Hockey players can be a very superstitious bunch, from playoff beards to when to and not to touch a conference trophy to goalies talking to goal posts.Their fans can be just as obsessed as to what causes good luck and bad luck.Of course, it's all in people's heads. We all know nothing like that ...
I鈥檝e been around a while.I was an adult and well aware of what I was witnessing in 1971, when Roberto Clemente showed the world what everybody in Western Pennsylvania had known for years聽鈥� that he had always been a superstar worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Mays, Mantle ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� June arrives this week, and an NHL season that started with September training camps is still at least three games away from ending.To say it鈥檚 a grind would be inadequate.This has become an endurance contest, as it often does. If Pittsburgh wins, this won鈥檛 be the best ...
If you鈥檙e giving the Nashville Predators very little chance of beating the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final, you might be interested to know that they started the season as a 30-1 shot to win the Cup.And you might have noticed that a team that doesn鈥檛 have anything close to the star power ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Penguins coach Mike Sullivan called his goaltender choice for Game 4 an incredibly difficult decision.Was it really?Sullivan believes in Matt Murray. He stuck with him in the playoffs last season long after Marc-Andre Fleury was available. He installed him as the No. 1 goalie ...
I would have started Fleury.Maybe that鈥檚 why I鈥檓 not the Penguins鈥� head coach and Mike Sullivan is. Matt Murray stood strong and made some big saves, especially late, to help the Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 Friday night and even the Eastern Conference Final at two games apiece.I ...
