Follow the bouncing puck

Last night was a game of strange bounces. The games first goal came when Martin Straka's centering pass bounced off the skate of Penguin defensemen Sergei Gonchar and past Marc-Andre Fleury. On that play Jaromir Jagr recored his first playoff point against the team he won two cups with in the early nineties. The Rangers scored 2 more goals to take a 3-0 lead in the 2nd period. Just as the announcer on VS. was saying that the Penguins haven't come back from a 3 goal deficit all year, they scored 2 goals in a 14 second span. The first came from Jarkko Ruutu as his pass bounced off a defender and into the net. Then the 2nd came from a pretty pass from Sid the Kid to Pascal Dupuis who scored his first goal of the playoffs. Then in the 3rd the craziest bounce of them all happened. Marian Hossa was in the corner and sent the puck to the front of the net only to have it go right through the space between Scott Gomez's skate blade and his boot and through the legs of Henrik Lundqvist. If you give Hossa 100 tries at that shot again I guarantee he wouldn't be able hit that shot again. The teams traded goals to make it even again at 4 a piece until late in the third when Sidney Crosby took a rare slap shot from the top of the circle and of course it bounced off Evgeni Malkin's shin and into the back of the net for the game winning goal. The Penguins started off slow after having a extended break between rounds but picked up their game and won their 5th playoff game in a row.