All Entries in the "Pittsburgh Penguins" Category
Does Steven Stamkos Deserve to be a Hart Trophy Finalist?
Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos, New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist and Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin have been named finalists for the Hart Memorial Trophy, the annual award given to the player judged to be the most valuable to his team during the regular season. The winner is selected in a poll of [...]
Hockey Independent Playoff Roundtable: Conference Quarterfinals Predictions
— With the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs set to begin in just over forty-eight hours, four members of the Hockey Independent writing staff have come together to predict each and every first round series of this year’s postseason. The contributing authors to today’s piece will be Cris Cohen (New York Rangers), Alex Muscat (Detroit Red [...]
Analyzing And Predicting The Eastern Conference Playoffs
It’s that time of year again, folks. The clocks have been pushed forward, the temperatures are rising and the kids have just enjoyed another wonderful visit from the Easter Bunny. But most importantly, it’s time to kick off the most exciting two month event in all of sports: The NHL Playoffs. With Saturday’s conclusion of [...]
Boychuk Injured As Crosby’s Three Point Night Leads Pens To 5-3 Win Over Bruins
BOSTON– On Tuesday evening the Boston Bruins played in a game with about as much meaning as a late September pre-season clash when they hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins. After wrapping up the Northeast division title and the number two seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Black and Gold had little to play for against [...]
GameDay: B’s And Pens Prep For Playoffs With Showdown At TD Garden
Teams: Pittsburgh Penguins at Boston Bruins Records: Pittsburgh 48-25-6 (102 Points) , Boston 47-28-4 (98 Points) Location: TD Garden , Boston, Massachusetts Time: 7:30 P.M. (EST) TV/Radio Info: NBC Sports Network (Emrick, Olczyk, McGuire) – 98.5 The Sports Hub (Goucher, Beers) Last Game: Philadelphia Flyers 6 , Penguins 4 ……. Bruins 2 , New York [...]
Eastern Conference Breakdown: What It Will Take To Get Into The Playoffs
As we enter the stretch run of this 2011-’12 NHL campaign, the playoff picture in the Eastern Conference remains as cloudy as it’s ever been. With each team having only 15-17 games remaining on the schedule, let’s take a look at how the final standings may end up, one month from today, when the regular [...]
Fleury, Malkin Lead Pens Past Struggling Bruins
Hockey is a strange game folks. When things are going your way, everything seems to be clicking, you play with confidence, you tend to get the breaks here and there. You feel as if nothing is ever going to go wrong. However, when you’re struggling it’s a completely different ball game. All of a sudden [...]
CONCUSSIONS KILLING HOCKEY
Speed and offense are now the kings in the present day NHL. A focus on players with those very attributes took over drafts and team on-ice strategies. Slower skaters have slowly been fazed out, especially those pugilistic specialists who all too often didn’t quite have the same skill sets and strides of their respective teammates. [...]
Thomas’ 45 Saves Lead Red-Hot B’s Past Sid’s Penguins
At this point, it’s become truly unclear when the Boston Bruins will lose another game. It’s been 38 days since the Black and Gold last lost a game in regulation, the day after Game 7 of the MLB’s World Series. Boston’s hot streak of 13-0-1 entering Monday’s contest at CONSOL Energy Center appeared destined to [...]
Max Pacioretty suspended three games for blind-side hit to Kris Letang
NHL Senior VP, Player Safety, Brendan Shanahan has decided to suspend Montreal Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty for three games following Saturday’s controversial hit to the head of rearguard Kris Letang of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pacioretty’s disciplinary phone hearing with Shanahan occurred earlier today before the Canadiens boarded their flight leaving for their three-game West Coast [...]
Crosby’s Return Reveals Deeper Problem In The Fabric Of The NHL
While today, Sunday November 20, 2011 will likely be remembered as a memorable day in the annals of NHL hockey history, the events of today have brought to light a deeper problem that Commissioner Bettman and the NHL will be faced with for years to come. Today we learned of the imminent return of the [...]
GOON: The Hockey Movie Preview
GOON: In our support of the lack of hockey movies, comes this info from the movie company to us. “We have a great throwback hockey movie coming out and we would love to get your support. Its violent and insanely funny.” Starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill and Liev Schreiber Written by [...]
What I’ve learned so far this season… by Kris Letang, Penguins dman
Penguins Kris Letang – sharp dresser ZZ Top were right. Every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed man. Just ask center Jarret Stoll. Most of his Kings’ teammates have selected him as ‘best dressed’ guy in the room – although Brad Richardson disagrees. Regardless of who can lay claim to being the cat with the sharpest [...]
Realignment Plans For The NHL In 2012
With the recent re-instatement of the Winnipeg Jets, the NHL and it’s Board of Governors will face a tough decision at December’s annual winter meetings. As it is not economical to leave the Jets in the SouthEast division any longer than one year, due to the absurd amount of traveling they must endure simply to [...]
We’ve been down this road before: More Pens injured, but team keeps winning
Last season, in the 2010 portion of the schedule, the Penguins were blissfully sailing along. At one point, they won twelve games in a row and Sidney Crosby was on a rampage, ravaging opposing defences and goaltenders, seemingly on his way to an historic season of scoring and Pittsburgh was firmly entrenched in the elite [...]
Week in review: Safety is paramount: Letang suspension fair, reasonable
Kris Letang quietly returned last evening to the Pittsburgh lineup and earned a power play assist on the game-winning goal during the Penguins’ 4-1 win over New Jersey. He logged a game-high 23:35 of ice time and fired four shots on goal. It was the defenceman’s first game since last Monday night in Winnipeg when [...]
Week in review: Penguins make 1st visit to Winnipeg in over 15 years
Before anyone could even finish saying “The Penguins are playing their first game in Winnipeg since February 16, 1996″, the new Jets took a 1-0 lead last Monday night when journeyman Kyle Wellwood scored eight seconds after the opening faceoff. It was an abrupt and apt start to a night that will go down in [...]
The Arron Asham vs. Jay Beagle fight and its fallout
The Arron Asham vs. Jay Beagle fight from this past Thursday’s game in Pittsburgh overshadowed a lively game won 3-2 in overtime by the visiting Capitals over the Penguins and brought forth another deluge of opinions on fighting and shots to the head in hockey. Shortly before the whistle blew at 5:54 of the third [...]
Pens take 5 of 6 points on season-opening road trip: How the West was Won
The Pittsburgh Penguins (2-0-1) play their home opener this evening, 7:30 EDT at Consol Energy Center when they host the new-look Florida Panthers (1-0-0). Pittsburgh will be without the services of centre Evgeni Malkin for the second straight game with a lower-body injury. Head coach Dan Bylsma stated at the morning skate that unspecified “soreness” [...]
Season opens with irony, redemption and re-introductions for Penguins
For those in the Eastern time zone that stayed up late Thursday evening for Opening Night of the 2011-12 NHL season, they witnessed Evgeni Malkin skating slowly through the slot well past midnight, bearing down on Vancouver netminder Roberto Luongo. Malkin twitched once to fake the Canuck goalie into falling to the ice then calmly [...]
