All Entries Tagged With: "overtime"
Gaborik Plays Hero As Rangers Edge Bruins In Battle Of Eastern Conference Elite
On Saturday afternoon, the New York Rangers came to TD Garden as the first place team in the Eastern Conference. When they left the snowy mess of New England, they we’re still atop the conference after an impressive 3-2 overtime win over the defending Stanley Cup Champions. With only 3.6 seconds left in overtime in [...]
Persistence pays off: Pens take 3-1 series lead on Neal’s 2OT rocket
Game 4: Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay 2 (2 OT). Pittsburgh leads series 3-1. Snakebitten Pittsburgh winger James Neal unloaded two months worth of frustration with a rocket wrist shot from the right half-wall 3:38 into double overtime to give the Penguins a sudden 3-2 win over the Lightning in Tampa Bay tonight and a chance to close [...]
Penguins emerge from gruelling month still in contention
When the Pittsburgh Penguins skated off home ice on the night of Friday, February 4, 2011, they must have had a sick feeling in their stomachs despite edging Buffalo 3-2. They were just one point behind Philadelphia for the Atlantic Division lead and six points ahead of Washington sitting comfortably in fourth in the Eastern Conference. [...]
Olympic gold in Vancouver: What a difference one year makes
One year ago today, the eyes of the world – at least those parts where snow and ice are found – were fixated on Vancouver for the final event of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Men’s Gold Medal Hockey Game between the United States and host Canada. The Americans surprised most experts in their run-up [...]
XI Makes XXV Memorable
The Kings #11, Anze Kopitar, had another big goal in their 25th game of the year. He scored with less than a minute to go in overtime to down the Red Wings. In this article you’ll get post game notes on Dustin Brown, Mike Modano, Jonathan Quick, Chris Osgood, Drew Doughty and more.
Furious finish: Rangers blow late lead, then sink Penguins in OT
For the first 57 minutes and 29 seconds, it appeared the story of the night would be the calm, impenetrable goaltending of New York Ranger Henrik Lundqvist who turned away the first 36 shots he faced from the Pittsburgh Penguins. However, in the final 2:31 of regulation and an additional 1:22 of overtime, the game took [...]
Picking “Bonus 5″ Greatest Games in Pens’ history is not easy
As promised in yesterday’s post, a quintet of “bonus material” in the form of five additional memorable games from Penguins’ history, is presented here. The only restriction used when scouring the annals of the black and gold was to ensure that any game already used in “Pittsburgh Penguins: 10 Greatest Games” and games on the [...]
Ken Holland’s 3-on-3 OT Idea
Pierre LeBrun recently reported that Ken Holland is planning on presenting his idea for a new overtime format at next month’s GM meeting in Toronto. Holland’s idea is to expand the five minute OT to eight minutes. And then modify it with four minutes of 4-on-4 play followed by four minutes of 3-on-3 play. The [...]
History repeats itself: Pens come back from 3-0 down to bounce Sens
Game 6: Pittsburgh 4 @ Ottawa 3 (1 OT) The Pittsburgh Penguins advanced to the second round of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs, eliminating Ottawa at 9:56 of the first overtime tonight on Pascal Dupuis’ clinching goal in the sixth game of their first round series with the Senators. The game was eerily reminiscent of the first round sixth [...]
Life is tough: Pens lose in 3 OT … back to Ottawa on Saturday
Game 5: Ottawa 4 @ Pittsburgh 3 (3 OT) Ottawa defenceman Matt Carkner’s slap shot from centre point through a maze of players trickled between the pads of Marc-Andre Fleury giving the Senators a 4-3 win at 7:06 of triple overtime, preventing the Penguins from clinching the first round series on home ice. The two [...]
“Skills Competition” Decides the East. And, so What?
I’m obviously in the minority here. I have no problems with the shootout. In fact I like it. If it’s so wrong to have a player skate in alone on the goalie why not whistle a breakaway dead like an offside play? If it’s so wrong to have a player skate in alone on the [...]
Without a second to spare … ‘Canes edge Pens in OT
After an up and down five-game road trip, the Penguins took a brief rest stop this afternoon at Mellon Arena to host Carolina before heading back out on the road for two games next week. The Penguins looked sluggish early, then traded quick rushes up and down the ice throughout most of the game with [...]
E pluribus, Crosby
Sidney Crosby was born and bred for this moment. In a country that elevates its sublimely talented hockey superstars to iconic status, it was only appropriate that out of the many star players populating Team Canada’s roster, the wunderkind from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia would emerge as the one who seized the moment that asked for a hero. Out [...]
Crosby shootout winner saves Canada from another Swiss upset
Four years to the day that Switzerland shut out Canada 2-0 in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics which began a slow, suffocating spiral out of medal contention for Canada, few fans believed that history could repeat itself. But the determined Swiss once again kept pace with Canada, extending the hosts to a shootout before assistant [...]
Eerieness and excitement: Haven’t I seen this ending before?
Normally, I try to shy away from game recaps, leaning more toward opinions, analysis and wry humour. However, in the moments after last evening’s wild win by the Penguins over Boston, 6-5 in overtime at Mellon Arena, I found myself thinking back to a similarly epic win (ha, ha) by the Pens at Detroit almost [...]