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I follow fans of the Penguins on Twitter and have read countless articles as well as Q&A's from fans about the "revised" Penguins.    Now as a fun use of free time, I'm going to give my opinions on questions a lot of Penguin fans want to ask.    Why does Shero want to combine Staal and Geno?   Staal is ready for a top 2 line year.  He has served as center of what has ...

When about 15 minutes after noon went by, I refreshed twitter at work and saw about eight tweets discussing that Sergei Gonchar had been traded to Ottawa for a three-year deal.  My immediate thought was "Our season is over."  When the season ended, I immediately realized how many free agents we had. I knew we were going to lose players, that's a given. What I didn't expect was how many players we ...

  It is probably the best week of summer if you're a hockey fan.    This week is the week of every hockey fan's fantasy.     It's time for the trading to begin and I, for one, am extremely excited.   After the year that ended with the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that was chosen at the beginning of the season to win, hoisting the cup, a lot of people are scratching their heads at the ...

I may be biased, but is everyone seeing the trend in naming a young player the new captain of the team? Is it not bizarre that when Sidney Crosby became the youngest captain in the NHL at the tender age of 20 and found success by winning the Stanley Cup, soon after teams started giving their young players a "C" on their jerseys?  Crosby was raised in front of a camera and ...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm really hoping that the Blackhawks finish it up tonight. Not only because they are my favorite team in the West,—and the fact that I couldn't stand to watch the Flyers hold up the Cup that the Penguins had held up a year ago—but also because I'm ready for this book to be closed.  If you're like me, you have been miserable ...

Lady Byng Trophy: Most Gentlemanly Player When I think of this award, I think of the guy who doesn’t piss the opponents off. And when I think of that type of player, Pavel Datsyuk is my front runner. He is very sportsmanlike, which is rare quality in the NHL nowadays. Begin Slideshow

This year has been a strange year. Teams that we wouldn’t have even thought could make it to the playoffs are now playing in the finals or sitting somewhere knowing that they beat the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins.  Yes I am still bitter and if anyone is like me, we all want to play Montreal next year. Every year you want to play the team that beat you the ...

  In a salary cap world, it’s pretty much impossible to keep a team together for more than a year. The Penguins early exit of the playoffs has put pressure on the administration to get a team together to win another cup, and another, and another. Let’s take a look at the players with contracts up. UFA: ·         Sergei Gonchar (at 35 made $5.5 million in 2010) ·         Bill ...