Last 2012-2013 Regular Season Game! Pens vs Hurricanes! 4/27/13

Well we are already here everyone, the last game of the regular season. Lucky us though, the Pens are headed to the playoffs! The Pens have had an amazing season, winning the Atlantic Division title and the Eastern Conference! We are still not sure who the Pens will face in the first round of the playoffs, but by tonight we should! The Pens host the Hurricanes in their last home game of the regular season. It will be the first time Jordan Staal will be back at Consol Energy Center since he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes. On the injury front: Sid skated with the team Friday and skated this morning, he could be back for the 1st round series! Only time will tell and it will depend on what the doctors say in the upcoming days. Also Orpik remains day-to-day with a lower body injury. On the bright side both Martin and Neal will make their comebacks tonight! Great to have those guys ready to go for the playoffs! Unrelated to hockey, Flower and his wife Veronique welcomed their first child to the world yesterday, a baby girl by the name of Estelle! Congrats Flower on becoming a new daddy!

The Pens lineup is as follows


Forwards
Kuni, Geno, Neal
Iginla, Jokinen, Duper
Morrow, Sutter, Cooke 
Glass, Adams, TK

Defense
Eaton, Tanger
Murray, Niskane
Despres, Martin

New daddy Flower will start between the pipes!

Play By Play

3rd Period

Pens win 8   Canes 3

48.5  Jokinen to Super Duper and he scores

4:17  Cooke with a goal from sutter.

5:23   Letang 1 point behind Subban, LetsGoTanger

7:08    Letang clears it down the ice to kill off the penalty

9:04  Pens Morrow going to penalty box for high stick.  Stay strong Pens

9:29  Tanger doing all he can to get another point

14:36  Sutter to Morrow, Score.  Pens looking like their ready for the Playoffs.

15:46 Malkin to Neal Score,  Hatter for James Neal the real deal.

16:33  Flower laying all over the ice to save the puck from going in

18:24 Malkin to Neal and he scores.  The duo is back

19:15  Canes get a goalie interference, J Staal to the sin bin

20:00   The puck drops and were off in the last period



2nd Period


Period ends  game tied 3-3

59:7 Time out

2:09 Canes score off a face off, we got a tie game folks.

2:46 Fleury with a great upended save, but can't get up in time to get the rebound off pens skate and Canes score.  Pens 3 Canes 2

3:50 Tanger with great vision to get the puck down the ice, jokinen scores

4:20 Tanger with a wicked shot, trying to pick all he can.

7:30 Canes score

9:35 Papa Fleury with a nice save

10:42  Nice shot from Morrow, robbed the goalie

13:13 Fleury wanting a win for baby Estelle.. Congrats to the new parents

13:33 Flower with nice same, assisted by Tanger

13:57 Flower with another great save.  Pens looking better tonight, getting in playoff mode

15:52  Tanger to Neal.. Score, another point for Letang

17:52  Ruutu with a penalty for tripping, going to sin bin

18:36  Canes ice the puck

18:56  Pens Iginla takes penalty for hooking

20:00  The puck drops and we are underway.  Need to keep with the pressure and help get Tanger some points to help him overtake Subban



1st Period
Period ends with Pens 1 Canes 0

4:37  Murray takes a penalty for holding.  We need to watch giving the Canes these chances

4:37  Flower is a awesome save, covering up the puck.

6:47  Great job to kill off that penalty.  Let Go Pens

8:56  Martin draws a penalty with a backhander over the glass

9:11 Geno scores from Neal, sneaks it in by the Netminder, Sneaky, Sneaky

10:28  E. Staal going to sin bin for slashing.  Time to get a goal

11:27  Pens ice the puck

12:55  Neal back on the ice tonight, nice sight to see

14:42  All 3 Staal brothers will be on the ice tonight for the Canes.

20:00- It's the last time the puck will drop at Consol Energy Center for the 2012-13 Regular season! Lets Go Pens!