Sabu-yeah. PENS WIN.

Okay, it was the Islanders.But a come-from-behind win is a come-from-behind win. Especially in a place that has not been kind over the years.Dany Sabourin has quieted the detractors who said during the offseasonthat Shero getting rid of Conklin was a mistake.What a backup goaltender.What more can you ask for?MR. KENNNNNEDDDYYYYYYYBig-time performance.(Anxiously awaiting the YouTube of him getting jobbed during his Potash interview.)Bring itaer1518Nobody knew the Islanders even had a head coach until we were introduced to Scott Gordon.Nice name.not.Malkin gets jobbed by a slapper from some Islander joke.The season could evaporate that fast. It's no joke.If you want to know what slowly dying feels like, we're guessing all you have to do is watch a hockey game live in Nassau Coliseum.Then again, that's what people were saying about Mellon Arena a few years ago.This looks like a photo from practice, but it's actually from the first periodof a tilt between the Pens and Thrashers in 2003.Talbot went to the box for something balls, and the Islanders' 25th-ranked power play goes towork.[Ian D]The power play disappears faster than Carlos Mencia's career.The Isles power play doesn't plagiarize and steal plays from other teams, though.Nothing was going on for most of the period.At the tail end, the Isles get a bounce.A loose puck falls on Doug Weight's stick.It flutters in off of Petr Sykora's stick. 1-0.Jordan Staal worked really hard in that first period.So do washing machines.The Isles broke out the vintage unis for this one.Solid uniform.If you somehow thought LSD didn't exist on Long Island,here's what their uniform was for two seasons in the mid-90s.jesusNo one knew where this game was headed at the start of the second.Would the Islanders eek out a bizarre 3-2 win?Would the Pens eat the Islanders' lunch?No Malkin to begin the third. Oh God.While you were still looking for the answer to that, Tyler Kennedy enters the Isles zone with more patience than Alan Alda.Nice little give-and-go with Ziggo, and it was tied.Beautiful goal. 1-1.Almost as beautiful as when BECKER went off the air.The Islanders take a penalty after that.It was time to stop messing around with New York.Willis Malkin returns from his hand situation, but no dice.And then there was another Pens powerplay. Nothing.Doug Weight comes out of the box to help set up the Isles' next goal.No one knew what was going on. 2-1.Again, nothing happened for a bulk of the second period.The Isles changed that by scoring another boob goal. 3-1.Life sucked.Nothing was good.Sabu made a big save when the Isles could have made it 4-1 and swept the leg.Man Jordan Staal really can't do anythin...dlmdlmfmmm.md,vmvd-RINSE CYCLE, BITCH3-2.One of the bigger goals this season.And then the Pens had another power play right after that.No dice.The best chance came when some joke had a shortie breakway.Letang thwarts the shot for the most part, and an orgy ensued.The Isles took a late-period penalty that would touch itself into the third.The Pens took advantage of the power play early in the third to get some scoring chances.Ronald McDonald made a huge stop on Tenk.The Pens were flirting with a goal for most of the first half of the third.Their rhythm got disrupted when they had to kill a penalty, which they did.After the PK, the Pens resumed taking it to the Isles.What the hell were the Islanders doing?On the Pens' 17th shot of the period (compared to zero for NYI), Goligoski fires it to the net.Acting as if he were a CIA operative, Goligoski shoots at Kennedy.Deflection. Goal. 3-3.Stunned[Eze]Is it sad that we haven't been that pumped after a goal since Talbot tied it in Game 5?Just a big goal. No reason to not leave the Dump without a point at least.Sid had a chance in the waning moments of the third to send the Islanders home without a point.Guess who would bury that.The Islanders almost score with 5 seconds left. If that would have happened we wouldn't have watched a game for a month.The overtime had poop written all over it.But then the last 2 minutes of it was insanity.Back and forth.The Isles were getting the best chances.Sabu was making some huge saves, poking the puck for Billy Guerin when you thought it was lights out.Crosby makes the worst turnover since your mom tried that Rachel Ray recipe.Done.Weight had the first chance on Sabu. Nope.Sykora puts one home.Billy Guerin is too old to even make moves anymore. Nope.Satan could have ended it, and it would have been fitting. Nope.Sabu faced Trent Hunter with the game in the balance.Hunter walks in, takes a shot.Sabu slides in the net. Where is the puck. No one knows where the puck is.Julie the Cat Sabu pulls the puck out of his pads.It is a scene straight out of MIGHTY DUCKS 2, thus legitimizing what we have always felt to be an unrealistic ending to a hockey movie (who brings in a cold goaltender anyway to face a huge penalty shot?)[Kevin E]A 9-year-old could tell you the puck was in, but that 9-year-old didn't write the NHL rulebook.GAME.MISCELLANEOUSDetroit on Tuesday.Leaving Long Island without a point would have been a crime.Staal, nice.Thank god Malkin is okayBig time third period.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::And we're cold. St. Louis is the worst team in the NHL.Go Pens