From: lli+@cs.cmu.edu (Lori Iannamico)
Subject: Pens-6 Caps-3
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:15:26 GMT

The Pens overcame a 2-goal deficit in the first by scoring 3 goals in 29
seconds, and then went on to defeat the Washington Capitals 6-3.  Kevin 
Stevens scored a hat trick, and Larry Murphy became only the 8th defenseman
to score 800 points.  The Pens now have a 16 point lead over the second 
place Caps in the Patrick.

The play in the first was kind of grindy and physical, and that worked
to the Caps advantage.  At 7:32 in the first, Dale Hunter put the Caps
on the board.  Wregget had made a glove save on Dimitri Kristich's (Cote)
original shot, but bobbled the puck and lost it.  Dale Hunter swooped in 
tossed the puck back at the net.  The puck bounced off Wregget and rolled 
across the goal line.  The goal judge didn't see the puck had crossed the
line, and never put the goal light on.  I sit behind the net, and it was
plain that the puck crossed the line.  The goal judge just missed it.

So after a replay review, the goal was confirmed and play went on.  At
10:14 Hunter got his second goal of the night, deflecting a Bob Carpenter
shot(Cavallini)through the legs of a totally off guard Wregget.  

At 12:27 Jaromir Jagr was awarded a penalty shot because Paul Cavallini,
in an attempt to stop Jagr when he was breaking in on the net, threw his
stick at Jagr.  Jagr skated in and just fired directly at Beaupre.  I
guess he was going for the five hole, and aimed too high.  I don't know.
It looked like a pretty lousy attempt on Jagr's part.  Don Beaupre even
said after the game "I don't think it was his best move."

At that point, it looked like the Caps were going to walk away with the
game.  Wregget looked shaky and the Pens looked flat.  But suddenly, 
lightning struck 3 times in 29 seconds.

The storm started at 17:42 when Larry Murphy picked up a loose puck and
beat Beaupre to make the score 2-1.(McEachern, Stevens).  15 seconds later
(17:57) Kevin Stevens scored off of a Joey Mullen rebound.  Joey had 
broke into the Caps end and fired a long range slapshot at Beaupre from
the right.  Beaupre came out of the net to block the shot, which riccocheted
right to a breaking Kevin Stevens on the left.  Stevens fired the puck 
into an open net.(Paek)  14 seconds after that(18:11) Ron Francis won 
the faceoff and got the puck to Larry Murphy, who passed it off to 
Stevens.  Stevens broke in again and veered in front of the net.  He
fired a backhand high into the net.  Beaupre and the Caps were stunned 
at that point.

With that assist, Larry Murphy earned his 800th point.  He received a 
nice standing "O".

Early in the second, the Caps got right back into the game.  While 
working on the power play, Dimitri Khirstich(Hatcher, Pivonka)beat 
Wregget to tie the game.  This is the first power play goal the Pens have
given up after killing off 25 consecutive power plays.

The score remained tied until 19:34 of the second.  Rick Tocchet was in
the right place at the right time.  Planted in front of the net, a Larry
Murphy slapshot deflected off Tocchet and past Don Beaupre and the Pens
went up for good.

Just :44 seconds into the third, Shawn McEachern picked up his 21st goal.
He and Jagr skated in on Beaupre.  Jagr slid a pass between the legs of
a Caps defenseman right to the stick of McEachern, and Shawn snapped the
puck over Beaupre's shoulder.(Tocchet)Wregget played a solid third, keeping
the Caps off the board.  The Pens helped out in front of him, holding the
Caps to 8 shots.  Kevin Stevens shot a slow mover into an empty net at
19:09(K. Samuelsson) for the hat trick

Scratches: Mario Lemieux(Hodgkin's disease), Tom Barrasso(chicken pox),
Ulf Samuelsson(bruised knee), Peter Ahola, Jeff Daniels.

BOX SCORE:

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

FIRST PERIOD: SCORING: 1, Washington, Hunter(Khristich, Cote)7:32.  2,
Washington, Hunter(Carpenter, Cavallini)10:14.  3, Pittsburgh, Murphy
(McEachern, Stevens)17:42.  4, Pittsburgh, Stevens(Mullen, Paek)17:57.  
5, Pittsburgh, Stevens(Murphy, Francis)18:11.  PENALTIES: WASH, Savage
(holding)5:08.  WASH, MacDermid(roughing)8:27.  WASH, May, 10 minute
misconduct,8:27  PGH, Paek(roughing)8:27.  PGH, Loney, 10 minute misconduct,
8:27.  WASH, bench penalty(unsportsmanlike conduct)served by Bondra, 12:27.
PGH, Paek(elbowing)15:14.  PGH, Jennings(roughing)19:39.

SECOND PERIOD: SCORING: 6, Washington, Khristich(Hatcher, Pivonka)1:25ppg.
7, Pittsburgh, Tocchet(Murphy, Jagr)19:34ppg.  PENALTIES: WASH, Cote
(interference)7:04.  PGH, K. Samuelsson(interference)17:01.  WASH, Hunter
(holding)17:49.

THIRD PERIOD: SCORING: 8, Pittsburgh, McEachern(Jagr, Tocchet):44.  9,
Pittsburgh, Stevens(K. Samuelsson)19:09eng.  PENALTIES: PGH, Stanton
(interference)8:36.  PGH, Tocchet(slashing)16:39.

SHOTS ON GOAL:
Pittsburgh: 10-10-6=26
Washington: 12-11-8=31

GOALIES:
Wregget (31 shots, 28 saves.  8-5-1)
Beaupre (25 shots, 20 saves)

Ref: Faucette Linesmen:Pateman, Pare

Lori
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