Stephanie Lewark
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Stephanie Lewark resides in Johnstown, PA where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) and is still, perhaps perpetually, in the process of deciding what career she would like to pursue with it. While at UPJ, Stephanie worked part-time in the federal government as a “Stay-in-School” employee. Luckily, she was hired full-time on a permanent basis and worked towards a few promotions to fill her current position as a Senior Case Technician (while continuing to decide what she would like to do with her degree). She fell in love with the city of Pittsburgh at a very young age and has followed the Steelers and been a die-hard Penguins fan for just about as long. Stephanie learned early on in her marriage that her husband can tolerate only so much Penguins / hockey talk, so she began her original blog, The Steel City Sports Fan (Penguins Edition) from which her love of hockey became entangled with a new love of writing about it and her favorite team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. Since then she has grown as a fan (become a Penguins Season-Ticket Holder) and a writer / blogger through several outlets with a short-stint writing for The Hockey Writers and a current contributing writer for Inside Hockey (in addition to writing for the FanAttic Network with Steel City on Ice which migrated to RantSports in January 2012). You can follow Stephanie on Twitter @Steelcitysports
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On This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 21) / Penguins Trivia
2008 the Pittsburgh Penguins selected center Nathan Moon in the fourth round; goalies Alexander Pechurskiy (fifth round) and Patrick Killeen (sixth round); and defenseman Nick D’Agostino in the seventh round of the NHL Amateur Draft 2000 Ivan Hlinka was named head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins (the 16th in franchise history) 1997 Pittsburgh hosted the NHL Entry Draft [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 20) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PITTSBURGH PENGUIN (and Pittsburgh native) BILL THOMAS!! (he turns 29 today) 2008 Pittsburgh Penguins and the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation agreed to extend the naming rights deal to Mellon Arena by an additional year (through the 2008-09 season) 1992 the Penguins selected Martin Straka in the first round of NHL Amateur Draft (19th overall) [...]
TweetPittsburgh Penguins Release 2012-13 Regular Season Schedule
Today, along with the other 29 teams in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Pittsburgh Penguins released their regular season schedule for the upcoming 2012-13 season. The regular season begins for the entire league on Thursday, October 11th while the season doesn’t officially start for Penguins until the following day on Friday, October 12th for the team’s home-opener [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 19) / Penguins Trivia
1996 Mario Lemieux earned the Hart Trophy as the NHL‘s Most Valuable Player (for the third time) and the Lester B. Pearson Trophy The Hart trophy and Lester B. Pearson trophy are two of many awards that Lemieux has earned (and those of a few that he has earned multiple times) during his NHL career. He [...]
TweetOn This Date on Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 18) / Penguins Trivia
1994 the Pittsburgh Phantoms won a 10-9 shootout over the Atlanta Fire Ants before a crowd of 7,347 in their first game at the Civic Arena The Phantoms were a professional roller hockey team owned by the owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Howard Baldwin. The team’s name was inspired by Kennywood Park’s “Steel Phantom” roller [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 15)
2000 Pittsburgh Penguins Jaromir Jagr won the Lester B. Pearson Award for the second straight year 1993 Jack Kelley was named the Penguins’ president 1988 Mario Lemieux won the Lester B. Pearson Award for the second time in his career 1978 the Penguins selected Mike Meeker (second round), Shane Pearsall (fourth) and Rob Garner (fifth) [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 14)
2007 Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby captured the Hart Trophy as the NHL MVP and became the youngest Lester B. Pearson award winner Evgeni Malkin won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year 1997 Kevin Constantine was introduced as the Penguins new head coach 1988 Pierre Creamer was relieved of his head coaching duties of [...]
TweetPittsburgh Penguins 2012 Pre-Season Schedule Announced
The Los Angeles Kings have only just recently been crowned the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions, but that doesn’t stop the true fans from thinking about hockey and that includes next season. And, for Penguins fans, that means only 103 days left until we get to enjoy Pittsburgh hockey once again! Today, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced their [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 13) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (and current Florida Panther) MATT BRADLEY (he turns 34 today) and DAVE ROCHE (he turns 37 today) 1978 Pittsburgh Penguins obtained Randy Carlyle and George Ferguson from Toronto Maple Leafs for Dave Burrows 1977 Johnny Wilson took over as head coach of the Penguins Wilson coached the Penguins for three [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 12) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PENGUIN DOUG BROWN!! (he turns 48 this date) 2009 Max Talbot scored twice for the Pittsburgh Penguins as the Pens defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 2-1, in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final; it was the 15th time in league history that the Final reached Game 7 (and it marked [...]
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