All Entries Tagged With: "Maxime Talbot"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pre-season prospecting – Luca Caputi
Pittsburgh Penguins pre-season games began Tuesday night when the 2009 Stanley Cup Champions skated onto Mellon Arena ice and defeated Columbus Blue Jackets 5-4 in overtime. With one game under their belts, today will be the fifth full day of pre-season training camp. Last post, I promised to analyze some of the players in camp [...]
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 [...]
