Dave Molinari, in all of his toolness, kicked off his recap of the game with this:

 

"If the Penguins played football -- and there had to be times last night when they wished they did --

this would have been described as a trap game."

 

And that's why we started a blog.

There had to be times in this game when the Pens wished they play football?

What does that even mean?

 

Football's the only schedule with trap games? Bizarre.

He had to reach his Steeler-allusion quota somewhere.

Might as well be in the first sentence.

 

 

The Pens lost.

 

The Coyotes won. What a solid team.

If you don't have Malkins, Crosby, Gonchars, etc., this is how you win games.

 

 

If the Pens weren't mentally in this game, for whatever reason,

you might as well look behind the bench.

 

 

If the schedule-makers had the Pens play Chicago last night and Philly tonight,

Brent Johnson wouldn't had even seen warmups.

 

Did Disco send a message to his players to take the night off

by starting the backup goalie against what is a perceived to be a perennial doormat?

 

Does MAF need a break two games into the season, regardless of games on the horizon?

 

No, no, we're not throwing anyone under the bus.

Don't remember doing it after Game 5 of the SCF.

 

We just can't wait for people to start flipping out on Bylsma.

Because people get bored and feel they got to do it.

Disco is a beast. He has a five-year pass in our book.

 

People the least bit upset who are posting unreal condescending blog- and message-board posts

forget what an 82-game NHL season entails.

 

Did everyone think the Pens were gonna go undefeated? Man.

We're still glad that hockey's back, period.

 

As RAGE posted in C-Blog, bridge-jumping is just a way of life in NHL fandom, anway.

 

Going to the House That Crosby Destroys tonight.

Get the minds right.

 

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7:30PM

Mellon Arena

 

It would be pretty easy for the Pittsburgh Penguins to overlook tonight's game.

The Coyotes are a Western Conference team that may not even exist after this season.

The Pens are playing in Philadelphia tomorrow and it's tempting to focus on that game and let tonight's contest slip away.

But two points are two points, no matter where they come from.

 

The Coyotes website is hyping this game as "A BATTLE OF THE UNBEATENS" even though both teams have played a combined total of three games.

 

We're calling it "The Battle of Teams Jim Balsille Couldn't Buy."

Throw in the Predators somehow and it becomes RIM Jim's worst nightmare come alive.

 

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CALL TO ARMS

Effective immediately, when you send in a photoshop, put "PHOTOSHOP" into the subject line.
This isn't just for our own organizational purposes.  There is a greater goal we're trying to achieve here and we need everyone's help.

Plus, if you send in an anthem pic, if you have the capacity, put "anthem" in the subject line.

Some of you may have been a part of the testing we had for this thing earlier on Wednesday, so you know what's up.
But we'll unleash this little beast in the recap of the game on Thursday morning.

 

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PENS UNIVERSE wants your Mellon Arena stories.

At least go there to see their header picture. Unreal.

 

Pens ain't wearing their Powders tonight.

They'll wear them for the first time this year on October 17th.

 

Pens won the Cup.

We really don't care about a uniform curse anymore.

But to each his/her own.

 

*****

 

Via Bar Stool Sports comes this:

A couple boobs rubbed against each other at a Bruins game recently.

 

 

After the jump are some NSFW/SFW pics.

 

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We've been meaning to clear something up for the longest time.

When we say "photoshop," that doesn't mean you need the actual Photoshop program.

 

Hell, we don't even use it.  We use FIREWORKS and/or a free download called GIMP.

You can find clips on how to use it on YouTube.

 

It is so strange that we've never mentioned that.

 

Anyway, from the man that brought you this:

 

Here is his entire photoshop collection.

 

Jump.

 

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As we mentioned earlier, the blue third jersey will make its season debut tomorrow night against Phoenix.

 

While very popular, some consider the blue jerseys to be bad luck?

 

Are they?

 

Last season the Penguins wore them 11 times during the regular season.

Their record in those games was 3-5-2

 

Saturday, Nov. 15 vs. Buffalo - 5-2 win

Tuesday, Nov. 18 vs. Minnesota - 2-1 shootout loss

Saturday, Dec. 20 vs. Toronto - 7-3 loss

Saturday, Dec. 27 vs. Montreal - 3-2 loss

Saturday, Jan. 3 vs. Florida - 6-1 loss

Sunday, Jan. 18 vs. NY Rangers - 3-0 win

Sunday, Feb. 8 vs. Detroit - 3-0 loss

Wednesday, Feb. 25 vs. NY Islanders - 1-0 win

Saturday, March 14 vs. Ottawa - 4-3 shootout loss

Sunday, March 22 vs. Philadelphia - 3-1 loss

Wednesday, April 1 vs. New Jersey - 6-1 win

 

Curse or not?

 

3-5-2 isn't that bad.  Maybe it's the quality of the losses that stick in people's minds.

A 6-1 loss to Florida and a 7-3 loss to the Leafs certainly don't look too good and that 3-0 loss to Detroit stung pretty bad at the time.

 

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Via [LGP]

Apparently there is a fictional biography based on the life of Double J.

 

Pretty sure Jagr makes that pose before he rails chicks.

 

After the jump, that idiot Islanders fans gets GIF'd.

 

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At least according to Ron Jaworski.

 

Basically, Green Bay has a kicker named Mason Crosby...

and the Vikings have a wide receiver named Sidney Rice.

 

The rest is magic:

 

[Thanks to TC for the video, and Jon B. for the tip]

 

First off, on the FSN/DirecTV front, we received this email from Jason M. today:

"I got a call from Jim H. from FSN Pittsburgh this morning and they said the Pens' pre- and post-game shows were blacked out by error and that they have no intentions on doing so going forward. It should be fixed by Wednesday."

Second, Happy Birthday Sir Buries It.

 

 

More after the jump.

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