Tag Archives: pittsburgh penguins
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NHL Power Rankings: Week 22
Total Pro Sports – This week’s NHL Power Rankings has the San Jose Sharks dropping out of the top 3 and the New York Islanders finally moving out of the basement. NHL Power Rankings Movers And Shakers The biggest Shakers in our NHL Power Rankings this week were the drowning Anaheim Ducks dropping 3 spots [...]
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NHL Power Rankings: Week 21
Week: | 1-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11-15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Ending (Feb 22nd) Total Pro Sports – This week’s NHL Power Rankings has the Detroit Red Wings re-claiming the #1 spot and the [...]
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“I Don’t Know Who Sidney Crosby Is”
Total Pro Sports- In an interview prior to Friday nights game with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks forward Adam Burish made some less than flattering comments about one of the NHL’s best young players. When asked about if we would rather play the Pens without Crosby in their lineup Burish Said “I Don’t know who [...]
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Sex Sells, But Not Like Bruce Boudreau
Total Pro Sports- You’ve got to love your typical low budget athlete endorsed car commercial. The Penguins had a great one out last year featuring Colby Armstrong, Max Talbot, Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin in an A&L BMW commercial. Now the people at Mercedes Benz of Alexandria have taken full advantage of the acting skills [...]
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How About a Nice Euro Vacation Before Telling You “You’re Fired”
Total Pro Sports- There must be something about Europe and NHL coaches this year, but it seems as though they show their passport on the way there and have been handed a pink slip on the way back. First Barry Melrose was fired by the Tampa Bay Lightning, then the Ottawa Senators redid themselves of [...]
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Ovechkin Waves Goodbye to Penguin Playoff Hopes?
Total Pro Sports- The rivalry between Penguin superstar Sidney Crosby and Caps phenom Alex Ovechkin heated up Sunday afternoon at the Verizon Center in Washington. At the conclusion of the game, won 5-2 by the Capitals, Alex and Sid were tangled by the boards and proceeded to skirmish for a bit until the refs came [...]
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Breaking News: Friend of Kovalev Says He’s DONE As A Hab!
Total Pro Sports – Breaking news out of TSN states that Alexei Kovalev has had enough with Montreal. Reports indicate that the present (and soon to be former) Hab has told a close friend that he has played his last game as a Canadien this season and does not have any intentions of resigning with the [...]
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The NHL Is On Thin Ice
Total Pro Sports – Hockey has been a part of the sports world for 85 years with the establishment of the National Hockey League. The sport has had its up and downs, but has survived has one of the 4 largest sports in North America. Now the league is in financial trouble. With the decline [...]
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Michel Therrien Fired By Penguins
Total Pro Sports – It seems that the Penguins have seen enough of Michel Therrien as they let the man that led them to the Stanley Cup Finals last year go. The Penguins fire Therrien one day after Pittsburgh blew a 2-0 lead to the lowly Toronto Maple Leafs. The Penguins have named Dan Bylsma [...]
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Luca Caputi, Welcome To The NHL
Total Pro Sports- Even though the Pittsburgh Penguins lost to the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night, there was one bright spot. Rookie Luca Caputi, scored his first ever NHL goal. Caputi, who is from Toronto, was only in the lineup because Tyler Kennedy was serving a 1 game suspension for fighting Luke Schenn. Caputi appears [...]
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Ovechkin Uses Malkin For All Star Breakaway Challenge
Total Pro Sports – You can count on Alexander Ovechkin to do something out of this world in a hockey game but in the NHL All Star Breakaway Challenge the skies the limit for him. Last year was the first year of the All Star Breakaway Challenge something similar to the NBA Jam competition were [...]
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NHL Suspends All Star Game No-Shows
Total Pro Sports – NHL vice-president Colin Campbell has officially laid down the law and suspended Detroit Red Wings veterans Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk. Both these superstars will have to sit out one game each after the NHL All Star break. Campbell said the league’s general managers agreed last February that a player who [...]
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NHL Fantasy 3 Stars: Week 15
Total Pro Sports – We have two new entries for the week 15 edition of the 3 Stars, which may come as a surprise when you see who the players are. This week’s honorable mention goes to Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins. Chara put up 5 points (3 goals & 2 assists) with 4 [...]
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Oilers, Pens Swawp Back-Up Goalies
Total Pro Sports – In a move made early Saturday morning the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins have traded backup goaltenders in a move to spark both hockey clubs. The Penguins have had mediocre goaltending from both starter Marc-Andre Fluery and Danny Sabourin, while the Oilers share a similar fate, both Mathieu Garon and Dwayne [...]
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Jagr Will Take A Paycut To Join Lemieux
Total Pro Sports – Jaromir Jagr has no regrets leaving the NHL to go and play for Avangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League which is also known as the KHL. Jagr signed a 2 year contract with Avangard that will see him earn the most in the league at $7 million plus a season. [...]
