A lot has been made out of the Penguins' rather rotten record in California the past few days. The team has only won three games in Cali since 1999. Part of that is due to the fact that the NHL heavily limited the amount of games between non-conference foes for three seasons following the 2004-05 lockout out. And a lot of that is also due to the horrible "Rico Fata Error Era" of the middle part of the 2000s.
We got to wondering what the franchise's all-time record is in California, and just about every other state, province or even country in its 42 years of existence. We thought about digging up the list yesterday but sleep something got in the way.
That's where long-time EN reader Joe Stiger, the leader of the old "Army's Pit," stepped in. Without any sort of prompting from us, Joe just went through the game archive on LetsGoPens.com and the team's media guide, crunched the numbers and essentially did all the work for us.
All we had to do was open our e-mail and do a little cutting and pasting.
Either way, Joe's a true hockey geek and you can thank him for today's list. All totals are through Tuesday:
State/
Province/
Country |
Record |
| Alberta |
14-39-7 |
| Arizona |
2-6-2 |
| British Columbia |
24-23-4 |
| California |
41-67-8-* |
| Colorado |
6-11-3 |
| Connecticut |
14-17-2 |
| Florida |
26-35-3 |
| Georgia |
18-16-2-* |
| Illinois |
14-42-10 |
| Japan |
1-1-0 |
| Manitoba |
13-9-1 |
| Maryland/Washington D.C. |
52-58-9 |
| Massachusetts |
23-67-6 |
| Michigan |
16-46-12 |
| Minnesota |
23-67-6 |
| Missouri |
19-50-8 |
| New Jersey |
36-49-10 |
| New York |
121-165-34 |
| North Carolina |
12-11-3 |
| Ohio |
8-3-2-* |
| Ontario |
50-56-16 |
| Quebec |
28-80-10 |
| Pennsylvania |
945-739-213 |
| Sweden |
1-1-0 |
| Tennessee |
1-6-0 |
| Texas |
3-6-1 |
*-Includes an opponent at a neutral site.
Posted
Nov 05 2009, 12:01 PM
by
Seth Rorabaugh