Rick Kehoe scores overtime winner against New York Islanders

[industrialsun]

Morrow turns his head at 0:33 & looks to the left obviously anticipating that Smith would be able to cut the puck off behind the net. If Morrow had looked a half-second earlier then he would have seen the puck go by Smith & gone to the right side of the net immediately. That was just the break that the Pens needed to get back in the series because otherwise the Isles would have probably completed the sweep. I bet Pens wish they could have traded this goal for one in Game 7 OT vs Isles in 1993.

[LimeZYX]

0:50 A young Mark Cuban cheering in the stands.

[Ben6134]

Rick kehoe is great !!

[leafyutube]

This was the only series in which the Isles faced elimination during their 4 year Stanley Cup run.

That's how dominant they were.

[MrStones64]

@leafyutube i'd have to say montreal and edmonton's dynasties were better.

[ottvalley]

Pens should have won this series,they had a 2 goal lead in the 3rd period of the deciding game and they blew it

[dzanier]

I guess when you analyze it from that perspective you're right, but given the dominance with which the Isles beat the Pens in Games 1 and 2 along with the fact that the Isles were clearly a far superior team I don't think Penguins fans have anything to be ashamed of.

[mrceebees14]

Now all the Pens "f-ns" come out.

Bunch of bandwagoneers.

Now it isn't embarrassing to root for them.

[IslesToiletCleaners]

And why did the Islanders have so much trouble beating a clown ass team like the Penguins in 82. Oh, only because they are called the Islanders LOL. Always had trouble with the weaklings, the faggots from Pittsburgh or any team from PussySylvania. You American fucks are just garbage. Learn to read and write or you will get your asses kicked!

[magnifique66]

those "faggots" just won the stanley cup... fuck yeah buddy!!

btw i live in canada

[PRR5503]

I was at this game, sitting in the balconey at the opposite end of the Civic Arena, and from our vantage point, we couldn't imagine that Chico scored at that angle.

after losing the 1st two games on Long Island, Penguin management was so-embarrassed, they offered the fans a refund of their ticket-money if they didn't want to watch, but this only motivated the Guins, who won thenext night in game 4, forcing a 5th & deciding game on Long Island, which NYI won in OT on a John Tonelli goal

[skyroe2]

@PRR5503 what also motivated them was they saw the isles brought their luggage to the arena figuring they would b going home after completing the sweep. story goes that pens g.m saw luggage in hallway in front of locker room and told the pen players to motivate them

[ottvalley]

2 years later Mario joined the Pens

[morozov924]

WOO! OLD SCHOOL PENS BABY!!!!

[CCampLI]

The Devils going to Kansas City? New Jersey just built the Devils a brand new facility lol

[ivand87a]

Exactly! So with a brand new arena, you STILL can't sell out. The Devils averaged 15,564 people this year to go watch a winning team that easily could have won their division. Just imagine how shitty attendance will be once Brodeur retires and the team starts losing. What's funny is how exaggerated their attendance numbers are. I bet that's off by like 3,000. Devils suck!

[CCampLI]

Not a Devils fan genius.

But they don't throw games, neither do most teams. But because no one cares about the Pens from day one, the Pens have always been on the verge of bankruptcy......always. Which is why they needed Mario, Mario saved that franchise by bringing back the fans, who in Pennsylvania are OVERWHELMINGLY Flyers fans.

The Pens fans only came back because of Crosby, if Crosby had been on any other team than Pitt, the Pens would be playing in another state right now.

[ivand87a]

No one cares about the Pens from day one? LOL... You clearly don't know much about the history of the Pens.

Every team needs to win, else the fans don't show up. We didn'd need Mario... We needed a winning team. Even Canadian cities like Ottawa have had problems selling out when their teams didn't make the playoffs.

[ivand87a]

BTW, you're a bitter Islanders fan who's clearly very jealous of the Pens. LOL.. Talk about a team with really terrible fan support. In 05-06, the Isles were dead last in the NHL with an average of 12,609. In 06-07, they were 28th in the league at 12,886. And again this season you were dead last with only 13,640 fans per game. And you're sitting there arguing that a small city like Pittsburgh had some bad years in attendance and lost a few games in 1984 to draft Lemieux? Give me a fuckin break.

[CCampLI]

Crosby should've gone to another franchise, subsequently killing the Penguins once and for all.

That should've been payback for throwing games at the end of the 1984 regular season in order to draft Lemeieux.

Mario should've been a Devil.

[morozov924]

right. let's just have one hockey team. let's not have 30. that would make it a real competitive league, huh?

The devils have three stanley cups using the trap. The Penguins have two using talent. Doesn't seem like either team should be upset.

[bern1417]

instead didn't you get muller?who wasn't a bad player.but regardless of how we got him,its in the past.honestly nj has the worst hockey fans,you guys win the cup and only 500 people show up at the airport.you make the playoffs and don't even sell out.the pens win the cup and you couldn't get within 10 miles of the airport.and we are going on 70 str8 sell outs,all is well here don't be bitter.

[ivand87a]

"Mario should've been a Devil."

I don't believe in hell but I sure as shit hope I'm wrong and you do burn in hell for making a statement as blasphemous as that. The Devils are a shitty franchise with shitty fans, they play third fiddle to the Rangers and Islanders and will never, ever, be a marquee franchise in this league.

I'm SO looking forward to seeing them not get a regular season game on NBC for decades to come.

[CCampLI]

They are so shitty that they put their fans first, the fans that line their pockets with money and try to win.

Unlike the Pens who "mysteriously" sent HEALTHY starters down to the minors and brought up kids.

The resultant? The Pens lost nearly every game....which is exactly what Pens management wanted in order to secure Mario Lemieux. That is disgusting and everyone knows it happened I am not making this up.

Enjoy the Pens, they play for themselves.

[ivand87a]

LOL... The Pens' management back then in 1984 wanted to try to get Lemieux. It was a very smart decision. Oh, and also, destiny. Just like it was destiny that we got Crosby and Malkin.

Enjoy watching the Devils move to Kansas City a few years from now when only 5,000 people go watch them after Brodeur retires.

[CCampLI]

I disagree.

Fans paid good money to see their team try and win, no matter what you always play to win.

The Pens didn't do that.

[landrykkb]

@ivand87a If the Penguins hadn't drafted Mario Lemieux in 1984,I believe they would have ceased to exist in Pittsburgh.They almost did as it was even after he retired.

[canesfan29]

this is the goal mike lange called that used to be on the Pens TV Broadcast intros in the early 90s

[e5badboy]

ricky kehoe is my fukin brother bitch

[DUD3mvp]

rick kehoe is my fuckin cuzin bitch

[sn0wm4ncanada]

you know when a few weeks ago brian burke said "the biggest change in the nhl is that the goaltenders are so much better now, some of the goals that were going in a few decades ago were just terrible." he was right.

[thenewnhlsux]

This is a WONDERFULL era of NHL hockey - gritty/tuff/passionate and not many soft euros who taugh us how to "dive-play dead on the ice".(Assholes) I think the game is 2 soft now and alot of it is the influx of euros the past 15 years. I may get "some heat" for this but its true, i used to the BIGGEST hockey fan but i can barely watch a game these days with all the penalties + no flow 2 game and less hitting - Bring back oldschool hockey (skating, scoring, skill and grit, toughness) its AMAZING

[dzanier]

Yes it was. The Pens did not play in a playoff series again until 1989.

[landrykkb]

@dzanier And they wouldn't have missed the playoffs in some of those years in between if the playoff format wasn't interdivisional.It was the top 4 teams in each division that qualified then and that often meant good teams missed the playoffs in the ultra-competitive Patrick Division.

[Maxie1111]

Was that the last playoff for the pens before Lemieux came in 84?

[xcnow]

Does anybody have any video of that last game between the pens and the isles?

[dzanier]

Nothing speaks more to how great a team is than the admiration of their opponents. About the Islanders, Michelle Dion said after the 5th game, "They have the heart of a lion". It's worthwhile to mention that the Islanders may have been the most admired cup champion in the last 30 years. Eveyone hated the Flyers, lots of people thought the Oilers were arrogant, (they weren't)and people got sick and tired of the Habs always winning. Best Dynasty? It just might be the Isles.

[Maxie1111]

That team just knew how to win.

[dzanier]

Only the Isles could have come back in that 5th game at the Coliseum. They should not have been in that situation to begin with cause they were much better than the Pens. But the fact that they got 2 goals in the final 5 minutes and then won in OT showed the heart that the Isles had. And I'm a Rangers fan

[landrykkb]

@dzanier But the beauty of playoff hockey is that the best laid plans often don't get followed through on.Let's not forget that these same Pittsburgh Penguins almost upset the top seeded St.Louis Blues just a year earlier,even though there was no comparison between them and the Isles of that era.

[dzanier]

Yeah, for the Blues that was a big triumph, and even though they finished I think number 2 or 3 overall St. Louis was beaten 4-2 by the Rangers in round 2, and the Rangers were a 74-point team. As you said, that is the beauty of playoff hockey. I do recall that the Penguins twice beat the Islanders 7-2 during the 81-82 regular season. One thing those Penguin teams did not have trouble doing was scoring. Kehoe, Bullard, Boutette, Macleish, plus Carlyle had won the Norris Trophy in 80-81

[landrykkb]

@dzanier Fast forward 11 years later,and Pittsburgh were heavily favoured to 3-peat but ended up being upset by the New York Islanders,who both had been opposite sides of the fence in their previous playoff series.

[thelanceman]

All that I can say is "I was there!"

[RobDog65]

Awesome. Nothing says Pittsburgh hockey like that "Let's Go Pens" cheer you hear on the organ at the beginning of the clip. And we're BACK, aren't we??? ^_^

[JimR541]

Pittburgh did't "let them" come back. The Islanders took the game back. The Superior team won.

[chrislauer]

Nice vid. Check my page for more old school Pens action.

[NIPSEY2415]

dion dion

great stuff

up 3-1 in the third period against the stanley cup champs had them on the ropes and let them come back.

damn that tonelli