Within a few seconds of the opening puck drop, this happened:
Why is T.K spazzing his leg out?
Then not but a minute later, Asham decided to say welcome to pain town, population Konopka.
Asham promptly reintroduces him to the inside of his shirt.
Even though this game was an 0-1 shutout the game was still a fun one to watch, surprising because it involved the Islanders. If you get past the fact that the Penguins seem to do particularly poorly against netminders they've never seen before, it was a goalie's dueling dream. Fleury made 30 saves, almost every one of them spectacular. Kevin Poulin was playing out of his mind, standard M.O like any goalie who's faced the Pens for the first time, Bobrovsky on opening day in Consol ring a bell? In the end though, Craig M.F'ing Adams made the game winning goal in the middle of the third period.
He didn't do it on his own though, off a Dustin Jeffrey faceoff win, which is dished over to Lovejoy who rockets it to the net, Asham catches the rebound, somehow it gets to Adams and he puts that bastard in the twine. The Islanders still fought down to the wire though shooting pucks on net right up until the buzzer, keeping MAF on his toes all game. But, Marc Andre Fleury is a certified BAMF, so MAF, BAMF'd all over the Islanders efforts, to take home his second shutout of the year.
Pens win a much needed 2 points before the break and now get to go spend time with their families. Except for Letestu, Lovejoy and Talbot going to Florida to beat the winter cold. Craig Adams deciding that last night was his Superbowl, says that he too is going to Florida and he's taking the family to Disney World.
Rest up easy Penguins, you earned it.
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