Fedotenko vs. Armstrong

This one is from last week but it's a keeper!



The best thing about this fight was Armstrong broke Fedotenko's hand...WITH HIS FACE!

Too rich.

Thanks to our friends at Hockeyfights.com for this one.

Time to start Blogging again...

After nearly a two month absence, and about as much inspiration to write about the Pens as their on ice performance has merited, I have decided it's time to put the fingers back on the keyboard and spew some garbage that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Pittsburgh has lost something like 15 of the last 18 or so games (I'm not much of a stickler for stats but if it's not correct it's pretty damn close). There are plenty of reasons, all of which have been thoroughly dissected in the press and on various blogs and sports sites, so if you want to go there and read them then go ahead. But I think the real reason the Penguins are losing is....



(dramatic pause)



The team players have all stopped eating their ritualistic game-day meal of SAUER KRAUT!

That's right. Sauer Kraut.

Some of you may remember back to the mid nineties. Marty Straka played for the Pens at the time and was in a terrible scoring slump. Straka went to one of the teams veterans (perhaps Rob Brown or Robert Lang...not really sure since the memory gets a bit foggy) and asked how to break the slump. Straka was told to eat Sauer Kraut. Plain and simple. So here I am calling for a team bonding, of the greatest of German delicasies. Save the season now! EAT MORE SAUER KRAUT!

Here's some suggestions:

Dogs and Kraut.
Roast of Marian Hossa with braised Sauer Kraut.
Jaromir Jagr on a stick. (no kraut needed since he is a sour, sour man)


And another thing. Didn't the start of this losing skid coincide with Mark Madden returning to the air on the X? I don't know but that seems a bit coincidental...

Or quite possibly I have decided to put my words into the realms of immortality today because tonight is simply the best possible night for this team to turn around their losing ways and get this season back on track.

Or maybe part of my malaise about blogging has come about due to the fact that I was pretty sick and tired of regurgitating the same spew that could be read on any dozen web sites or blogs. So, as they say, Enuff Z'Nuff. In the next few days I will be unveiling a new format that will concentrate less on the day-to-day hockey news and more on the lighter side of the sport. If you've liked this previw then remember to check back around the end of the week to see if you like it....Hello? Anyone out there?? Is this thing on?

One last thing. I would like to lament the passing of one of my favorite hockey sites...

puckthathit.com has gone the way of the dodo. At least I think so since the dreadful 505 error always displays on my browser.

The site provided a weeks worth of humor each and every day and finally enabled to world to see, and vote for, the beauty of the NHL's Ice Girls!

Puckthathit.com...Thanks!