From: lli+@cs.cmu.edu (Lori Iannamico)
Subject: Pens-6 Flyers-2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:10:16 GMT

First off, the search for a volunteer poster is over.  "Mom" (aka Anna) has
offered to doing the summaries while I'm on vacation.

Second bit of news.  The Pens are going to hold a press conference this 
afternoon to announce the "Mario Bar".  Clark Candy Company, a Pittsburgh-
based company, is producing the candy bar to market (at first) in the tri-
state area.  While Mario's name is on the bar, all profits made from the bar
will go to the Pens.   Mario, as a term of his new contract, has given the 
Pens the right to market his name and image.  (Jaromir Jagr also agreed to
the same term in his new contract).

Third, the game.  Last night, Scotty Bowman recorded his 800th career win as
the Pens defeated the Lindros-less Flyers 6-2.  Kevin Stevens had 2 goals, 
giving him 5 goals in the past 2 games.  Mario Lemieux had a goal and 2 
assists.  He is now 1 point shy of 1,100 points.  As for the scoring race,
Lemieux now leads with 85 points (34 goals, 51 assists).  (Stevens also picked
up an assist.  Both he and Lemieux had 3 points for the night.)

Although the Pens won, the game had (IMHO) a boring feel to it.  Kevin Stevens
admitted later that the Pens did have a hard time getting up for the game.  And
that once they had a lead, they decided just to sit on it and play "hang around
hockey".  Ahhh, Kevin.  So articulate...

The most interesting thing about the game was a little incident concerning
Scotty Bowman and the "dancing vendor".  Yes, not only do we have a dead rock
star and a penguin with a pituitary problem roaming the aisles, we aslo have
a dancing vendor.  This goofball whips off his hat and jumps around to rock 
music in an attempt to a)whip up the crowd and b)get on television.  He 
works at Three Rivers Stadium, too, and acts like this at Steelers and Pirates
games.  He has actually made ESPN's SportsCenter with his antics.  

When the vendor dances, the lighting crew at the Arena hits him with a 
spotlight.  Last night, he was carrying on behind the Pens' bench.  The
spotlight goes on and hits him.  And it also hits Scotty Bowman.  Bowman, who
was in a fiesty foul mood all night, exploded at this point.  He started 
screaming at Barry Smith, the assistant coach, and motioning to the vendor
behind the glass.  He then pointed up at the spotlight and became even more
animated.  But the spotlight didn't move or go off.  It stayed on until the 
vendor finished.  I have a feeling, though, that the vendor won't be dancing
behind the Pens' bench anytime soon.

As for the game.  The Jagr-McEachern-Loney line has been reunited, and scored
the first goal of the night.  (The second line is now Mullen-Francis-Errey).
Shawn McEachern took a sharp pass from Loney, broke in on the left wing and
fired a shot at Stephan Beauregard that beat him on the glove side(Jagr. 2:12).

The Pens had the chance to go up 2-0 about 3 minutes later when they were on
the power play.  But for the second time in 3 games, the Pens sloppy play in
the opponent's end led to a short handed goal.  Pelle Eklund picked up a loose
puck and fed it to a breaking Mark Recchi.  He skated in on Barrasso and took
a backhand shot that hit Barrasso's stick and went into the net.(5:14).

The Pens later dodged a bullet and ended up scoring at 10:32.  While working on
the power play, Doug Evans was left all alone to the right of the Penguins net.
He had a wide open net to shoot into, but shot wide.  Joe Mullen picked up the
puck and fired it to Kevin Stevens, who had just jumped out of the penalty box.
He carried the puck across the ice to the left and snapped off a shot that went
between Beauregard's legs.

The Pens scored again late in the period, while working on the power play.
At 19:30, Lemieux got an amazing pass to a wide open Paul Stanton.  Amazing
in the sense that Lemieux slid the pass between the legs of a Flyers' defender.
The pass was perfect, and Stanton just flipped the puck into the open net to
the left of Beauregard.(Francis)

The Pens had the only goal in the second, with Joe Mullen doing the honors.
Francis and Errey skated into the Flyers' end.  Francis passed to Errey, who
was skating across the slot.  Instead of shooting, he threw the puck back to
Mullen who was trailing the play.  Mullen delected the puck into the net.

But the Flyers weren't finished.  They opened the scoring of the third.  It 
was Eklund who pounced on another Pens' mistake, picking up the puck and 
sending it to Rod Brind'Amour.  He broke down the slot and fired.  The puck
went between the legs of Barrasso, who had come out to challenge Brind'Amour
and had dropped onto one knee.(1:02)

But Kevin Stevens, thanks to another beautiful pass by Lemieux, but the game
away for the Pens at 3:09.  Mario Lemieux passed the puck from near the left
point, and got the pass under a falling Gary Galley and right onto the stick
of Stevens on the right.  Stevens shot above Beauregard and into the net.
(Tocchet)

Lemieux finished the scoring at 11:39.  From a crowd in front of the net,
Mario fired an off-balance shot that also went above Beauregard and into the 
net.

The Flyers did have a few good chances to score in the third, but were stopped
cold by Barrasso.   The Pens had a power play with about 2 minutes left in the
period, and it was pretty obvious they were trying to set up Tocchet to score.
But nothing came of it, and the score remained 6-2.

Scratches: Kjell Samuelsson(broken bone-right foot), Mike Needham, Martin 
Straka, Bryan Fogarty. 

BOX SCORE:

Pittsburgh:  3-1-2=6
Philadephia: 1-0-1=2

FIRST PERIOD: SCORING: 1, Pittsburgh, McEachern(Loney, Jagr)2:12.  2, Flyers,
Recchi(Eklund)5:14shg.  3, Pittsburgh, Stevens(Mullen)10:32.  4, Pittsburgh,
Stanton(Lemieux, Francis)19:30.  PENALTIES: Evans, Flyers(hooking)4:06.  
Boivin, Flyers(charging)7:47.  Stevens, Pittsburgh(cross checking)8:21.  Ahola,
Pittsburgh(interference)10:56.  Loney, Pittsburgh(cross checking)16:29.  Barrie
Flyers(hooking)19:11.

SECOND PERIOD: SCORING: 5, Pittsburgh, Mullen(Errey, Francis) 2:14.  PENALTIES:
McEachern, Pittsburgh(slashing)3:58.  Stanton, Pittsburgh(cross checking)5:55.
Dineen, Flyers(tripping)13:13.  Yushikevich, Flyers(hooking)16:23.

THIRD PERIOD: SCORING: 6, Brind'Amour(Eklund)1:02. 7, Stevens(Lemieux, Tocchet)
3:09.  8, Lemieux(Tocchet, Stevens)11:29.  PENALTIES: U. Samuelsson, Pittsburgh
(slashing)3:40.  Galley, Flyers(interference)12:03.  Ahola, Pittsburgh(high-
sticking)15:22.   Evans, Flyers(hooking)18:07.

GOALIES:

Barrasso (23 shots, 21 saves. 19-6-2)
Beauregard (33 shots, 27 saves)

Ref: Gregson  Linesmen: Knox, Pateman

Lori
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