Penguins History: So Why Do We Hate the Flyers So Much?
As our Penguins prepare to square off with the Philadelphia Flyers tonight in the latest installment of “The Battle of…
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 Pay a Steep Price for Victory
September 29, 1973. Brantford (Ontario) Civic Centre. The Pittsburgh Penguins squared off against their arch-nemesis—the truculent St. Louis Blues—in an…
Penguins Update: When Push Comes to Shove
Noted philosopher and poet George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” There’s…
Penguins History: Toughest Fighters
For my fourth and final installment on the toughest Penguins ever, I’ve listed the guys I’d most want to have…
Penguins History: The Dirty (Half) Dozen
The Dirty (Half) Dozen features the Penguins players who were most likely to stray over the boundaries of fair and…
Penguins History: Battleship Kelly
In the annals of Penguins history, perhaps no player cultivated a more fearsome reputation—or earned a more colorful nickname—than left…
Penguins-Flyers Rivalry Part 3: Rise of the Broad Street Bullies (1972-1984)
The Pens-Flyers rivalry heated up during the early ‘70s, due in no small part to the emergence of “the Broad…