April 18th, Game 3 ECQF Penguins @ Tampa Bay

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April 18th,
Game 3 ECQF Penguins @ Tampa Bay

Pre-Game Hype:
The Lightning were giving out minidrums to the fans in the arena.
Crosby was not training with the team.
Pens needs to win a game on the road.
Penguins Powerplay need to improve.

Anthem Song: nothing new.

First Period.

45 sec in to the first period. Ryan Malone with a quickshot on goal but Fleury makes his first save of the night, Malone gets the puck to Purcell, Purcell shoots but another good save by Fleury.

5:30 min in to the first period. Lovejoy gets back to his and the Penguins zone to take the puck, while skating around the penguins net with the puck he gets drilled by Downie who also left his feet and was aiming at the head of Lovejoy when hitting him. (Downie got a one game suspension afterwards and will miss game 4) After the hit the puck went to Talbot who was skating in to the Lightning zone and took a shot when he saw Conner screening the goalie and SCORES! Maxime Talbot scores his first goal of the Playoffs! Penguins take the lead 1-0.

6:30 min in to the first period. The Lightning has the puck in the Penguins zone. But then Rupp gets the puck and skates all the way in to the Lightning zone. He passes the puck to an open Asham and SCORES! Arron Asham with his second goal of the playoffs! Penguins makes it 2-0.







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8:00 min in to the first period. Brewer gets the puck in the Penguins zone and passes the puck to Stamkos infront of Fleury who shoots but Fleury with a save, on the rebound Stamkos gets another chance and shoots but another great save by Fleury!.

13:00 min in to the first period. Neal has the puck in the Lightning zone, he passes the puck to Letestu, Letestu takes a shot but a save by Roloson, Neal gets the puck and shots but another save by Roloson, Neal gets the puck again and shoots again after seeing a open net but he hits the post. Neal can't score i the playoffs it seems. Penalty called for Goaltender interference on Alexei Kovalev. Bullshit. Kovalev got pushed in to the Roloson by Ölund.

15:00 min in to the first period. Lightning on the Powerplay. Stamkos get the puck, Stamkos shoots the puck but Fleury with a save, it goes to Gagne who shoots, it hits the post, St. Louis gets the puck and shoots it and scores. St. Louis scores his second goal of the playoffs and makes it 1-2 Lightning.

End of the First Period

Second Period

8:30 min in to the second period. Malone has the puck in the Penguins zone. Malone gets through Michalek and goes for the shot but missed the goal.

17:00 min in to the second period. Penguins on the Powerplay *suck*. Letang gets the puck from a faceoff in the Lightning zone, He passes the puck to Kovalev, Kovalev shoots the puck. Save by Roloson but on the rebound it goes to Neal with a perfect chance to score but Roloson with an incredible save to robb Neal from a goal.

End of the Second Period

Third Period

1:40 min in to the third period. Lightning on the Powerplay. St. Louis has it inside of the Penguins zone, Passes it to Lecavalier, Lecavalier passes it to Stamkos, Stamkos passes it to Brewer, Brewer shoots a one-timer but Fleury saves it.

2:10 min in to the third period. Lightning still on the Powerplay. Stamkos passes it to Brewer who then passes it to the frunt of the net. Lecavalier redirects the puck and it comes to the stick of St. Louis who shoots and scores. St.Louis scores his third goal for the playoffs and his second goal of the game. Lightning tie it 2-2.

2:40 min in to the third period. Penguins win the faceoff in the Lightning zone. Staal wins the faceoff, Kennedy gets it and passes it to Letang, Letang passes it to Orpik who shoots a slapshot but Roloson with a save. The puck is in front of Roloson, Kunitz touches the puck to the side where Tyler Kennedy finds the puck and SCORES!. Tyler Kennedy.....KENNEDY! scores his first goal of the playoffs. Penguins score and make it 3-2.



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5:30 min in to the third period. Moore has the puck inside the Penguins zone. Moore passes the puck to Bergenheim who shoots but a great save by Fleury, Malone tries to shoots one but gets nailed by Rupp. Kubina gets the shot but a great save by Fleury. Rupp is on top of Malone for a while and gets a penalty. bullshit. Malone is such a Douchebag.

8:45 min in to the third period. Penguins have the puck in the Lightning zone, Dupuis gets the puck to Talbot who passes the puck to Conner. Conner is in front of the goalie and shoots but Roloson with another amazing save to keep the Lightning inside the game.

19:35 min in to the third period. Lightning took out their goalie to get an extra attacker. 6 on 5. Lightning has the inside their zone. St.Louis has the puck going up the ice and passes it to Lecavalier who is skating inside the Penguins zone, Lecavalier passes the puck to Stamkos. Stamkos shoots but Orpik blockes the shot. Gagne has the puck behind the Penguins cage with 13 sec left of the game, passes it in front of the net. Everybody takes a shot at the puck but the puck goes to the right side of Fleury. Adams has the puck and tries to buy some time with 5 sec left of the game, Michalek tries to clear the puck but Brewer takes the puck and tries to shoot but Adams blockes it. Time runs out.

End of the third period

Stats:
1st Period
05:46 1-0 Maxime Talbot (1) (Ben Lovejoy (1)
06:31 2-0 Arron Asham (2) (Michael Rupp (1), Kristopher Letang (2)
15:19 2-1 PPG- Martin St. Louis (2) (Simon Gagne (4), Steven Stamkos (1)

2nd Period
(nothing)

3rd Period
02:12 2-2 PPG- Martin St. Louis (3) (Vincent Lecavalier (1), Eric Brewer (3)
02:43 3-2 Tyler Kennedy (1) (Kristopher Letang (3), Brooks Orpik (3)

Final Score: Penguins 3-2 Lightning
Shots on Goal: Penguins 30-27 Lightning

Marc-Andre Fleury 25-27 saves
Dwayne Roloson 27-30 saves

Nikman's Three Stars of the Game:
(Honorable Mentions)
Kristopher Letang
Kristopher Letang had 2 assists tonight and played really good.

Martin St. Louis
St. Louis scored both of the Lightning goals and he is a deadly man on the Power Play.

3. Dwayne Roloson
Dwayne Roloson was why Lightning was still in it after two periods with two amazing saves and a total of 27 saves tonight.

2. Marc-Andre Fleury
He was the one fighting for every save when the Lightning were on a Powerplay and made some great saves to help the Penguins win.

1. Tyler Kennedy
Scoring that important 3-2 goal. Neal, Talbot, and Conner were trying to get that goal but Roloson saved every one of them. Tyler Kennedy made this win happen.

Positve and Negatives of the game.

Positive:
WIN!
Penguins are now 10-1 in Game 3's since 2008.
Fleury was awesome.
Only two more wins to win the series
Important win on the road.
Tyler Kennedy with the Golden Goal.
Kristopher Letang with two assists.
Arron Asham has two goals already.

Negatives:
Our powerplay still sucks.
Neal can't score.
The Lightning are too good on the Powerplay.
Refs on this series. Bullshit!



Notes before GAME 4.
WORK ON THE POWERPLAY!