
It looks like Ray Shero and the Pittsburgh Penguins front office had waited long enough. Today, it was announced that interim head coach Dan Bylsma is being stripped of the “interim” title and has signed a contract to be the Penguins head coach.
This is certainly good news and Bylsma deserves all the credit. If not [...]
Are you ready? Yes, it is time for the 2nd season in the NHL. As mentioned in my previous post, the Penguins were able to capture home ice for the first round of the playoffs due to a couple of things outside of the Penguins control.
1.) The Carolina Hurricane’s had to lose their two last [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins made franchise history today after defeating the Washington Capitals in a shootout 3-4. The Penguins went 5-0 during their extended road trip which had never been done in the Penguins history. Bill Guerin made his first goal in the Penguins sweater after receiving a wonderful assist from Sidney Crosby. Crosby won the [...]
Whew! I don’t know about the rest of you out there, but yesterday was a crazy, crazy day for an Anaheim Ducks fan. My cell phone kept going off all day long at my office with the NHL alerts; my boss asked every time: who are we losing now?? (He is also a Ducks fan [...]
As posted earlier by duxrox, the Pens and Ducks were involved in a trade today. The Ducks traded forwrad Chris Kunitz and prospect Eric Tangradi to the Penguins for defenseman Ryan Whitney. I have not had a lot of personal exposure to Kunitz, but from what I have heard he is a top 6 forward [...]
And so it begins…….Anaheim traded Chris Kunitz and prospect Eric Tangradi to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Ryan Whitney. Now, I am sad to see Kunitz go; I really like watching him play. However, the Ducks are in desperate need of defense and seem to think they’ll get it with Whitney. I haven’t done [...]
Tonight, the Flames come to the Ponda….oops!…Honda Center for a rematch. The Ducks have a winning streak going against the Flames here at home and I’m figuring the Flames will come out hard to revenge their loss from last Saturday. On the goalie side, Giguere is 10-1-0 against them at home; he’s done well and [...]