to be more complicated than that. “We made it an easy game for him”.
Pavelski also picked up two assists in the game.
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Consider this: An NBA basketball court is 90 feet by 50 feet, and there are three officials to cover the action, The NBA went to three officials from two in 1988.
