Est. January 2009
We get asked all the time, why the name PenguinPoop? It’s simple. When we were thinking of a name for a blog, PenguinPoop made us laugh, especially when we thought of stuffy people saying “PenguinPoop”
We knew we might be on to something when the great Dan Moriarty (NHL Cool Shots & Inside the NHL) said:
“I had the pleasure this past week, being interviewed for PenguinPoop, a Pittsburgh Penguin blog. First of all, when the best named blog in hockey reaches out, you respond!”
and Yahoo’s Puck Daddy blog had this to say:
“perhaps the best-named sports blog on the planet“
We are 3 or 4 maybe 6 Pittsburgh Penguins fans who have come together with one common interest.
Our goal is not to be a place to visit for all warm fuzzy heartwarming stories about the Penguins. Our single most important goal is to have our opinions heard whether warm & fuzzy or dark & stormy. A few of us use an alias so we need not pull any punches.
Most of us are current season ticket holders, two of us for over 38 years, most of us have been season ticket holders, we sit all over the PPG Arena, almost all of us have played organized hockey, some of us still play organized hockey, one of us is a referee who used to play hockey and one of us (Rick Buker) wrote three books on Pittsburgh Penguins hockey “Total Penguins.” , “100 Things Penguins Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die” And “The Rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009-2018“
We range in age from 25 to sixt… let’s just say older, we live anywhere from a little over 3000 feet from the PPG Arena to the furthest being 35 miles from it.
The one thing that brings us together is that we are all die-hard Pittsburgh Penguins fans and we debate the team happenings non stop any time we are within shouting distance of each other. Many of us go to most of the games so our opinions are home grown, not influenced by what a TV announcers say about on ice happenings. As a collective group you would be hard pressed to find another group of writers that have been to as many Penguins games.
Please note that there are several writers here and each opinion is not that of our collective group. You will often see us debating each other in the comments.
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Thanks for reading and supporting us. Go Pens!
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the Staff
Phil Krundle – The first hockey game I watched was on a 12″ black & white TV back in 1975. It was game 7 of the quarter finals Penguins vs the Islanders. The Pens lost, but I was ensnared. I soon started playing hockey in the basement using metal roller skates and nets drawn on the wall. You can still find me playing for 2-3 hockey teams at any given time. All you really need to know about me is that I will argue to the death the fact that the Coffey/Recchi for Samuelsson/Tocchet was the worst trade in Penguins history. They could have had 5 of the top 13 NHL scorers ever on the team for many years. They would have won way more than just the one Cup the next year. I started PenguinPoop along with Reg Dunlop back in January of 2009, mainly because I was unhappy with the direction the Penguins were going less than a year after playing for the Cup. Born ‘n’ raised in the ‘burgh.
Rick Buker – As a kid growing up in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, I was an avid baseball and basketball fan. I paid little attention to hockey until I was in my teens. When I was 15 years old I had emergency surgery to remove a ruptured appendix. During my stay in the hospital one of the TV networks televised a Penguins-Bruins game. The thing I remember most was a big brawl involving two of our players, Duane Rupp and Darryl Edestrand. In an instant I was hooked. In the early 1990s I decided to write a book about the team. Slowly but surely I began to fashion what eventually became—Total Penguins—which was published by Triumph Books in 2010. It’s a comprehensive team history featuring season-by-season summaries, player profiles and stats, bios on all of the coaches, general managers and owners, and lots of photos from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette archives. In 2011, Triumph published my second book, 100 Things Penguins Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. It’s filled with bios, stories, and anecdotes from the team’s rich and colorful history
Reg Dunlop – Phil Krundle and I spent a lot of time conversing, debating and, yes, even arguing about the Penguins. We used to do it so often that we decided to take our opinions to a new level and start a Penguin blog. Even with the blog, we still find time for spirited conversations about our beloved team. I have been a huge Pens fan since I was very young. I used to cheer for players like Ron Shock and Vic Hadfield. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to go to games when I was very young. In fact, my friend actually got a Rick Kehoe game stick one time because he got hit in the head with a puck. He had to get stitches, but got the puck and Kehoe’s stick……..a fair trade I should think. Right now, I stay active playing a lot of Dek Hockey. It’s pretty much the proverbial beer hockey league, but it is fun and good camaraderie. I am a season ticket holder; one who is still bitter about how his seats transferred to the new building. Mostly I can’t complain. I have been blessed to watch many of the greatest hockey players of all time.
Horse – My Penguin history goes back the whole way to December 18, 1971. It was the first game I ever attended and even though the Pens lost to the Boston Bruins, I was hooked. Getting to see Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito play live was an amazing experience. We went back to the Christmas Day game vs. Montreal which ended in a 4-2 Penguin victory thanks to Les Binkley’s stellar performance in goal. Guy LaFleur and Yvan Cournoyer added to the star power that was Montreal then. Back at that time, the average attendance per game was 10,000 and sellouts were few and far between. The next year we bought partial season tickets and the highlight of that Fall was the November 22, 1972 game versus the hated St. Louis Blues. In this game the Pens trailed 4-3 going into the third period, and then scored 7 third period goals including the NHL record 5 goals in 2 minutes 7 seconds – a record that will probably never be broken. People were literally dancing in the aisles over the excitement that third period generated – final score 10-4 when we walked out of the Civic Arena. We started sitting in section C22 and our tickets were $5.50 per game. By 1975, the balcony seats had been installed at the Arena so we moved there and became the only people to ever own the rights to section E11 row F of the Civic Arena seating…
Coach Bombay – Pens fan since returning to the Burgh just as Mario arrived, the perfect age to learn the sport. Season ticket holder. Lover of all things about the game. In the past, often wrote about a lot of off-ice aspects of the sport. Real life kept Coach’s role limited mostly to our social media side this season, but just wait…!
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