Don't Mess With The Metro

When you're chasing the New Jersey Devils, your season can’t have started all that well. I’ll be straight up here, watching my Florida Panthers and the Pittsburgh Penguins was a weird experience, knowing exactly what players are doing what well, what poorly, and what had to be improved with. It good game, back and forth both ways, both goalies making great saves and ultimately a Pens 4-3 win at home thanks to a dominant performance by Sidney Crosby. If somebody told me before the ...

Hockey in Pittsburgh has always been different, home to the black and gold that’s been laced into NHL history. It’s not just the colors, its the players who have been attached to its history, Paul Coffey, Marc-Andre Fleury, Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux, and now its emerging icons. The current squad is pretty good too, Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, Oll...

Pittsburgh Penguins

Outlook: After winning back to back Stanley Cups you could imagine how this would go for the Penguins. Their best prospect (excluded from this list), you may have heard of him, Jake Guentzel probably should have won the Conn Smythe this past playoffs. Derrick Pouliot is another guy not included on this list due to his minor contributions to t...

The characteristics of a good defenseman in the modern-day NHL; physical, nimble, good with the puck, and a hell of a slapshot. Yes, today’s top defensemen are more valued on their ability to score, like other Metro division players Kevin Shattenkirk of the New York Rangers or Nick Leddy of the New York Islanders, and outside of the Metro, Brent Burns, Victor Hedman, Erik Karl...

Two years, Two Cups, 49 goals, 80 assists and 213 Games Played. Phil Kessel boasts an impressive resume while playing in Pittsburgh however could the 29 year old need that resume for a job search sometime this offseason? The answer: quite possibly. Although the famed “HBK’ line carried the Penguins to the 2016 cup, Phil Kessel and Co. struggled to have the same chemistry on the ice this year. Sidney Crosby was ...

When writing about the Penguins it’s hard to forget about Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, the two superstar centers of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but after those two, their depth at center drops harder than the Detroit Red Wings in the past three seasons. You can break it down 30 different ways, but Carter Rowney and Greg McKegg, who had a combined fourteen points in seventy-three games isn’t Cup Champion calibe...