To start the first period vs. the Islanders last night, James Neal scored his sixth goal of the season.  To end the period, he took a penalty.

He’s too busy to fix his hair for interviews.

NOPE.  It’ll be a sad, scoreless day in the ‘Burgh before Nealer doesn’t care about his flow.

This .gif is even better for it’s choppiness – it’s like he performs a magic trick and doubles the amount of hair with the wave of his hand.

A wonderful person even filmed it off their TV so you wouldn’t miss out: link.

The Pens won their 7th game of the season, putting them atop the Eastern Conference with 14 points.  Look at these two – James is mesmerized by Kris, Kris is mesmerized by what I can only imagine is Sid off-camera, nose stuffed full of bloody cotton from a puck to the face, but still.  They’re so googly-eyed they can’t even high-five.

Nealmobile was 1st Star of the game.  Here he is being borrrrrrrrrring in a snuggly sweatshirt on NHL Tonight [link].

Read more about James’ recent success and how he honed that wicked shot from the Ellwood City Ledger.  Frankly there is a limit to the number of times I can hear “stick” or “slot” without giggling.

Pens vs. Caps – Round 2 tomorrow night in Pittsburgh, on NHL Network.

You know where I’ll be.