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Pens stressing me out. Phil needed that goal. He was super frustrated.

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I feel a lot better after that win. Phil seemed more relieved than anything to get that goal. I admire Ottawa's commitment to defense, but with 1 shot in about minutes in a 0-0 game, well scoring goals is also part of the game. And Fleury's having a Conn Smythe worthy playoffs thus far. Still, I haven't seen the Pens' offense this frustrated in a long time.

And stop it with the injuries! They are down their top 3 D-men!

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Pens absolutely dominated 2nd and 3rd. Just keep playing the same way.

Sens didn't even try to generate shots, went nearly 20 minutes without one. Only had 3 in the 3rd.

Really impressed with Kunitz and Rubwedel's play on both ends tonight. Pens forecheck was relentless.

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Pens won a 1-0 game. With all the offense they have and all the injuries. What a world we live in.

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Wilson was crushing people too

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A win's a win's a win. More than halfway there now. Agreed about Kunitz and Ruwhedel (sp?). Very impressed by their efforts tonight.

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As tomlin says, we dont care about style points

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This Pens/Sens series is going to get absolutely intense going forward. It showed all game last night.

And man, I watch Kessel and it reminds me how much I miss having a player like that on the Flyers. Hartnell was that energy/leader guy and he was a big part of their success.

Oooooooh yea :lol:lol

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Phil "I don't need no stinkin assist" Kessel

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Let's not be silly. It's gonna be way longer than a year.

(Yeah, I had to get another Ovie jab in)

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Love angry Phil.

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Steve Mears is leaving NHL network to join Penguins as color broadcaster, and Paul Steigerwald is stepping down to go back into marketing for the Pens.

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This is great news.

Cant stand Steiggy on the broadcast. Big fan of Mearsy.

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Wow!

I've always missed Mike Lange on the TV broadcasts.

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Yeah I wish he was still there. But hes gotta be considering retirement soon.


I love that Benstonium syncs his goal calls to video after each game.

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:thumbsup

One of the drawbacks of HD/Satellite/Streaming is the delay between TV and radio.

Real yinzers back in the day put the tv on mute and turned up the radio. :lol

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I thought steigerwald did PbP and errey did color?

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You are correct.

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I knew I never liked Steve Mears

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so they're getting an entire new broadcast team then? that would be good because errey is awful

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Mears is doing pbp. Errey still on commentary.

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/st...ts/c-289465720

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Erry can have his moments but I dont dislike him, he adds quality hockey info when his bias isnt showing. I think he will be better with Mears.

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that is what I figured. two color guys, that would be too much color

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let me know when that is, it hasn't happened yet

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Speaking of broadcasters.... I have really missed Doc over the course of the last two games.

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Best in the biz... is he doing any of the remaining pens games this series?

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If you were a Flyers fan you would be in the group of fans who hate Claude Giroux. Not saying that's a bad thing, but Philly has a pocket of fans highly critical of their captain too.

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:confused Doc did game 1?

EDIT: this could be wrong, was looking at a forward-looking press release dated friday---maybe he had some kind of emergency or health thing?

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Unless those couple beers I had Saturday night had something a little extra...

I didn't think Doc did Pens-Sens game 1.

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he was supposed to call the whole series, wonder what happened

maybe the dreaded lower body injury, won't expect an update