Kid Rock Sucks..Pens Escape Motor City With Win

PENS 5 -WINGS 4 (SO)

You know you are watching a game in Detroit when at every possible moment some joke feels the urge to stand up and wave at the camera. Sit down and watch the game buddy. Its not like your mom can see you on TV. She doesn't own one....she lives in Detroit. Remember?

The Pens looked like world beaters for about 40 minutes. The bad thing about that is that hockey is a 60 minute game, and in last night's case 65 minutes.

Still the Pens were able to muster enough strength clench their ass cheeks and not shit that game away. 2 points is 2 points. 

Dupuis got the game going making it 1-0 on a weak backhander that snuck through Howard's 5-hole. 

Kunitz then gave the Pens a 2-0 before the end of the 1st with a nice rebound goal. Assist to Howard on that one.

In the 2nd Matt Niskanen takes a boarding penalty. Matt Cooke gets 5 and a game for that along with probably a 4 game suspension. Matt Niskanen? 2 minutes.

Duper gets the puck on the PK and leads a 2 on 1. Tries to shovel the pass on the backhand...epic fail...gets lucky...pots his 2nd of the game to make it 3-0.

Kennedy then scores his 17th of the year on a nice little backhander. 4-0 Pens. Howard pull. Party time in the Burgh or so we thought.

Detroit gets one before the end of the 2nd, then goes on a tear in the 3rd, notching 3 in the first 10 minutes of the period.

Pens holding on for dear life mode. BJ comes up huge on a 2 on 1 robbing Helm.

OT decides nothing. Shootout time.

BJ-BJ-BJ.

Then Neal has the opportunity to end it and does wiring a wrister by MacDonald. GAME.

THREE STARS:

3rd star - V. Filppula - DET

2nd star - P. Dupuis - PIT

1st star - J. Neal - PIT

Pens retain their hold on 4th in the East and move up to 92 points with 9 games left to play.

Philly on Thursday....remember them?

We'll never know...we'll never know...

GO PENS