Penguins 7, Hurricanes 4: Evgeni "Geno" Malkin has gone from the invisible Penguin to one of the team and playoff leaders as he racked up a hat trick in an exciting 7-4 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Don't be deceived by the score, this game was a thriller that consisted of 5 goals in the first 10 minutes and the Pens did not have the game sealed until Malkin notched a no-look, backahd 3rd goal with 7:35 to go and Tyler Kennedy notched an empty netter with over 1 minute left in the game. Afterwards though, it took nearly 15 minutes to play the final minute of that game as fights and near fights were breaking out everywhere. (Video of the hat trick goal at the bottom.
Sidney Crosby quote on Malkin: "If anything, you want to use it as motivation to play. There are times when it might frustrate you, but you can't let it show -- especially in the playoffs. So that's the best way to do it, and he proved that tonight."
Nuggets 106, Lakers 103: Down 14 at one point, the Denver Nuggets rallied to even the series at 1-1 by defeating the Lakers 106-103. What started out as a rather dull NBA Playoffs (except for Bulls-Celtics) as gotten quite exciting and the Nuggets evened the series by doing the one thing they were not able to do in the clutch in Game 1 of this series: Make Free throws. They had hit 17 in a row at one point during the game and in comparison to the debacle in Game 1, that was more than enough to put them over the top of Kobe and the Lakers.
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Video: Geno gets a hat trick followed by the hardening of a certain area of Joe
Malkin was a beast last night.
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