Game 4 Recap: He shoots, he roars. Pens overwhelm Sens 7-4

Two 5-3s in one game is never good. While I enjoy winning as easily as we did tonight, there’s a lot of things that I noticed could eventually hurt us in later rounds. Something tells me Washington wouldn’t be as forgiving as Ottawa was tonight. Also, Fisher was able to stand and provide a great screen for Spezza without anyone trying to get him out of the way. And Letang, man I love the guy, but he completely missed the net after Crosby provided him with a great pass to set up a semi-breakaway.

Seinfeld reference! WOO

Sorry to hear that. I would normally welcome CBC compared to the crap we get on Versus.

Jordan Staal had the evidence of a high stick on his face and the Pens didn’t get a couple of other calls.

If there was an NHL conspiracy, why don’t the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs go further? They would be the ones to benefit and help the league the most.

I saw it too. CBC is usually pretty good, except when it comes to Canadian teams in the playoffs. I was disappointed as well.

There is no conspiracy. The officiating just sucks in the postseason. It was just as bad in game 3 of the Devils-Flyers series.

Well, it was a pretty bad no call. Definitely should have been a penalty.

yeah it seemed like that to me. THey made NO mention of the trip on MAF that was deliberate

I live in VA, so if I want to watch the Caps games (hopefully to see the Habs win) I have to deal with the Caps announcers. They have to be the worst, most biased announcers in all of hockey. They’re essentially the same as the White Sox announcers in baseball, if anyone on a hockey blog is familiar with "The Hawk’ you’ll know what I’m talking about.

I’m all about supporting your team, and I get that announcers are generally paid by the team, but good lord complement an opposing player for good defense and not make an excuse for “the Great Eight.” Vomit.

The announcers on CBC are undying in their love for the Penguins. This is a fact. The bit about the penalty is a fair point, dude flipped it out in front of both refs, should have been a penalty. But it seems every chance they get to verbally fellate Crosby or Malkin, Bob Cole and that clown Glen Healy jump at it. I would have thought they would be homers for sure, but that’s clearly not the case in this instance.

You’re right I’ll fix it. Too many goals!

thats generally what happens when swager gets under the opposing teams skin. neil has a rep as does supreme douche sutton for being…well….douche’s. but the fact that the pens are out playing the sens in virtually every facet of the game adds more to the frustration level.

then you have the terrible all around officiating going on. yeah, i called it on this site. the fact is both sides at times have gotten away with murder only to be dinged by a chincey call later in the game…..for chincey calls, see bill guerins “hook” late last game, or daniel alfredsonss croschecking the back of brooks head and getting a “kneeing” penalty. there are some that think that officiating is decidng the series.

for those that think that, thats why your about to be eliminated. great teams fight through pp officiating, mediocore or average teams say its the reason they lost. dicsipline and defense wins championships. hopefully yhe pens can have enough of both to make another deep run this year.

I say dress Goddard. He won’t contribute much, but it would be comforting knowing we could throw him on the ice to lay the hammer down.

We’d meet Boston actually; Caps would get Philly. Either way, there’s going to be a lot of hate in the match up (if it all actually pans out).
Any chance that Savard makes it back for the second round?

yeah really. take off the red black and white glasses.

The Senators had some bad luck tonight

The harder I work the luckier I get applies nicely here. The Pens out worked the Sens, the Crosby goal where Spezza totally did not work to get back in the play and it cost the Sens a goal is a perfect example.

they had some bad goaltending

Once again you say the pens did not overwhelm the Sens, but admit that one of your key players actually sucked. Your logic is losing me.

nd they had some bad play.

Once again you admit that the pens out played your team.

You name three factors in last nights loss. Two of which are actually the Sen’s direct fault. If you watched that game, the Pens got the Sens out of their lauded “System” and it cost them. When you force a team to play your style of hockey, as opposed to their own you are overwhelming them, if you win 7-4 you are kicking their asses.

LOL. I know you like your team, but come on now. Admission is the first step to recovery….;-D

No no no. 13 games away. Winning one round isn’t enough for this team to call the season a success.

It’s so true. Last year, Sid lead his team to a Stanley Cup, and this year he’s a much better player because he decided to become awesome at goal scoring and faceoffs. Scary (for other teams) that he’s even better than he was last year when we won the championship.

was he the guy pushing Gogo’s face into the ice towards the end? WTF was that all about? Stay classy guys…..

Yeah, he must be a complete retard. Letang wasn’t doing anything but hanging his head in disgust . . . promptly to be drilled in back. Neil is lucky the Pens didn’t score on the ensuing PP, but even still he sucked some of the life out of his goal by being a class-less neanderthal.

I have come to really hate both Neil and Sutton. Also Alfredson (sp?) to a smaller extent. True story—my mom watched a bit of this with her future husband, and called me to ask which of the Senators Carrie Underwood (who she likes a lot) is engaged to. I told her. “So he’s not one of those [word redacted] who’ve been pushing your guys around all night?”
“No, Fisher hasn’t pissed me off yet. He’s just playing.”
“Oh, good. I thought she picked the wrong team.”

Do we have to pick one :)? Both seem pretty douchey!

The helmet hit Rupp square in the numbers. I hope nobody at the Mellon tries to emulate it—we don’t need that kind of crap here. For a fanbase that prides itself on being classy, there wasn’t a whole lot of it there last night.

I won’t comment on throwing the helmet: I didn’t see it, but it sounds like a demonstration of very poor sportsmanship. As for booing Sid, it’s going to happen. There’s a lot of animosity in the playoffs.

The suggestion that CBC is pro-Senators is laughable: The only reason this series was picked up by that network is because of Crosby. Were the Senators playing, say, Boston or Buffalo, CBC would have picked up Montreal instead. Throughout the regular season, Ottawa is routinely third choice for the early games behind Toronto and Montreal. Some of the homerism you get from the commentators may be from Garry Galley (he’s an Ottawa colour man), but Bob Cole couldn’t care less about how the Senators do. And Don Cherry’s got his faults, but he’s certainly not a Sens fan.

Sorry, I didn’t expect the Darth Maul image to be so huge. But I swear, that’s what some of the fans have been reminding me of.

He is the best Star Wars Character ever