Oilers Dramatic Stand Recalls a Dark Turn in Penguins History
As Connor McDavid and the Oilers seek to close out a storybook comeback from a 3-0 series deficit and capture…
Real Penguins Top Faux Sabres, 3-1
For all intents and purposes, the real Pittsburgh Penguins, or a reasonable facsimile, played their first exhibition game last night,…
Penguins Update: What If?
It’s a Wonderful Life is one of my all-time favorite movies. As the story unfolds, the main character George Bailey…
Ten Best Penguins Trades of All-Time
Perhaps it was the recent expose of my sorely lacking talent-evaluation chops. My literary rambling appears to have shaken loose…
Penguins Update: Getting My Brain Around the Blockbusters
My esteemed colleague, Other Rick, has written on numerous occasions that our Penguins needed to blow up their defense and…
My Favorite Penguins Team
Inspired by an article on the Tribune-Review by Mark Madden, who shares some of his early Penguins memories, I decided…
Penguins History: My Favorite Team
Over the course of their storied 50-year-history, the Penguins have iced all sorts of hockey teams. From the sublime to…
Penguins Update: Jack Riley Passes Away
He wasn’t the winningest general manager in Penguins history. Nor did his teams capture a Stanley Cup. Or even a…