All Entries Tagged With: "Maxime Talbot"
2011 Season Preview: Part I of IV
With the NHL Pre-Season a mere 5 weeks away, it seems that now is an appropriate time to begin a 4-part season preview. In the first part, I will predict the standings for the Eastern Conference. In part 2, I will share my opinions on the Western Conference. Part 3 will be a look [...]
Downie Delivers A Deciding Game 7 To Tampa Bay
The gritty Steve Downie is showing the Penguins and the NHL what we in Tampa have known for a while. He’s a valuable, complete hockey player, not just an agitator. The Bolt forward scored to break a 2-2 tie in the third period to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning over the Pittsburgh Penguins and force [...]
Backchecking: Isles Send An Old Long Island Message — But Will it Stand?
In literally beating the Penguins last night, the New York Islanders seemed to respond to recent editorials, articles and blogs made through a number of different outlets over the last few weeks. There have been several calls to action for the Islanders players and coaching staff to have the Islander players begin to develop a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The New NHL: Comeau Sells a Headshot
What happened in the second period of the Penguins & Islanders game Friday night is nothing short of NHL officials jumping the shark on the hits to the head. The Penguins came into the incident up 2-0 on goals earlier in the period from Mike Rupp and Eric Tangradi (his 1st NHL goal). As Blake [...]
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 [...]
Looking ahead … and back at the Winter Classic
The Pittsburgh Penguins held a joint press conference today at Heinz Field with the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Steelers to promote the 2011 Winter Classic. The event, a regular season NHL game, will be held on New Year’s Day between the Pens and Caps in Pittsburgh at Heinz Field, home of the Steelers. On hand for the announcement from [...]
Bittersweet: Passing the Cup to a new but worthy champion
One week has elapsed since the end of the 2009-10 NHL season. Watching last Wednesday evening’s proceedings at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, I was reminded once again that one of sport’s most magical, frozen moments is when the captain of the newly crowned champions raises the Stanley Cup over his head. As 22-year old Jonathan Toews lifted [...]
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 [...]
Groundhog foreshadows more epic Penguins-Capitals wars
Like the acerbic film Groundhog Day, Buffalo goaltender Ryan Miller was forced to experience the same painful thing again and again and again last Monday: watching in horror as Sidney Crosby fired the puck at him from three different angles and scored three times in a 5-4 Pittsburgh victory over the Sabres. Crosby scored his 35th, 36th [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Another Penguin injured; what does McKee’s absence and Gonchar’s return mean?
Another day, another injury. Another Pittsburgh Penguin has been forced to the sidelines with an injury. The latest unfortunate player is defenceman Jay McKee, who will miss the next two to four weeks due to … an infected finger, as reported by the team’s official website. McKee has been injury prone in recent seasons of [...]
Liveblog: Penguins vs Senators Gameday – Update 3
Pittsburgh Penguins at Ottawa Senators Scotiabank Place, Ottawa Ontario. 6:30pm CST (FSN) Penguins 2nd in Atlantic Division/ 4th Eastern Conference Twitter Play by Play Follow: @SLBD_InGame Twitter Pens News Follow: @SLBD_PensNews Update 3 – Eaton a Game Time Decision, Lee Called Up In Case Head Coach Dan Bylsma spoke with the media (11:43am CST) after [...]
At The Quarter Pole: The Penguins, After 20 Games
From other teams’ perspective, this is becoming a good horse race. However, from the perspective of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the defending Stanley Cup champions are reluctantly slowing down and coming back to the pack of horses chasing them as roughly one-quarter of the 2009-10 regular season has elapsed. After twenty games, including a highly entertaining [...]
Wednesday satire – Juggernaut Penguins disbanded, Crosby achieves world peace
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and twenty-nine disgruntled team governors convened an emergency meeting in New York Monday evening and voted 29-0 in favour of disbanding the Pittsburgh Penguins, the defending Stanley Cup champions and after eight games, the best team so far this season. “Enough is enough. Eight is enough,” cried Boston owner Jeremy Jacobs, chanelling Dick [...]
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 [...]