Penguins hold on and strike late to take first blood in Stanley Cup Final

The Pittsburgh Penguins played such a good Long-Con even Sawyer from LOST would be proud.

The defending Stanley Cup Champions won Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final despite not getting a shot on goal for almost 40 minutes of game time against Predators goal Pekka Rinne. 

Nashville scored the first goal of the Final, only to have it called back on another one of those very marginal and much debated offside review calls.

Then after going up 3-0 late 1st period, the Penguins decided to play the complete anti-analytics game and go without any shots for the entire 2nd period.

Their shot less streak stretched into late into the 3rd period, during which Nashville had scored 3 goals to tie the game.

Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, Jake Guentzel powered down the wing a ripped a shot over Rinne's shoulder to put the Penguins in front.

Nick Bonino would add an empty net goal and Pittsburgh would finish the game with 5 goals on just 12 shots.

Leaving the Predators in a state of shock and disbelief, similar to the poor Penguins ice crew forced to clean the catfish from the ice.

Bring on Game 2 on Thursday and more F-Bombs on live TV from Peter Laviolette

Oh and more Carrie Underwood!

 Words by Joseph Durie - Please direct all hate to Joe_Ray_Me on Twitter