Penguins ‘Hot Takes’ Just Getting Silly
We are all entitled to our opinion, and goodness knows that I have plenty of them myself. But this batch of Pittsburgh Penguins offseason hot takes has gotten to an…
We are all entitled to our opinion, and goodness knows that I have plenty of them myself. But this batch of Pittsburgh Penguins offseason hot takes has gotten to an…
Wow, that was a lot of hockey! In consecutive years the Pittsburgh Penguins crossed the finish line of the most grueling postseason in sports. Sprinkle in some international hockey for…
Marc-Andre Fleury is a rock star in Pittsburgh. Maybe even more so now than when he was a member of the Penguins. Fleury was the original member of Pittsburgh’s modern…
Let’s say hypothetically that a team has a player—let’s call him Bill Tessel—who finished the season as one of the NHL’s top-10 point producers. He recently helped his team to…
Pittsburgh sports fans love their blue-collar players. Many athletes have captured the hearts of the city by combining skill with a lunch-pail work ethic. In fact, nose-to-the-grindstone sports is kinda…
Nobody could have predicted the circumstances that led us to this point. Marc-Andre Fleury’s concussion leading to Matt Murray’s historic charge to a Stanley Cup. The NHL forcing Pittsburgh into…
Recently, the NHL Network featured a recap of the Penguins’ run to the Stanley Cup. You could say I’m being a bit nostalgic, but the program reminded me of something.…
Do not envy Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford. Every day that passes brings him closer to an inevitable decision that could potentially be disastrous. The NHL is putting the…
It was Sidney Crosby’s first game of the season after suffering a concussion. Jaromir Jagr made, what is likely, one of his last appearances in Pittsburgh. Based on the billing…
If you have followed my writing, or listened to my radio appearances, you likely know that I am terrible at making hockey predictions. Still, I approach my prognostication with buoyancy…
“Last season was last season.” Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan was both factual and wise in his statement to reporters on Wednesday. It would be very easy to expect Sidney…
The Pittsburgh Penguins are the reigning Stanley Cup Champions. What could be more impressive than that? The road that they took to get there, and the way in which they…