2/26/13 "Is The Pen Mightier?" - Penguins VS Panthers
 

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Standings Florida: Conference Position Wins Losses OTL/SOL Total Points 13th 5 9 4 14 Pittsburgh: Conference Position Wins Losses OTL/SOL Total Points 2nd 13 6 0 26

Injuries Pittsburgh: Player Date Of Incident Status Injury Evgeni Malkin 2013-02-23 on injured reserve concussion Florida: Player Date Of Incident Status Injury Michael Caruso 2013-01-23 on injured reserve and is out indefinitely broken wrist Sean Bergenheim 2013-01-17 undisclosed undisclosed Ed Jovanovski 2013-01-31 on injured reserve knee Scottie Upshall 2013-02-01 on injured reserve ankle Kris Versteeg 2013-02-15 on injured reserve upper body Alex Kovalev 2013-02-26 healthy scratch healthy scratch Stephen Weiss 2013-02-26 healthy scratch personal matter

Line Combinations (Subject To Change) Pittsburgh: LW C RW Chris Kunitz Sidney Crosby James Neal Matt Cooke Brandon Sutter Pascal Dupuis Beau Bennett Dustin Jeffrey Tyler Kennedy Tanner Glass Joe Vitale Craig Adams LD RD Brooks Orpik Paul Martin Matt Niskanen Kris Letang Simon Despres Deryk Engelland Florida: LW C RW Jonathan Huberdeau Drew Shore Peter Mueller Shawn Matthias Scott Timmins Tomas Kopecky Tomas Fleischmann Marcel Goc Mike Santorelli Jack Skille Jerred Smithson George Parros LD RD Brian Campbell Filip Kuba Dmitry Kulikov Mike Weaver Erik Gudbranson Tyson Strachan

Expected Starting Goaltenders (Subject To Change) Pittsburgh: http://pics.forecaster.ca/nhl-player/0296.gif Tomas Vokoun GP W L OTL GAA SV% SO 7 3 3 0 2.87 .899 1 VS. Florida: http://pics.forecaster.ca/nhl-player/0198.gif Jose Theodore GP W L OTL GAA SV% SO 12 4 6 2 3.37 .893 0

Team Leaders Pittsburgh: W Marc-Andre Fleury 10 L Tomas Vokoun 3 GAA Marc-Andre Fleury 2.28 G James Neal 12 A Sidney Crosby 19 +/- Chris Kunitz 9 PIM Evgeni Malkin 30 Florida: W Jose Theodore 4 L Jose Theodore 6 GAA Jose Theodore 3.37 G Jonathan Huberdeau 8 A Drew Shore 7 +/- Drew Shore 3 PIM George Parros 24

Special Teams Pittsburgh: PP% PP Rank PK% PK Rank 28.0% 3rd 82.2% 17th Florida: PP% PP Rank PK% PK Rank 16.2% 21st(tied) 73.4% 29th

News And Notes http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/fla George Richards' Blog of the Miami Herald:Your Source For Reliable, Early Panthers Info!

LET'S GO PANTHERS!!!!!!!!!!

Great GDT again P-Rock!


What personal matter is Weiss attending to? Anyone know?

I don't know why, but I really like that picture of the arena.


Grandmother's funeral, I believe.

Prayers go out to his family.

Has she been ill? I mean was it expected that she was going to pass? would explain why Weiss has been playing without any heart the last couple of weeks.

Prays go out to Weiss, and his family.

This might be the worst line-up the Panthers have ever skated?

Nah, we had that game against Boston where Guddy was playing as a forward :laugh: Far worse.

I don't remember that... where have I been?

My condolences go out to Weiss and his family. If she's been very sick since the season started, perhaps that could be why his play has been off.

I actually expect this game to be close, but I'd be shocked if we got the victory. I don't want to tank but certainly wouldn't be upset if we lost either ;)

So basically it's who cares either way. I'm with you. :yo:

The way I see it, I want our players to do well every game but in a great draft like we'll have this summer, I want them to get a high pick. Hopefully this is the last season in a long long time that we have to make these rational decisions.

Here's to irrationality.

Anyone know if Robak is playing. He had such a good game Sunday.

Hopefully. Cant stand watching Kuba

Lol at Bill Lidnsey, Goldie" Well what do the Panthers have to do" Billy " They have to play like Kopecky" hahahahhaha that just made my night.

Here's hoping for a good game guys.

Thanks!

NEED to stay out of the penalty box.

Bad penalty to take. Especially against this PP.

I don't understand people that are blaming Gudbranson either for the Malkin concussion. Was a clean hit and just an unfortunate accident that Geno lost his balance.

Looks like those impartial refs are back paid by Crosby and Co. How was that tripping?

a penalty right off the bat!

Go cats go!

Looks like Robak on pairing 2.

Robak looked lost on that shift. Almost led to a goal against.

I just realized Santorelli is still on the team. What a turd.