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“Blueger Set To Return?” TOR@PIT 11/15/22

Matt Murray. The very first thing that should come to mind, when a Penguins fan sees that name in print, is that he lifted the Pens to back-to-back Stanley Cups. Period, end of sentence. And tonight, “Muzz” is back on the Leafs’ active roster, set for a return to the ice at PPG Paints Arena. I, too, will make my return to the ice with last season’s beer league team, out here where I’m currently traveling for music gigs. I just happen to have my hockey bag and they just happen to have a game. My jersey number: 53. Now, is it pure coincidence that on this very night, Mr. Teddy Blueger (also #53, in case you were unaware) is himself set to make his own way back onto the Penguins’ active roster? I think not. If you’re buying a lottery ticket, placing sports bets tonight, etc… make sure the number fifty-three is in there somewhere. It should be a great game in snowy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania tonight. Leafs at Pens, Reverse Retro Jerseys pulled over your Pengweenos, and one of them will say: BLUEGER.

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Enjoy tonight's home game versus the Toronto Maple Leafs, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

“Peng-Win + No World Cup?” PIT@MTL 11/12/22

It’s time to get one back from the team who handed the Penguins their first loss of the season. Tonight at le Centre Bell, Mike Sullivan’s waddling, flightless wonders will step onto the ice - for the first time today - around 6:30pm Eastern time. The Penguins did not hold a morning skate on this Saturday, the second half of a back to back. That’s become the norm for a team whose average age is higher than any other such cumulative figure in the NHL. I wonder who we’ll see in net tonight. There are rumblings of various explanations as to why we haven't seen Tristan Jarry in net, but suffice to say DeSmith has more than answered the bell. Speaking of Bells, will Casey go again tonight at Centre Bell?

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus the Leafs, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

“Mom and Grandma” PIT@TOR 11/11/22

Tonight, your Penguins pay the Toronto Maple Leafs a visit at Scotia Bank Arena in Ontario Province. The recent seven-game losing streak snapped in Washington just two nights ago, the Pens go back to goaler DeSmith, comma Casey, of Rochester, NH in an attempt to ride the momentum of whatever chemistry may have led to the team’s first victory - 4-1, over the Caps - in over two weeks. Felt longer than that, didn’t it? Sam Poulin is sent down to WBS, Mark Friedman is recalled but didn’t skate this morning. What seemed like it might be a wiping out of PIT’s D-Corps by a bruising Capitals team earlier this week …apparently wasn’t. All defenseman were present for today’s morning skate. Let’s hope the Penguins of Pittsburgh can keep a good thing going. And finally, a moment of silence in Remembrance of one Cheeks Klapanen, a healthy scratch again tonight as the Pens take on 42’s old team.

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus the Leafs, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

“The Banshees of Cranberry” PIT@WAS 11/09/22

Tonight, your Penguins visit the Washington Capitals for what is surely “just another” must-win game, because what game isn’t, when you’re in the midst of a historical, longest-in-the-Mike-Sullivan-era, epic-ass losing streak? Do I feel better? Yep, I do. Thanks for letting me try out some words. And now that I got that off my chest, exactly what *was it* were we talking about? Oh, right. The Caps. Yeah, they convincingly defeated the Edmonton Oilers a couple nights ago, even on a night when Connor McDavid did Connor McDavid things. 

So, do I expect the Penguins to go into the nation’s capital and defeat the team who sent EDM home with their tails between their legs? Nope. And don’t mistake my tone, here: I’m not giving up on these Penguins, not even for this season. Far from it. But to turn this ship around, while inserting into your lineup names like *Big Jeff Carter, Teddy Blueger, and Fillip Hallander, not to mention major D-pairing shuffling… Let’s just say I’d be happy with a game where the Pens play hard, leave it all out on the ice, and heck, I’ll even make a bit of a prediction here: Take home a loser’s point. That, to me, would be a step in the right direction. If, by hook or by crook the Penguins can eek out the W you won’t hear me complain. Longest episode notes ever? Check. My first - if inadvertent - stab at ‘writing a teeny tiny piece’ on this team, in 103 episodes? Yup. That, too.

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus the Caps, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

A Conversation With Penguins Jesus SEA@PIT 11-05-22

I’m joined on this unseasonably lovely Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon by the one and only Penguins Jesus. Originator of the nickname ‘Big Jeff Carter,’ provider of regularly enjoyable, often hilarious tweets concerning the state of the Penguins hockey club, he takes us on a ride through some fun Penguins history, sharing recollections of: The in-game experience at the old Igloo / Civic Center, the early NHL playing career of one Sidney Patrick Crosby, and of course we discuss the 6-game backslide in which the Penguins find themselves.  The current losing streak, tied for the longest in the Mike Sullivan era, has been an early-season stretch in which the team has blown multiple goal leads - a handful of times - coming up totally empty but for one loser’s point in a heartbreaking OT loss to Boston. Enjoy this satisfying chat with Penguins Jesus, seemingly a real human being but also …more than just a man. lol

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Enjoy tonight's home game versus the Giant Mechanical Squid which swam here at unfathomable speeds, all the way from frigid waters off of the Olympic Coast, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

A Conversation With Taylor Haase PIT@BUF 11/02/22

Today on the podcast I’m joined by the always-excellent Taylor Haase, of DK Pittsburgh Sports. Taylor covers the Penguins as well as the Wilkes Barre Scranton “Baby Pens,” appears as co-host of ‘Podcast On Fifth Avenue,’ and is a great Penguins-centric follow on Twitter (@TaylorHaasePGH). We talk a little about the reverse retro jerseys the Penguins will be wearing tonight, the playoff hopes of the NHL hockey team Taylor covers for a living, and, like Marty McFly famously advised Marvin Berry and the Starlighters’ rhythm section to do, I try to keep up.

Link to video chat I had with Tip Of The Ice Burgh Podcast's Nick Brlansky, earlier today: https://youtu.be/xwhy66w-L_k

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus Blades the Bruin and… his… Bruins? …and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

“Can You Believe it?” BOS@PIT 11/01/22

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 100: BOS@PIT 11/01/22 … One Hundred Mother-Forking episodes!? Can you believe it? I’d say time flies, but when the Penguins are in the midst of a four game losing streak, time seems to move rather SLOWLY, am I right? Seriously, though: THANK YOU for listening to Fly Penguins Fly Game-Day Podcast, and here’s to many, many hundreds more episodes (silently crying to myself)…

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus Blades the Bruin and… his… Bruins? …and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

Episode 99: A Conversation With David Goodnight PIT@SEA 10/29/22

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 98: PIT@VAN 10/28/22 … Like a good neighbor, David Goodnight is here. Forget Jake from State Farm, we’ve got David from the South Hills on the show today. He’s a dek hockey rink rat, playing for multiple teams in various divisions here in the Pittsburgh area. We watched the Penguins fall to the Canucks last night, so it seemed only right that we commiserate on-air, so to speak, and share it with yinz. Please add-or-subscribe to ‘Fly Penguins Fly’ wherever you get your podcasts! 

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus the spirit of Buoy, the legitimately terrifying and seemingly strung out mascot of the Seattle Kraken… , and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

Episode 98: A Conversation With Jordan DeFigio PIT@VAN 10/28/22

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 98: PIT@VAN 10/28/22 … I’m joined today by my friend (and friend-of-the-show), Jordan DeFigio. Jordan is a Penguins-Hockey-universe podcaster herself [Podcast On Fifth Ave], as well as a highly talented singer and songwriter. Head Coach Mike Sullivan got “salty” with the players at the post-practice chat at center ice in B.C. yesterday [Josh Yohe / The Athletic], so I forsee the Penguins to fully ‘show up’ tonight at Rogers Arena.

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Enjoy tonight's road game versus Fin The Whale and the Canucks, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR

Episode 97: "Slidetacklin' Barley Farmer, Tristan Jarry" PIT@CGY 10/25/22

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 97: PIT@CGY 10/25/22 … It’s the second half of what will be TWO back-to-back’s for the Penguins on this western Canada road trip, and the first half was a real doozy. Connor McDavid and company ran the Boys-from-the-Burgh straight outta Rogers Place last night, scoring four goals against PIT in the 2nd frame alone, and outshooting the Pens 26-4 in the process - just in that one period. Yeah. And so, heading into tonight’s matchup with Calgary, there’s surely some tightening up and re-committing to be done in the minds and practice of the Penguins.

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Enjoy tonight's game versus Calgary’s Harvey the Hound (and *his* Flames), and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

JEFF TAYLOR