Archive for April, 2012

Craig Adams has been suspended for the game Wednesday because he received an instigator penalty in the final five minutes of Game 3 on Sunday, an 8-4 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers that pushed the Penguins to the brink of elimination.  READ MORE AT TRIB >>>

Adams held the Penguins current iron man streak at 168 games, including playoffs.  He last missed a game on October 16, 2010, a 5-1 victory over the Flyers.

The new current iron man will be Pascal Dupuis with 161 consecutive games.  Dupuis last missed action on November 3, 2010 (Dallas Stars) when his daughter Lola was born.

We view the most consecutive games played a little differently than the team media guide, which lists only regular season games. We have Jordan Staal, with 358, as the Penguins player that played in the most consecutive games – regular season and playoffs.  In case you are wondering if that is an NHL record…it’s not.  Not even close to Garry Unger’s mark of 949 games (including playoffs).

Ron Schock, Pittsburgh’s Original Iron Man

The Penguins meet the Flyers on Wednesday night with the season on the line.

The Penguins have been swept twice before:

The Chicago Blackhawks won the 1972 quartfinals in four straight. Chicago outscored Pittsburgh, 14-8.

The Boston Bruins won four in a row in the 1979 quarterfinals. The Bruins outscored the Penguins, 16-7.

The Penguins have also lost four games in a row on three occasions.

In 1975, Pittsburgh beat the Islanders in the first three games, before losing the next four.

The New Jersey Devils dropped the Eastern Conference semifinal opener in 1995, before winning four in a row.

And finally, Pittsburgh jumped to a two-game lead in 2000′s Eastern Conference semi’s before the Flyers ran the table to win the series.