What's So Special About Sidney Crosby?.....Game Twenty-Three: Devils At Penguins

Penguins 4 - Devils 1


Bob Errey and Paul Steigerwald were on crack. Like, more of the white dust than they usually are on and we loved it.

It was like the "Tomato Plant Incident".

Currently, we cannot find the video of the game between the Penguins and Capitals in 2006. During the game, Bob Errey talked about these sticks in his attic that were for tomato plants while Ryan Whitney whacked Alex Ovechkin where babies come from.

To make a long joke short, Bob and Paul were spectacularly crazy.

Things we noticed while cheering from D7.....

-Obviously, Sidney Crosby was the star of the game. He deserved the empty-net hat trick.


-When the Penguins scored the third goal, we were extremely nervous about them holding the lead but they did a great job.

-The Devils fans next to us were okay. They didn't say a word to us during the game and were pretty calm when Mike Rupp scored. Guess they knew that their team was being owned by a back-up.

-Crosby and Rupp roughing was hilarious. Fans were standing around us to see what was going on and we were laughing because of the X-rated mouth of the Penguins captain.

-The first goal is indescribable. We weren't really sure what happened until the fans behind Clemmensen stood up and were screaming.



-Eric Godard went sliding into the end boards behind Scotty and we were kinda scared for him. His Frankenstein foot almost took him down.

-Zach Parise was everywhere. Too bad that didn't culminate in a goal for him, ha-ha. Last game he scored in OT and broke our hearts.

-Mike Rupp is still old.

-Alex Goligoski also went smashing into the boards and a Devil kicked the puck near his face. What a dick.

-Petr Sykora jumping into Crosby's arms after his power-play goal made us cry a little. So freaking cute.


-It was awesome to see the Penguins hold onto a lead for once especially against the Devils.

-The Penguins are shockingly 14-6-2 for the season so far.

-One of the best goal celebrations ever.

Will The Real Nik Zherdev Please Stand Up?

Is that joke old?

Who cares.

Nikolai Zherdev showed the Panthers why he is a big deal by scoring this "we still aren't sure how it went in" goal.



Rangers won in a shootout.

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Nashville won in overtime against Atlanta.

We're just ashamed that it took OT to decide the game. Rinne was in goal for the Predators though.



Shea Weber assisted on the game winner...22 points for The Juggernaut, as we like to call him.

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We can't stomach Red Wings games but we were flipping through and stopped for a minutes.

Marian Hossa must have sensed that we were watching because he scored off a face-off to break the 3-3 tie with three minutes left in the third.



We love to hate him.

Rick Nash was slapping bitches as the end of the game....good for him.

Pens Game And Other Things.....Game Twenty-Two: Penguins At Sabres

Sabres 4 - Penguins 3

It was bound to happen. The Penguins were going to have a lead and they were going to blow it without being able to miraculously tie it up. (Where's Darryl Sydor when we need him?)

But at least they're not like the Islanders who blow leads during the National Anthem.



That was mean, we know. Suck it.

Things we noticed while sniffling from the couch.....

-John Curry did what he had to do...but we had to wonder about his positioning on most of the Sabres goals. We are still in full support of the midget playing for the Penguins.


-Yet again, Sidney Crosby was a big deal. He better stop doing that.

-We can't even go into how bad the power play is. We don't want to.

-Will Kris Letang shoot, ever? We just want Bob&Paul to stop with the whining that he doesn't shoot.

-The Sabres fans are why we hate life. General but we still don't like the majority of them.

That's Henrik holding the sign.....(not).

-The Kennedy-Cooke-Staal line was amazing yet again.

-What happened to Phillipe Boucher? We didn't see him get hurt or anything and suddenly he's out for the game?

-We applaud Max Talbot for playing and still blocking shots. Bitch is why we love this team, they really don't give up even when you (as a fan) do.

-The pre-game interview with Brooks Orpik was hilarious. He never smiles and never answers DJPo's questions. Oh, and he's apparently not a turkey guy.

-Kris Letang is fast. Just reminding you.


-During the game, the FSN dudes showed a clip of the Penguins eating Thanksgiving dinner together. It was like watching confiscated footage of The Last Supper because of Therrien and his sitting at the head of the table and talking with his hands.

-Bob&Paul constantly talked about Maxim Afinogenov. But we didn't notice him that much. Maybe they were watching a different game...

-Something about Derek Roy really rubs us the wrong way.

Maybe it's the whole gay marriage vibe that he exudes....

-We didn't really care that the Penguins lost except for the points/standings and the fact that Curry lost in his first start.

When You Say Buffalo, We Think...

And this...

Pull It Out Of Their Asses.....Game Twenty-One: Penguins At Islanders

Was it fate that John Curry played against the Islanders and won?



We think so after watching this fight between him and Joey MacDonald when they were both in the AHL.

A re-match would have been sweet. Just saying...

There isn't much to say about the game but we will try.....

-Evgeni Malkin was dominant, duh. We bet that someone in the locker room told him that Ovechkin had the hat trick and competitive Malkin had to get one too.


-Sidney Crosby was determined not to lose.

Ka-ching Sidney Crosby.

-The Islanders are always tough to play against. Somehow they always get the lead but at least they're like the Penguins when they get the lead and blow it.

-Brooks Orpik deserved a star. He saved Henrik's life because she was on the ledge before he scored.

-An empty-net hat trick means just as much as a real one, right?


-Josh Bailey's a cutie. Too bad oldster Doug Weight had to score the first goal.

"It was crazy, but it was a fun game," Crosby said.

NHL Players Are Soff

We kid, totally.

But it really seems like every player has been or is injured this season. Either that or players that we like are getting injured.

For instance, if we had to hear how depleted St. Louis is one more time on the Versus broadcast last night, we might have killed ourselves.

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Okay, onto more serious issues.

Tonight is the Islanders/Penguins game.

You know what that means...the Pens get outshot, their power play will not produce despite Yeo's tinkering with the lines and we refuse to predict the end because we don't want to jinx things.

Yes, we are that superstitious.

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We feel bad for Ryan O'Byrne.



Not.

That own goal compounded with his purse-stealing incident is hilarious.

Can you imagine being O'Byrne and knowing that Montreal fans (who are bloodthirsty as it is) want you dead?

We would never leave our house. Ever.

And who do you root for tonight? Canadiens or Red Wings? We aren't even going near that game.

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We were watching the Leafs/Thrashers game lst night and saw the Colby Armstrong hit on Jason Blake.

We also think that we saw Erik 'emo' Christensen sticking up for him but our could have crossed in that moment and it could have been someone else.

Also, Ilya Kovalchuk was crazy the whole game. One hit from Ian White and he goes ballistic. Bitch ain't messing around when he's pissed.

A Couple Little Things

The Boston Bruins put their third jerseys on sale at their ProShop and a couple players were on hand to help sell and then sign jerseys. Article.

Piccies!!!



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Washington Capitals dished about their best and worst roommates. Most of them are boring except for Tyler Sloane's story. Man, we feel bad for him.



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Toronto and St. Louis traded players.

Lee Stempniak is now a Toronto Maple Leaf and the Blues got Alex Steen and Carlo Colaiacovo.

Blah.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins passed out turkeys and fixings to the people in the Hill District.

We have never seen Brooks Orpik smile...ever. Creepy.


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Noodles is obsessed with Kris Versteeg.

NHL.com had a nice little article about him and how he meshes well with Kane and Toews.

Ooooh.

Awards Monday - Week Eight

Oops, we forgot to do Awards on Week Six. Well, we got over it in about ten seconds and just said, "Well, there's always next week."

On to the awards...

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Hottie Of The Week


Derick Brassard

Oh baby. What a rookie. He barely beat out Kris Verbeauty for the Hottie of the Week Award by being a tad bit better offensively.

Oh, who are we kidding, we picked him because he's hot.


We watched the Blue Jackets / Thrashers game and Brassard was everywhere. We think he assisted on every goal that the Jackets scored this past week.

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Best Commercial Of The Night


Subway



Badonkadonk butt....Sidney Crosby anyone?

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The Ryan Malone Wheaties Award


Dany Sabourin

We may be biased but we don't think that another goaltender performed quite as well as he did this past week. He may not have won the Canucks game but it really wasn't his fault.

You can't ask much more from a back-up than to give your team a chance to win every night.

Dany's the man in Pittsburgh.....until Fleury is back.

If They Mated.....

While watching an old re-run of Conan O'Brien, we were treated to one of our favorite segments: If They Mated.

We stole that idea and used it for hockey players.

The concept is simple, two peoples combine genetic codes to make one hockey player based on how they look.

This is what we came up with in the HockeyJunkies laboratory.

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+ =
Kevin Bieksa + Zach Parise = Patrick Kaleta


+ =
Dany Heatley + Jason Spezza = Patrick Kane


+ =
Animal + lead singer of Bush = Henrik Zetterberg


+ =
Sidney Crosby + our own Henrik = the wunderkind John Tavares


+ =
Cool Hand Luke + Harvey Dent = Brooks Laich


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The Wentz(es) new baby = Brian Rolston


+ =
The Grim Reaper + Skeletor = St. Louis Blues head coach Andy Murray


+ =
Sam Gagner + Robert Nilsson = Fabian Brunnstrom


+ =
Chris Drury + Scott Gomez = Cal Clutterbuck


+ =
Sam Gagner + Darryl Sydor = James Neal


+ =
Old Man and the Sea Chelios + Darryl Sydor = Eric Godard


+ =
Kindergarten Cop + Robocop = Jack Johnson


+ =
Chucky + John Mayer = Tobias Enstrom