Spezza Carries Senators Past Penguins

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Jason Spezza powered the Pizza Line and the Ottawa Senators past the Penguins with a hat trick, and of course I benched him today on my fantasy hockey team so unless Eric Staal puts up one hell of a performance tonight I'm never taking fantasy advice again. Back to the game the first period bounced back a fourth from what I saw while I pulled christmas light duty. The Senators got on the board first with 2 goals from Spezza in the second before Staal recorded a powerplay goal on a Spezza penalty only to have him take the 2 goal lead back by bouncing a shot off of the skate of Kris Letang which sealed up his hat trick for the night. There was no more scoring until Malkin took the puck shorthanded on a break away and buried it to make it a one goal game. The Senators locked it down after this and gave the Pens little chance to get back in the game no matter how much they possessed the puck in the offensive zone.