Jay McKee is out for two-to-four weeks.

Head coach Dan Bylsma announced after practice Wednesday that defenseman Jay McKee will be sidelined the next two-to-four weeks with a finger infection.

"Jay McKee has an infection in his finger and he needed to get that cleaned up and it’s going to be two-to-four weeks," Bylsma said.

It's now official.

Mark Eaton is the only healthy defenseman that played in the home opener.

We have entered bizarro world.

There is some good news, however:

"Brooks is progressing along, but not ready for (Thursday) night we think," Bylsma said. "Both Brooks and Gonchar are moving along in the right direction, so hopefully we get one of those guys back for (Thursday’s) game. It’s possible and we can call someone up if need be."

Dan Steinberg is up to his old tricks again on his B(L)OG.

By all accounts, Steinberg is a good enough guy.

But he's from Washington, so he's a joke.

Recently he put his love affair with everything Redskins on hold

to post something about Penguin fans.

Basically, he posted a bunch of Blingees

that were being posted at LGP.

Steinberg says:

Tip to Steinberg...

Before you jump to conclusions that the Pens and Caps are playing, you should wait for someone to mention that, "the defending Stanley Cup champions are coming to town, " or ,"Hey, Dan, there's a rematch of the Eastern Conference Semifinals tonight.  Hopefully the Caps show up this time."

Another gift from DayWalk3r.

Basically he could get your conception on YouTube.

Some Swedish dude fails at everything.

The Pens website is increasing speculation that Max Talbot will be in the lineup on Thursday:

"Penguins forward Max Talbot, who has been sidelined all year following offseason shoulder surgery, is hoping to return to the lineup Thursday night when the Penguins travel to Ottawa to play the Senators.

Talbot was recently cleared for contact and has been practicing with the team. He will continue working for the next few days and the team will make a decision following its Thursday morning skate as to whether or not Talbot will return against the Senators."

There aren't too many better ways to celebrate that than by posting some old Talbot Photoshops:

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Bour-crap.

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Ryan Whitney returns.

Maybe the Pens can try and convince him to suit up for them, because there's more bad news on the blue line:

Alex Goligoski is out for 2-3 weeks.

We're not kidding.

PENGUINS MEDICAL WATCH
Player, Injury (Date), Time Frame, Current Progress
Maxime Talbot, torn labrum (July 7), 4 to 6 months, practicing (cleared for contact)
Sergei Gonchar, broken left wrist (Oct. 20), 4 to 6 weeks, practicing (cleared for contact)
Evgeni Malkin, shoulder strain (Oct. 29), 2 weeks, returned after missing 7 games
Tyler Kennedy, undisclosed (Nov. 5), day-to-day, no ice participation
Kris Letang, shoulder contusion (Nov. 7), 2 weeks, no ice participation
Brooks Orpik, lower-body (Nov. 10), 2 weeks, no ice participation
Chris Kunitz, lower-body (Nov. 13), 2-3 weeks, no ice participation
Alex Goligoski, lower-body (Nov. 16), 2-3 weeks, no ice participation

That list could be an all-star team.

 

 

 

Had to be done. Why, you ask? Because it is fun. We haven't had something to gripe about since the days of Ouellet.  We need this kind of stuff.  No one ever said you have to be blindly in love with players just because they play on the Penguins. This isn't Steeler Nation.  For the record, signing Bourque was a vintage Shero move.   Low-risk, high-reward.  We simply dislike Chris Bourque.  Here our are reasons:

This is like our Zapruder film.

Seriously, watch that again.

That is just terrible.   Bourque didn't want to pay the price to get that goal.

By comparison:

Dupe's goal on Saturday night.

Yeah, there was no one around him.

But still, he patiently took control of the puck and flipped the puck to his backhand.

On a side note, back when 66 retired the first time, their was a game in Boston where Ray Bourque presented Buries It with a seat from the Boston Garden or something.   It was before the game, and while Bourque was skating to hand him the gift, Bourque tripped over the carpet laid on the ice.  We've mentioned this before, but this footage needs to be found. We know FSN has it.  If they show it, we will never bash them again.

Seriously, watch him next time. We don't have any video evidence to back up this claim, but that doesn't matter.  First sign of a good hockey player is him/her/it taking a puck off someone in the corners.  Never happened in his entire career.

Everyone believes in omens to an extent.  Remember when MAF  fell coming out of the locker room in Game 1 of the SCF back in '08?  In Bourque's first game in a Pens jersey, he did some bizarre flip when he was trying to get the puck off a defender.  Omen city.

This is the fourth pic you get when you Google him:

Ouch.

Next seven reasons after the jump.

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If we actually cared about doing recaps, we would have said this.

There is a reason Evgeni Malkin has been the MVP of the Pens the last two season. And there is a reason he should have been the MVP of the league last year.

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