It appears the the Pens are now out of the funk that they suffered through the first 4 games. If they can win Tuesday night in Chicago, anything can happen in game 7!
Dennis Bonvie has stepped up these last two games, and is doing an amazing job at keeping Chicago off balance.
After a hard-fought second game, the Penguins were not able to overcome the Chicago Wolves, and now trail in the series with two games coming up at home. It was a hard fought physical game with SWB getting under the skin of several Wolves players. I forsee this becoming a larger storyline as this series continues. There were three occasions of a Wolves player being face-down, motionless, or crawling off the ice on their hands and knees on clean hits from WBS. Clearly it wasn’t enough though, after spotting the opposition 3-0 leads in each of the first two games.
On the fight front there was one when Nathan Smith and Oystrick went toe to toe. Nathan threw about 10 punches and landed one or two - and Oystrick threw one and landed none - I personally call it a draw, then Oystrick did this little spinning dance, for what reason, who knows. It looked like someone from Will and Grace. Bottom line, if you don’t win the fight, don’t dance. The home crowd may like it, but to the real world you just end up looking like a bad mustache with a drunk sorority girl attached to it.
Also, congrats to Haydar on his two goals giving him the all time AHL playoff scoring title.
Of course they are focusing on a guy who goes to a game, and leaves disappointed if he doesn’t see a fight. I want to see a good game, and if there is a fight in it - so be it.
The pens dropped game two to Portland tonight to tie up the series at one game apiece. As you can see below big number 5 had a tilt with Simon Fergoson which Engelland handled quite easily.
Another great games by the Pens as they outscored the Phantoms 8-4. Philadelphia did however win the MMA crown of the AHL and found themselves in the penalty box numerous times. So many times in fact, that the arena is looking into putting an automatic door on the sin bin, much like your local supermarket. Due to overcrowding, you now also need a reservation for the Phantoms penalty box. So Tristan, if you are out there, make sure you call ahead for special stupid penalty seating , and request a good seat near the ice for the first, second, and third period…