NHLPens.comEastern Conference Semifinals | NHLPens.com http://nhlpens.com a Pittsburgh Penguins Blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:00:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Keeping the Faith–Who’s Giving Up? http://nhlpens.com/keeping-the-faith-whos-giving-up/ http://nhlpens.com/keeping-the-faith-whos-giving-up/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:45:53 +0000 Chaiwoman http://nhlpens.com/?p=1052

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Certainly not the Pittsburgh Penguins.   Anyone disheartened by the 2 games to none deficit that the Penguins face has a pretty short memory and needs to take heart: Remember the Caps. For a little perspective, compare not only how close both teams were on the superstats sheets. Compare the stats of the Caps versus those...

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]]> http://nhlpens.com/keeping-the-faith-whos-giving-up/feed/ 2 The Hockey Gods Must Be Crazy http://nhlpens.com/the-hockey-gods-must-be-craz/ http://nhlpens.com/the-hockey-gods-must-be-craz/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 03:33:05 +0000 Chaiwoman http://nhlpens.com/?p=977

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Like gambling junkies sitting at the one-armed bandits in Vegas, the Hockey Gods simply had to go just one more time. They were unable to let the arguably frenetic series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals end in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. If Game 5 had been weird enough as Tom...

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]]> http://nhlpens.com/the-hockey-gods-must-be-craz/feed/ 0 Get One for the Sarge http://nhlpens.com/get-one-for-the-sarge/ http://nhlpens.com/get-one-for-the-sarge/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 16:35:17 +0000 Chaiwoman http://nhlpens.com/?p=967

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On a high-intesity drama scale, the Eastern Conference Semifinals series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals continues to thrill. Game 4 saw a determined Penguins team once again at the mercy of  the cruel humor of the Hockey Gods as another weird development put a Caps goal in the net only :36 into the...

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]]> http://nhlpens.com/get-one-for-the-sarge/feed/ 0 Band of Brothers: Pens 3-Caps 2 OT http://nhlpens.com/band-of-brothers-pens-3-caps-2-ot/ http://nhlpens.com/band-of-brothers-pens-3-caps-2-ot/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 03:26:33 +0000 Chaiwoman http://nhlpens.com/?p=952

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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;/For he to-day that sheds his blood with me,/Shall be my brother…”–King Henry before the battle of Agincourt, Henry V by William Shakespeare. While many hockey fans might not be familiar with this quote from one of William Shakespeare’s plays, it marks a great speech made by a...

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]]> http://nhlpens.com/band-of-brothers-pens-3-caps-2-ot/feed/ 0 The Devil is in the Details: Pens 2–Caps 3 http://nhlpens.com/the-devil-is-in-the-details-pens-2-caps-3/ http://nhlpens.com/the-devil-is-in-the-details-pens-2-caps-3/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 00:59:29 +0000 Chaiwoman http://nhlpens.com/?p=941

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In Saturday afternoon’s opening salvo between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the thing that seemed to worry the NBC commentators most in the first period was the fact that the sponsors wouldn’t get to plug their products. Meanwhile, the rest of Hockey Nation was transfixed by the rattling pace...

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