Friday, January 2, 2009

Game 38 Recap: BRUINS 4 PENS 2 TOP OF THE LEAGUE

San Jose still has a game in hand, but they did lose to the Wild.

Well, that was fun. You can check out the gnashing of teeth over at The Pensblog.

Let's get recapping.

3 minutes in, Dustin Jeffrey scores his first NHL goal from the top of the circle.
0-1. Uh oh, is this the game where they break all those streaks?

1 minute later, the Ryder-Wheeler-Krejci line enters the zone. They pass it around seemingly effortlessly, and get Krejci the puck in front of the net. He deflects it in. GOAL.

1-1. Holy crap that was pretty. Even the pens announcer thought so.

Then the Bruins end up on a Power Play. P.J. Axelsson is out there. %90 of Bruins fans are all "What the heck is P.J. doing on the - " GOAL!

2-1. That's what he's doing on the powerplay. You're wrong again, Milbury.

Second Period.

The Lucic-Kobasew-Yelle line skates it into the zone. Kobasew centers it to Lucic and Yelle. Yelle trips over a guy, Lucic shoots. GOAL

3-1. You're still thinking the Pens could come back.

In the third, Malkin and Fedotenko define "pretty redirect play."
3-2. You're even more worried about a comeback.

Then Jordan Staal gets stood up on the blue line by tiny little Vladimir Sobotka.

Jack Edwards talks about the height and weight difference.

With a minute left, you can tell Sabourin is trying to get to the bench. But the Bruins keep it in the offensive zone for about 30 seconds. Finally the pens get it out, and the net empties. Savard gets the puck and ices the puck...into the goal.

4-2. 2 seconds left. You're not worried about a comeback anymore.

Game.

WIN!

Record: 29-5-4 (W10)
Home: 14-1-1 (W14)
L10: 10-0-0
January: 1-0-0
GO BRUINS!

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