All Entries Tagged With: "Brooks Orpik"
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 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-23-4 with 38 points through 44 games. After 44 games last season, the Bolts were 26-13-5 with 57 points. The Bolts are in fifth (last) place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Washington Capitals by twelve points. Tampa Bay is in 15th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, twelve [...]
Pens Shutout Bolts 3-0 In Game 1
The playoff savvy Pittsburgh Penguins scored twice in eighteen seconds early in the third period and went on to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-0 last night. The Bolts were making their first playoff appearance in four years. Despite being the second highest scoring team in the Eastern Conference, the Lightning couldn’t solve Penguins goalie [...]
An Embarrassing Night in Dallas
The Pittsburgh Penguins rolled into Dallas Wednesday night eying to continue riding the momentum they started in Carolina last Saturday. Those hopes, and maybe Brent Johnson’s hot streak ended quickly in the 1st period after the Penguins and their poor passing and defensive play gave up a quick 2-0 lead to the Stars on goals [...]
He’s Ponikarovsky With a Famous Wife
That’s what Seth Rorabaugh of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Empty Netters Blog had to say about Mike Comrie this morning during a discussion we had while he was a guest on Pens HD Radio’s Penguins Live. The reason for the discussion is the rapidly improving health of the Penguins forwards corps. With Arron Asham expected back [...]
Penguins Still Searching for First Home Win
The Pittsburgh Penguins host the New York Islanders tonight on the front end of back to back games. This will be the fourth attempt by the Pens to win a game in their new digs, The Consol Energy Center. Already fans are dropping the word curse due to the Penguins less than stellar losing ways [...]
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 [...]
Jordan Staal is Skating, Finally
The glorious sound of pucks slapping off of a familiar stick blade this morning inside of the Consol Energy Center is a welcome one considering that the stick is in the hands of one Jordan Staal and his feet are firmly wrapped inside of a pair of hockey skates. Staal has missed the beginning of [...]
Updated: Its Michalek’s Shoulder / Hutchinson Recalled
Zbynek Michalek departed yesterday’s contest with the New Jersey Devils in the second period after taking a hit from Rod Pelley. He left the ice clutching his right arm. Michalek sat on the bench for a few minutes for departing for the locker room. He did not return. Members of the Devils’ broadcast staff saw [...]
Pens finish 4th, will face Sens; Crosby shares Rocket with Stamkos
The 2009-10 NHL regular season is complete. Pittsburgh battled New Jersey to the penultimate game of the schedule before yielding the Atlantic Division title to the Devils and second seed in the Eastern Conference playoff picture after the Penguins were blanked 1-0 in Atlanta on Saturday night. Pittsburgh and #5 seed Ottawa Senators will meet in [...]
Preparation, determination, perseverance: Pens rally for OT win
After Wednesday’s 2-0 loss by the Penguins at home to Tampa Bay: “We were getting out-battled.” – Brooks Orpik “We weren’t ready to play. That’s what it comes down to. We thought we were going to play a team that had laid down, out of the playoffs and we were just going to show up and it [...]
Crosby’s 2 goals and SO winner carry Pens back into Atlantic lead
It was just another day at the chief executive office for #87. Penguins’ captain Sidney Crosby scored twice in regulation to reclaim the NHL goal-scoring lead, then notched another shootout-deciding goal, carrying Pittsburgh to a 5-4 matinee win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. Defenceman Brooks Orpik recorded a game-high 3 points, all assists, setting up two [...]
Red, White and Blue
An underdog is a person or group in a competition, frequently in electoral politics, sports and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose. Do you believe in miracles? “Sometimes, the best team in a tournament does not take home the Gold medal”. That was Team USA head coach Ron Wilson’s quote after the United [...]
Wednesday Night Rant: What’s So ‘Miracle’ About Team USA?
The memories of a screaming Al Michaels asking if we believe in miracles is etched into every hockey fans memory, whether they lived through it or not. Immortalized through books, documentaries, and the 2004 film aptly named for what their accomplishment was, the 1980 U.S. team made up mostly of college kids from New England [...]
PP, PK rounding into form for steady Penguins
After the last hats were swept from the Mellon Arena ice this past Monday, the Penguins began a well-deserved, season-high four-day break. Since returning from a five-game road trip through Minnesota, Toronto and Western Canada, Pittsburgh has played solid, if unspectacular hockey, posting a 5-2-0 record. Of note, three of the wins were by one [...]
Part 2: Profiling Vancouver-bound Olympian Penguins
Click for Part 1: Profiling Vancouver-bound Olympian Penguins Yesterday, three Penguins Olympic hockey players, Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andre Fleury and Sergei Gonchar were profiled and their projected roles for Canada and Russia were described. Today, Pittsburgh’s two other Olympians, Evgeni Malkin and Brooks Orpik are similarly profiled. What are their qualifications and what will their roles [...]
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, [...]
New York, New York, New York – 3 games, 4 nights
An up-and-down November will end for the Penguins with a whirlwind trio of games all against the New York-based teams. After Wednesday night’s 3-1 home win over Montreal, the Pens flew to Long Island to prepare for a holiday Friday matinee against the Islanders. The Penguins will return home on Saturday evening to host the [...]
Penguins fans must be thankful for many things
This morning, American hockey fans will wake up to the smell of a carefully basted and stuffed turkey slow-roasting in the oven, sharing space with a sweet potato pie and reluctantly, a small sprig of vegetables for conscience’s sake. While this Canadian writer celebrated Thanksgiving six and a half weeks ago, there is no reason [...]