Goal Assessment: Game 34 - Pens 1 Habs 0

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+/- Assessment

1st Goal For (Crosby): + for

• Orpik – shovels a rebound from the crease area to the boards in the defensive zone
• Kunitz – retrieves the puck from the boards and makes a long cross-ice pass to Crosby entering the offensive zone
• Crosby – snipes a shot past Price’s blocker

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Goal Assessment: Game 33 - Pens 2 Flyers 1 (OT)

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+/- Assessment

1st Goal Against (Giroux): - for

• Martin – in the penalty box for a retaliatory slashing penalty
• (no one else – bad bounce off of Glass, who had his stick in the right spot)

1st Goal For (Crosby): + for

• Bennett – keeps puck in the zone, eventually passes up to Martin
• Neal – gives Crosby an opening and then feeds the puck to back down to Bennett
• Martin – takes the pass from Bennett and sets up Crosby
• Crosby – passes the puck to Neal and then gets into a shooting position, one-times Martin’s pass to tie the game

2nd Goal For (Kennedy): + for

• Niskanen – feeds Kennedy from the point
• Kennedy – recovered his own rebound, passed it to Niskanen, moved into open space, ripped a shot past Bryzgalov for the winner

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Goal Assessment: Game 32 - Pens 4 Isles 2

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+/- Assessment

1st Goal Against (Streit): - for

• Jeffrey – clean faceoff loss
• (everyone goes where they are supposed to go, Vokoun looks off of his angle a bit)

1st Goal For (Vitale): + for

• Adams – takeaway at the offensive blue line
• Glass – makes it a 2 on 1 with Vitale and pulls Hamonic a little bit out of position away from Vitale
• Vitale – snipes the corner on Nabokov

2nd Goal Against (Bailey): - for

• Dupuis – failed clear with the puck sitting in front of him
• Crosby – failed clear, then doesn’t skate out to Hamonic at the point OR shadow Bailey (lack of attention to what Kunitz is doing)
• Kunitz – gets caught wandering in the zone, too far away from Hamonic at the point OR Bailey skating to the crease (lack of attention to what Crosby is doing)

2nd Goal For (Kunitz): + for

• Crosby – wins puck battle in the defensive zone to Dupuis, eventually sets up Kunitz
• Dupuis – takes puck from defensive zone and passes it along to Crosby, then drives to the net causing a 3 player screen on Nabokov
• Kunitz – beats Nabokov 5 hole as the screen clears away

3rd Goal For (Sutter): + for

• Orpik – retrieves puck in the defensive zone and clears it out to Neal
• Neal – passes the puck from the neutral zone up to Cooke heading into the offensive zone
• Cooke – patiently waits for Carkner to go down and end up out of position before passing the puck across the crease to Sutter
• Sutter – beats Nabokov from point blank

4th Goal For (Dupuis): + for

• (Vokoun – clears the puck to the blue line)
• Crosby – knocks the puck to the offensive blue line where Dupuis picks it up
• Dupuis – smacks the puck into an empty net

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