The Lions' Pride

What about them?? Got outplayed but Bryz stood on his head. They were bound to win a game against NJ sometime. Bryz was great for them in OT, they were completely dominated in that extra period and the Devils had some great chances, especially the 2 from Elias point blank

They were fortunate to win last night no doubt. Bryz looked good, which has always been a question mark this year and last. Hoping for a season saving trade...

Rags have given up. That is a team in shambles. On paper, the Nash deal looked good when it was done. Now, it looks terrible. Alot of NY's depth went in that deal.

Torts has to be on the firing line. Under his guidance, its where goal scorers go and die. Richards is terrible; Gaborik isn't that good ... His system is terrible for the Rags. If you were a high scoring guy, would you want to play for him?

Today's game easily could have been 6-0.

This is like my only source of Eastern hockey this year lol.

9 in a row...

Beat some pretty good teams too in this streak.

Hopefully Tanger is nothing serious.

Left up a lot of shots on goal and some juicy rebounds but guys in better position than I've seen in awhile with the Pens to clean up the garbage, and all that matters is goals. Even though he made some stupid plays and let up some rebounds, Vokoun overall looked real good though. Glad he got a win against possibly the best team in the East to help bring his confidence back up some.

7-0 now since we signed Eaton?!

Huge win. Who would have thought Vitale would score the game winner?

Team has really got things together. Still say we have some minor deals to be made, but nine wins in a row and most of them without Malkin is speaking volumes. I don't get the scratch of Despres though. We could have used him.

Now, who? Washington?

Good thing for them is there are still 20 games left. Just like the hawks, they peaked early enough that even if they fall off a bit, they have plenty of time left in the season to get back to the next gear.

IIRC it was around this time last year. For some reason, I remember flipping between the NCAA tournament and a pens-flyers game on a Sunday afternoon. IIRC the Flyers beat the Pens in OT to end that streak.

The Stanley Cup playoffs are about luck of the draw in matchup as much as anything, IMO. Both the Flyers and Pens had some favorable matchups in 2008-10 when they advanced to the Finals those years. For example, the Pens were lucky to avoid the Bruins in 2009 after the Canes upset them in the second round, and the Flyers were lucky the Canadiens knocked the Pens out in 2010. The pens were unlucky to draw the Flyers last year, who then had the bad luck to face a NJ team that barely squeezed by FL in the first round.

I get what you're saying about peaking too soon and not being able to recapture the magic, but I still bet any GM would rather have the "problem" the Pens or Blackhwaks have.

IMHO the playoffs are all about how hot your goalie gets, but luck of the draw helps too.

The showed that Orpik finally went with a visor and I believe yesterday took a puck to the face. Good thing the visor was there, otherwise ...

11 game winning streak! Nice job PENS!

Very lucky with the way that game played out. The Pens must have thought the game was a 7:30 start. That first period was some bad hockey.

Nice to see Shanahan protecting one of his former clubs. Nash's hit was worse than Lupul's. I think he has some explaining to do on that one.