Last night in Pittsburgh, the Penguins showed why they are defending champs. The Penguins were able to score on not 2 not 3 powerplays but on all 4 powerplays and the Pens also did a good job at killing penalties as Montreal was only able to score 1 powerplay goal on 5 opportunities. But even though Montreal dominated the game they weren't able to score and the Penguins were that was the difference. The Penguins even made Montreal pull out Halak (after the Penguins scored 5 goals on 20 shots) and put Price in (Price just had to make 3 saves)."We talked about getting traffic, we talked about getting pucks through, and we executed -- that's the difference," Crosby said.
"When you do the right things, you give yourself a chance. We got some good areas to get shots away. I still think we can get more shots, still think we can generate more."In the win, Gonchar, Stall (who left the game with a injury),Letang,Adams, Goligoski and Gurein all scored for the Pens and Fleury made 28 saves on 31 shots in the 6-3 victory. As for Montreal, PK Subban, Mike Cammalleri and Brian Gionta all scored for Montreal in the loss."They beat us in the special teams department," Montreal forward Scott Gomez said. "I mean there's a reason they hoisted the Cup last year. If you make mistakes, they're going to jump on them." But a positive to take note of if you go for Montreal is they finally were not in there own end of the ice as much as they were in the Washington series. If you don't believe me just look at the shots. The shots were 31-24 in favour of Montreal.
"When you do the right things, you give yourself a chance. We got some good areas to get shots away. I still think we can get more shots, still think we can generate more."In the win, Gonchar, Stall (who left the game with a injury),Letang,Adams, Goligoski and Gurein all scored for the Pens and Fleury made 28 saves on 31 shots in the 6-3 victory. As for Montreal, PK Subban, Mike Cammalleri and Brian Gionta all scored for Montreal in the loss."They beat us in the special teams department," Montreal forward Scott Gomez said. "I mean there's a reason they hoisted the Cup last year. If you make mistakes, they're going to jump on them." But a positive to take note of if you go for Montreal is they finally were not in there own end of the ice as much as they were in the Washington series. If you don't believe me just look at the shots. The shots were 31-24 in favour of Montreal.
But I have some bad news for Montreal fans as well. Andrei Markov was hit in the first period by Matt Cook and was sent flying into the boards and the report on his injury is it's a lower-body injury.Markov is expected to be out for the rest of this series.“That’s a huge loss for us,” said Hal Gill.
Game 2 of this series will be Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm E.t on CBC, NBC and or RDS.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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