Penguins fan question?

[mattola]

Doesn't matter, the league is fixed according to 90% of hockey fans, yet they still continue watching.

Those fans know shit.... Everyone knows it's only fixed against the Canucks

 

[Dacks]

Save this thread for next year! We want 3!

 

[scoutyjones2]

thrICE!

 

[obxyankeefan]

Save this thread for next year! We want 3!

3 hell. I am being greedy and want the Islanders 19 series win record.

 

[mattola]

as you are about to win your franchises 5th Stanley Cup... Does the excitement still resonate in you or is it becoming just expected and that feeling of "oh, yes another please?"

Told you

 

[dash]

Where's David Volek when you really need him?

 

[wings-pens2166]

Where's David Volek when you really need him?

you mother fu...er, not cool!!!

 

[wings-pens2166]

I'm way late to this thread, but here's my take....

In some ways this one was the most satisfying. After all they went through, all the injuries, the um, "hockey play" by Nisky in the Cap series, etc. I just never expected them to repeat.

I started watching the Pens in about 79/80. I remember being in the Civic Arena when they didn't give a shit where you sat. They were just happy to have at least someone there. My uncle's company had season tickets and my cousin and I got them all the time because no one else ever wanted them. Then after all those years of watching shitty hockey, I had joined the Navy just over a year before the first 2 Cups. Just my luck, both times I was deployed and never got to see or listen to even one single game either year. Given that was just before the internet explosion and email, the best I got were press releases that were usually several days to several weeks old. The only good thing was I got to party my ass off in some pretty cool European ports.

Then in 09 I missed the finals as I was in grad school and doing a semester of study aboard in London. It was our last night there and 10-12 of us were partying in some night club. by the time I got back to the hotel it was about 5am meaning it was around 11 pm in the States. I immediately jumped on the lobby computer to check the final score. When I saw they won, I started woohoo-ing through the hotel lobby. The Brits were giving me that "bloody Americans" stink-eye, but I didn't care.

Last year was awesome, but you could kinda see it coming.

 

[Darkstone42]

Parade tomorrow. Sun will rise like

 

[elocomotive]

Save this thread for next year! We want 3!

3 hell. I am being greedy and want the Islanders 19 series win record.

Dear Hockey Gods,

You seeing this shit?

Sincerely - Good guy fans

 

[obxyankeefan]

I'm way late to this thread, but here's my take....

In some ways this one was the most satisfying. After all they went through, all the injuries, the um, "hockey play" by Nisky in the Cap series, etc. I just never expected them to repeat.

I started watching the Pens in about 79/80. I remember being in the Civic Arena when they didn't give a shit where you sat. They were just happy to have at least someone there. My uncle's company had season tickets and my cousin and I got them all the time because no one else ever wanted them. Then after all those years of watching shitty hockey, I had joined the Navy just over a year before the first 2 Cups. Just my luck, both times I was deployed and never got to see or listen to even one single game either year. Given that was just before the internet explosion and email, the best I got were press releases that were usually several days to several weeks old. The only good thing was I got to party my ass off in some pretty cool European ports.

Then in 09 I missed the finals as I was in grad school and doing a semester of study aboard in London. It was our last night there and 10-12 of us were partying in some night club. by the time I got back to the hotel it was about 5am meaning it was around 11 pm in the States. I immediately jumped on the lobby computer to check the final score. When I saw they won, I started woohoo-ing through the hotel lobby. The Brits were giving me that "bloody Americans" stink-eye, but I didn't care.

Last year was awesome, but you could kinda see it coming.

I started a few years before you, the Kahoe, Schutt and Apps days. The first time i got to see them live was New Years day in 1986. Growing up in Va Bch it was hard to see the games on TV (they didn't put many on back then.) My dad and Uncle would take my up to the old Capital Center to see a Caps game each year, but it would always be whoever was playing while we were there.

Now on the Cup games, I watched every game in 90-91. IN 91-92 because of work I would watch the replay in the middle of the night. This year is the first time in a long time where I got to see every game.

 

[obxyankeefan]

Dear Hockey Gods,

You seeing this shit?

Sincerely - Good guy fans

Yes I am greedy at times, nothing to be ashamed about.

BTW there are no good guys in DC.

 

[Dacks]

One thing I'll say, these last two cups has shown that everything basically needs to click to win the cup. The Pens needed a GM who's vision aligned with the personnel, a coach tailor made for the team issues, reclamation projects working out, a stud rookie goalie, and some diamond in the rough rookies. And the refs in our pockets, of course. And even with all that, needed to win two game 7s along the way.

The alternative is to just get really hot, like the 09 Pens or the Kings when they won their first cup.

So really, the NHL blueprint is ”have everything go right" which isn't an easy plan to implement. But it also shows how quickly things can turn around. Rutherford and Sullivan turned this team around on a dime.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

 

[dash]

You could say it was the fish that saved Pittsburgh.

 

[dash]

 

[scoutyjones2]

try it with a waterbottle!

 

[dash]

The Penguins' Stanley Cup-clinching Game 6 victory over the Nashville Predators on Sunday night was the most-watched Cup Final game in four years, according to an NHL release. The Penguins' 2-0 win drew an average audience of 11.5 million viewers across North America. It was the largest audience for a Cup Final game since Chicago vs. Boston in Game 6 in 2013.

The 2017 Stanley Cup Final attracted an average audience of 8.09 million viewers across North America, an increase of 23 percent over last year, according to the release.

 

[elocomotive]

Yes I am greedy at times, nothing to be ashamed about.

BTW there are no good guys in DC.

DC is actually mostly filled with "good guys" (and gals). Beyond those few Congressmen, talking heads, or dirty lobbyists you may dislike, there are literally hundreds of thousands of people here who work for good causes and do tireless work to help people through government agencies, nonprofits, government contractors, and charities because they believe in that sort of thing. Both sides of the aisle. Here and abroad. It's one of the things that makes DC so special... even if our sports' teams never are.

 

[obxyankeefan]

DC is actually mostly filled with "good guys" (and gals). Beyond those few Congressmen, talking heads, or dirty lobbyists you may dislike, there are literally hundreds of thousands of people here who work for good causes and do tireless work to help people through government agencies, nonprofits, government contractors, and charities because they believe in that sort of thing. Both sides of the aisle. Here and abroad. It's one of the things that makes DC so special... even if our sports' teams never are.

All joking aside I have spent enough time in DC that everything you said I can agree with.