NY Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins

Hi again!

This will be a good one!
Yesterday, Hannes, Peter, his parents (they are on a visit at the moment), and me have been in "the world's most famous arena" (that's what its homepage says ;-) ): The Madison Square Garden!
It was the setting of the NHL game between the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
We were sitting on the 8th floor (!!!) of the Garden, which has a capacity of 18.200 (at Hockey games, if a NBA game is taking place there, it's even more, 19.763...approximately ;-) ). The tribunes were sold out, and nearly 20.000 Americans are able to be loud! Also during their national anthem...God bless America! ;)

But let's talk about the game: acctually, and it really hurts my feeling as a true life-long Rangers' fan to say this, ("We all bleed Ranger blue") the NY hockey pros didn't play very well. The consequence: after 2 of 3 sections the Penguins were leading 2:0 (Boo!)...even Prohaska knows the old sport's rule: Make it or get it!
Then the last section started, and how it started! Soon after the break the Rangers could score, 2:1...what was coming afterwards was a thriller. The Penguins concentrated on defending their lead, and this tactics seemed to work. In the last minute, even the Ranger's goalie, the fabulous Henrik Lundqvist, participated in his team's drives...and then, 8 seconds before the end, they scored, 2:2...watch the video what was going on afterwards!
The overtime was thrilling, and exciting, but nothing changed on the scoreboard...so it had to be decided by a shootout....that's what we wanted to see, hell yeah!
The first Ranger's try, the first miss...but the Penguin couldn't score either. Second round, same result. Then the third player, shoot, GOAL! The last try of the Penguins was storybook fended by Henrik Lundqvist...awesome...NYR rule! :-)
On the 16th of November, the NBA game NY Knicks - Dallas Mavericks is going to follow, until then: take care!

Max