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Pens Beat Sens, Orpik's Struggles Persist. Jarkko Ruutu took two diving penalties in the first period, laid low for a couple hours and then won it in a shootout for the Pittsburgh Penguins. His backhander past Ottawa's Martin Gerber gave the Pens a 6-5 victory in a wild affair that the Senators twice led by two goals. Ryan Malone scored a pair for Pittsburgh while goalie Dany Sabourin came off the bench to replace the man with the yellow pads, Marc-Andre Fleury, who stopped just two of the first four shots sent his way. Closer darling Brooks Orpik was held off the score-sheet for an eighth consecutive game.
Rockford Also Blue Itself. The Blackhawks got short-handed goals from Patrick Sharp and Jacob Dowell and beat the Calgary Flames, 2-1. Dowell, a product of the University of Wisconsin, was making his NHL debut after being called up from the AHL's Rockford IceHogs, a team that plays in an arena nicknamed the "Big Orange Box." And, yes, there's gotta be a better way to say that.
NHL Players Will Say Anything. Martin Erat notched a goal and added two assists as the Nashville Predators defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 3-2. It was the Preds' seventh win of the month after an October that included a six-game losing streak. Radek Bonk scored the winner in the third period and produced this beauty of a quote after the game: "Sometimes they go in for you and sometimes they don't. They are going in for me right now."
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Reasons working today sucks #37: Having to pass up tickets to the B's game today. A few of my friends will be drunk by 1 and watching Lucic beating someone's ass.
Pink Taco >>> Big Orange Box.
If Radek Bonk played in the Big Orange Box, would there be orange juice everywhere?
There's another Kige campaigning for Kige.
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@Sh!tShow:
I remember when the Sabres played Boston last year on MLK Day with a 1pm start.
Nothing like being stuck at work, then going home, remembering there was a hockey game today, but then realizing they've already played...
@Sh!tShow: Wow, that does suck; maybe you could get drunk at work?
BTW, the Blackhawks already have 10 Shorthanded goals this year and Patrick Sharp has 5 of them. Mario Lemieux holds the record of 13 in 88-89.
@BloggyMcBlogBlog:
Chicago has one less SHG than Edmonton has PPG's.
@Afino: Always turns out to be a good game too.
@Stev D: Now we're thinking! For lunch today: Johnnie Walker Black!
Ruutu's shootout goal was pretty sweet. I had to rewind it a few times last night to see how he opened up the goal tender so badly.
@Afino: Nothing celebrates MLK Day like hockey.
@Rickeybeingrickey:
well, it was Boston.
Jarkko Ruttu? I thought Han shot him in the Cantina?
Brooks Was Here
(and he sucked)
Big Orange Box is the new Ham Wallet
Is Big Orange Box any worse than "The Barnyard" which is the team's preferred nickname for the MetroCentre?
Terrible scouting by the Sens, though I am very very happy that they lost.
Ruutu has precisely one shootout move . . . the one he used last night. Watched him use it when he was here in Vancouver and won a bet on the shootout last night. "Next round says he goes backhand."
I'm very late but I have to ask ... why is Orpik the Closer's darling? Is it that thousand yard stare thing he does when he screws up? That is kinda cute, I have to admit.
What about the upcoming Grey Cup? One of the teams is called the "Roughriders". This one's from Saskatchewan--there used to be an Ottawa Roughriders, also. Ah, if only there were another Roughriders/Roughriders matchup. Or, more appropriately, a Roughriders/ Ruff Ryders matchup.
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