During every NHL season, injuries can play a huge role on how a team performs. Injuries are never a good thing, especially when it happens to players that a team is going to depend on. On Friday Pittsburgh Penguins forward [...]
Everyone who enjoys watching the NHL loves to see the big hits. We all love to see the league’s big guys lay hits on the opposing teams’ stars. We chant, we yell and we laugh at the star that takes [...]
It’s scary to think about, but Sidney Crosby has already played 500 career games in the NHL. The Pittsburgh Penguins star center has been called “Sid the Kid” since he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2005. Since entering [...]
On Nov. 27, the Pittsburgh Penguins had one of their worst starts in a game when they found themselves down 3-1 after the Toronto Maple Leafs scored their third goal just 13 seconds into the second period. Marc-Andre Fleury was [...]
The expression, “taking the bull by the horns” is one that young Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Simon Despres is living by right now. With the recent slew of injuries to the Pens’ blue line, the team was forced to call up [...]
People were concerned for Evgeni Malkin once James Neal re-aggravated his injury in the season opener and was forced to sit out the entire month of October. The two players go together like Ryan Getzlaff and Corey Perry, Pavel Datsuk [...]
When the season started, the Pittsburgh Penguins had to play their first handful of games without Kris Letang. Then James Neal re-aggravated his injury during the season opener and was out for the entire month of October. Chuck Kobasew was [...]
After Wednesday’s game against the Washington Capitals, the NBC Sports announcer Doc Emrick said that the Pittsburgh Penguins were “surgical” in their play. The way the Penguins played against the Caps was just as he said, “surgical.” How did this [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins‘ victory over the Anaheim Ducks was the start of an evolution. An evolutionary process that simply has to happen if the Penguins want to be anything other than the usual regular season cinderellas that they’ve been for [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins vs. the Washington Capitals has been a rivalry for the last eight years for one reason: Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. If these two teams didn’t have these superstars on their roster, would it even be considered a [...]