The trend continued last night, by which I mean that a night meeting kept me from seeing most of the game. When I left Beaver County, the Penguins were up by 2, and about a mile and a half from home, the Lightning scored to send it into overtime. So I saw overtime and double-overtime. There are a bunch of great storylines with this year's Penguins. For example: (1) Will Sidney Crosby ever be the same. If so, will it be in time for this playoff season? (2) In the balance sheet of leaguewide headshot reduction efforts, are the Penguins victims or victimizers? (3) Is there any gas left in the tank of the Alex Kovalev Retro-reunion Tour? and (4) Did the Penguins get fleeced when they traded for James Neal? Prior to last night, Neal had scored one goal in more than twenty games with the Penguins, a four-goal season pace that's, uh, a little off the twentysomething goals he's been scoring for Dallas each of the past couple of seasons. We'll know in a year whether his double-overtime winner last night got him on the road to recovering his scoring touch.
And now for the videoblog:
This commercial was out today, with aged footage. Instant nostalgia! For last night!
This is catnip to me. I love these kinds of away-from-the-microphone interactions. And the squad of cheerleaders is tough to beat. In the suit is the guy with the concussion who's the best hockey player in the world. The guy in the track suit doing all the backslapping was the playoff MVP two short years ago and is in the top five when he's on his game.
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