From Sports Illustrated:

"Next time a fan tells you he's a "diehard" or that she "lives and dies" with her team, feel free to tell the story of Pat Celesnik and the Penguins.

Last April the 59-year-old Celesnik was at home in Derry, Pa., 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, packing for a trip to see her newborn granddaughter, when her heart began thumping erratically. She was rushed to a hospital, where doctors diagnosed atrial fibrillation and performed a heart catheterization. Two days later she collapsed on her kitchen floor. Back at the emergency room, her internal organs began shutting down like lights in an office building at the end of the day. The artery used for the catheterization had opened. Blood trickled out of her ears, seeped from her eyes and pooled in her stomach. Doctors induced a coma. Eventually, Pat went into cardiac arrest. For the better part of a minute she was, medically speaking, dead. Once revived, she faced a grim prognosis. Four times over the next week a different priest delivered last rites.

Still, Pat hung on, her bed ringed by her husband of 35 years, Ray, and their three children. If Pat survived, doctors said, she might never breathe again without a ventilator, much less walk. Finally, two weeks after collapsing, doctors brought her out of her coma. In her weakened condition, Pat could only mouth words. Her first were: Is there a hockey game on tonight?"

Read the full story here.

Thanks to Fleuryous for bringing this to our attention.

We simply unpublished that earlier post from this morning.

C-bloggers, your efforts from that post aren't gone from the internet.

They just won't ever be seen again.

Best thing about blogs is the readership is the jury.

Game.

go pens

To blatantly steal an idea from Empty Netters, we've received word of a pretty terrible jersey foul:

"My sister, her husband, my roommate and I all went to the Pens game in Columbus this weekend. We sat up in the Skybox Terrace, where the ratio of Pens fans to Blue Jackets fans was 10 to 1. I personally saw a few jersey fouls (a couple of Ovechkins, a Zetterberg, and the notorious Stanley Cup 09), but this one really ticked us off. My roommate did the sneak attack and took a picture of it, as you can see, but it gets even better.

She and I walked up to him and asked him about this ugly thing. He had a bunch of excuses up his sleeve. His first one: "Oh, I can still wear it if either one of them gets traded blah blah blah." Yeah, okay, try again. "I wanted a cheap Penguins jersey, so I went on eBay. The description said that it was a quality jersey that was just a misprint. So I bought it at half price."

Sorry dude, but that's no excuse.
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By the way, fantasticmax initially saw the jersey foul and we were also with malkinstein. I'm rovers17182. Gotta give credit where its due."

Discuss.

We weren't really surprised it was given its own post on Paul's Kukla's Red Wing Blog Kukla's Korner. [ KKK ]

The Chief at A2Y picked up on the story (because his Wings had won the night before, therefore he did not completely disappear for an undetermined amount of time), and decided to lump Pittsburgh fans in with the media.  Bizarre logic, but you got to do what you got to do.

With Lidstrom only having one ball left, it takes less time for Wings bloggers to lick the region thoroughly, freeing up time to type some posts, trying to convince themselves that their Mighty Wings are still relevant.   So we end up with bloggers who say other people have an inferiority complex...while incessantly whining and moaning about the team that beat the Second Best Team In The NHL in the Finals.

As far as we're concerned, the Pens have the title belt.

Penguin bloggers can talk about whatever we want.

<Detroit-esque Arrogance> And honestly, we're bored with the Pens winning so much already, we need to come up with posts about opposing teams in order to entertain ourselves. </Arrogance>

Hossa abandoned a sinking ship.

Franzen will be injured for the rest of his contract.

Zetts and Dats are past their prime.

Their goalies are still learning Be A Pro controls. (Pens4Evar)

Wings fans like The Chief are backed into a corner.

They don't know what to do.

So they come out and fire shots at familiar foes to feel safe again.

Classless Wings fans, refusing to honor Gary Bettman, our hero.

go pens