From: lli+@cs.cmu.edu (Lori Iannamico)
Subject: Pens-4, Nords-4
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:05:46 GMT

The Pens skated to a 4-4 tie with the ever improving Quebec Nordiques.  Stephane
Fiset played a big role in the tie, stopping 32 of 36 shots and assisting on the
tying goal.

Joe Mullen had a big night, scoring 2 goals.  Joey is not only coming back from
knee surgery.  He is also being used out of position.  With the injury to Kevin
Stevens, Mullen has been playing the left wing on the Lemieux-Tocchet line.  And
he's been doing quite well.  Lemieux has two assists last night, bring his point
total to 50 in 18 games. (22 goals, 28 assists)

Ken Wregget was in the nets again, as Barrasso is expected to start tonight in
Detroit.  Wregget has to be one of the most inept goalies I have ever seen.  And
on of the luckest.  He can't stick handle, he can't make pad saves, he skates 
poorly, but he wins. The hockey gods either love this guy or pity him.  I've seen
pucks bounce off him without him even realizing it, players standing in front of
open nets while he's out of position and end up missing the net, it's amazing.
He was lucky he ended up with the tie last night.

Ulf Samuelsson was scratched last night.  He was injured in the second period of
the Pens-Stars game.  But the nature of his injury is unknown.

Last night, before the game, the topic of discussion was the Quinn incident.  The
incident gave a lot of fans fuel during the course of the game.  Such as...
The Pens have been rotating their alternate captains this year.  Last night's 
alternates, chosen perhaps as a show of solidarity by the players, were Tocchet
and Bob Errey. (Errey was the "unknown Pen" in the incident.)  I said to the 
guy in front of me "Look whose wearing the A's".  He said "Yeah, for assholes."
When Errey scored the opening goal, the guy in front of me said "He scored tonight
because he couldn't score in Minnesota".

Tocchet didn't have a good game last night, and in my section he took the brunt
of the abuse.  When he hit the ice people yelled things like "Too much partying
on the road, eh Rick?" and "I bet you'd like to play for the Stars."  Some 
of it got pretty crude, too.  The mildest of the crude remarks happend when 
Tocchet missed a check.  Some guy yelled "Just pretend they're Hooters waitresses.
You'll be banging them into the boards all night."

Of the 3, Tocchet had the most abuse heaped on him.  Lemieux, at least in my 
section, was spared.

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The Pens played well in the early part of the first, and got on the board first.
Bob Errey, after taking a nice pass from Peter Ahola and beat Fiset(Stapleton-
2:14).

But the Nords struck right back.  At 2:33, Martin LaPointe intercepted an errant
pass by Shawn McEachern, walked right around Ahola and beat Wregget to tie the 
game.  

The Pens fired some good shots on Fiset, who stopped them all.  The Nords seemed
fired up at the end of the period, but the Pens would score.  After a nice save
(yes, he actually has some)by Wregget, Dave Tippet picked up the rebound and fed
it to Paul Stanton.  Stanton broke down the ice with Jeff Daniels.  Stanton 
carried the puck all the way and and faked a shot.  At the last second he passed
the puck across to Daniels, who got the puck past Fiset.(19:54).

The Nords tied the game at 8:47 of the second.  Mats Sudin(LaPointe, Gusarov)
beat Wregget between the pads.  

The Pens broke the tie at 12:08.  While working on the power play, Ron Francis
fired a shot from the left point.  The puck hit the post, slid under Fiset and out
to a waiting Joe Mullen, who stuffed the puck back under Fiset and into the net.
(Lemieux).

But the Nords retied the game on a power play of their own.  Owen Nolan fired
a slapshot from the right faceoff circle that flew past Wregget on the glove 
side. (Duchesne, Kovelenko. 13:53).

The Pens would again take the lead at 15:39.  After taking the pass from Tocchet,
Lemieux fired a quick pass from the left to Joe Mullen, who was waiting high in
the slot.  Mullen one timed a bullet of a shot past Fiset.

In the third, the Nords showed they were not like the Nordiques of old.  IMHO,
they outworked the Pens the entire period.  At first they weren't working too
hard, but the tying goal at 4:13 gave them new life.  Fiset made a great save, 
and Kovalenko carried the puck all the way into the Pens end.  Jim Paek had forced
him into the boards behind the net.  But Kovalenko got the Martin Rucinsky, who
fired the puck around Larry Murphy and between the legs of Wregget.  The rest
of the period was all Nordiques.  But Wregget, working with the combination of
saves and luck, was able to keep the Nords from scoring.

In OT, the Pens had 4 great chances in succession to score.  But Fiset made 4
great saves in succession to preserve the tie for the Nordiques.

Scratches: Kevin Stevens, Ulf Samuelsson(?), Troy Loney, Jamie Leach, Grant 
Jennings.

BOX SCORE:

Pittsburgh:  2-2-0-0=4
Quebec:      1-2-1-0=4

FIRST PERIOD: SCORING: 1, Pittsburgh, Errey(Ahola, Stapleton)2:14. 2, Quebec,
LaPointe(unassisted)2:33. 3, Pittsburgh, Daniels(Stanton, Tippett)19:54.  
PENALTIES: Leschyshyn, Quebec(holding)5:41.

SECOND PERIOD: SCORING: 4,Quebec, Sudin(LaPointe, Gusarov)8:47.  5, Pittsburgh,
Mullen(Francis, Lemieux)12:08pp.  6, Quebec, Nolan(Duchesne, Kovalenko)13:53pp.
7, Pittsburgh, Mullen(Lemieux, Tocchet)15:39.  PENALTIES: Hough, Quebec(high
sticking, double minor)9:17.  Tippett, Pittsburgh(holding)12:58.  Leshyshyn,
Quebec(tripping)16:39.

THIRD PERIOD: 8, Quebec, Rucinsky(Kovalenko, Fiset)4:31.  PENALTIES: No penalties.

OT: SCORING: No scoring.  PENALTIES: No penalties.

SHOTS ON GOAL:

Pittsburgh:  11-13-8-4=36
Quebec:       6-5-14-1=26

GOALIES: 
Wregget(26 shots, 22 saves.  2-2-1)
Fiset(36 shots, 32 saves)

Ref: McGeough, Linesmen: Pare, Sharrers

Lori 
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