Penguins-Sabres outdoors

Letang is slick.

 

The NHL could not have hoped for a better ending to this game.

 

BBJ with the winner!

Horny is pleased.

 

Crosby. Game.

 

The NHL is fixed.

The first outdoor game in America, on a major US netowrk, goes to OT, then a shootout, and Crosby wins it with the game's final shot.

Please.

 

And NBC's microphone dies as The Kid is being interviewed.

 

Overtime and a shootout. I guess if you're going to get 72,000 to watch a hockey game, give them their money's worth. And thank God I get the CBC. Too bad they got outbid for the Olympics.

 

Did the Sabres and Pens do a postgame handshake?

I know it's just a playoff tradition, but for something like this it would have been a good touch.

 

Yes I think they did.

 

Not even close.

Did you see a Michael Jordan playoff game from 1991 to 1998? Nothing was more fixed than those games.

 

That and the salute to the fans was very cool.

 

Actually, I'm told that the changing of sides in the third period is regulation under the IIHF, from the days when Olympic games were played on outdoor rinks.