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Friday, 31 December 2010 10:26

Written by Seth Rorabaugh

PREGAME
(We'll bust out the CBC playoff opening for today.)

Greetings from:

"Hockeytahn:"

-Heinz Field:

-A pair of lost souls:

-Old gate D from Three Rivers Stadium:

-Speaking of which:

-Fans walking up the North Shore Riverwalk:

-Mario Lemieux has fans both young and old:

-This will be a really dijointed attempt at a live blog. Our apologies beforehand. The aren't roster or even steady replays of the action on the ice. And we're like 50,000,000 feet away from the field.

-Jimerson handles the national anthem:

-The Penguins' starters are Gilles Meloch, Paul Coffey, Bill Guerin, Larry Murphy, Mario  Lemieux and Kevin Stevens.

-The Penguins are wearing their 2008 Winter Classic jerseys. So that baby blue Lemieux jersey you bought after the 2008 Winter Classic? No long a jacket foul.

-The Capitals are wearing their current jerseys.

FIRST PERIOD

16:10: Meloche makes a save... from above the top of both faceoff circles. It takes roughtly 40 minutes for him to get back in net.

15:38: And that old Brown to Lemieux connection strikes. The old pair of all-star linemates hook up on a goal against Washington goaltender Don Beaupre. The "Woo-Hoo!" song is played. Penguins 1-0.

-We assure you it wasn't as pretty as this goal:

13:04: Tie game. Alan May beats Meloche from the slot. Capitals 1, Penguins 1.

12:05: Uh oh. The Capitals take a lead. Paul Mulvey beats Meloche. Put in Gilles Meloche! Capitals 2-1.

10:23: Tie game again. Rod Buskas cashes in. The "Woo-Hoo!" song is played. Capitals 2, Penguins 2.

-It wasn't as pretty as this goal:

8:10: The Penguins take a lead as Craig Simpson beats Beaupre on the near side from the right circle. The Woo-Hoo!" song is played Penguins 3-2.

-It wasn't as pretty as this goal:

8:00: You can only contain Mark Lofthouse for so long. He beats Pietrangelo to tie the game. Capitals 3, Penguins 3.

6:30: There was pretty awful traffic getting here today. Fans were a little late filing in. But late in the first period, the stands begin to fill out a bit:

4:05: A lukewarm "Let's Go Pens!" chant breaks out.

0:19: Coffey makes a pretty nice dash up the right wing by the Capitals defense.

0:00: End of period. Capitals 3, Penguins 3.

FIRST INTERMISSION

-As someone said to us yesterday, the highlight of a game like this is the introductions. That person wasn't kidding. It's basically a bunch of old guys playing pick up.

-During the intermission, Robbie Brown offers "The Windmill:"

SECOND PERIOD

20:00: Frank Pietrangelo replaces Gilles Meloche.

19:41: Lemieux cuts in off the left wing and feed Brown who appears to whiff a bit on a one-timer from the slot.

17:45: Peter Taglianetti has a one-timer from the top of the slot denied.

15:30: Cotton candy is indeed, here:

14:38: The Capitals take back the lead after Paul Mulvey re-directs a puck by Pietrangelo on the stick side. Dean Evason gets the lone assist. Capitals 4-3.

14:03: We actually get a penalty called. Gary Rissling, seventh all-time on the Penguins with 832 penalty minutes, is sent off for a minor.

10:50: Gary Roberts is robbed in tight on a backhander by Beaupre. BIGGGGGG save.

9:11: Jay Caufield!?!? THe former Penguins bruiser steps up and hammers a lose puck on net with a one-timer which squeaks through Beaupre. Beaupre should have to forfeit his NHLPA pension for allowing a goal to Caufield. Bryan Trottier and Troy Loney get assists. The "Woo-Hoo!" song is played.

-Sadly, a search for evidence of Jay Caufield's scoring ability turns up little:

6:55: Brown gets hauled down in the left circle on a rush to the net. An animated Gary Rissling campaigns for a penalty shot. No dice. The Penguins send out a power play unit of Lemieux, Simpson, Coffey, Murphy and Errey.

6:32: During a stoppage, Kevin Stevens is interviewed by Dan Potash. A translator was not on hand to translate however.

5:43: And the Penguins take a lead. Murphy controsl the puck at the top of the slot and feathers a pass down low to the side of the cage for Ronnie Franchise. Ron Francis puts the Penguins in the lead. Murphy and Lemieux get assists.

-It was almost as big as this goal:

3:16: Caufield isn't messing around. He flops down to block a shot from the left point. Yeesh.

2:00: Controversey! Murphy rips a wrister from the right circle and scores but the goal is waved off. Kevin Stevens fell on and crushed tripped Beaupre. No goal.

1:00: Beaupre is pulled for an extra attacker.

0:44: And they tie it late! Petr Bondra blasts a one-timer from the slot. Ken Sabourin gets the only assist. Capitals 5, Penguins 5.

0:00: End of game. Capitals 5, Penguins 5.

POSTGAME

-Fans boo with the game being announced as a tie. A "LET-THEM-PLAY!" chant rains down.

-Hey, it's a throwback game. Let's go back to ties right?

-The team's have a hand shake line:

We'll have more later today from practices. Please stay tuned.

Comments (13)

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written by ncsurveygirl, December 31, 2010 - 09:38 AM

No helmets, lol!

I'm not seeing Ronnie Franchise, I know he said during the Canes game Wed he was going to be there. Good ol Gary Roberts is there though!!

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written by krikker, December 31, 2010 - 09:43 AM

I hate iPads. Format of the vid feed not compatible withbthe evil jobs empire! Argh!

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written by KRC, December 31, 2010 - 09:45 AM

The video feed looks like crap.. in "full screen" mode it's less than a quarter of the screen.. Boy, definitely looks like old people playing hockey.

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written by ncsurveygirl, December 31, 2010 - 09:47 AM

Ok Ronnie and Gary both having 10 threw me off!

@krikker, thats why I dont own anything apple, jobs the jobber, lol!

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written by KRC, December 31, 2010 - 09:48 AM

Looks like if either goalie tried to do a split, they'd wind up being carted off the ice.

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written by pghgal317, December 31, 2010 - 09:49 AM

Krikker, I don't know what browser you have, but I couldn't get audio with Firefox (I'm on my work PC though) and had to switch to Internet Explorer. Maybe try Safari?

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written by krikker, December 31, 2010 - 09:54 AM

Can't get anything audio or video, just a picture of Jobs sitting on top of a big pile of my money. Am in the burgh to go to the game tomorrow gonna run down to lobby to see if they have a feed.

Awesome side note, saw Doc Emrick in the lobby last night. Waved to say hello, ended up talking for 20 minutes. What an awesome guy! Also saw Brian Engblom (sp?) who could not look more different in person vs tv. Looks like he should be on a Led Zeppelin reunion tour

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written by ncsurveygirl, December 31, 2010 - 10:03 AM

I think you need to trade in your ipad for a galaxy tab, you should be able to play flash on there.

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written by eman41, December 31, 2010 - 10:04 AM

Re: Apple

Watching the game via Firefox on my MacPro. iPads don't do flash, which kinda sucks (but will never change).

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written by RichYan33, December 31, 2010 - 10:18 AM

This is like watching paint freeze. I'm glad I didn't get tickets and drag myself down there this morning.

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written by pittbeatwv, December 31, 2010 - 10:41 AM

Wow... someone needs to enjoy life a little bit.

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written by ncsurveygirl, December 31, 2010 - 10:53 AM

that was great!

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written by bastage42, December 31, 2010 - 03:06 PM

Oh, if only they'd let this one go to a shootout

Regardless, I wish I could have been there, thawing paint and all.

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