GDT: #5: Pittsburgh Penguins@Ottawa Senators|Scotiabank Place|Jan. 27th 5:00 PM EST

[Frederick Stanley]

"We didn't get to our game consistently enough, that's for sure," Crosby said. "We didn't have enough shifts in their end, we didn't execute and make passes thru the neutral zone as good as we could have. Definitely not our best game, that's for sure."

Mike Tomlin: "The standard is the standard."



VS.



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Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Chris Kunitz	Sidney Crosby	Pascal Dupuis
Tyler Kennedy	Evgeni Malkin	James Neal
Tanner Glass	Brandon Sutter	Matt Cooke
Tangradi	Joe Vitale	Craig Adams

Defense	Defense
Matt Niskanen	Kris Letang
Brooks Orpik	Paul Martin
Ben Lovejoy	Deryk Engelland

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Milan Michalek	Jason Spezza	Colin Greening
Guillaume Latendresse	Kyle Turris	Jako Silfverberg
Colin Greening	Zack Smith	Chris Neil
Jim O'Brien	Peter Regin	Erik Condra

Defense	Defense
Mark Methot	Erik Karlsson
Chris Phillips	Sergei Gonchar
Patrick Wiercioch	Andre Benoit

Player	Category	Player
Crosby/Malkin ( 5 )	Points	Turris/Karlsson ( 5 )
Crosby/Neal ( 3 )	Goals	Kyle Turris ( 4)
Evgeni Malkin ( 4 )	Assists	four tied ( 3 )
Pascal Dupuis ( +2 )	+/-	Karlsson/Methot ( +6 )
Evgeni Malkin ( 14 )	PIM	Chris Neil ( 11 )
James Neal ( 22 )	Shots	Erik Karlsson ( 17 )
Kris Letang ( 26:13 )	TOI/G	Erik Karlsson ( 26:35 )

Team	GP	W	L	OT	Points	PP %	PK %	GA	GF
	4	2	2	0	4	35.7 %	84.2 %	13	13
	4	3	1	0	6	30.8 %	83.3 %	8	15

Goalies:

1 Win, .882 Save %, 3.00 GAA | 3 Wins, .976 Save %, 0.67 GAA

[Crafton]

Tangradi sucks so hard he doesn't deserve to be referenced by his full-name

[ColePens]

I LOVE the wrestling theme. You made me proud, my friend!

[malks7171]

oh my god, i forgot about that national anthem singer.

[Beauner]

Originally Posted by Lost in Crafton

Tangradi sucks so hard he doesn't deserve to be referenced by his full-name

I thought the same thing



Random thought: For some reason, I'd like to see a Tangradi-Vitale-Jeffrey line. Something inside me thinks it would work well.

[MrBurgundy]

Originally Posted by Hedberg1

I thought the same thing



Random thought: For some reason, I'd like to see a Tangradi-Vitale-Jeffrey line. Something inside me thinks it would work well.

I would too, but that will never happen. Waaaaay too many young players on one line for Bylsma to ever even let them see the ice.

[Beauner]

Originally Posted by MrBurgundy

I would too, but that will never happen. Waaaaay too many young players on one line for Bylsma to ever even let them see the ice.

Oh for sure. We can always hope though.

[Revelation]

Won't get to watch the game until the third. Hopefully they can put a much better game together.

[Big McLargehuge]

[Jaded-Fan]

[Sutter16]

Originally Posted by malks7171

oh my god, i forgot about that national anthem singer.

me too Sid was laughing

[Captain Hook]

I also enjoyed the wrestling theme. Good job.

I guess we'll be seeing Lovejoy again? I'll be hoping for the return of Despres but it's understandable if he's out. You had to know the kid would have a tough time holding off Lovejoy aka the best 7th D-Man in the league.

[Shrimper]

Please have a different anthem singer.

[Jaded-Fan]

Originally Posted by Shrimper

Please have a different anthem singer.

It is actually a comfort in a way. We have a coach who can not adjust his game plan. In games, or, well ever.

They obviously can not adjust from embarrasing pregame antics such as the gladiator or the opera singer.

I tried to think about which I thought was worse, and I am not kidding when I say I am not sure.

[Sivek]

The best number 7 d-man in the league business made me wish the lockout was still in effect.

I can't remember the details, but Errey had one of those goofy excited moments yesterday that was more goofy excited than usual. Can anyone remember the moment in particular? Think it was the part about Vokoun blockering the puck out of play or Vokoun grabbing Ladd's stick in front of the net then covering the puck. Sounded in mid-season form already but man Steiggy is the Rossi equivalent of NHL announcers.

How long into the game until Steiggy says something along the lines of Letang being nearly as good offensively as Karlsson if you take in account Letang missing x amount of games last year?

I swear he does that every time they play the Sens. I'm guessing one or two shifts into the game during a break in play where Karlsson is idly skating around the ice. Remember me when he says it, cause he will.

[IHWR]

I'll be there. Cheering extra loud.

[ColePens]

I got Punk over The Rock.

Team Hell No over Rhodes Scholars

ADR over Big Show

John Cena to win the Rumble


Sens over Pens 3-1.

[Malkin4Top6Wingerz]

Originally Posted by Jaded-Fan

It is actually a comfort in a way. We have a coach who can not adjust his game plan. In games, or, well ever.

They obviously can not adjust from embarrasing pregame antics such as the gladiator or the opera singer.

I tried to think about which I thought was worse, and I am not kidding when I say I am not sure.

Yep. The coach who had the highest winning percentage last season when trailing after two periods clearly has no idea to adjust.

[Certified Assassin]

Originally Posted by ColePens

I got Punk over The Rock.

Team Hell No over Rhodes Scholars

ADR over Big Show

John Cena to win the Rumble


Sens over Pens 3-1.

Think I'm going to break down and buy the Rumble...I hope Rhodes Scholars win, that duo is gold.

So much win in this thread early on. Love the Tiny Tunes Might be Giants. So many memories...Let's get it done Pens. Win one!

[Pancakes]

I like Glass but I'm glad to see Jeffrey get a shot. He's a guy who is pretty good offensively when he's on his game and that third line badly needs an offensive boost right now. They need to start potting some goals.

[Zatch88]

sens score 4-5 goals. no faith in fleury at this point.

[Eyes of Orpik]

Originally Posted by ColePens

I got Punk over The Rock.

Team Hell No over Rhodes Scholars

ADR over Big Show

John Cena to win the Rumble


Sens over Pens 3-1.

I haven't been watching wrestling much, but...

Rock over Punk, believe me ColePens, I would love Punk to retain, but he's had the title for over 430 days. and they want the Rock to main event Wrestlemania 29, he will be the champion.

Team Hell No over Rhodes Scholars, big fan of Daniel Bryan, nothing more entertaining in WWE right now than those 2, both deserve to wear gold, I don't like Rhodes Scholars at all.

ADR over Big Show, I agree, I don't see them taking the title off of ADR and giving it back to the Big Show in a short amount of time. I also see Dolph Ziggler cashing in at Wrestlemania (if he didn't cash in already)

Cena probably will win the Rumble, gotta have Rock/Cena II (once in a lifetime my ass)

[Captain Hook]

Originally Posted by Zatch88

sens score 4-5 goals. no faith in fleury at this point.

I have more faith in Fleury than the guys in front of him so far. The result is still the same though since we're giving up too many goals.


Onto wrestling...

Almost seems too predictable for Rock to go over Punk and that makes me wonder if they'll switch it up. Same with Cena winning the RR since that seems to be very predictable. I do think they'll find a way to get the title on one of Rock or Cena before WM and have Rock/Cena 2 for the title with Cena evening the score. I don't think he would have agreed to job last year to Rock if he wasn't going to eventually get that win back.

[Eyes of Orpik]

About wrestling, is anyone from Pittsburgh going to World of Wheels tomorrow at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center? Shawn Michaels is signing autographs from 12-3pm

Shawn Michaels has been my favorite wrestler since I was a little kid, but idk if I'm going.

(That's 3 cry smilies for me today, I'm such a baby)

[OnMyOwn]

Ryback wins rumble....or the shield bone him, haha.