Thursday, November 08, 2007

Pens at Rangers - Rags win 4-2

Although the Rangers scored first, the Pens tied midway through on a goal by Sergei Gonchar. The Rangers got a late powerplay goal on the first half of a double-minor to Gary Roberts, for high sticking and roughing, for a 2-1 Rangers lead after one. The Pens PK, which had been stellar the previous 5-6 games, allowed two goals this night, going back up 3-1 after two. Both teams would add a goal in the third, including Mark Recchi's 1st goal since opening night, but Lundqvist was stellar yet again, despite the Pens dominating play in the third.

Crosby extended his point streak to 15 games, extending his career long, and Malkin extended his to 9 games, including an 8 game assist streak.

Stats update, game 16 (Only Hall, Laraque & Talbot in plus territory, but Ruutu, Kennedy and Malone are now Even)
Name GP G A P +- PIM
Crosby 16 9 15 24 -2 16
Malkin 16 5 17 22 -1 14
Gonchar 16 3 11 14 -4 22
Sykora 16 7 5 12 -6 6
Talbot 16 4 4 8 +3 10
Whitney 12 3 3 6 -3 2
Recchi 16 2 5 7 -2 8
Roberts 15 1 6 7 -4 8
Malone 16 4 3 7 E 21
Hall 15 2 3 5 +1 9
Christensen 14 2 1 3 -6 2
Orpik 16 0 3 3 -3 4
Staal 16 1 1 2 -6 9
Laraque 8 0 2 2 +1 7
Armstrong 13 1 0 1 -5 4
Kennedy 6 1 0 1 E 2
Scuderi 16 0 1 1 -1 4
Sydor 16 0 1 1 -5 4
Ruutu 9 0 1 1 E 10
Eaton 16 0 1 1 -1 2
Nasreddine 4 0 0 0 -2 2
Fleury 11 0 0 0 -- 0
Sabourin 8 0 0 0 -- 0

It should be noted that the stats above reflect the correct scoring from the first Toronto game, where Recchi was given a phantom assist at the expense of Malkin. This scoring change was made after the game, and the official NHL stats have not been corrected. Emails to the NHL and ESPN.com that same night have not been answered. As of October 31, 2007, this error has still not been corrected.

The loss dropped the Pens record to 7-8-0-1 (W-L-OTL-SOL) on the season, and leaves them 4th in the Atlantic Division, still three points behind the Flyers, and only 1 point ahead of the Devils.

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