Going for Four

by FrankD on Apr 30, 2008 7:44 PM EDT in News Comment 10 comments

Thanks to Pensburgh user Dunman for finding news on Avery's injury. Apparently the trash-talking, dirty-playing all around bad guy came within inches of death following Game 3. For as much as Pittsburgh fans may hate him, here's to wishing him all the best in recovery.

Avery will, without a doubt, miss the remainder of the playoffs. As long as Pittsburgh can keep the pressure, that will only be for one more game.

The ongoing drama surrounding Gary Roberts' return is endless in and around the Pittsburgh camp. Frankly, I'd rather not even bother teasing it. If he plays you'll know, if he doesn't - well, you'll still know. It just pains me to think a vet like him is really fighting to stay healthy for what may very well be the last season of his career.

New York fans are hoping the Rangers take Avery's injury to heart and rally around it for a four game turnaround. As much as they'd love to have it happen, it won't. Even more so when you consider Drury is dinged up, Betts took a puck to the head, Lundqvist just isn't himself and Straka can't find the net. If anything, Pittsburgh may give a pity win to the Rangers just so they can take the series in front of the home ice crowd in Pittsburgh. After all, they'd love to sellout another home game. As long as Pittsburgh employs the likes of Bettman to approve the Thursday night loss, the Pens can expect more revenue from another sold-out game.

Here's a look at the stats as of Game 3.

Updated Stats

FORWARDS
Player	G	A	Pts	PIM
(7*)Beech	0	0	0	0
Crosby	2	10	12	2
Dupuis	1	2	3	10
**Hall	1	0	1	4
Hossa	3	6	9	4
Kennedy	0	2	2	4
Laraque	1	1	2	0
Malkin	5	8	13	0
Malone	3	5	8	6
(5*)Roberts	2	0	2	16
Ruutu	2	1	3	4
Staal	2	1	3	8
Sykora	4	2	6	6
(7*)Taffe	0	0	0	0
Talbot	1	1	2	6

DEFENSEMEN
Player	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gill	0	0	0	4
Gonchar	1	4	5	0
Letang	0	1	0	6
Orpik	0	1	1	6
Scuderi	0	3	3	2
(7*)Sydor	0	0	0	0
Whitney	0	3	3	15

GOALIES
Player	W	L	SO	SF	SV	SV%
Fleury	7	0	2	201	189	.940
Conklin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sabourin	0	0	0	0	0	0

(*) denotes a game scratch

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Does this feel

at all like deja vu to anyone else? I feel like I just read about a potential Penguins sweep, and now we're speculating about another one. Who would have guessed it in October?

Also, as a note, Pensburgh and my feedreader are having a really interesting relationship lately, where I'm not seeing any updates even when something new is posted, and then I'm getting like 3 or 4 updates all at once. I don't know what's going on there. I'm not an expert at rss feeds though.

by Dayna on May 1, 2008 12:22 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hmmm

I don't know what's up with the RSS feeds. Are you using a desktop client or are you working with like Googlereader or something like that?

FrankD from Pensburgh.com

by FrankD on May 1, 2008 1:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Aha

In Ottawa I had both, and they were working fine, but because I haven't routered my internet connection, here I'm only using google. Could be the difference. Thanks.

by Dayna on May 1, 2008 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well

Looks like Avery's injury wasn't as severe as initially reported. No cardiac arrest or stoppage of breathing. The article I originally posted has been updated saying that he was never in any real danger.

But he'll still be out for the playoffs.

Also, a classy quote from Gary Roberts, whom we all know has no love for Avery.

"There’s hockey and then there is life and your health. You don’t wish that on anybody," Roberts said. "I don’t know Sean personally away from the rink. Obviously, we’ve had our comments throughout the media, but truthfully when it comes to this kind of stuff you just hope that he makes a full recovery."

by JDunman on May 1, 2008 8:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow

And here I was thinking he'd say something like, "He's still an idiot."

Somehow I'm not surprised that a story like this gets completely blown out of proportion, especially by the media of NY that is trying to take the losing identity away from the Rangers.

FrankD from Pensburgh.com

by FrankD on May 1, 2008 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pity win

I'd take one at this point.
As much as it pains me to say, ever since the Rangers scored their 3rd goal in game one, and went up 3-0, the Pens have been the better team. plain and simple. Fleury has out played Hank, and the Rangers don't have the firepower to keep up with the Pens. With Drury hurting, Avery and Betts out. I'm not sure this series goes much further.

by Eric the Rangers Fan on May 1, 2008 9:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs