Apparently the Coyotes showed up for a hockey game but there was a swim meet being held. The best dive of the night goes to Armstrong! +10 Interesting game. Lets start with the bad/ugly and finish with the good this time around shall we?

Bad and ugly is that we got beat by the Pens…again. Ugly is that we got beat on special teams…again. Our PK had to work too hard all friggin game and at the tail end of a tough road trip that is a recipe for a distaster. Sad is that a team with so much talent resorted to petty diving and whining at the refs to get a couple of undeserved power plays. I never believed the hype about the whine and dive til I saw this game…Always figured it was sour grapes from team fans that lost to the Pens. Well now I know. The rest of the ugly penalties were our cross to bear for getting out of hand in the face of such wickedly strange reffing.

The good - we showed some mettle and hung tight with a much more talented team.

(gotta give props to my favorite baby Pen ’Geno’ and the most of the boys for their absolutely awesome level of talent)

We didn’t get slaughtered like the last outing. Bally, Donor and Bryz worked their tails off (Doan with the only goal and Bryz keepin the game from becoming a rout). Carcillo! stayed outta major trouble again.

But Bryz summed up the game the best: “We took too many penalties tonight,” Bryzgalov said. “It’s hard to get any scoring chances, hard to get going. We were in the box for half the game.”

Ah well, back to the den to lick our road wounds and get ready to kick the Kings around some more.

~photos from GhettyImages - Gregory Shamus/Contributor ~

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