Pre-Game
- Ylönen and Harris re-enter the team. Arber Xhekaj gets a rest.
- Jake Allen starts in net.
- Lucas Condotta’s goals-per-game percentage in the NHL went from 100 % to a mere 50 % after being called up this week. Boo. I call bust!
- Congrats to our favourite Grand Danois, Lars Eller, on his 1000th NHL appearance tonight!
- Seventeen Danish players have played in the National Hockey League.
- I dare you to name all of them.
First Period
- Pittsburgh are swarming around Allen like angry, little bees.
- Old bees, but bees nonetheless.
- Early penalty kill for the Habs, when Jordan Harris gets a little too eager in his own zone.
- Thankfully, the Pens are anemic on the man advantage.
- I’d expect nothing less from a gang of 40-year-olds.
- Who is Poul Popiel?
- Slafkovsky is still looking mighty interesting.
- Matheson finds Kaiden Guhle all alone in front of the net. Pittsburgh choose not to defend at all, and Guhle can, in a relatively easy fashion, beat Jarry for the opening goal of the night.
- Penguins are just the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NHL.
- Once upon a time they were relevant, but now they’re just content with constantly staying mid.
Second Period
- So kind of the Canadiens to let Lars Eller score in his big game. For old times’ sake.
- Armia… Perkele.
- It’s a very back-and-forth game, this one.
- I’ll take a Montreal power play, thank you very much.
- Kris Letang – Montreal native helping his beloved Habs.
- 2-1 Canadiens on the advantage. The red hot Slovak scores his seventh of the year, via a Pens defenceman’s muscular leg.
- That makes it seven goals on the year for young Padawan Slafkovsky.
- Letang tries his best to make up for his penalty by scoring one of his own. Don’t do that, Kris. Not against your own team.
- Guhle to the box.
- Let’s all yawn for two minutes, ’cause there is no way this Pittsburgh power play gets anything interesting going.
- Zzzzzzzz…
- Period break.
Third Period
- Gah, Juraj so close to his first NHL brace.
- Josh Anderson making his presence felt. With his fists.
- Well, if you have trouble making an impact in other ways, might as well fight a little.
- Yes, I’m looking at you, Ryan Reaves.
- Game tied with ten minutes to go.
- Jake Guentzel scores off a pass from Sid the Kid. Five more minutes of hockey incoming?
- Josh Anderson is just the NHL equivalent of DK Metcalf; a physical freak, as long as you don’t expect him to move in more than one direction.
- We’re heading to overtime. Yippee-ki-yay!
Overtime
- Slafkovsky got some moves. So close AGAIN to his second of the night.
- Sloppy defending from the Canadiens, and Marcus Pettersson can double his seasonal tally to end the game.
- Still, a point is a point.
EOTP 3 Stars
3) Now back to the Maple Leafs
2) There was a time when just predicting a power-play goal would have led to accusations of witchcraft
1) This might be the best poem yet
