ECF Game 3 | Penguins @ Senators | 8:00 PM EST | CBC, TVAS, NBCSN

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

So ... What shenanigans does management have in store for our pregame entertainment tonight?

More Spartan warriors?!?




* Edit: Perhaps an Admiral Ackbar impersonator? That's be pretty cool.

Looks like just a big screen and some refreshments in the Red Zone.
Long past are the days of anthem scandals when Alanis "Hussy" Morrissette and Lyndon "Beloved and Not Forgotten" Slewidge Anthem duelled, or the Spartan vigorously cheered us up.

Ah well, go Sens. It's super hot out so hopefully they have fans around the concourse.

 

[Winger for Hire]

* Edit: Perhaps an Admiral Ackbar impersonator? That's be pretty cool.

If they do that, I will cheer for Ottawa to win the Cup

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

Ottawa playing the system they are playing makes each game about a 55%-45% proposition in favor of the Penguins. That's probably the best Ottawa can hope for and gives them a reasonable chance to get a lucky bounce here or there to win the series.

The 55-45 spread favoring the pens is what I said before game 1. I haven't seen too much in either game to alter that.

 

[Dying Alive]

I think Letang missing hurts. I don't think Schultz is as great as his numbers say, and Daley hasn't been good.

As long as they have Crosby, Malkin, and Kessel, they're fine.

Karlsson has been playing on a bad leg the entire playoffs and is more valuable to his team than anyone in this series. Injuries are a poor excuse.

Yep, he's been playing. That's a whole lot better than having a bunch of guys who are flat-out not able to play.

I thought whoever played better 90% of the time wins the game. Pens look like underdgogs to me.

I am guessing you are only talking about game one, because the Pens were the much better team in game two.

 

[stratosphere]

Kunitz game winner tonight

 

[stratosphere]

Agree that if the Pens score first, this game will take on a much wilder level of play. If they go up by 2, then the ticket price will be worth every penny. If not, another 1-1 sleeper, which favors the Sens.

 

[905PENS]

Kunitz game winner tonight

For which team?

 

[Fugazy]

For which team?

 

[deepelemblues]

ottawa opens it up for the first period

going into the 2nd period down 6-1, boucher goes back to the 1-3-1 1-4 delay trap trap delay and declares in the postgame "you can have this trap when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. but only after a delay."

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

I thought whoever played better 90% of the time wins the game. Pens look like underdgogs to me.

First you said the pens were undergods and now they are underdgogs.

Which is it?

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

For which team?

Oooo. I see what you did there. Heh

 

[Dagwood]

Hot as heck outside today. Hope the ice isn't crap. I can't take much more "Ottawa Sucks" compliments.

Lol

 

[tacogeoff]

First you said the pens were undergods and now they are underdgogs.

Which is it?

they are undergdosgs.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

they are undergdosgs.

I lol'd hahah

 

[Jaded-Fan]

they are undergdosgs.

I am just wondering which 12 minutes of the two games that he gave the Pens credit for outplaying the Sens.

 

[alcanalz]

For what it is worth, likely not much, the betting line has the Sens as home dogs, and not by a small margin.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/nhl/odds/las-vegas/

Pens average -125 and the Sens are +105.

Meaning you would have to bet $125 to win $100 if betting on the Pens.

Alternatively you would have to bet $100 to win $105 if betting on the Sens.

That is a $30 swing for being a dog at home.

As I constantly point out though the betting line is more about generating betting both ways than a spot on view of the bookies about what is being bet on. Still, guys like McCurdy have the Pens ahead in their models as well, and not by an insignificant amount.

That's almost literally as small of a betting margin as you'll see without it being even.

 

[Classicnamesup]

Was hoping Streit would get in tonight, bummer.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I'm surprisingly calm.

Honestly, winning last year takes a lot of the edge off. With all the Pens have had to deal with medically this year, I'm happy they've made it this far. Anything beyond this is gravy.

Agreed

 

[HandshakeLine]

Hi Doggie!

 

[nucksauce]

Hi Doggie!

What is this! I want more! Lol.

 

[HandshakeLine]

What is this! I want more! Lol.

The Room. The Best Awful Movie ever made.

 

[berlin]

Seriously mod? That was funny, geesh.

 

[madinsomniac]

I lol'd hahah

Hot as heck outside today. Hope the ice isn't crap. I can't take much more "Ottawa Sucks" compliments.

Lol

The pens are only permitted to play on crappy ice.. its some rule.. even their own arena follows it... all that skill and so much blah ice... lol

 

[TNT87]

Hi Doggie!

"Oh hi Johnny I didn't know it was you". Because there are a lot of people who look and talk like him?

 

[Phil McKraken]