Update from the North Country

Yinzers,

As said on Monday, our Pittsburgh Penguins are on a tour of the great white north, aka Canadia, aka wants to be the United States so badly it causes them to cry themselves to sleep at night, whatever you want to call it up there.


Monday night, the Pens stopped on the boarder of Molson Land in Minnesota. The North St-sorry, Wild-answered the Pens goal for goal and one, sneaking by with a 4-3 win. Sidney Crosby did his best to pull us back into the game late, but the puck luck just was not there. When all was said and done, the Penguins got contributions from Pascal Dupuis and two from the kid. The Wild got goals from Eric Belanger, Martin Havlat, Cal Clutterbuck (insert joke here) and Guillaume Latendresse.


Last night, it was hockey night in Canadia with Don Cherry, who continues to be on the forefront of P.C. statements. Just search for some of his quotes online and you'll be enlightened, impressed and most likely raise an eyebrow. The Calgary Flames hosted our Pittsburgh Penguins in what proved to be one of the more physical games of the season. Sidney Crosby took over second place in the scoring race when he scored the first goal of the game in the first period (29th of the season). Calgary answered off the stick of Mark Giordano, but that was all they could muster up. Marc-Andre Fleury posted 37 saves to keep the Flames extinguished. Billy Guerin and Tyler Kennedy added goals later in the game. However, the highlight of the game, to me, was the heavyweight bout of Eric Godard and Brian McGrattan. It was just hay-maker after hay-maker. You would swear you were in Baghdad with all the bombs that were falling.

Next game is tonight at 9:30 in Edmonton.

B Brog