post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Sidney Crosby broke the 150-goal mark last night. Assuming he stays healthy and maintains a fairly consistent scoring pace, he has a chance to move into the top six among career goal scorers for the Penguins this season: Player Goals 1. Mario Lemieux 690 2. Jaromir Jagr 439 3. Jean Pronovost 316 4. Rick Kehoe 312 5. Kevin Stevens 260 6. Mike Bullard 185 7. Martin Straka 165 8. Ron Francis 164 9. Mark...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Earlier this morning, Dejan Kovacevic posted three of Dave Molinari's more prominent leads from his career covering the Penguins . They were for Mario Lemieux's first career game and for the team's first and third Stanley Cup titles. Three of the biggest moments in the history of the franchise captured perfectly by a hall-of-fame writer. One that has always stood out to us is Lemieux's comeback game...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Mellon Arena Memories" is a semi-regular feature that will appear in this forum from time to time during the remainder of the Penguins' final season at Mellon Arena. We will attempt to interview several individuals inside and outside of the Penguins about the arena which has served as the franchise's home facility since the its inception. Today's subject is Greg Malone. Greg Malone ( right...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
When you think about the faces of the Penguins franchise - Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andre Fleury and Evgeni Malkin - you think of youth. All four of those players are under the age of 25. Then you get to Brooks Orpik. You might not think of him as part of that vital internal core. He doesn't win Hart Trophies or Conn Smythe Awards. He wasn't one of the top two picks in a draft. He never made a clutch,...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
( We readily admit we force some of these lame-o headlines .) Over the summer, there was a little bit of concern the Penguins would have a streak come to an end this season . But thanks to Sergei Gonchar's bum wrist, this streak will survive another season. For the previous 18 seasons, the Penguins have had at least one native of the Czech Republic or the former Czechoslovakia play at least one game...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
PREGAME Greetings from gloomy, but fairly mild Pittsburgh. Too rainy, too wet to walk up from downtown. A few simple pictures from the Chatham Center garage will have to suffice. Consol Energy Center: -Mellon Arena: -A Paul Coffey jersey outside Gate 3: -The ice: -The Panthers have all their various gums sorted and labeled down in the locker room: This is left over from Tuesday night. The Stanley...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
PREGAME Greetings from gloomy, but fairly mild Pittsburgh. Too rainy, too wet to walk up from downtown. A few simple pictures from the Chatham Center garage will have to suffice. Consol Energy Center: -Mellon Arena: -A Paul Coffey jersey outside Gate 3: -The ice: -The Panthers have all their various gums sorted and labeled down in the locker room: This is left over from Tuesday night. The Stanley...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
"Mellon Arena Memories" is a semi-regular feature that will appear in this forum from time to time during the remainder of the Penguins' final season at Mellon Arena. We will attempt to interview several individuals from the world of hockey about the arena which has served as the Penguins' home facility since the franchise's inception. Today's subject is Robert Lang. Lang is currently a...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Penguins -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . Tyler Kennedy ( above, with Matt Cooke, Craig Adams and Alex Goligoski ) is on a pace for 41 game-winning goals. -The Ottawa Citizen's recap . Stopping Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin wasn't enough for the Senators. -The Associated Press' recap . The Senators had a three-game winning streak snapped. -Highlights: -Jordan Staal, Tyler Kennedy...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Penguins -The Penguins will launch an HD radio station Oct. 1 . Former Islanders play-by-play guy Steve Mears, a native of Murrysville, will host a daily show. -After a rocky offseason, the NHL needs Sidney Crosby ( above ), Evgeni Malkin and some guy in Washington to save it once again . -Dmitry Chesnokov for Yahoo! has a pretty good first-hand account of the Penguins' encouter with President Obama...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Pirates rookie slugger Garrett Jones hit the 10,000th home run in franchise history two days ago . It was a pretty notable achievement that only took 132 years to accomplish. Jones' blast got us to wondering. Who scored the 10,000th goal in Penguins history? A look in the Penguins' media guide revealed nothing. Surprisingly, there is no note of the milestone goal. And we couldn't find a mention of...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Penguins -Evgeni Malkin suited up for Mettalurg Magnitogorsk during his time with the Stanley Cup and "scored" a goal: ( Kudos to The PensBlog for the find .) -Adam Gretz of Fanhouse has a pretty solid interview with Ray Shero . -The Penguins' training camp officially begins Sept. 12 . -Maxime Talbot speaking in French: -Feel free to translate if you can. ( Kudos to LetsGoPens.com for the...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
-Here's former Penguins forwards Martin Straka and Ziggy Palffy connecting on a nifty give-and-go while as members of the Kings:
hlog {Hockey's Ladies of Greatness} (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
It’s been a busy summer for New York, now hasn’t it? We had already dealt with several changes over the last season. Wade Redden, Aaron Voros and Marcus Naslund were new free agent additions (I hate Glen Sather ), Lauri Korpikoski was a rookie, and Nik Zherdev was acquired last offseason via trade. Bye-bye to Jaromir Jagr, Brendan Shanahan, Martin Straka, Sean Avery and Fedor Tyutin . During...
The FanHouse - Illinois Basketball (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
by Adam Gretz Filed under: Rangers , Wild , NHL Fans , NHL Videos FanHouse's Adam Gretz takes a look at his top 50 players in the NHL . No. 33 is New York Rangers forward Marian Gaborik. You can't blame the New York Rangers for having an interest in free agent forward Marian Gaborik this offseason. A team that was lacking the offensive firepower it never replaced when Jaromir Jagr, Brendan Shanahan...
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