Yinzers,
The Pens continue to hover right around the .500 mark since late December and early January. Thursday night, the Pens traveled to Edmonton to take on the young, fast Oilers. The Pens picked up a 3-2 win in Edmonton to try and get back on track. Scoring did not pick up until the second period with two Oiler goals coming from Andrew Cogliano on the power play and a second power play goal from Lubomir Visnovsky. The Pens answered in the third period with three of their own from Tyler Kennedy, Matt Cooke on the power play and Pascal Dupuis. Marc-Andre Fleury turned away 33 of 35 Edmonton shots, but suffered a broken finger late in the game, which would play a factor in the next game.
The last game of the Penguins' great northern tour took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadia. The Pens came into General Motors Place with two on the injured list...they just so happened to be Marc-Andre Fleury and Brent Johnson. The Pens had to call up two young'ns to fill in the gaps. John Curry of Wilkes Barre-Scranton started the game, the first of his career. Curry faced quite the assault from the Canuck offense, letting in 5 goals on 14 shots. He was replaced later by Alexander Pechurski, a 19 year old rookie from Magnitogorsk, Russia. Pechurski turned away 12 of 13 shots, but the Pens could not muster up enough offense to beat Roberto Luongo, losing to the Canucks 6-2.
The Pens next game is Tuesday night at 7:30 when they take on John Tavares and the New York Islanders. The Isles have their "star" back in Rick Dipietro, so we'll see how that ends up.
In other news, the Penn State Student Hockey League starts up this week with yours truly playing for the white team.
B Brog
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