All Entries Tagged With: "Dan Bylsma"
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 [...]
Now Is The Time- Trotz Should Win Adams
Now is the time, this is the year. Barry Trotz should win the Jack Adams trophy. This is coming from someone who wrote a very critical article three weeks ago that questioned whether David Poile and Barry Trotz are doing as good a job as typically espoused by the media. Of course, that’s not enough [...]
Sid & Bylsma at Odds Plus Other Notes
By now most Penguins fans have heard that Captain Sidney Crosby waded into the goalie situation in Pittsburgh over the past couple of days. To not mince words, here is what was said by the Captain. “He’s [Fleury] going to have good games. It’s not like he can change overnight. He’s going to put strings [...]
Michalek Returns, Dupuis Returns Home for Pens
The Pittsburgh Penguins are getting good news on two fronts today. First is the announcement via Twitter that Defenseman Zbynek Michalek will return to the lineup tonight in Dallas after missing almost the entire month of October with a shoulder injury. Joining him on the ice will be Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, and Alex Goligoski [...]
Penguins Notepad – 11.2.10
Lets get this out of the way. Go Vote today. Imagine if you got to vote for NHL Commissioner, you’d all be there. If you don’t vote you lose your right to complain in my book. Now moving on… Penguins fans are all still dealing with the aftermath of the tragic news regarding Jordan Staal’s [...]
Penguins Notepad – 10.31.10
With a few days before the next Penguins game I wanted to take the opportunity to get some baseline information out there before the upcoming 3 game west coast road trip. Jordan Staal and Zbynek Michalek are expected to play Wednesday in Dallas. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that both players are targeting this Wednesday [...]
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 [...]
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 – Habs Episode 4: The Search for Consistency
———————– LIVE BLOG TONIGHT! Yes, we’ll be back for another live blog today, as the Canadiens as well as our record when we do these things look to get back on track! Set your reminders below and join us at 6:30PM for all the pre-game fun! TCL Presents: Pens – Habs Game 4 LIVE BLOG! [...]
Habs – Pens Game 2 Preview + LIVE BLOG at 1:45PM!!
Yes, that’s right! After a short hiatus for game 1, TCL’s series of LIVE BLOGS is back for the Canadiens’ second round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins! Myself, George Prax, as well as Steven Hindle form Hockeybuzz and Kamal Panesar from Habs Addict are BACK to bring you the best live coverage anywhere on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Without a second to spare … ‘Canes edge Pens in OT
After an up and down five-game road trip, the Penguins took a brief rest stop this afternoon at Mellon Arena to host Carolina before heading back out on the road for two games next week. The Penguins looked sluggish early, then traded quick rushes up and down the ice throughout most of the game with [...]
Pens’ fans: Calm down; be rational; it’s a long season
It never ceases to amaze me how large segments of knee-jerk fans of any given sports team easily allow themselves to hit the panic button once the slightest bit of adversity befalls their sporting heroes during the course of a season. The natural corollary to frantically pressing the panic button is the offering up of [...]
Tick-Tocc…Is The Clock Running Out On The Bolts’ Coach?
Tampa Bay Lightning fans and bloggers alike are a fickle lot. After the circus antics of the new Hollywood cowboy ownership group and the Barry Melrose fiasco, many were screaming for “stability!” The Lightning decided to pass the coaching mantel to Rick Tocchet and they came out of the gate this season inspiring hope with [...]
Mike Rupp is Cash Money
When Mike Rupp signed his 1.65M/2yr deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins this past off season GM Ray Shero thought he was bringing in a 4th line forward with a solid physical presence. He surely got that. What he didn’t bank on was that once the shackles of New Jersey’s trap were removed from Rupp’s wrists, [...]
Pens cry “Uncle!” to Hawks’ Antti
What a lame, groan-inducing title. Only slightly better than “Niemi, the Antti-dote to Pens’ attack” or “Hawks up the Antti with statement-making win over champs”. The backup netminder for Chicago, Antti Niemi, was indeed the difference last night and a deserving first-star in a 2-1 overtime win over the Penguins. Niemi made thirty-two often spectacular [...]