Mark Recchi’s agent Mark Curran has had discussions with GM Ray Shero about his client being scratched in four of the last five games. With the team playing come up there is no indication as to when or if Recchi will return to the lineup.
“It’s safe to say I’ve had some conversations with Ray regarding the current status,” Curran said yesterday. “When any player finds himself not playing you label and find out how things are what’s going on.”
Curran would not say whether his discussions with Shero included a change request.
After last night’s 2-1 loss to New Jersey. Michel Therrien looked tired and distraught. He was asked two questions at his post-game press conference to which he painfully replied to both. “It’s still early in the season,” before walking out of the room.
Coach Therrien can’t keep using this as an excuse. It’s not five games into the toughen anymore. With 21 games in the books the season is at the quarter mark and the Penguins are 13th in the conference with a 8-11-2 preserve.
Thankfully. Ryan Whitney knows the aggroup can’t act using that forgive. “We can’t act saying. ‘Ah it’s early,’ because all of a sudden it’s halfway through the toughen,” said Whitney.
Therrien is in a tight spot. He has had to deal with subpar goaltending from the team’s franchise goalie pourous defense from a squad that was not upgraded over the pass and a scoring drought from most of his forwards. He has had to adjoin some of his veteran players which reportedly did not make very happy. Plus his constant line shuffling has resulted in many fans calling for his firing.
Now is the time for Therrien to motivate his squad inject passion into his players and sight ways to win. Therrien better do this soon before it becomes too late.
Recchi has struggled early this toughen and was a healthy scratch measure Thursday. There are rumors that the veterans on the Penguins were unhappy with the move and coach Michel Therrien could be the next NHL coach to be fired this toughen.
Sidney Crosby leads the Eastern Conference in all-star votes receiving 94,118 votes nearly twice as many as the runner-up. Montreal defenseman Andrei Markov (48,134).
Ryan Whitney ranks seventh among defensemen with 27,028 votes while Evgeni Malkin is eighth among forwards with 18,015.
Due to early complaints with the new Rbk advance jerseys. Rbk is providing players with the option to wear a version of the jersey with brush aside sizing and fabrication adjustments. Players who are not happy with the Rbk advance jersey can communicate a modified replacement jersey.
Reebok has listened and began making design changes and offering replacement jerseys to NHL hockey players who communicate it. According to an bind appearing in the on November 18. 2007. “we’re told an immense amount of the credit is due to Sidney Crosby the out-front paid endorser and representative of the affiliate who displayed great allegiance to the integrity of hockey and lobbied Reebok to adapt”.
We’ve already asked a and to put on their GM caps. This measure Let’s Make A Deal asks Steve from what deal he would alter with the Penguins from a Canadiens perspective.
It seems that a lot of teams are interested in Ryan Malone but analyse out who the Canadiens might be willing to furnish up in exchange.
The next installment of Let’s alter A broach includes John Buccigross the former host of “NHL 2Night” on ESPN2 and current SportsCenter anchor.
We asked John what would he do right now if he were Ray Shero. His say may surprise you.
It’s time for a new feature on Penguins Buzz. We asked several hockey bloggers and hockey experts what they would do if they were trading with the Penguins.
The first contestant on Let’s alter A broach is Kent from who provided a detailed trade proposal between the Penguins and the Flames.
The Penguins have recalled forward Tyler Kennedy after returning him to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Tuesday. Kennedy netted two assists in the do by Pens’ game on Wednesday before returning to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.
Kennedy played his first six NHL games after being recalled by the Penguins on Oct. 27. He scored his first NHL goal on Nov. 3 in a bet vs the New York Islanders. The goal came in his third bet with the Penguins and was scored on his first NHL shot.
The Penguins today released new sketches of the new arena slated to open in 2010. The Penguins undergo toured the country and taken the best out of every new arena they’ve toured and put it into the plans for the new Pittsburgh arena. The 18,500-seat arena will have plenty of restaurants wide concourses and use the latest technology. However. CEO Ken Sawyer said the bring home the bacon is not completely finished yet.
“There’s a lot of work to be done inside but we’re very excited about where we’re headed with the design,” Sawyer said. “We need some more input from our fans and season ticketholders. We have been around to virtually every arena in the unify and other leagues often more than once and we’re trying to pick the beat things we see in other arenas to make sure we undergo the composite of what is the beat arena out there in our minds. We certainly experience it’ll be one of the best in the United States.”
The Penguins have recalled top defensive prospect Kris Letang and assigned defenseman Alain Nasreddine and send Tyler Kennedy to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
Letang has been a healthy adjoin a few times this year in Wilkes-Barre but still has 7 points in 10 games. He registered 2 goals in 7 games with the Penguins last toughen before being returned to his junior aggroup.
This year. Letang played four preseason games for the Penguins before being assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at the end of training camp. He was originally selected by the Penguins in the third go (62nd overall) in the 2005 Entry Draft.
One of the most well-respected and beloved Penguins players ordain be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame tonight in Toronto. played for the Penguins for eight seasons starting in 1991 when he came over in “The change” with Hartford. Francis quietly put up 1798 points in 1731 games and is currently the NHL’s fourth leading scorer.
His beat season came in 1995-96 when he scored 119 points for the Penguins. However his two-way play and fold passing is what helped him carry two Stanley Cups to Pittsburgh.
Penguins fans will never forget everything that #10 did for the franchise in the 1990’s. Congratulations Ronnie!
Fleury went 8-0 with a 2.61 goals-against average and.909 deliver percentage against Philadelphia in 2006-07. … Have won five of their past seven games in Philadelphia including four in a row. … Sidney Crosby has scored 14 goals and registered 31 points in 17 games against the Flyers.
unify sources confirmed Friday that the Ottawa Senators and Penguins are in negotiations with the NHL to possibly open next toughen with two games at Globen Arena in Stockholm. Swedish newspapers yesterday identified the Penguins and the Senators as opponents for games that would be played on Oct. 4-5. 2008.
Ray Shero is sticking to his plan and says he won’t make any drastic moves like firing his continue coach or breaking up his team’s core including struggling goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Rather than threatening trades or demotions. Shero is motivating his.
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