All Entries Tagged With: "Bill Guerin"
Flyers invite Michael Nylander to training camp
Twitter has become a great source for sports news in the past year, and the Philadelphia Flyers have been putting it to great use. On Wednesday, the Flyers announced that veteran free agent center Michael Nylander will attend the team’s training camp in September on a professional tryout contract. Nylander, who will turn 39 in [...]
Breakdowns Costing the Pens Points
Sometime in late March while the Penguins are in the midst of the hunt for the Atlantic Division title or likely at worst a playoff spot someone somewhere will wax philosophical about how the games in October are worth as much as the games in April and they’ll be right. The Penguins dropped their third [...]
Clipped Penguins Host Leafs
The Pittsburgh Penguins limp back into the Consol Energy Center tonight to host the undefeated Toronto Maple Leafs. After a week of high expectations most Penguins fans are just hoping to weather the injury storm that is reminiscent of November of last year when two-thirds of the Penguins starting defensemen were Wilkes-Barre Scranton call-ups. Tonight [...]
Flyers bid Guerin adieu
The Philadelphia Flyers have released veteran forward Bill Guerin from his professional tryout deal and will not be offering him a contract. This leaves Guerin at a crossroads. He only wants to play for a contender, but not many seem to have room for him. He also didn’t play well enough in his short time [...]
Guerin gets tryout from Flyers
Guerin is officially on a tryout deal with the Philadelphia Flyers. This is all contrary to what Guerin’s agent, Bob Murray told the media over a week ago. Murray told media members that he and his client were only looking for a contract, not a tryout offer. Flyers GM Paul Holmgren confirmed Monday night that Guerin approached him and [...]
Guerin looking for tryout offer, players arrive early
Hard to believe, but there are just 14 days left before the NHL hits training camp after one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory. The Philadelphia Flyers are coming a season where they won the Eastern Conf. Title and made it to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. What will this year [...]
Like a swift kick to the head: Season comes to end for Penguins
Game 7: Montreal 5 @ Pittsburgh 2 “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart,” wrote the late Bart Giamatti, describing the latent disappointment that ensnares any long-time passionate baseball fan. Giamatti, a former commissioner of Major League Baseball, used these two sentences to lead off an essay detailing his obsession with the Boston Red Sox [...]
Pens survive frantic final minute, take 3-2 edge up to Montreal
Game 5: Pittsburgh 2 @ Montreal 1 Marc-Andre Fleury came within thirty-one seconds of becoming the first ever Penguin to record two shutouts in the same playoff series, but still withstood a furious Montreal rally in the last three minutes of regulation time, helping Pittsburgh defeat the Canadiens 2-1 in Game 5 at Mellon Arena. [...]
History repeats itself: Pens come back from 3-0 down to bounce Sens
Game 6: Pittsburgh 4 @ Ottawa 3 (1 OT) The Pittsburgh Penguins advanced to the second round of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs, eliminating Ottawa at 9:56 of the first overtime tonight on Pascal Dupuis’ clinching goal in the sixth game of their first round series with the Senators. The game was eerily reminiscent of the first round sixth [...]
Monday night musings: Pens reclaim home-ice advantage
Game 3: Pittsburgh 4 @ Ottawa 2 The Penguins accomplished what they needed to do – win at least once in Ottawa – to reclaim home-ice advantage in this Eastern Conference quarterfinal. From the time Alexei Ponikarovsky scored before the game was two minutes old to the turning away of one last furious 6-on-4 attack by [...]
Reeling Pens look to get back on track against 1st place Caps
In a five to ten second span on Monday evening during the middle of the second period at Detroit, a sequence by the surging Red Wings in the Penguins’ zone stood out as a microcosm of the problems plaguing Pittsburgh over its past seven games. Henrik Zetterberg took a pass in the far circle from Nicklas Lidstrom, [...]
Back to the scene of the triumph: Penguins at Detroit, 7 pm
“… They drop it; and it got to the right point. Here’s Rafalski shooting … never got through. Loose puck, now to the net! Save made, rebound. Oh! Big save by Fleury … and it ends!! That’s it!! The Pittsburgh Penguins have won this hockey game!! The Penguins have won the Stanley Cup, and Looorrd Stanley, scratch [...]
14 games left: approaching the finish line and the starting line
As reported by ESPN, Penguins’ right wing Bill Guerin openly talked about the need for deterrence in the name of safety when it comes to hits to the head. “We’re all playing in the same league. We all want the same safety. We all want to be looked after the same way. I understand he [Cooke] is on my team but, hey, he’s in a tough spot.”
Penguins march into March with a new Pony and a new Leopold
The Pittsburgh Penguins have shown no sluggishness coming into the month of March and out of the Olympic break, posting three consecutive wins over Buffalo, New York Rangers and Dallas. Along the way, general manager Ray Shero once again, pulled off some subtle but important transactions ahead of this past Wednesday’s trade deadline. Combined with [...]
Who’s your daddy? Conner, Pens sweep “Dads’ Trip”
Chris Conner showed no rust following his mid-day recall to the Penguins, scoring the game-opening and game-winning goals as Pittsburgh defeated the Rangers at Madison Square Garden 4-2 tonight to win back-to-back road games in New York and yesterday afternoon in Philadelphia. Fathers of players, coaches and staff accompanied the team throughout the weekend and [...]
Carolina Hurricanes officially shopping Whitney and Wallin
According to TSN Darren Dreger, Hurricanes’ GM Jim Rutherford asked leading scorer Ray Whitney and defenceman Niclas Wallin to waive their no trade clauses. Rutherford added that he’ll likely trade away some veteran players before the March 3 deadline. The other possible candidates to be traded are Matt Cullen, Scott Walker, Stephane Yelle, Andrew Alberts, [...]
Penguins scouting heavily Maple Leafs’ Alexei Ponikarovsky
According to Pittsburgh Insider William Depaoli, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been scouting the Toronto Maple Leafs in the past month. Head scout Derek Clancey has been seen at Air Canada Centre many times with winger Alexei Ponikarovsky being a player of interest for the Penguins. Ponikarovsky, 29, is a big winger (6’4”, 220 lb) with [...]
Putrid power play perplexing Pens’ partisans
Bill Guerin’s go-ahead goal in the second period Wednesday night was just the third power play goal in the last thirty-two chances for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have the dubious distinction of occupying 29th place – second-last – in the NHL in power play percentage at just 14.4% efficiency. Guerin’s goal, a deflection off a point [...]
Tuesday Top Ten: Biggest Winter Olympic Snubs Of 2010
Welcome to the pilot installment of the “Tuesday Top Ten”, where every Tuesday presents us with a look at the ten biggest (insert topic)’s of the week. As expected, the countdown will be of relevance to current stories and headlines in the World of Hockey. Olympic hockey, the crown jewel of the international hockey scene. [...]
A Christmas wish list for the Penguins
A white Christmas came two days early at Mellon Arena – in the form of a flurry of hats. Delirious Penguins’ fans saluted alternate captain Evgeni Malkin’s hat trick when he scored his third goal of the night at 6:33 of the third period as Pittsburgh cruised to an easy 8-2 win over visiting Ottawa. [...]
