Following the game last night, we decide to eat healthy and
hit up Primanti's in the South Side. We walked in to this sight:
A Flyers fan with three Penguins fans.
Huh?
How does that work?
A few more things we saw in our journeys last night:
-We were able to get a much clearer shot of the five new
banners:
-Brian Engblom's new hairdo:
Now on any other mammal, that's a good head of hair. But it
just looks very odd on Enblom. We admit we've complained about his mullet quite a bit in the past. But seeing what he looks like with a more conservative hairstyle, we now feel he needs to bring the mullet back.
-There have been these "Let's Go Pens!" stencils on the
sidewalk near Gate 3 since last season:
They're not accompanied with the team's new marketing
slogan:
EMPTY NETTER ASSISTS
Penguins
-Dave Molinari's recap from last night.
-Mike Lange's goal calls from last night:
-If you didn't see Eric Godard and Riley Cote beating the
daylights out of each other last night, here you go:
-Postgame video.
-We wouldn't pre-order that Brendan Shanahan Penguins jersey
anytime soon.
-The Penguins reacted to the death of Rangers prospect
Alexei Cherepanov.
-Former Penguins forward Jaromir Jagr really took the death
of Cherepanov hard.
-The Penguins' plans for a hotel next to the new arena are
going well.
-Random YouTube find of the day: Marc-Andre Fleury being a
bad dude. During his days as a Cape Breton Screaming Eagle, Fleury was pretty
quick to drop the gloves apparently. His fights on this video can be found at
the 0:27 and 3:32 marks
What was up with the guy going all
Tim Harris six-shooter
at the 2:03 mark?
-Wilkes-Barre/Scranton goaltender John
Curry (ankle) and defenseman Joey Mormina (groin)
are dealing with injuries.
Atlantic Division
-An investigator ruled Cherepanov
had a chronic heart
condition called ischemia.
-The Islanders demoted forward Blake Comeau (
right)
to Bridgeport of the AHL.
Defenseman Radek Martinek is dealing with an upper-body injury.
-Flyers defenseman Derian Hatcher
is rehabbing his injured
knee.
-New Philadelphia
defenseman Andrew Alberts
has been teamed with Steve Eminger.
-Devils forward Bobby Holik
wasn't crazy about his time as
the Thrashers' captain.
Northeast Division
-Sabres forward Jochen Hecht
is dealing with a finger injury.
-The Bruins recalled forward Vladimir Sobotka
from Providence of the AHL.
Southeast Division
-Check out the two videos the Capitals played prior to their
home-opener:
Quality stuff.
-The Lightning is pretty much just picking up defensemen off
the street. The Bolts signed former Rangers defenseman Marek Malik
to a
one-year deal worth $1.2 million.
Somewhere, former Penguins blueliner
Richard Lintner
is keeping his phone clear.
-Tampa
Bay forward Steven
Stamkos (
right), the first overall
pick in this year's draft,
has been quiet so far.
-Lightning defenseman and former Penguins prospect Jamie
Heward
is happy to be back in the NHL.
-Tampa
Bay defenseman Paul
Ranger,
has been cleared to resume play.
He has been dealing with a shoulder injury.
-Former Penguins defenseman Noah Welch
played in his first
game in nearly a year with the Panthers.
-Panthers defenseman Karlis Skrastins is back in practice
after dealing with a back and neck injury.
-The Hurricanes' new
jerseys
are popular.
-Carolina's
power play
is having trouble.
Central Division
-The Red Wings met President Bush yesterday:
-Even if they weren't part of the Red Wings' championship,
former Penguins Ty Conklin and Marian Hossa
took in the sights in Washington.
-Joe Elliot of Def Leppard
said it was the NHL's fault he
stuck the Stanley Cup upside down.
-Blue Jackets forward Mike Peca
is appealing his suspension
for abuse of an official.
Northwest Division
-Todd Bertuzzi's (
above,
center) two goals helped the Flames
edge the Avalanche, 5-4.
-The Avalanche's special teams
have been lackluster.
-Antti Miettinen had two goals and one assist for the Wild
in
a 4-2 win at Atlanta.
-Wild forwards Pierre-Marc Bouchard (back) and Owen Nolan
(lower body)
are dealing with injuries.
Forward Cal Clutterbuck was recalled from Houston
of the AHL.
Pacific Division
-Jarret Stoll and Tom Preissing each had a goal and an
assist for the Kings in
a 6-3 defeat of the rival Ducks.
-The Sharks got two goals from Patrick Marleau and
beat the
Blue Jackets, 5-2.
-Stars rookie forward Fabian Brunnstrom
is set to make his
NHL debut tomorrow.
-
The Sharks
and
the Coyotes
had blackouts on their television schedules lifted.
Adams Division
-Is the NHL
copying the NFL?
-If so, it's not as if the NFL
has always been original.
(Photos: Comeau-Jim
McIsaac/Getty Images; Stamkos-Doug Benc/Getty Images; Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press)
Posted
Oct 15 2008, 04:10 AM
by
Seth Rorabaugh
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