post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
PREGAME -Hey, guess where we are: -Hmmm... not quite: -We assume, a dusty, chilly cubicle in the Post-Gazette's building is just as nice as sunny, warm Southern California. -One person who is there is EN reader Eric Naughton who has been sending us a ton of pregame photos. A Paul Coffey jersey: -A Russian Evgeni Malkin t-shirt jersey: -Mario Lemieux yellow: -Mario Lemieux Wales Conference All-Star:...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Penguins -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . The Penguins finished October as one of five teams in NHL history to rack up 12 win in October. -The Star Tribune's recap . The WIld has won back to back games for the first time this season. -The Pioneer Press' recap . It was Nicklas Backstrom's ( above, with Sidney Crosby ) night. -The Associated Press' recap . The WIld is 3-0 against the...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
FIRST PERIOD 20:00: " LET'S GO PENS! LET'S GO PENS! " 19:40: Sidney Crosby rushes up the ice and challenges Brent Burns one-on-one from the right wing. Burns hacks the puck off Crosby's stick. 19:10: Chris Bourque, Ruslan Fedotenko and Jordan Staal are on a line once again. Bourque snaps off a wrister from the top of hte slot. Backstrom knocks it away. 17:53: Matt Cooke, Craig Adams and...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Penguins ( Note: To the reader who said hello to us after last night's game, we apologize for being brief with you. We were in a rush to get to the locker room. ) -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . " That's why you play 60 minutes ." - Alex Goligoski. -The Columbus Dispatch's recap . " We took our foot off the gas, it's that simple ." - Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock....
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
FIRST PERIOD 19:42: " LET'S-GO JACK-ETS! LET'S-GO JACK-ETS! " 19:18 : " LET"S GO PENS! LET'S GO PENS! " 19:00: Jordan Staal takes a shift with Ruslan Fedotenko and Chris Bourque. 18:21: Matt Cooke rattles a Blue Jackets player in the corner in Columbus' zone. During a stoppage, the Columbus player (sorry, we couldn't identify him), has words with Cooke at center ice. Officials...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Think about this for a moment. The last time the Penguins had a lineup in a game of consequence that didn't include Evgeni Malkin, John Leclair, one of the final mistakes of the Craig Patrick regime, was still a member of the club. That's how long Evgeni Malkin's consecutive streak was (or still is technically). The last 254 regular season games the Penguins have played have seen Evgeni Malkin take...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
PREGAME Greetings from another ugly day in Pittsburgh. Its in the mid 50s. Drizzling. Cloudy. Ugly. We love Pittsburgh, but this is one of those day were you wonder why you can't find a job in San Diego. They need hockey bloggers in San Diego right? A few shots from our trek up from from the Chatham Center garage. Consol Energy Center on the FIfth Avenue Side: -Mellon Arena: -The ice: -This is from...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
PREGAME Greetings from another ugly day in Pittsburgh. Its in the mid 50s. Drizzling. Cloudy. Ugly. We love Pittsburgh, but this is one of those day were you wonder why you can't find a job in San Diego. They need hockey bloggers in San Diego right? A few shots from our trek up from from the Chatham Center garage. Consol Energy Center on the FIfth Avenue Side: -Mellon Arena: -The ice: -This is from...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Penguins forward Tyler Kennedy ( above ) will skip tonight's game against the Canadiens due to an undisclosed injury. Dan Bylsma described his injury as day to day. He will be replaced in the lineup by Chris Bourque. He has six points (five goals, one assist) in 11 games this season. Kennedy leads the NHL this season with three game-winning goals. Pascal Dupuis, who had been dealing with an illness,...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
PREGAME -Greetings from a cloudy, late October day in Pittsburgh. Just a bleh day. It was dry enough to park downtown and walk up to Mellon Arena however. This is left over from last night. A Quebec license plate in the garage at Chatham Center: -PPG Place against a gray sky: -Looking south on Stanwix Street: -The construction at Market Square which is apparently fine to show off when every major...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
PREGAME -Greetings from a cloudy, late October day in Pittsburgh. Just a bleh day. It was dry enough to park downtown and walk up to Mellon Arena however. This is left over from last night. A Quebec license plate in the garage at Chatham Center: -PPG Place against a gray sky: -Looking south on Stanwix Street: -The construction at Market Square which is apparently fine to show off when every major...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
SECOND PERIOD 19:04 : Booth snaps off a shot from the left faceoff circle. Johnson covers for the save. Moore kind of jabs for a rebound. Letang escorts him away from Johnson. 18:49: Booth is nabbed for slashing Orpik's stick out of his hands. Crosby, Malkin, Guerin, Goligoski and Letang take the ice. Goligoski is at the right point and Letang is on the left. 18:18: Some yokel in south end of the...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
FIRST PERIOD 20:00: The usualy pairing of Mark Eaton and Kris Letang starts the game on defense along with Ruslan Fedotenko, Evgeni Malkin and SIdney Crosby 18:50: Alex Goligoski and Skoula take the ice. 18:19: Martin Skoula and Jay McKee are on the ice together. 18:10: "Search and Destroy" by Iggy Pop is played. Always good: 18:06: Skoula takes his first shot as a Penguin of a faceoff....
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Penguins -Bill Guerin apparently had to comfort a depressed Sergei Gonchar ( above ) when he lost his second goal to Pascal Dupuis. We think. -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . " We're getting everyone chipping in ." - Jay McKee. -The Associated Press' recap . The Penguins' 7-1-0 start is the second-best in franchise history. -The St. Petersburg Times recap . Lightning captain...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
PREGAME -Greetings from what is simply a cruddy, miserable day in Pittsburgh. Low 40s, drizzle. It just one of those days where the word "hibernation" comes to mind. -We didn't walk up from downtown. Too cruddy. -This is a left over from last week's game. A Georges Laraque jersey: -This is from this morning. The Lightning had some memorabilia set aside for the entire team to sign: -Apparently...
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