November 17
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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The Penguins beleaguered power play finally scored and a host of young defenseman acquitted themselves fairly well in a 5-2 victory over Anaheim tonight at Mellon Arena. Matt Cooke scored twice, and Bill Guerin, Jordan Staal and Martin Skoula also scored for the Penguins. Also, goalie Marc-Andre Fleury ended a personal four-game losing streak. Cooke started the scoring only 1:31 into the first period. Anaheim star Ryan Getzlaf threw a blind pass into the slot, and Cooke picked off the pass and beat Jean-Sebastien Giguere to the stick side with a backhand for his second goal of the season. The Penguins struck again less than four minutes later and, for the first time in 30 attempts, finally ..."
November 4
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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Proud papa Troy Crosby had an obstructed view of his son's sinister save late in the third period Tuesday night to help the Penguins preserve a 4-3 victory against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center. "I never got to see it," Troy Crosby said of the leg-stack save that Penguins captain Sidney Crosby made in the crease on a shot from Anaheim defenseman Scott Niedermayer with only a few minutes remaining. "If that was me, though, it would have gone through my pads." Well, it stopped at Sidney Crosby, who, as a center, doesn't don goalie leg pads like his father once dreamed of doing in the NHL, and, thus, the Penguins (12-3-0, 24 points) can continue to call themselves the NHL's undisputed ..."
October 27
Toronto Sun
columnist Mike Zeisberger
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About 160 kilometres north of the bright lights and soupy smog of Los Angeles is the sleepy city of Bakersfield, home of the East Coast Hockey League's Condors. And Justin Pogge. In just a handful of months, the kid once called the Maple Leafs "goalie of the future" has gone from the hotbed of Toronto to this hockey hinterland, where the sport, while supported at the ECHL level, is hardly woven into the community's cultural fabric. In Toronto, Pogge couldn't walk to his car without being recognized. In Bakersfield, he can stride into any 7-Eleven and be just another customer eyeing the Big Gulp machine. Pogge's exit from Toronto came in August when general manager Brian Burke shipped ..."