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The Pittsburgh Penguins Tickets : The Penguins Earned Their Second Trip To The Stanley Cup Finals
The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original expansion from six to twelve teams.The Penguins have played in the Civic Arena since their first season, and will move into their new arena, Consol Energy Center, in time for the 2010/11 NHL season. They have qualified for four Stanley Cup Finals winning three Stanley Cups in their history, in 1990/91, 1991/92, and 2008/09. Among American expansion franchises only the New York Islanders boast more Stanley Cups.
In the 2008/09 season, Malkin had won the Art Ross by narrowly defeating rival Ovechkin in the points race and a candidate for the Hart Memorial Trophy for MVP. Crosby finished third in league scoring with 33 goals and 70 assists for 103 points despite missing 5 games. The Penguins' record dipped mid-season but lifted after head coach Michel Therrien was replaced by Dan Bylsma and defenseman Sergei Gonchar returned from injury.
The effect was almost instantaneous and the Penguins recovered enough to secure home ice advantage in their first round matchup against the Philadelphia Flyers, who the Penguins defeated in six games. The next round was highly publicized due to the presence of Crosby, Ovechkin, and Malkin. The series took all seven games for the Penguins to win, sending them to the Eastern Conference Finals where they beat the Carolina Hurricanes in four games.
After defeating the Hurricanes, the Penguins earned their second consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Detroit Red Wings, to whom they had lost the previous year. After losing Games 1 and 2 in Detroit, the Penguins won Games 3 and 4 in Pittsburgh. Each team won on home ice in Games 5 and 6. In Game 7 in Detroit, Max Talbot scored two goals and the Penguins won 2/1 to earn their third Stanley Cup.
On Friday October 2 the Penguins season got underway aganist the New York Rangers. It was the last home opener at the Mellon Arena & it was also the night the team raised the championship banner. The Penguins started the season by winning a franchise record seven road games to start a season. For the second straight year the Penguins finished the season in second place behind New Jersey.
The Penguins seeded 4th in the conference started their title defense aganist the Ottawa Senators. The Penguins lost game 1 5/4 but went on to win the next 3. With the Penguins up 3/1 in their series they looked to close out the series in 5 games. Game 5 went to 3 overtimes before Matt Carkner won the game. The Penguins won game 6 in overtime despite being down 3/0 early in the game.
In the Next round the Penguins faced the Montreal Canadiens. The teams would swap wins with the Penguins taking a 3/2 series lead. The Penguins lost game 6 3/4. In game 7 the Penguins never got off on the right foot and lost 5/2 ending their season and their tenure at the Mellon Arena. In a weird twist the Canadiens open and closed the Mellon Arena with wins.
The Penguins have called Civic Arena home since their inception in 1967, the longest current stretch any team has been in the same arena in the league. In September 2010 they will move to the state of the art Consol Energy Center. The Penguins also played two home games in nearby Cleveland, Ohio in 1992 and 1993. Since 1995 IceoPlex at Southpointe has served as the teams practice facility in the south hills suburbs. Robert Morris University Island Sports Center has at times served as a secondary practice facility for the team.
The Penguins recently started their own 24 hour radio channel on HD Radio, with WXDX converting their adult album alternative digital subchannel on HD 2 into a 24 hour Penguins channel. The channel will feature the NHL own daily NHL Live and league commissioner Gary Bettman weekly NHL Hour, in addition to local programming.
The team becomes the first NHL team with its own radio channel, and joins the NFL Dallas Cowboys as the second professional sports team to have such a channel.In November 2009, the Penguins also launched a weekly radio show NHL Na Russkom (NHL in Russian) hosted by George Birman and Oleg Mejeritski of Sovetsky Sport in order to appeal to Russian speaking fans of the team.
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