All Entries Tagged With: "Pittsburgh"
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-20-3 with 37 points through 40 games. After 40 games last season, the Bolts were 21-11-5 with 47 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points out [...]
What I’ve learned so far this season… by Kris Letang, Penguins dman
Penguins Kris Letang – sharp dresser ZZ Top were right. Every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed man. Just ask center Jarret Stoll. Most of his Kings’ teammates have selected him as ‘best dressed’ guy in the room – although Brad Richardson disagrees. Regardless of who can lay claim to being the cat with the sharpest [...]
We’ve been down this road before: More Pens injured, but team keeps winning
Last season, in the 2010 portion of the schedule, the Penguins were blissfully sailing along. At one point, they won twelve games in a row and Sidney Crosby was on a rampage, ravaging opposing defences and goaltenders, seemingly on his way to an historic season of scoring and Pittsburgh was firmly entrenched in the elite [...]
Week in review: Safety is paramount: Letang suspension fair, reasonable
Kris Letang quietly returned last evening to the Pittsburgh lineup and earned a power play assist on the game-winning goal during the Penguins’ 4-1 win over New Jersey. He logged a game-high 23:35 of ice time and fired four shots on goal. It was the defenceman’s first game since last Monday night in Winnipeg when [...]
Week in review: Penguins make 1st visit to Winnipeg in over 15 years
Before anyone could even finish saying “The Penguins are playing their first game in Winnipeg since February 16, 1996″, the new Jets took a 1-0 lead last Monday night when journeyman Kyle Wellwood scored eight seconds after the opening faceoff. It was an abrupt and apt start to a night that will go down in [...]
The Arron Asham vs. Jay Beagle fight and its fallout
The Arron Asham vs. Jay Beagle fight from this past Thursday’s game in Pittsburgh overshadowed a lively game won 3-2 in overtime by the visiting Capitals over the Penguins and brought forth another deluge of opinions on fighting and shots to the head in hockey. Shortly before the whistle blew at 5:54 of the third [...]
Pens take 5 of 6 points on season-opening road trip: How the West was Won
The Pittsburgh Penguins (2-0-1) play their home opener this evening, 7:30 EDT at Consol Energy Center when they host the new-look Florida Panthers (1-0-0). Pittsburgh will be without the services of centre Evgeni Malkin for the second straight game with a lower-body injury. Head coach Dan Bylsma stated at the morning skate that unspecified “soreness” [...]
Season opens with irony, redemption and re-introductions for Penguins
For those in the Eastern time zone that stayed up late Thursday evening for Opening Night of the 2011-12 NHL season, they witnessed Evgeni Malkin skating slowly through the slot well past midnight, bearing down on Vancouver netminder Roberto Luongo. Malkin twitched once to fake the Canuck goalie into falling to the ice then calmly [...]
2011-12 Pittsburgh Penguins: Summer Review, Season Preview
Flip open the driver’s side door of the DeLorean. Hop in and set the LCD display to 2010.10.07, Opening Night of last season. Find an open lane on the Veterans Bridge and slam your foot on the gas until the speedometer hits the magical 88 miles per hour. Suddenly, with a zap and a brilliant [...]
Roster waters less murky as Opening Night draws closer for Pens
The Pittsburgh Penguins made nine transactions Monday, leaving 23 players on the active roster – the maximum number allowed when the regular season begins on Thursday. From a group of 55 that reported to training camp on September 16, the Penguins executed four rounds of cuts to arrive at 23. The first cut after one week of camp [...]
Pre-season prospecting: Tom Kuhnhackl
It is not clear how many people in recent history have made the 4,250 mile journey from Augsburg, Germany to Pittsburgh. In a few years, the Penguins are hoping a prospect who travelled that path will realize his NHL dream. Right wing Tom Kuhnhackl, 19, a 6’2″ 172 lb. native of Landshut, Germany, was drafted [...]
Despite winless Rookie Tournament, Nasreddine, Samuelsson positive
The Pittsburgh Penguins lost all three games of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament in Oshawa, Ontario, falling by a lopsided composite score of 13-2 in three games over four days. Today, the Penguins’ prospects fell 4-1 to Chicago’s prospect squad in a game that turned near the end of the second period when after Pittsburgh [...]
McKegg’s 1 goal, 2 assists lead Leafs over Pens at Rookie Tournament
Greg McKegg, a returnee from last year’s Rookie Tournament, scored a third period goal and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second straight game this weekend, 5-1 over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh fell to 0-2 in Oshawa. McKegg, 19, scored 49 goals and 92 points for the Erie Otters of the [...]
Brandon Saad making most of chances with Hawks at Rookie Tournament
Chicago and Toronto played a competitive, back-and-forth game on Saturday night at the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament with the Leafs’ propsects prevailing over Chicago’s youngsters 4-2 with Jake Gardiner scoring the game-winning and insurance goals in the third period. After Toronto took a 1-0 lead, the game featured two lead changes before Gardiner, a forward [...]
Cowick’s 2 goals help Sens shut out Penguins in opener of Rookie Tournament
The Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 for a shutout win in the opening game of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. Left wing Corey Cowick, a 2009 draft choice of the Senators, scored two goals while Robin Lehner, Sweden’s netminder at the 2011 World Junior Championship, made [...]
Rookie tournaments give prospects chance to make a statement
Hockey Independent will be on-site at General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario this weekend to report on the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament. Prospects from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs will play each other once for a total of six games from Saturday until Tuesday.
One year after World Hockey Summit: Player transfer agreements – Part 2
Part 1 of this retrospective article on the one-year anniversary of the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit quickly reviewed the nature of NHL – European league Player Transfer Agreements and the refusal of the Russian Hockey Federation to enter into such agreements. The acrimony surrounding the movements of Evgeni Malkin from Russia to North America and [...]
One year after World Hockey Summit: Player transfer agreements – Part 1
The final notable topic that still resonates one year after the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit was held in Toronto, is international player transfer agreements. With the exception of Russia, most European nations have a formal legally-binding agreement in place with the NHL that stipulates the price to be paid by a North American club to [...]
Let’s hold back on the overreaction, the roasting of Crosby and the writing of his epitaph
Partially in response to the latest volley of rumours regarding the health of centre Sidney Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins issued a press release on Wednesday to clarify the status of their 24-year old captain as he continues to recover from a concussion suffered during consecutive games in early January. The statement revealed that Crosby has not been able to exercise [...]
Crosby and concussion recovery: Fine line between optimism and pessimism
The latest little meteor of Sidney Crosby concussion recovery news floated innocently down through the Twittersphere last Sunday afternoon. SiriusXM satellite radio NHL Home Ice producer Josh Rimer tweeted “Also hearing from 3 sources now that Sidney Crosby won’t b ready 2 start season. I hope its not true because the NHL needs its best [...]