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Before Saturday's game against Atlanta, the Pittsburgh Penguins organization honored the players with team awards. Among the Baz Bastien Memorial "Good Guy" Award, A. T. Caggiano Memorial Booster Club Cup Award, and Edward J. DeBartolo "Community Service" Award, Sidney Crosby also picked up the Most Valuable Player Award to the surprise of none. Crosby's heroics throughout the season made him the clear contender for the Pens, but I feel he has also ...

Say what? No Sidney Crosby in the mix? While I feel Crosby has been clearly the Penguins' overall MVP for the 2009-2010 season, the recent play of Pascal Dupuis and Jordan Staal have kept a flat Penguins team at a top four position in the Eastern Conference following the Olympic break. March has typically been kind to the Pens, but it has been a bit of a struggle this season. Maybe the team ...

In November of 2008, the Pittsburgh Penguins unveiled their most recent alternate jersey, a replica of the 1968-72 home jerseys. It would be worn at the 2008 Winter Classic and select games throughout the Pens' next two seasons, quickly becoming a hot item in Pittsburgh paraphernalia and a favorite among fans. However, the organization announced that this would be the final season for the baby blue alternates. Maybe a design team ...

It's all about timing when it comes to entering the playoffs on the right foot. With only 16 games left in the regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins are picking a good time to elevate their game and make them—yet again—a force to be reckoned with as the second season approaches. Sure, the Pens have the best group of centers in the game—but while Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Jordan Staal are hitting ...

Ray Shero, Pittsburgh's wizardly General Manager, said on March 1 following the acquisition of Jordan Leopold from the Florida Panthers, "I'm not really that interested in trading players off our team because I'm trying to strengthen it, not weaken it." This has been Shero's mentality and when the Olympic "trade-freeze" was lifted Sunday at midnight, he waved his wand. 63 hours later, Jordan Leopold from Florida and Alexei Ponikarovsky from Toronto were ...

Penguins announcers Paul Steigerwald and Bob Errey said it best during the intermission report: "Sometimes, 1-1 games are like watching paint dry, but not this one." It really has always been a story for the Pens. Bankruptcy almost sent the team to Kansas City, but then the rise of young star power in Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Marc-Andre Fleury, and Jordan Staal helped rebuild the team in Pittsburgh where they belong. Crosby lead ...

It's injury season in the NHL and the Pittsburgh Penguins have caught the bug. At the start of the season, the team was without Game Seven hero Max Talbot and injuries have slowly trickled down to forwards Kennedy, Malkin and Kunitz. Fortunately, Malkin has returned to the lineup. The blue line is a completely different and more serious story. The Penguins would start the season with a solid blue line that included ...

Maybe people don't understand the rules. Maybe the players' body-covering uniforms make it difficult for the fans to feel connected to the team. Maybe people have a problem seeing the puck on the TV. For whatever reason, hockey hasn't caught the interest of the United States. Baseball, football, basketball and even golf seem to always take the headlines. As a hockey fan, I find this very baffling, especially when I turn on SportsCenter's ...

In a battle between the netminders, Brodeur shone and Fleury broke down. It was as simple as that and the reason why the Devils were able to stymie the Pens' seven game winning streak. Good discipline and game-leading shot and hit totals wouldn't be enough for the Pens to steal away another win like they did the night before. As for the Devils, the only thing that didn't go their way was Goligoski's ...

It looked like the Phoenix game all over again. Johnson in net and Bourque was in for Godard.  The team thought it would be cool to coast through the first half of the game.  Johnson was letting some pucks slip by despite his solid presence between the pipes.  The only difference was a lack of Gonchar. ...and a player named Sidney Crosby. This was his 300th game in the NHL so it only made ...