Its Not Just the Players Who are Young
First of all, thanks to Krundle for bringing me onto the squad.  That out of the way, I’ll begin my first poop (er.. post). After reading JeanPronovost’s first post, I realized that my knowledge of the Penguins, while vast indeed, does not hold a candle to those who have seen them play since they entered the league in ‘67.  However, what  I find truly fantastic about the sports teams in the city of Pittsburgh, is their ability to transcend the ages by winning.  Sure, a Flyers fan can bring

When will the helicopter ride end?
First off, I’d like to thank Reg for asking me to be a contributor to this great site.  I’ve wanted to for a quite a while but could never seem to find the time to get anything written.  Well, I have the time now, and look forward to being able to add anything I can to the other fine writers who contribute here regularly. To start, I attended my first Penguin game in 1971, and had the great fortune to have the opponent that night be the Boston Bruins which means I was lucky enough to see in my first game some of the all time greats like Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Johnny Bucyk, Pie MacKenzie, Wayne Cashman and Gerry Cheevers.  I’ve been a lifelong hockey fan ev

I Can Fix The Pittsburgh Penguin Power Play
The Penguins overtime win in Florida provided the all of the answers needed to right the sinking powerplay ship that has been taking on water since December 23rd, 2008. Everybody and their mom have the answers to make the powerplay work, most of them revolve around firing Mike Yeo and letting Tony Granato coach it. Not a poor idea in itself considering Granato has played on the powerplay in the NHL and had a year where he has scored 14 goals, which just happens to be the same amount of goals that the leading Penguin in that position scored last year. Other options have getting Billy Guerin off the powerplay or  just get Gonchar back healthy and all will be fine.

Pens Bounce Back: Top Thrashers 3-2
Who would of thought that it was Brooks Orpik’s return, not Gonchar & Talbot’s, that would fire the team up for a nice win.  The Pens had a nice turn around from Thursday night’s loss to the Senators.   The first period in particular was very strong.  The Pens came out flying.  They had the Thrashers locked up in their own zone for extended periods.  This proved to be an affective strategy against the league’s highest scoring team.  Even the most potent o

Gonchar and Talbot’s Return Spoiled
I would have bet that the return of Talbot alone would have been enough to energize the Penguins to a strong showing against the Senators tonight.  With the enthusiasm and energy with which Talbot plays coming back into the line-up, one would think that the other players may feed off of that.  Throw in the return of Gonchar and I am thinking that there is no way the Sens could beat the Pens…….Man, was I wrong. What happened tonight?  It defies logic that the Pens could play so poorly with what should have been a tremendous emotional boost.  I understand that they are still missing a large part of their starting roster, but come on!  They just put together a couple