Penguins Update: The Fall of Champions
I was thinking about the inexorable decline of our Penguins yesterday. Stewing over the fact that we’ve missed the playoffs…
Penguins’ Postmortem and Grading
I haven’t written much this season, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been following our favorite flightless fowl. Now we…
Penguins Update: The Worst That Could Happen?
Back in the summer of 1968, my favorite song was The Worst That Could Happen. Sung to perfection by Johnny…
Penguins Fumble Finale, Fall to Islanders, 5-4
In many ways, last night’s 5-4 season-ending loss to the Islanders was an all-too-fitting microcosm of the 2023-24 campaign. One…
Penguins Reverse Natural Order, Subdue Predators, 4-2
Our Penguins did what they needed to do last night. Namely, took care of business. Skating before a throng of…
Bruins Derail Penguins Playoff Push, 6-4
When I wrote my article yesterday comparing this season’s playoff scenario to last spring’s, I detailed some of my concerns.…
Penguins Despoke Red Wings in OT, 6-5
Somewhere, embedded deep down in some remote corner of our Penguins’ DNA lurks a self-destruct gene. It surfaces at the…
Geno Nets Two, Penguins Malkin-ize Lightning, 5-4
Back in 2009, my friend Tom Blanciak predicted the Penguins would acquire feisty left wing Chris Kunitz from Anaheim at…