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 11) / Penguins Trivia
2003 Former Pittsburgh Penguins player Ed Olczyk became the 18th head coach of the Penguins (he was the fourth former Pens player to become head coach) Olczyk was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the Penguins towards the end of his hockey-playing career in exchange for Glen Murray in 1996. He played two seasons [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 8) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PENGUIN “the ol’ two-niner” PHIL BOURQUE Bourque was part of the Penguins team for both the 1990-91 and 1991-92 Stanley Cup Championships. After the second Stanley Cup season, he would leave Pittsburgh to play for the New York Rangers and Ottawa Senators and then left the NHL to play in Germany for [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 7) / Penguins Trivia
1989 Pittsburgh Penguins center Mario Lemieux won his second consecutive Art Ross Trophy as the NHL‘s top scorer with 199 points From Wikipedia: By the 1987–88 season, Wayne Gretzky had won seven consecutive Art Ross Trophies for leading the league in points. That season, fueled by his Canada Cup experience, Lemieux scored 168 points and [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 6) / Penguins Trivia
2009 Detroit Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood stopped all 22 Pittsburgh Penguins shots in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final and defeated the Pens by a score of 5-0 to take a 3-2 lead in the series This game would be the last that Detroit would win in the series as the Penguins went [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 5) / Penguins Trivia
1994 the Pittsburgh Phantoms played their first game, against the New England Stingers and won, 10-5, at the Cumberland County Civic Center in front of 2,467 fans; Trevor Buchanan scored the franchise’s first goal The Phantoms were a professional roller hockey team owned by the owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Howard Baldwin. The team’s name [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 4) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PITTSBURGH PENGUIN ALEX PECHURSKIY!! (he turns 22 today) 2012 the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired goaltender Tomas Vokoun from the Washington Capitals in exchange for a seventh round draft pick in the 2012 Entry Draft 2009 Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin each scored a goal and an assist and Jordan Staal scored a short-handed goal [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 3) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PITTSBURGH PENGUIN CHRIS THORBURN!! (he turns 29 today) 2008 Pittsburgh Penguins Petr Sykora scored with 10:03 left into the third overtime to push the Penguins past the Detroit Red Wings to stave-off elimination in Game 5 of the final (Detroit lead the series, three games to two); game started on June 2 [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 2) / Penguins Trivia
2009 Pittsburgh Penguins Maxime Talbot scored twice and Sergei Gonchar‘s powerplay goal in the third period proved to be the winner as the Pens took Game 3 in the Stanley Cup Final from the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 4-2 (Detroit led the series two games to one) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hockey writer Dave [...]
TweetJohnstown Tomahawks Acquire Nine Players in 2012 NAHL Entry Draft
Yesterday, the North American Hockey League (NAHL) conducted its 2012 Entry Draft online. A total of 172 players were drafted in 16 rounds. Each team is allowed 30 players per team and is able to draft as many players as it has under the 30 as of midnight the day before the draft. Draft order is [...]
TweetOn This Date in Pittsburgh Penguins History (June 1) / Penguins Trivia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FORMER PITTSBURGH PENGUINS DEFENSEMAN PAUL COFFEY!! (he turns 51 today) Paul Coffey was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins by the Edmonton Oilers in 1987. He played for Pittsburgh for four-and-a-half seasons and became the second defenseman ever to notch 1,000 points (in 770 games) while playing for them. He was also part [...]
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