NOW WE HAVE A SERIES !

GAME 4 HIGHLIGHTS

PENS 4 WINGS 2

In hockey when you are coaching your team you often think to yourself that your best players who’s job it is to score, have to score for your team to have any chance in the big games.

Well, last night in Pittsburgh the Penguins tied the series at two games a piece in the Stanley Cup Final that now heads back to the “Joe” for game five.

How did they do it? They did it from huge performances from the best players starting with finally a solid performance from Marc-Andrea Fleury in the net along with the usual suspects Crosby, Malkin, Staal and a ton of grit work done by the plumbers.

If the Wings win this series it won’t be like last year because the Pens lost an early home game in that series that cost them the Cup.

Now with the series knotted at two a piece the Wings better show up at home and not get out worked as they did last night by a wide margin.

The Wings power play was brutal and it cost them a shorthanded goal by Staal who may have changed the series around with that key goal to tie up the game. Then the Wings could not stop the bleeding as the Pens rolled over the Wings in every facet of the game there after.

Shockingly last night HNIC’s Don Cherry said he thought that the Pens Malkin would win the MVP of playoffs mostly because of his point production but what is so surprising is Cherry is no fan of Russian players.

My question is why does everyone dis Crosby so much, he only leads the league in playoff goals with 15 and has been dynamite consistent the entire playoffs for the Pens.

Speaking of CBC coverage of HNIC on television here in Canada there is always something going wrong with their audio breaking up with static during games.

It happens so often on their coverage that any time the game is also on another channel I will watch that over HNIC. To make matters worse they have chosen to add to their intermission lineup this very odd i-desk portion with a good reporter Morrison but what the hell is this useless little shit Jeff Marek doing on TV?

My wife who wouldn’t know Marek if she fell over him ( She actually could he is so small) asked me who is this idiot did he win a contest to do this ? As I laughed all I could think of is why the hell would Morrison be a part of this or at least why not allow Morrison on his own to bring some professionalism or belief to the thoughts, cause Marek just doesn’t do it for anyone that I have talked to about this segment.

Wow- here’s hoping TSN gets the rights to hockey full time in Canada over the low rated CBC.

SACCO TO COACH AV’S

I hate to say this because I like when teams give new fresh blood the chance to take over teams like the current Cup finalists Pittsburgh Penguins did with Dan Blysma.

The list where it has worked goes on & on and has been a success around the league look at also the Capitals improvement under Bruce Boudreau or the Sharks under Todd McLellan this season. Panthers much improved season under Pete DeBoer who did an outstanding job right out of Junior.

But this hire of Joe Sacco is simply to keep the seat warm until the team is better and is ready for Patrick Roy who turned the job down a week earlier with the Av’s.

For Hockey God I’m Dave Frost

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