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Pens beat the Canes in a 3-2 shootout win. And with 12 points (24 goals for, 17 against, and 6-1-0 so far), the Pens are #2 in the NHL, behind the Rangers. Ironically, the only team that has beaten the Pens this season yet is the Phoenix Coyotes (proving that yes, you can sleep on […]

Got yours yet?

Story here.
Leafs fall to Pens, 5-2.

From the commenters at Pensblog: Hannibal Hartnell and the Broad Street Biters.

The Pens beat the Flyers last night in Wachovia Center, final score 5-4! But the big news is that nobody told us Philadelphia had hired Mike Tyson. Nobody told Letang, either.
Maybe Hartnell has been hanging out with Vick.
Seidling’s report. Nothing (except the finger biting incident) at Pensblog yet.
Other news: Pens honor Iraq war veteran.
Game highlights:

There were the two Penn State victories, hockey and football. In the season opener, the Pens rocked the Rangers. On Saturday night, the Pens played the Islanders, and won in a shootout 4-3. Tavares is the man to watch, Islander or no. And where was Doug Weight?
The Steelers haven’t started the season well, with […]

The Icers played the Townson Tigers yesterday afternoon, the first Saturday home game of the season. Penn State has almost a whole new team, and there’s a rising star: Dominic Marrone, a freshman, who scored (at least) two goals in yesterday afternoon’s game, and one in Friday night’s game. I say “at least two […]

Yes, we did! Pens defeat the Rangers 3-2!

Pics from Pensblog (they’ve moved, so update your link).
Offense lines:
Kunitz-Crosby-Guerin
Fedotenko-Malkin-Dupuis
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Rupp-Adams-Godard
Defense:
Orpik-Gonchar
Eaton-Legang
McKee-Goligoski
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009
2 - 3 PENGUINS
GOALS
NYR: C. Drury (16:01 - 1st) , M. Gaborik (05:56 - 3rd)
PIT: E. Malkin (PPG, 07:48 - 1st) , S. Crosby (12:25 - 2nd) , T. Kennedy (13:33 - […]

There were 12 seniors on the Icers last year. This year’s team has a lot of new faces, and the Collegian’s hockey blog covers it here. More on BSD.
This season’s Icers schedule here.

Yeah, we lost (but not for lack of playing, and it’s preseason so it doesn’t count) but that game last night against Montreal was one hell of a game, especially that third period. That’s what you call fighting for the puck.
And steel yourselves for more hockey: The season starts in a week!

From Pennsblog. “British hockey fans avoid knowing the score of 2009 game 7 so they can watch a rebroadcast at the Maple Leaf Pub in London, UK.” One is wearing a Steelers jersey.

That’s how many Terrible Towels were waving at the NFL season opener at Heinz last night. The Steelers canned the Titans 13-10 in an overtime game. Gee, this sounds familiar.

Writeup in the local rag. These fans came all the way from Chihuahua to wave the Towel.

Gene Expressions: The Steelers as an organism.
The first pre-season Penguins […]

Geno makes pierogies.

I was just thinking the NFL and NHL needed to get together and offer something like this.

Order yours here.

Get yours while they’re on the shelves!

I didn’t get the reference in this comment.
You guys seem to be able to handle a sports milestone better than my city. (Los Angeles..I don’t know if I’m more embarrassed or PO’d)
I guess I was behind on the news. Pittsburgh wins the Super Bowl, then the Stanley Cup, and throws a big party. The Lakers […]

Mad Max’s first goal!

His second!

And the final seven seconds of the last period, Fleury the Superstar!

And unless you’re in the area, you’ve never seen this as it turns out prophetic commercial.

That’s how many screaming Penguins fans lined the Pittsburgh streets yesterday for the parade. It’s also 25,000 more than lined the same streets for the Steelers Super Bowl win.
Throw a victory party for 375,000 fans on three days’ notice?
Yeah, the City of Champions can handle that.
Penguins fans lined up 20 deep Monday along Grant Street […]

And the photo I was unable to find earlier.

From Taking One for the Team.

Six seconds to go, and a stop your heart save.

First, the Super Bowl in January.

Last night, the Stanley Cup!

Mad Max Talbot for the two goals, and Fleury for shutting Detroit out, especially that last minute save. Max with the Cup.

The handshake line.

Gives a whole new meaning to this.

Pass the Cup
The Impossible Penguins
Story of a Champion
And of course, a link to the crazy guys at […]

Rock on! The Pens played a hellacious game last night, so it’s going to game seven! I think Detroit knows if they want the Stanley Cup, Pittsburgh is going to make them work for it.
Go Pens!

That was a hellacious game last night, and the Pens beat the Welfare Queens 4-2. Speaking of and forgive the French, but Mike Babcock is a shitbag, which I guess is appropriate for the coach of the hockey team in America’s sewer town. What a nasty piece of work.
And Bob Errey’s having fun on […]

That’s what the local rag calls local Penguin Mania. Flyers fans, like Eagles fans, are limited to PSU students from the Philadelphia region.

Geno and Alyonka Larionov make pierogies (Hint: Guys, you can buy a pierogi press or two at any one of those kitchen gadget places for about $1.99.) Lettuce? Lettuce? Not cabbage?

From Puck Daddy.

Speaking of, here’s an interesting idea.
For the uninitiated, McDonald’s unveiled a new Filet-o-Fish commercial for Lent here in the Pittsburgh area. The spot is played incessantly during Penguin games on the local Fox Sports Net channel, airing at least three or four times a contest. Aw, it’s glorious.
The ad features some dude sitting […]

Sure, it’s their wedding, but I think this is taking it a bit far.

Check out the other photos.

He may be a Devil, but Marty Brodeur last night became the winningest goalie in hockey history, with 552 wins, and only a few games after returning from his injury. Email you contratulations here.

The NHL Brodeur Watch blog.
Fleury on Brodeur’s record:
Marc-Andre Fleury, who has called New Jersey goaltender Martin Brodeur his boyhood idol, said he […]

first, let’s just get it out of the system. On three.
one.
two.
three.
wooooooooooooooooooooo! (channeling the crazy guys at pensblog). speaking of, here’s their write-up of the pens-caps game, and don’t miss the comments. the commenters are as crazy as the bloggers.
i’ve been pretty skeptical after that disastrous month-long losing streak. getting rid of therrien? eh, well […]

With thanks to Radio Free Canada, today’s quiz question is:
What will make you shout “Hell, yes!” at least three times even though it’s Lent? This will, even if you’re not much of a hockey fan (trust me on this one):

So I just got a report that even though tickets haven’t gone on sale, there is no parking anywhere. On top of that, there is just no way I can go to both games, come home, make dinner, eat, then make it to Vespers tonight at 6 pm. So forget Penn State hockey until next […]

Is Fleury on some bad drugs, or what? If nothing else, we’ll see how good our new goalie is.
And these idiots on NBC are idiots.

Not only was it Hockey Day, but I got to see the third period of the Pens game at the rink right before the Penn State game, and everybody in the rink knew who won the game from the cheering that went up when the clock ran out. Then, Penn State beat Oakland 5-3. […]

Today is the last game in the regular hockey season for Penn State (we’re playing Oakland, beat them 5-1 last night, despite having two of our strongest players in China playing for Team USA). I got a first row seat, right on the aisle, but in section B, not C, which is right in the […]

And it’s Hockey Day in Canada — and on the NHL Channel, starting at noon! Over 12 hours of hockey!
Wheeeee!

The ESCHL playoffs are here next weekend, and there are no advance ticket sales. Saturday’s tickets go on sale at 1 pm (on Saturday), and Sunday’s, at 11 am (on Sunday). I may not be very present in the blogosphere.
I didn’t check the Friday night game on the schedule. I just assumed it was going […]

Therrien got fired.

It’s screwed me again. It was supposed to record the Pens - Sharks game last night. So I get up this morning, turn on the NHL channel, and find out that against all odds, the Pens beat the Sharks — the top team in the NHL — last night. I wonder how the hell that’s […]

Because Penn State was on fire yesterday. Big win, 6-2, over Delaware. It was Senior Appreciation Day, and there are thirteen on the team, with two on Team USA for the World University Games in China this year. Their parents were there, and that may have fueled them — not that they aren’t usually good, […]

Wow, how about that? The Penguins won two games in a row, beating Columbus 4-1 last night! So was Roethlisberger there?
The Bluejackets made 34 shots on goal. Flowery stopped 33 of them. When he’s on, he’s on fire. We just need to figure out how to keep MAF blazing hot.
If you’ve never read The […]

It’s 5:15 am (yes, I got back on my regular sleep schedule), and company’s coming tomorrow. Today, other than errands, there’s an Icers game, and I’m going to have to make a couple of things so I don’t have to tomorrow.
First, the walnut spice cake, which I’m going to start here in a couple of […]