Kotaku reader OTCIXS faced worse than an embarassing loss; as a diehard Penguins fan, he faced losing to Philadelphia - and to a live opponent assuredly ready to talk trash about it. And then a miracle unfolded. We have video!
Tied 1-1 in overtime, OTCIXS took one of those ticky-tack penalties that has you believing the gods are against you. Short-handed, his Pens suck it up and bear down to kill the penalty. Philly smells blood in the water and rushes the zone to finish this off. Cycling the puck, the Flyers' Braydon Coburn winds up for a blue-line slap shot and OTCIXS instinctively sends Pascal Dupuis to dive on the puck. Dupuis goes down in a heap, seemingly hit in the face, as teammate Mark Eaton swoops in.
Eaton picks up the puck cleanly away from Coburn and his help, swats or kicks it ahead to a now-rushing, uninjured Dupuis, who is beating everyone down the ice. "With my opponent hopelessly trying to hook me and 12 seconds left in overtime," says OTCIXS, "I deked back to the right and nestled the puck into the net with a backhand shot.
"Needless to say, my 360 controller went flying and I started jumping up and down all over my room. I nearly dislocated my shoulder from all the fist pumps."
Here's your proof!
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Now the Kotaku Sports open thread commences with the sports TV schedule for today and tomorrow. All times are U.S. Eastern.
- World Cup
Alright, from South Africa, it's - no ... no it isn't. Sigh ... I guess it's really over, isn't it. I never thought I would miss this "soccer." Well, tomorrow at 3 p.m. on ESPN, we have an international club friendly, Celtic of the Scottish Premier League at the Seattle Xbox 360s of the MLS. - Real Football
Today, the NFL Network continues its coverage of minor league football from Alta America with the Edmonton Things and the Saskatchewan Whatchamacalits, 4 p.m. Just 22 shopping days left until the Hall of Fame Game in Canton. - Golf
The British Open is underway with third round play at 7 a.m. today and 6 a.m. tomorrow. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 cover mate Rory McIlroy shot a 63 on Thursday and then backed that up with a frigging 80 on Friday, widest one-day swing in major tournament history in 20 years. Let's hope the winds calm down for something better than crapshoot golf today. - Major League Baseball
Just two options for your national pick on Saturday, Tampa at the Yanks or Dodgers at Cards, both 4 p.m. on Fox. In the evening, the White Sox visit Minnesota, 7 p.m. on WGN.
Tomorrow night, it's Rays-Yanks at 1 p.m. on TBS, Sox-Twinks at 2 on WGN, and the national game of the week is the Philies at Cubs on ESPN, 8. - Motorsports
No Sprint Cup event this weekend, so NASCAR's (adjusts glasses, reads from paper) "Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 from Madison, Ill.'s Gateway International Raceway," runs at 8 p.m. on ESPN.
Tomorrow, the German Grand Prix runs in Hohenstein, Germany (where else?) at 9 a.m. on Speed. At 12:30 p.m., the Honda Indy Toronto comes to you live on ABC.
- Cycling
Lance Armstrong has officially given up, which means Americans can officially go back to not giving a shit about the Tour de France. For those who still do, today on Versus we have (adjusts glasses, reads from paper) "Stage 13, Rodez to Revel" already going at 8:30 a.m., if it's not already over,. Tomorrow at 7:30 a.m., it's (clears throat, looks off camera uncertainly) "Revel to Ax-Les-Thermes." Alright.
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