“Double Lucky” PIT@PHI 11/25/22

Malkin attempted to throw his game-winning stick, up over the protective glass and into the crowd not once, but twice as he celly’d his way up the halfwall to Dan Vladar’s left. The game finally over, Malkin’s 1001st NHL tilt tucked neatly under his belt, the W secured for Pittsburgh. In the cosmic sense, Evgeni Malkin has truly done it all: Three Stanley Cups, a Conn Smythe trophy, the Art Ross, the Ted Lindsay, and the Hart Memorial trophy. And there’s more, some of it perhaps yet to come. But right now, what Geno tells us he wants, more than anything, is another Stanley Cup with his Penguins. Tonight’s matchup against Philadelphia has all the makings of a Pittsburgh loss. The Flyers are on a losing streak they’d love more than anything to break, and they’ve got home ice and a nationally broadcast game as the setting for such an upset. Moreover, the Penguins are only-just-barely finding a team-wide balance, sitting as they are a single point out of the eastern conference playoff picture. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and many will tell you it’s time to sing or get off the stage, so to speak. Well, if Philadelphia is the stage, Pittsburgh has the performer best suited for it. Sidney Crosby has been going on a mega-tear of late, most recently earning the NHL’s 1st Star Of The Week honors. Philly is Crosby’s favorite point-scoring proving ground, historically, and so today’s Black Friday tilt holds more promise for 87 and his Penguins than many others might.

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Enjoy tonight's Penguins road game versus their cross state rivals, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR