This has been uncharted territory in the story of the Pittsburgh Penguins – a team without both its superstars, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Worse still, it couldn’t have come at a more critical part of the hockey season when teams are battling for the top eight spots in conference play, jockeying for positions almost…
When the Penguins are winning and dominating, the focus is on the prowess of Sidney Crosby. When the Penguins struggle, one of the biggest and most pervasive topics of focus is Evgeni Malkin. Such was the case the morning after the Penguins let a 2-0 lead against Boston implode, ending in a 4-2 loss. The…
Numerologists could probably have a field day with the many ways the numeral 1 was present on the day of the Bridgestone Winter Classic at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field. It was the first day of the first month of the 11th year in the 21st century; the game time was moved from 1PM to “prime” time,…
The 2011 NHL Winter Classic is just a few short days away and the current wintery weather at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field may be about to give way to an unwelcome mid-winter’s thaw with the potential for Spring showers. With temperatures currently hovering around 23 and a wind chill of just 11 degrees, preparing to play…
A funny thing happened to Brent Johnson Wednesday night on the way out to the ice for the 3rd period against the Boston Bruins. When he wasn’t looking, someone completely snatched up his teammates and replaced them with hockey zombies…Really? OK, maybe not, but boy, it sure seemed like a terrifying ending to a horrifying…
New arena, new home for “Destiny,” new acquisitions and high expecations. Any why not? For the first time in three seasons, the Penguins got a good chunk of summer to rest and recuperate having left the previous post-season early thanks to Montreal. Pre-season seemed to uphold the excitement of all of the above. The Pens…
The biggest question for the Pittsburgh Penguins coming into the 2010/11 season was how the changes in their defensive ranks would affect the team. Most notably, how would the team recover from the loss of Sergei Gonchar? Not just a scoring threat on the blueline for the Penguins, the veteran Gonchar was the team’s smooth skating…
It was a homecoming (of sorts) for Defenseman Paul Martin as he returned to the rink that he called home for all 6 seasons of his NHL Career before joining the Pittsburgh Penguins this summer. But his former fans didn’t lay out a welcome mat, instead they showered him with boo’s every time he touched…
Despite looking loose, rejuvinated, and catlike with lightning fast reflexes in the pre-season and large stretches of the first two games, Marc-Andre Fleury let this one go tonight. Despite outshooting, out-hitting, and out-chancing them, the Penguins ended up giving up 2 goals in the final 3 minutes of the game to lose 3-2 to the…
Somone forgot to tell the Philadelphia Flyers that goaltending is supposed to be their achilles heal. It certainly didn’t look that way tonight as Flyers’ rookie netminder Sergei Bobrovsky staked his claim as an authentic National Hockey League goaltender by holding the Pittsburgh Penguins to just 2 goals on 31 shots. That is a 0.936 GAA…
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