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The Penguins have promoted Todd Reirden (right) from head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton team to assistant coach with the NHL club.
Reirden takes over for Mike Yeo who left the club last month to accept a head coaching position with the Houston Aeros...
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Post-Gazette sports writer Ray Fittipaldo offers this remembrance of the late John Barbero (right):
The text message arrived at 10:01 p.m. Monday night: RIP John Barbero. It was from my brother, who lets me know when someone from our childhood memories...
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-The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins re-signed forward Jesse Boulerice (above) (PG+).
-Happy 24th birthday to current Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin (right). A first-round pick in 2004, Malkin has spent the past four seasons with the Penguins....
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Today is the Penguins' last official day in Mellon Arena. They have inhabited this facility since 1967. Outside of a few legal scuffles with the IRS in which they were literally padlocked out of the building, they have never known another home. And that...
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-Chris DeVivo of the Penguins has an update on the shiny electronic things at Consol Energy Center.
-The Wheeling Nailers re-signed defenseman Kyle Bushee.
-Happy 37th birthday to former Penguins forward Markus Naslund (right). A first-round p...
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I blogged about bindweed and we started talking in the comments section about weeds in general. To the right is common dayflower and for years I pulled it out because....it was a weed.
But what's not to love about the pretty blue flowers that this plan...
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"Mellon Arena Memories" is a feature will will appear on a daily basis in this forum until July 30, when the Penguins will officially leave the only facility they have known as their home arena since the franchise was forme...
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-The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins signed former Providence Bruins forward Chris Collins (PG+). He spent the last two seasons with the Augsburg Panthers in Germany.
-Pittsburgh Magazine takes a pretty thorough look at the history of Mellon/C...
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"Mellon Arena Memories" is a feature will will appear on a daily basis in this forum until July 30, when the Penguins will officially leave the only facility they have known as their home arena since the franchise was formed i...
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Penguins
-You may have heard, but the Penguins and Capitals are going to play some sort of game near a river or something when it's cold.
-Maxime Talbot. Not a fan of Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin. Or apparently that certain aisle in the drug story m...
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According to TSN's Darren Dreger, the Kings have agreed to sign former Penguins forward Alexei Ponikarovsky. No word yet on terms of the deal.
In 76 games split between the Penguins and Maple Leafs last season, Ponikarovsky scored 50 points (21 goals, ...
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Here's a better look at the logos for the Winter Classic:
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The press conference was held today for the Winter Classic at Heinz Field. Not a lot of real news came out of it.
Probably the most newsworthy note was the unveiling of the game's and the team's logos:
For a better look:
We dig the game's logo. It ...
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"Mellon Arena Memories" is a feature will will appear on a daily basis in this forum until July 30, when the Penguins will officially leave the only facility they have known as their home arena since the franchise was formed in 1...
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-"He really wanted to be able to announce in that new arena." - Brady Barbero, the son of former Penguins public address announcer John Barbero (right) who passed away last night at the age of 65.
-"John was one of a kind, a true professional, ...
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John Barbero, the longtime public address announcer at Civic and Mellon Arena has died following a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 65.
According to a Penguins official, Barbero began calling Penguins games during the 1972-73 season.
In addition...
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I thought I was so smart last year when I re-did a perennial bed, adding lots of new plants and putting down a weed barrier to eliminate the bindweed that had overtaken everything.( Here are links to three videos that I made following the process, peren...
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"Mellon Arena Memories" is a feature will will appear on a daily basis in this forum until July 30, when the Penguins will officially leave the only facility they have known as their home arena since the franchise was formed in 1967...
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-As spotted by EN reader Mike Bober, Consol Energy Center is changing everything, including the road signs on the Veteran's Bridge:
-Do yourself a favor and check out this report by ESPN on the potential for health violations with stadium foo...
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"Mellon Arena Memories" is a feature will will appear on a daily basis in this forum until July 30, when the Penguins will officially leave the only facility they have known as their home arena since the franchise was formed in 1967. T...
