This Forum Is Boring This Week !!

[LGM]

That's great

DC, how did becomes a fan of the Pens ?

No minimum standards. See also, Cardinals fan, Iowa fan, friends with Steiner and myself, friends with no benefits with Mingo, friends with benefits with OC.

 

[Draft Crazy]

That's great

DC, how did becomes a fan of the Pens ?

When I was a kid, hockey was the last of the 4 major sports I got into.. My brother and I would sometimes watch a game but never picked a team and nobody ever talked about hockey, none of our friends, living in Iowa it was never really a sport anyone got into... No hockey leagues growing up or anything like that. One day my brother asked me what my favorite team was and not really watching a ton of hockey I said the LA Kings because of Gretzky and he said that was his too. We have this thing where he and I always pick a different favorite team. Not that we hate the others team but we just want to be different. So we sort of left it at that because we weren't that into hockey so really didn't care if we both liked the Kings, whatever. We never watched anyway... Then my brother watched a Montreal Canadians game at my great grandma's as he was waiting for my mom to pick him up after school one day. He came home telling me how much he enjoyed watch a few hockey games. (Think it was hockey night on ESPN) and he was going to be a Canadians fan (ended up changing to Chicago when he realized he wanted to like a team in the US) and then he told me I should pick a team and start watching hockey with him... We agreed that neither of us would pick the Kings at this point so I picked the Pens because of Super Mario... The rest is history. I always end up liking the enforcers and players who get under the skin of their opponent. Loved Chris Tamer, Darius Kasparitis and Ulf Samuelsson growing up... On top of Mario and Jagr or course, Kevin Stevens, Ron Francis, etc... Loved Martin Straka and Shawn McEachern too.

 

[Draft Crazy]

No minimum standards. See also, Cardinals fan, Iowa fan, friends with Steiner and myself, friends with no benefits with Mingo, friends with benefits with OC.

Ok, that was actually really funny.

 

[MileHigh64]

Penguins? Nah. Colorado Avs all the way!

 

[Draft Crazy]

Penguins? Nah. Colorado Avs all the way!

My second team... When the Penguins nearly moved after the Mario./Jagr era I was preparing to become an Avs fan. Loved Claude Lemiuex, Adam Foote, Adam Deadmarsh and Stephan Yelle.

 

[SpiritOf77]

When I was a kid, hockey was the last of the 4 major sports I got into.. My brother and I would sometimes watch a game but never picked a team and nobody ever talked about hockey, none of our friends, living in Iowa it was never really a sport anyone got into... No hockey leagues growing up or anything like that. One day my brother asked me what my favorite team was and not really watching a ton of hockey I said the LA Kings because of Gretzky and he said that was his too. We have this thing where he and I always pick a different favorite team. Not that we hate the others team but we just want to be different. So we sort of left it at that because we weren't that into hockey so really didn't care if we both liked the Kings, whatever. We never watched anyway... Then my brother watched a Montreal Canadians game at my great grandma's as he was waiting for my mom to pick him up after school one day. He came home telling me how much he enjoyed watch a few hockey games. (Think it was hockey night on ESPN) and he was going to be a Canadians fan (ended up changing to Chicago when he realized he wanted to like a team in the US) and then he told me I should pick a team and start watching hockey with him... We agreed that neither of us would pick the Kings at this point so I picked the Pens because of Super Mario... The rest is history. I always end up liking the enforcers and players who get under the skin of their opponent. Loved Chris Tamer, Darius Kasparitis and Ulf Samuelsson growing up... On top of Mario and Jagr or course, Kevin Stevens, Ron Francis, etc... Loved Martin Straka and Shawn McEachern too.

DC, you might have seen this already, but of not, it's great Penguins viewing

 

[Draft Crazy]

DC, you might have seen this already, but of not, it's great Penguins viewing

Thanks. I had not seen that. Very cool..

 

[Mingo]

Blackhawk fan here - Connor Bednard is the next super star.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Blackhawk fan here - Connor Bednard is the next super star.

He sure is.

 

[SpiritOf77]

The Pens' original home - The Civic Center aka The Igloo - was originally built in 1961 as the home of the Pittsburgh Civic Opera .. It was the first retractable roof major sports arena in the world

Shown here in 1962 for the opera

 

[Mingo]

I'm looking for a Helot living among the Hoodoos. If that's you - please signify.

 

[LGM]

I'm looking for a Helot living among the Hoodoos. If that's you - please signify.

I am Spartacus.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Anyone hear from @WalkerBoh ?

Looks like he hasn't been around for 2 years.

 

[SpringStein]

Blackhawk fan here - Connor Bednard is the next super star.

Meanwhile, Nathan MacKinnon is the current super star!

 

[Duffman]

Meanwhile, Nathan MacKinnon is the current super star!

And Cale Makar. And Mikko Rantanen

 

[Draft Crazy]

Connor McDavid

 

[Mountain Bronco]

McKinnon should win the Hart Trophy this year and it will cement his legacy, oh that and another cup! Those trade deadline acquisitions sure are making that look more possible. Great moves by the Avs.

 

[SpiritOf77]

RIP Chris Simon

Life after the NHL for the enforcers has not been good

 

[Draft Crazy]

RIP Chris Simon

Life after the NHL for the enforcers has not been good

Yeah. Really liked Simon too. Like I said I liked enforcers.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Matt Rempe is good for hockey!