June 15, 2009 -375,000 faithful lined Pittsburgh streets to celebrate the Stanley Cup Championship after the Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in Game 7: Here's our favorite photo from Andrew Russell from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: This is an image of a steel beam inside the CONSOL Energy Center. Â The Penguins returned to the [...]
Here's the history of February 29 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins: 1976 - The Penguins played their first game on "leap day," losing to the St. Louis Blues, 5-3. 1984 - Vancouver's Patrik Sundstrom set a record for most assists from an opponent in one game, six, in a 9-5 win at the Civic Arena. Sundstrom also scored [...]
Someone asked us if the Pens might change their luck on Friday the 13th against Florida tonight and asked if they ever played a game on this superstitious day: Record on Friday the 13th is 5-3 10/13/1967 @ St. Louis Blues, Win, 3-1 12/13/1991 @ New Jersey Devils, WIn, 4-3 11/13/1992 @ Detroit, Loss, 8-0 [...]
Sporting News says Pittsburgh is the tops
The night before the opening game of the series, which was played at the Duquesne Garden, Maroons President James Strachan played a clever strategic hand. As told in William Brown’s book, The Montreal Maroons: The Forgotten Stanley Cup Champions (Vehicule Press, 1999), Strachan had rented a hall in the team’s Pittsburgh hotel. There, he kept watch as [...]
