One Small Step for Crosby, One Giant Step for Pittsburgh.

So, it is official. Pittsburgh Penguins captain, Sidney Crosby and retired captain, Mario Lemieux stepped out onto the ice at the Consol Energy Centre for the first time in history.
They laced up their skates and played around with some pucks for a while.
I personally think that this is a very exciting step in the opening of the new arena.

P.S.
71 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes until regular season! :)

This Video was Amazing.

It was done by a Youtuber that I stumbled upon a few days ago.
To visit their channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PensHockey1967

Here is the video:

Anaheim Gold Vs. Silver Skit

Since I am so kind and loving I decided to put the skit from the NHL Awards on for all of my *ahem* voluminous readers out there. So, here it is:

Well 2 out of 4 Isn't Bad...

This is the face of a true winner...

Even though our star didn't win them all, Sidney Crosby didn't do too bad.
So, Sidney Crosby won the Messier Award (Leadership), and the Rocket Richard Trophy (Goals). I am personally not sure if Alex Ovechkin should have won the Ted Lindsay award, but ehhh, what can you do?

Now Sidney Crosby has plenty of awards on his decorated and wonderful mantle.

(Rocket Richard, Ted Lindsay, Hart, Art Ross, Lester Pearson, Stanley Cup and Gold Medal for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.)

My favourite quote of the night, was not even from Sidney Crosby. It was actually Henrik Sedin, saying "Daniel, now you can't say you are the better player."

It made me chuckle for quite a while.

But what made me laugh out loud was the Anaheim Duck's Gold vs. Silver skit with Ryan Getzlaf and Bobby Ryan. If you missed it, I highly recommend you looking it up.

So, congratulations everyone, see you in the 2010-2011 season.

3 months, 14 days aaaaand counting.

REGULAR SEASON!

It's been announced that the Pittsburgh Penguins will open with their first home opener in the Consol Energy Centre on October 7th!

Against the Philadelphia Flyers.

I don't know if this is a good thing yet, seeing as the Flyers are the total bad-asses that got to the Stanley Cup Finals, when it should have clearly been the Pens.

So, here is hoping that the Penguins show the Flyers who is boss and teach them that they can't get too cocky.

I am going to enjoy this game.

Even though it is in over 3 months...

Top 25? I Think So.

Sidney Crosby has been ranked number one out of the top twenty-five athletes under the age of twenty-five.

To read the whole article, it will be in the June 21st edition of Sporting News.

There is also a bit of information on the Pittsburgh Penguins website, http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=532011&navid=DL|PIT|home

It seems that Sporting News likes Canada's newest superstar, since he was also ranked number one in their 50 greatest hockey players of todays NHL (October 2009).

Not that I'm complaining...