All Entries Tagged With: "Bill Guerin"
Candidates for Team USA’s roster for Vancouver 2010
Brian Burke, Team USA’s GM, is planning on making the announcement of USA’s final roster on January 1st, 2010, during the Winter Classic. Burke will name his 23 man roster at Fenway Park, during the Flyers vs. Bruins game. Below you will find the three groupings for the 2010 Olympic hockey tournament: GROUP A: Canada, [...]
Resilient Penguins adjust to periodic life without Crosby
Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby played in every one of the Penguins’ first twenty-nine games of the season. His first missed contest was last Saturday’s 2-1 overtime loss at home to Chicago. That afternoon, the superstar centre told the team’s official website after the game-day skate that his groin had “been bothering [him] for three or [...]
Tough schedule awaits Penguins in December
Following a home-and-home sweep of the New York Rangers, the Penguins will take a rare two-day rest before opening the month of December at home against Colorado on Thursday night. Captain Sidney Crosby exploded for five goals and three assists in the two victories over the Blueshirts while so-called grinder Mike Rupp, scored an unlikely [...]
Yes I’ve Been Watching Tenks
Seeing as how there is apparently not going to be any form of update from the Penguins prior to tonight’s game with the Panthers and my own schedule today I thought I would respond to something that happened earlier this morning. Someone dropped the comment today on Twitter that Ruslan Fedotenko is doing a fine [...]
This Week In Bruins: Best& Worst Of Thomas, Re-Signing Savard, Forsberg, and Ryder
(Note: This is technically last week in Bruins, but I’m posting this on Monday due to personal obligations over the weekend) Welcome to the third installment of This Week In Bruins. Overall, it’s been a decent week for Boston all things considered, and the fans in the Hub are becoming a little more excited with [...]
Eerieness and excitement: Haven’t I seen this ending before?
Normally, I try to shy away from game recaps, leaning more toward opinions, analysis and wry humour. However, in the moments after last evening’s wild win by the Penguins over Boston, 6-5 in overtime at Mellon Arena, I found myself thinking back to a similarly epic win (ha, ha) by the Pens at Detroit almost [...]
Hall of Fame weekend … will Bill Guerin one day be enshrined?
This weekend in Toronto, the hockey world will celebrate the game’s tradition of excellence through the induction of five new members into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The star-studded class of 2009 includes a player who many forget once laced up skates for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Luc Robitaille. The Hall of Fame’s website has an [...]
Why Is There A Nude Zdeno Chara In My ESPN The Magazine?
Examining the possible reasons why Zdeno Chara agreed to pose nude for ESPN.
Pork hock ‘n’ hockey: LIVE! Dinnertime 3rd period blog
The work day is over. Just enough time to catch the end of the game. It’s 4-3 Penguins at Philadelphia as play begins in what should be a rousing third period. Yes, I’m eating a pork hock at almost nine p.m. Eastern Daylight time. 19:09 Ray Emery and Marc-Andre Fleury trade great saves in the [...]
Sunday satire, part 1 – Pathetic Red Wings crash Penguins’ opener
The usual sold-out crowd of 17,132 cheered enthusiastically as Penguins players, coaches and executives filed onto the ice and red carpet prior to Friday night’s opening game at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. The Stanley Cup, gleaming and sparkling under the bright white klieg lights of the arena roof, sat proudly on a table at centre [...]
Sunday satire, part 2 – Pathetic Red Wings crash Penguins’ opener
Link to – Sunday satire, part 1 – Pathetic Red Wings crash Penguins’ opener The not unattractive, not untalented, not unwholesome, not un-All-American singer-songwriter had performed a concert the evening before at Mellon Arena, where Staal, Kennedy and Talbot had befriended her. (author’s note: this is not a joke). Swift admired her reflection in the [...]
Three months later, the work begins again
If it seems like just a short time ago that Penguins captain Sidney Crosby hoisted the Stanley Cup above his head to conclude an exceptionally competitive 2009 Final series, that’s because it was indeed just a short time ago. Only three months and a few hours have elapsed since the last game of the 2008-09 [...]
