Pittsburgh the city of champions!

[IResist]

I can see them doing it again.

 

[IsaacNewton]

I can see them doing it again.

I agree, it is anyone's to win.

 

[Montrovant]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

 

[Nosmo King]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

There is something to be said in behalf of dynasties. Nashville is a recent expansion team, and has Nashville ever been a hotbed of hockey enthusiasts?

But the hard part for me is to be polite without patronizing. The Penguins are a much better team. More talented, better coached. The New England Patriots are the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NFL.

As a Pittsburgher, or at least a denizen to the Pittsburgh area and a fifty year fan of the Pens, I have to shout LET'S GO PENS!

 

[Montrovant]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

There is something to be said in behalf of dynasties. Nashville is a recent expansion team, and has Nashville ever been a hotbed of hockey enthusiasts?

But the hard part for me is to be polite without patronizing. The Penguins are a much better team. More talented, better coached. The New England Patriots are the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NFL.

As a Pittsburgher, or at least a denizen to the Pittsburgh area and a fifty year fan of the Pens, I have to shout LET'S GO PENS!

The Pats have been more successful than the Pens. Since the start of the century, the Pats have won 5 Super Bowls and been to 2 others. In the same time frame, the Pens have won 2 Cups and been to a third.

Pittsburgh might be more talented and better coached, but that doesn't always determine the winner. The question is who will be the better team during the series.

 

[DGS49]

The Penguins are a model sports franchise, regardless of the sport. They spend their money wisely, they contribute greatly to the community, they are largely made up of exemplary Human Beings, who happen to be great athletes (not that most hockey players are not).

The Penguins foundation is a mainstay of the community, promoting not only hockey, but good sportsmanship, intelligent conditioning and training, and so on. They at doing great things now to help kids/teams deal with the concussion issue - I'll provide details if anyone cares.

What a refreshing difference from the self-aggrandizing blowhards who dominate some other sports.

Although I'm a Pittsburgher, I couldn't care less about the Pens, except vicariously, as I enjoy the thrills and excitement of those around me. I wouldn't watch a hockey game without compensation.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

First you have the world famous Pittsburgh Steelers absolutely humiliating the Arizona Cardinals in the Superbowl, winning a record SIXTH championship. If you add up all the championships won by the Bills, Bengals, Titans, and Jaguars and multiply them by a million you won't equal the amount of championships won by the Steel Curtain.

Then, you got the Penguins in similar fashion destroying every team that got in their way and pounded their way through the Stanley Cup championship and facing Detroit in the finals. From there, it ONLY took them seven games to finish the Red Wings off. Pittsburgh is the ONLY city to have won the Lombardi and Stanley Cup championships in the same year.

Finally, you have Pittsburgh's own Big D who won every debate he took part in on the US Message Board website. A truly amazing feat!

Pittsburgh is again, as it will be for the end of time, the city of champions!

Humiliating the ST LOUIS cardinals in the superbowl? the same pittsburgh steelers who BARELY escaped a narrowing defeat by them having to come back at the very last second by only making an incredible play at the end to avoid defeat?

the only team that got humiliated in that superbowl is the steelers not blowing out a team that has been a perrenial loser for DECADES only getting to the superbowl that year by a fluke quarterback who came out of nowhere and turned two doormat horrible franchises around taking one of them to their first superbowl ever and the other to only their second in their history. AND had to come back at the last minute to win that game ONLY because they had a pathetic offense that could not put the ball in the endzone on the GOAL LINE despite having SEVEN opportunitys to do so.


better get your facts straight on which team got humiliated in your ramblings dude. getting humiliated would have be like when the broncos lost their first three superbowls that Elway played in.blowouts.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

There is something to be said in behalf of dynasties. Nashville is a recent expansion team, and has Nashville ever been a hotbed of hockey enthusiasts?

But the hard part for me is to be polite without patronizing. The Penguins are a much better team. More talented, better coached. The New England Patriots are the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NFL.

As a Pittsburgher, or at least a denizen to the Pittsburgh area and a fifty year fan of the Pens, I have to shout LET'S GO PENS!

The Pats have been more successful than the Pens. Since the start of the century, the Pats have won 5 Super Bowls and been to 2 others. In the same time frame, the Pens have won 2 Cups and been to a third.

Pittsburgh might be more talented and better coached, but that doesn't always determine the winner. The question is who will be the better team during the series.

sorry charlie but your cheats dont count,the pats have won NO superbowls in their history and terry bradshaw and joe montana STILL are the real quarterbacks that have won the most superbowls in history.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

There is something to be said in behalf of dynasties. Nashville is a recent expansion team, and has Nashville ever been a hotbed of hockey enthusiasts?

But the hard part for me is to be polite without patronizing. The Penguins are a much better team. More talented, better coached. The New England Patriots are the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NFL.

As a Pittsburgher, or at least a denizen to the Pittsburgh area and a fifty year fan of the Pens, I have to shout LET'S GO PENS!

sorry they dont count,they are cheaters and frauds who have disgraced and tainted a great sport.

 

[Montrovant]

I'll be rooting against the Pens in the Cup finals. They've won the Cup before, better for Nashville to get their first.

There is something to be said in behalf of dynasties. Nashville is a recent expansion team, and has Nashville ever been a hotbed of hockey enthusiasts?

But the hard part for me is to be polite without patronizing. The Penguins are a much better team. More talented, better coached. The New England Patriots are the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NFL.

As a Pittsburgher, or at least a denizen to the Pittsburgh area and a fifty year fan of the Pens, I have to shout LET'S GO PENS!

The Pats have been more successful than the Pens. Since the start of the century, the Pats have won 5 Super Bowls and been to 2 others. In the same time frame, the Pens have won 2 Cups and been to a third.

Pittsburgh might be more talented and better coached, but that doesn't always determine the winner. The question is who will be the better team during the series.

sorry charlie but your cheats dont count,the pats have won NO superbowls in their history and terry bradshaw and joe montana STILL are the real quarterbacks that have won the most superbowls in history.

I'm sure all the Pats players and coaches who have SB rings agree.

I'm not even a Pats fan, but they have been overall the most successful NFL team for the past 15-20 years.

 

[Papageorgio]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

 

[Nosmo King]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

 

[Montrovant]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

It's not just that, as baseball has many more games, followed by playoff series, and basketball also has an 82 game season, followed by playoff series. What makes it so tough in hockey is the physical nature of the sport added to the large number of games.

Of course, that phrase "hardest championship in North American sports" is really just a sales tool. What is the hardest championship to win is entirely subjective.

 

[Nosmo King]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

It's not just that, as baseball has many more games, followed by playoff series, and basketball also has an 82 game season, followed by playoff series. What makes it so tough in hockey is the physical nature of the sport added to the large number of games.

Of course, that phrase "hardest championship in North American sports" is really just a sales tool. What is the hardest championship to win is entirely subjective.

I would argue that the World Cup is the hardest championship to win.

But as a turn of phrase, hardest championship in North American sports will do in a pinch.

 

[Papageorgio]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

The NBA is the same, 82 regular season games and four seven game series.

Baseball is 162 games and three seven game series.

Soccer players run an average of 7.5 miles per game.

The NFL is only 24 games max, however how many collisions does a player have in the course of a game? That takes a huge toll on a body.

 

[Nosmo King]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

The NBA is the same, 82 regular season games and four seven game series.

Baseball is 162 games and three seven game series.

Soccer players run an average of 7.5 miles per game.

The NFL is only 24 games max, however how many collisions does a player have in the course of a game? That takes a huge toll on a body.

Only the NFLcan provide as a paradigm for the pure physicality of the sport. Hockey players get knocked around and much rougher than basketball, baseball or soccer players.

 

[Papageorgio]

The hardest championship in North American sports is winning Lord Stanley's Cup. The Pittsburgh Penguins are now poised to repeat!

Let's go Pens!

How do you figure?

After an 82 game season, a championship team has to win four consecutive seven game series. Ask any player. It's grueling.

The NBA is the same, 82 regular season games and four seven game series.

Baseball is 162 games and three seven game series.

Soccer players run an average of 7.5 miles per game.

The NFL is only 24 games max, however how many collisions does a player have in the course of a game? That takes a huge toll on a body.

Only the NFLcan provide as a paradigm for the pure physicality of the sport. Hockey players get knocked around and much rougher than basketball, baseball or soccer players.

Maybe, my nod goes to football players.

 

[IResist]

That challenge last night on Subban being offside really paid off. This Penguins team is loaded. I think they'll repeat, though I hope Nashville pulls off the upset. They still showed last night they aren't pushovers.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Nashville can score and the Penguins have games where they have trouble scoring so the Predators can win just as the Penguins can.

 

[Abishai100]

Barry Bonds started out with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Lemieux and Crosby carried the Penguins to Stanley Cup trophies (two different generations!).
I'm not a huge Steelers fan, but Bradshaw and Roethlisberger did the same in the NFL (two different generations!).

These days, all you hear about is Tom Brady (NFL) and LeBron James (NBA), but now the Penguins are up 1-0 in the Stanley Cup Finals, and the Warriors look indomitable behind Curry and Durant...sooo...maybe the Crosby-Penguins will get some much-deserved spotlight!

Incidentally, who do you think is a bigger 'sports legend' --- Barry Bonds or LeBron James?