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2011-12 Pittsburgh Penguins: Summer Review, Season Preview
Flip open the driver’s side door of the DeLorean. Hop in and set the LCD display to 2010.10.07, Opening Night of last season. Find an open lane on the Veterans Bridge and slam your foot on the gas until the speedometer hits the magical 88 miles per hour. Suddenly, with a zap and a brilliant [...]
Roster waters less murky as Opening Night draws closer for Pens
The Pittsburgh Penguins made nine transactions Monday, leaving 23 players on the active roster – the maximum number allowed when the regular season begins on Thursday. From a group of 55 that reported to training camp on September 16, the Penguins executed four rounds of cuts to arrive at 23. The first cut after one week of camp [...]
Pre-season prospecting: Tom Kuhnhackl
It is not clear how many people in recent history have made the 4,250 mile journey from Augsburg, Germany to Pittsburgh. In a few years, the Penguins are hoping a prospect who travelled that path will realize his NHL dream. Right wing Tom Kuhnhackl, 19, a 6’2″ 172 lb. native of Landshut, Germany, was drafted [...]
PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR CHARITY
We here at HI support this effort by Pat LaFontaine and Steve Webb, and personally implore you to give just anything you can in support of this…. HOCKEY LEGENDS PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR W20 FOUNDATION AND COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION NEW YORK (September 19, 2011) –NHL alumnus Steve Webb [...]
Despite winless Rookie Tournament, Nasreddine, Samuelsson positive
The Pittsburgh Penguins lost all three games of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament in Oshawa, Ontario, falling by a lopsided composite score of 13-2 in three games over four days. Today, the Penguins’ prospects fell 4-1 to Chicago’s prospect squad in a game that turned near the end of the second period when after Pittsburgh [...]
McKegg’s 1 goal, 2 assists lead Leafs over Pens at Rookie Tournament
Greg McKegg, a returnee from last year’s Rookie Tournament, scored a third period goal and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second straight game this weekend, 5-1 over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh fell to 0-2 in Oshawa. McKegg, 19, scored 49 goals and 92 points for the Erie Otters of the [...]
Brandon Saad making most of chances with Hawks at Rookie Tournament
Chicago and Toronto played a competitive, back-and-forth game on Saturday night at the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament with the Leafs’ propsects prevailing over Chicago’s youngsters 4-2 with Jake Gardiner scoring the game-winning and insurance goals in the third period. After Toronto took a 1-0 lead, the game featured two lead changes before Gardiner, a forward [...]
Cowick’s 2 goals help Sens shut out Penguins in opener of Rookie Tournament
The Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 for a shutout win in the opening game of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. Left wing Corey Cowick, a 2009 draft choice of the Senators, scored two goals while Robin Lehner, Sweden’s netminder at the 2011 World Junior Championship, made [...]
Rookie tournaments give prospects chance to make a statement
Hockey Independent will be on-site at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario this weekend to report on the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament. Prospects from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs will play each other once for a total of six games from Saturday until Tuesday.
One year after World Hockey Summit: Player transfer agreements – Part 2
Part 1 of this retrospective article on the one-year anniversary of the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit quickly reviewed the nature of NHL – European league Player Transfer Agreements and the refusal of the Russian Hockey Federation to enter into such agreements. The acrimony surrounding the movements of Evgeni Malkin from Russia to North America and [...]
One year after World Hockey Summit: Player transfer agreements – Part 1
The final notable topic that still resonates one year after the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit was held in Toronto, is international player transfer agreements. With the exception of Russia, most European nations have a formal legally-binding agreement in place with the NHL that stipulates the price to be paid by a North American club to [...]
Let’s hold back on the overreaction, the roasting of Crosby and the writing of his epitaph
Partially in response to the latest volley of rumours regarding the health of centre Sidney Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins issued a press release on Wednesday to clarify the status of their 24-year old captain as he continues to recover from a concussion suffered during consecutive games in early January. The statement revealed that Crosby has not been able to exercise [...]
Crosby’s Concussion Symptoms Actually Due to Month Long Bender.
A report that Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby has suffered a setback in his recovery from a pair of concussions is being dismissed by his agent as merely ‘being in Halifax during the summer’
Crosby and concussion recovery: Fine line between optimism and pessimism
The latest little meteor of Sidney Crosby concussion recovery news floated innocently down through the Twittersphere last Sunday afternoon. SiriusXM satellite radio NHL Home Ice producer Josh Rimer tweeted “Also hearing from 3 sources now that Sidney Crosby won’t b ready 2 start season. I hope its not true because the NHL needs its best [...]
It’s a Hard Life: the Alexei Kovalev Story
Recently Dmitry Chesnokov of Puck Daddy’s Yahoo Sports translated a Russian interview Kovalev had with Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sports. Alexei Kovalev was pretty clear for his dislike of Ottawa during his 2 year deal. Kovalev is an interesting character. He has the skill set of some of the best hockey players in the [...]
Jaromir Jagr: His time. His terms. His way.
In the end, we all forgot that fixating one’s mind on Jaromir Jagr is like fixating one’s eyes on the sun. It’s a pleasing sight at first, but after a while, it’s bad for one’s optical health. Although Pittsburgh offered a 1 year deal believed to be worth $2-million, Jagr signed a $3.3-million, 1 year contract with the Philadelphia [...]
Beam me up, Scottie? Longshot Plan B for Pens as free agency begins
In the last post, the developments in the pursuit of Jaromir Jagr were explored while an outline was also given describing the remaining salary cap space available to the Penguins. Pittsburgh needs to sign talented young prospect Dustin Jeffrey who showed flashes of his offensive creativity during the past season before suffering a season-ending knee [...]
The Courting of Jaromir Jagr and the Kennedy Question for the Penguins
Over the past seventy-two hours, it really has been quite remarkable to follow the minute-by-minute twists and turns in the drama entitled The Courting of Jaromir Jagr. For the city of Pittsburgh, time will tell whether this drama will be remembered as a comedy with a happy ending or a tragedy with a disappointing ending. Actually, that [...]
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Pens first round draft choice improves blue line of to-Morrow
Reaction to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ selections at this past weekend’s 2011 NHL Entry Draft in Minnesota were mixed. With their top four defencemen at the NHL level signed through at least 2014 and seven under team control through 2013, many wondered why the Pens took a pair of blueliners with their first two draft choices [...]
