This might have been the craziest hockey game I’ve ever seen. At one point in the second period, there were five Penguins in the penalty box.

It all got out of hand right before the first closed. After Detroit took an early 2-0 lead, Pittsburgh panicked. Our Red Wing was fighting their player behind the goal when a Penguin swooped in and punched our player in the head for the ultimate cheap shot.

What is with guys getting involved in another man’s beef? We saw it in Portland, where our Piston was handling his own until some random fucker bumps him and gets in his face out of nowhere. Mind ya own, bitches.

The resulting penalty opened the psycho floodgates in Pittsburgh. Another Penguin deliberately tripped one of our skaters on the power play, so we ended the period on a 5-on-3.

I don’t know what happened at the intermission, but more Penguins went to the penalty box. It looked like a clown car in there! I’ve never seen that many fellas in shame.

Apparently, the cheap-shotist was bitter at the referees, and he actually shot a puck at them! That was another penalty (plus a 10-minute major) that forced another Penguin to join them. Another guy was already serving one major misconduct. And the fifth was there from the initial fight that the little bitch joined in on.

With the two man advantage, we struck quickly. #28 rifled one home. There were so many penalties, we remained on the 5-on-3.

Petr Mrazek was simply outstanding. Since we played yesterday in Philly, the Griffin got the start. He dominated, stopped several point blank shots, and refused to let them get any momentum.

Only midway through the game at this point, Detroit had to keep playing. Gustav Nyquist took the puck in, lost it, then stole it back. He skated in and crossed a defender over in front of the net, hesitated, then sent the shot fake to Henrik Zetterberg just to the side of the net, where he smoothly placed it in.

Out came their backup goalie.

Now, the desperation clung to the air. Detroit would be forced to sustain several weak power plays the rest of the way. The first came in the second, now up 4-0. A scrum in front of Mrazek resulted in their first goal. But upon review and our goalie’s protest, they had hand-pucked a perfect pass on the assist.

No goal. We killed some more penalties and the horn sounded. At this point, they were talking about our Grand Rapids Griffins a lot on NBC. We’ve won 18 in a row in regulation without our goalie and league-leading scorer going between GR and Detroit. To hear our city’s name on national TV was awesome.

The third was no prettier. Lots of fighting frequented the period, to no avail for the home team. Detroit scored another goal when Teemu Pulkkinnen, the above mentioned Griffin, took a slap shot and it deflected off their defender into the goal. His shot is just that hard.

Mrazek continued to save us. Earlier, they shoved him to the ground intentionally. He allowed one goal around the ten minute mark, but that’d be all in a 5-1 victory.