Saturday, May 9, 2009

Morning Dump: A Pens' Edition




"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

A quick turnaround today as the Pens and Caps get right back on the ice. This time though, the bad blood is flowing.

That dirty son of a bitch Ovechkin, in my opinion, which is probably slightly homer, clearly led with his right knee and went knee to knee on Gonchar.

See the hit here.

Impact moment in a screencap here.

Without knowing too many details of the injury, it looks to me like a hyperextension injury to the knee. Let's just hope that he didn't tear his ACL. The thing that may have saved Gonchar is the fact that his foot wasn't planted like in the example here, thus making it difficult to do enough extension to tear it.

Meanwhile, as to the dirty pond scum Ovechkin, any question as to whether or not he led with his shoulder and Gonchar moved away (as he claims) or whether he led with his right leg is answered with this screencap here.

He led with the leg, pure and simple, game, set, match. League office...the ball's in your court. I predict a fine and no suspension.

As for the game, the Pens finally got to rookie goalie Varlamov. He let softies in like a fat kid would with donuts. He's never played back to back games in his career and coming off a shit game like that, it'll be interesting to see how he responds. The former "baddest man on the planet" once said that, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit". Well tonight we see what Varlamov does because he got hit.

The Pens finally got some help from players not named Crosby and Malkin.

Game 5 may be important.

And as for Game 5, with the Pens full of piss and vinegar, I conclude and tee up the game with another line from the great movie 'Tombstone', and if this doesn't fire you up after all that transpired last night, then you're not human:


"From now on I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur. And tell the other curs the law is coming. You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!"

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