Tuesday, November 11, 2008

In Other NHL Action...

Holy shit, did anyone catch the Pittsburgh-Detroit game on Versus just now? What a game - Spoiler Alert!

I tuned in with the Pens down 4-2, which quickly became 5-2. The teams traded goals until it was 6-4 Detroit with 4 minutes left. Pittsburgh managed to rally and tie it with 23 seconds left on Jordan Staal's 3rd goal of the game.

In OT, Detroit managed to kill 2 minutes of 4-on-3 led by Crosby, Malkin, and Staal. The game looked headed to OT when Staal beautifully picked Pavel Datsyuk's pocket, turned into a 2-on-1, and fed it across to Fedotenko who fired an absolute LASER over Chris Osgood's shoulder and into the net. 7-6 Penguins victory.

I despise every non-seafaring predator team in the NHL, but that was a HELL of a game. Not to mention Pittsburgh stole a point from Detroit - that's always a nice cherry on top.