Is it Geno or Gino? Pens fall 2-1 to Brodeur and Devils

Two good things about tonight's game. First the Pens managed to outshoot someone. They peppered Martin Brodeur with 38 shots to NJs 34, and had several good scoring chances. Unfortunately, as he's done many times to the Pens, Brodeur stood on his head and only let in one cheesy goal on route to a 2-1 victory. I knew he would be tough tonight going for his 450th win.

The other good thing was that the aforementioned cheesy goal was scored by none other than #71 Evgeni Malkin. He stuffed home a loose rebound of a Mark Recchi shot that Brodeur appeared to have covered late in the second period. Elsewhere Malkin showed the skills that the Penguins faithful have been waiting to see for two years. He made deft passes, used his long Mario like reach to steal pucks and smashed a pane of glass behind the goal.

We only got to see the Malkin Crosby lead power play one time and it looked good. Martin had some amazing saves to keep the Pens off the boards.

Overall a good debut for Geno (Gino), he was clearly the best Penguin on the ice.

Other notes: the PK continued to look solid and Fluery played pretty well again. Unfortunately the Pens fall to 2-3. The good news is they get a chance to make up for it tomorrow night against the Islanders.