https://youtu.be/SgHp71-Kf70
Would kill to have met this Susie lady.
The Pens seemingly caught a break when the Preds’ two top goalies and half their team ended up being sidelined with food poisoning probably from eating Pittsburgh Dad’s barbecue sauce. The Preds goalie was a 21-year-old named Juuse Saros, which doesn’t even sound real. This is a 8-0 Pens win maybe in 1996, but goalies are just too good now. Matt Murray isn’t Patrick Roy in any universe, but he backstopped the Pens to the Cup last season. There’s just a smaller gap between the elite, very good, good, and jobber goalies. The gap is close to nonexistent.
As we said in our Gameday, the Preds were gonna be jammed up after getting off to a bad start. They were gonna be primed to play the defending champs, and the Preds also made a bunch of Leonsis-esque moves to make sure Pens fans didn’t invade their arena this year. It’s a shame we really didn’t get to hear how many were actually there because the Preds tombstoned the Pens 5-1.
Things got off to a good start when the Pens scored on a 2-on-none to make it 1-0, but that was like their only shot of the game.
PK Subban could run for mayor of Nashville tomorrow and actually win. Seeing him in Preds yellow is just so jarring. The hate for him just isn’t there anymore for us. The Montreal red made him seem like so much more of a villain. Now he’s just another elite defenseman. He had 2 assists in this game.
The Preds should just change their blue color to a lighter shade and wear Sweden jerseys.
Viktor Arvidsson…Juuse Saros…Calle Jarnkrok…Filip Forsberg…Kevin Fiala…
Fiala’s from the Czech Republic, and some of those guys might be from Finland. Fiala and Arvidsson scored 2 goals each.
MAF let in 5 goals on 23 shots, and Sullivan was forced to pull the plug and bring in Mike Condon, who looked like Wendell Young in these new/old white away jerseys.
OTHER STUFF
- The HBK Line is more like the HIV Line right now. Sullivan finally broke them up.
- A lot of the Pens’ ills are rectified with the return of Crosby, Letang, and, gulp, Murray, even.
- Holy crap. The Pens actually have a couple days off to breathe. Our old friend coming to town on Tuesday.
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