GDT: 78|Pittsburgh Penguins vs. New Jersey Devils|Playoff game 1 w/ the Swedish House Mafia

[ColePens]

Pittsburgh Penguins
vs.
New Jersey Devils

TIME: 7 p.m. EST
PLACE: Prudential Center
TV: AT&T SportsNet
RADIO: 105.9 FM, the X


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Game Preview:

The horrific road Penguins take on the New Jersey Devils where they have failed to beat the Marty Brodeur led Devils and their trap all season long. The Metro Division and Eastern playoff race has tightened considerably. Only 4 points separate the Pens from their current position of 2nd in the Metro and the Devils, who hold the final Wild Card playoff spot. Every point is precious and could be the difference between home-ice in Round One or falling into the 8th spot.

The sky is falling and Brassard is injured. There is no way in hell this team will beat the Devils and we can guarantee one thing - Stephane Richer is going to score a goal against Murray.

EA Sports Simulation: Devils 9 - Pens 2
Vegas Moneyline: Devils -340 favorites

Projected Lines:


Pens:
Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Hagelin-Malkin-Kessel
Sheary-Sheahan-Hornqvist
ZAR-Jooris-Kuhnhackl

Dumo - Letang
Oleksiak - Schultz
Maatta - Hunwick

Murray


Devils:
Hall-Hishier-Palmieri
Wood-Zacha-Noeson
Maroon-Zajac-Coleman
Grabner-Boyle-Gibbons

Green-Vatanen
Moore-Severson
Butcher-Mueller

Kinkaid

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More importantly...

To honor the Swedish House Mafia reuniting Sunday at Ultra Music Festival, this part of the thread is dedicated to the best Swedes in hockey: Hornqvist/Hagelin.

(Swedish House Mafia - Ultra 2018 Set)

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[Sidney the Kidney]

One more meaningless game down until the playoffs.

 

[madinsomniac]

Feels winnable to me... but what do I know .... Hunwick with the Hat Trick?

 

[Shrimper]

Oh good, the Devils

 

[Andy99]

This encapsulates my feelings whenever I see that we are playing the Devils this year.....not expecting much quite obviously

 

[ChrisKuuuunitz]

lighting one up, taking a nap, drinking some beer, working on my 2 broke girls avatar, maybe some laundry

 

[Ryder71]

One more meaningless game down until the playoffs.

How is it meaningless?

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

Hunwick's back, thank goodness. We got this.

 

[Ryder71]

We're facing some adversity tonight with Brassard out and Hunwick in. Here's hoping we respond favorably.

 

[Shady Machine]

I think they'll win just because it doesn't make sense.

 

[canadianguy77]

I just want to see these guys give a good effort against these guys. Devils have really outworked our guys in the games they've played against them this season. It would be cool to see how our guys really stack up against them.

 

[ColePens]

Period 1 - we will play okay. 1-1 end of 1.
Period 2 - we will laughably play awful. Down 4-1.
Period 3 - we turn the switch on to get to 4-3. EN 5-3.

Devils win 5-3.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

Scored 1 goal against Kinkaid in game 1. 2 in the next. Then 3.

So 4 tonight. Murray just has to let in only 4 goals to get to overtime.

We should be ok.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

It's a road game, so I'm just gonna go ahead and put this down as an L

 

[Tom Hanks]

Period 1 - we will play okay. 1-1 end of 1.
Period 2 - we will laughably play awful. Down 4-1.
Period 3 - we turn the switch on to get to 4-3. EN 5-3.

Devils win 5-3.

The Pens have broken you this last month, haven’t they?

 

[PensandCaps]

Why is Kessel not on his own line?

Sheahan-Kessel has chemistry...

Get Rust away from Sid.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Why is Kessel not on his own line?

Sheahan-Kessel has chemistry...

Get Rust away from Sid.

They don’t. Guentzel and Kessel did. Phil is struggling with an injury.

Sheary-Sheahan-Hornqvist was really good in their short stint together.

 

[Andy99]

Gotta deal with the Devils some time...hopefully tonight
Let’s go boys!!!!

 

[Jaded-Fan]

No injuries please.

 

[cygnus47]

My predictions:

1) Start strong
2) Maybe score one?
3) Get unlucky, give up a goal
4) Kinkaid brick wall
5) Collapse defensively

 

[Son Goku]

Pens Vs Devils

"we better f***ing win edition"

 

[TNT87]

 

[Andy99]

They better put the fear of God in NJD and turn up Satan tonight if they wanna win....
or just listen to this song....

 

[Andy99]

My predictions:

1) Start strong
2) Maybe score one?
3) Get unlucky, give up a goal
4) Kinkaid brick wall
5) Collapse defensively

Sensing a pattern...sounds like last game...lol

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

How is it meaningless?

I was being sarcastic given the fact the Pens are playing like these regular season games mean nothing.

 

[Gurglesons]

I mean technically it is meaningless.

The chance we miss the playoffs is like 2%