The NHL announced that the Penguins, in their official role as The Team the NHL Uses to Promote the Sport Whenever It Needs a Team To Promote the Sport, are going to open next season in Stockholm, Sweden against the Ottawa Senators. The matchup will likely be between two Eastern Conference heavyweights, but the games [...]
Reporters managed to talk to Hines Ward about Ben Roethlisberger’s comments to the Post-Gazette last week and the Steelers’s receiver is not happy. Roethlisberger was quoted as saying that he wants a taller receiver, something that one of his favorite tiny targets is upset about.
On Thursday, the Pirates signed 39 year-old RHP Hector Carrasco and 30 year-old LHP Casey Fossum to minor league contracts. These signings are obviously meant to just add some potentially experienced depth on the cheap to the bullpen and to have some more competition for those seven open spots in Bradenton, but they actually make [...]
Neal Huntington signed a notoriously overweight pitcher Wednesday, but it was not Shawn “Blimpie” Chacon, the pleasantly plump pitcher who could play a solid role with the Pirates if Opie would just sign him already. Instead, he signed Jaret Wright who was paid $7 million for three starts last year with the Baltimore Orioles and [...]
Pittsburgh still seems to be in a catatonic state over the injury of Sidney Crosby. It is time to wake up. Stuff happens, the world still turns, Martin Brodeur still plays 78 games a year, and the season still continues. The Penguins, however, have been afforded a unique opportunity, one that could be huge for [...]
Well, Evgeni Malkin is now the focal point of the Penguins’ attack, for better or worse. We figured that Pens’ fans, who should have a pretty good idea of what Geno can do right now, could do with a little history lesson on what he is capable of when he is the most important player [...]
