What's Next: Kris Letang by @Nick422
The What's Next series is part of an ongoing look from the Pens Initiative staff taking a look at the Penguins UFAs, RFAs, and most polarizing personalities heading into the next season. We look at the year that was and the year coming and wonder: What's Next.He astounds and confounds. He piles up points and produces cringes. His hair is as sexy as his points columns...
Penguins Playoffs: A Tale of Two Teams
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness….”
This opening line of “A Tale of Two Cities” was quite possibly written for the 2012-13 Pittsburgh Penguins playoff team. At times the Penguins were the dominant team that everyone expected them to be, and other times they looked like they were overwhelmed and...
Casey Cizikas gets hit in throat by skate, amazingly uninjured
New York Islanders forward Casey Cizikas managed to escape a scary incident without injury in the first period of game six against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Cizikas was forechecking on Simon Despres when he laid a hit down that caused Despres to spin like a top. Despres was off balance and his skate came up and hit Cizikas in the throat and miraculously Cizikas was not injured...
John Toperzer: Penguins Notes: Did Crosby dive?
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Senators’ Chris Neil destroys Penguins’ Simon Despres
Halfway through the second period of the Ottawa Senators-Pittsburgh Penguins game on Monday night, Senators forward Chris Neil absolutely obliterated Penguins defenseman Simon Despres. Neil was given a two-minute minor for charging on the play, despite the fact that he glided right into Despres. The only reason this was called a penalty was because of the magnitude of the hit...
(Video) Chris Neil steamrolls Simon Despres
Senators forward Chris Neil absolutely steamsrolls Penguins defenseman Simon Despres. Neil was given a charging minor on the play.
Penguins Prospect Scott Harrington Is A Scary Dentist, Gave People HIV
Man that was a pretty heavy title.
The Pens are down a top blue line prospect what with Joe Morrow being dealt for non-related Stars captain Brenden Morrow. We say "down" in only a certain sense, as the pipeline still holds Simon Despres, Robert Bortuzzo, Scott Harrington, Brian Dumoulin, Olli Maaty and Derrick Pouliot.
Well one of those prospects, Scott Harrington...
Penguins put Letang back on IR
Kris Letang's comeback didn't last long.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed their star defenseman back on injured reserve with a lower body injury and recalled rookie Simon Despres from the AHL.
Letang returned from the IR on Tuesday night after missing three games due to the injury. He appeared in some discomfort following his first shift but played more than 24 minutes...
Penguins D Kris Letang back on injured reserve
Kris Letang's comeback didn't last long.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed their star defenseman back on injured reserve with a lower body injury and recalled rookie Simon Despres from the AHL.
Letang returned from the IR on Tuesday night after missing three games due to the injury. He appeared in some discomfort following his first shift but played more than 24 minutes...
Penguins Playing Musical Chairs with Defensemen
Yesterday morning Ray Shero had eight active defensemen on his roster and one defenseman, Kris Letang, on Injured Reserve. In between then and now defenseman Simon Despres was returned to the WBS Penguins, Kris Letang was taken off IR, Robert Bortuzzo was sent down to the WBS Penguins for “conditioning assignment”, Kris Letang is back on IR this time with a broken foot...
Pittsburgh Penguins Gameday 34 - Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens (20-6-5) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (25-8-0)
ROOT, TSN-HABS, RDS - 7:00 pm/et
Consol Energy Center - Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Penguins' current winning streak and a million "March of the Penguins" references all started with a crazy overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens. Now the Pens sit in first place in the East, while...
Simon Despres sent down, but relax it isn't a big deal
Letang and his hair were activated today. [ Pens ]
This left the Pens with 100 million players on their roster so they had to send someone down. That someone was Simon Despres. He was choosen because he is the only one left other than Beau Bennett on a two way deal.
Good news though, the roster expands April 3 so he'll be back. He could be back even sooner if the Pens...
douglas murray is round: a study
PH Staff digs the Douglas Murray trade because:
1. picks are whatever. If we end up needing them we have plenty of assets with which to get them back. But somehow I don't think it's gonna come to that.
2. Does everyone realize what "win now" means? Shero is trying to fill roster holes by inserting grit. Morrow is a combo of grit, skill, and veteran...
John Toperzer: Pens Friday: Simon Despres for Devin Setoguchi?
Pens win for second time in three matchups with Philly on Thursday
As well as it seems Sidney Crosby has played, scoring 11 goals and 39 points in 24 games, he totaled 37 points (8G, 29A) in 22 contests last year while getting over his concussion and neck woes. There might actually be another level for him to get to in the second half.
Paul Martin returned to the lineup...
Forget The Jack Johnson To Pittsburgh Rumor
from Michael Arace of he Columbus Dispatch,
Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review connected the dots and came up with some quality speculation. The Penguins are looking for backline help. Defenseman Simon Despres, 21, a former first-round pick, is said to be available in trade and might be enough bait to get Jack Johnson.
Johnson might pair nicely with Kris Letang...
Let the Rumor Games begin
Oh ****. Via Pensburgh, and the one and only Rob Rossi:
The Penguins may again me be looking to strike before it by moving a young defenseman.
Simon Despres, 21, is available – and the Columbus Blue Jackets’ three senior members of hockey operations attended the Penguins’ 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at Consol Energy Center on Monday night.
New general...
Penguins win wild one in Montreal
Brandon Sutter's second goal of the game 52 seconds into overtime lifted the Pittsburgh Penguins to a wild 7-6 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
Sutter took a pass from Simon Despres on a rush, stepped around Max Pacioretty, and beat goalie Carey Price with a high shot to help Pittsburgh end a two-game skid and avoid being swept on a three-game road trip...
Tuesdays With Stoosh - 2.26.2013
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That…that’s Mark Eaton’s music!
OK, yes, we know…the return of Mark Eaton to Pittsburgh is little more than a depth signing. At 35 years of age, Eaton is certainly no longer the top-four caliber defenseman who rode shotgun when Shero moved from Nashville to Pittsburgh to take over the Pens in 2006 (h/t to @demangone, who suggested he may have been...
Pens,Neal top Sens
The Pens came out skating hard against the Sens Wednesday night looking like a team that wanted to put two bad losses behind them. The Pens used a relentless forecheck and puck possesion to wear down the short handed Senators.The Pens got on the board first on a turnover by the Sens in at the own blue line when Simon Despres found Sidney Crosby in stride who then made a great pass...
Tuesdays With Stoosh - 2.12.2013
One of the NHL's words-du-jour this year has been "truncated", as in "truncated season". As in, it was just three and a half weeks ago that the Pens opened the season in Philly, and tomorrow they'll be playing their fourteenth game of the year. We're at the quarter-pole of the season. So how are things?
Sidney Crosby
5G –...
Pens fall to Devils
In what was a playoff atmosphere the Pittsburgh Penguins and New Jersey Devils squared off in the first half of a weekend home and home series today in Newark. The Penguins drew first blood in the first minutes of the game on the power play on an apparent goal by Simon Despres only to be given to Brandon Sutter on a deflection. This was the first goal given up by the Devils on...
Ben Lovejoy traded to Anaheim
Late Wednesday night, the Penguins traded defenseman Ben Lovejoy to the Anaheim Ducks for a 5th round pick in the 2014 NHL draft. Simultaneously, the Penguins recalled Upper St. Clair native, Dylan Reese from Wilkes-Baare.Lovejoy started the season as the seventh defenseman for the Penguins. After two games, he was given Simon Despres's starting spot. But, after Matt Niskanen...
Pens fight off Islanders; win fourth straight
The Penguins came into Long Island with a three game winning streak and left with a 4-2 victory, Tuesday night. With the win, Pittsburgh moved into the top spot in the East with fourteen points.What a difference a week makes.Exactly seven days ago, the Penguins were embarrassed on their own ice by these very same New York Islanders. They squandered nine minutes in power play time...
RECAP: It's a Powerplay Goal. PENS WIN.
Fine line between winning and losing in the NHL. Special teams are usually on that line. If you can find a big goal on a power play at some point, whether you are up by one or down by one, you're going to win games. Pens did that in this one. They got the PP goal when they needed it and moonwalked out of MSG with a 3-0 win.
Huge stat: this was the Pens' first shutout...
Penguins get back on track with shutout of Rangers
NEW YORK -- Just when the Pittsburgh Penguins were starting to struggle and the New York Rangers were feeling better about themselves, the Penguins came back into Madison Square Garden on Thursday night and reminded both teams about the flip side of their recent fates. James Neal scored his fifth goal of the season and Simon Despres got his first as the Penguins broke out of a...
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