What A Season!

Jun
2008
09

posted by on Personal, Ramblings

4 comments


As most of you know the hockey season is now over. The Penguins were not able to bring the Cup back to Pittsburgh, but even though they lost in the finals you have to commend them on such a great season. Don’t forget that only 2 seasons ago the Penguins finished the season in second to last place. Seeing this team grow over the past 3 years has been amazing. Also seeing the city get behind the team is great. All you ever hear around here is something about the Steelers, it was good to see the Penguins and the sport of hockey get some attention. I’m not a bitter fan, Detroit deserved to win. They played better and really wanted to win.

Going into the playoffs I was unsure of how the Penguins would do, although they did have some experience from last year, it was not a lot. After they knocked out Ottawa it was very exciting. When we defeated the Rangers to head on to the Eastern Conference Finals it was an unreal feeling. When we defeated them to head to the Stanley Cup Finals it gave me butterflies (I was at the final game of the Philadelphia series). It would be the first time we had gone to the finals in 16 years! It was very exciting and the city was a buzz! Another funny thing was that the last time the Penguins won the Cup there was a Bush in office, a Clinton was running for office, and the Jets won the Super Bowl. Of course Hillary is not running anymore, but at the time she was. It was a weird coincidence.

Although the Penguins did not win it gives us a lot to look forward to next season. Hopefully we will be able to keep many of our key players. Malkin, Fluery, Hossa, Malone, and Orpik all need contracts, and those are just a few. Hopefully Shero can find some way to keep them all!

This hockey season was filled with so many great moments and long nights of me watching the games then listening to the post-game show on the radio. Going to the games was also a lot of fun and the atmosphere inside the arena is amazing, especially during the playoff games. The tickets were expensive, but you cannot put a price on that kind of feeling. Thanks for a great season Penguins!

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  • http://mixmusique.com Rachelle

    I thought the hotest sport topic now is soccer as Euro 2008 is being held now. But seems hockey still take attention.

  • http://www.rbmods.com BigMan

    Euro 2008 is something americans dont know a crap about but as a european I sit infront of most games :)

  • Moulinneuf

    The Penguins are trading Crosby to the Montreal Canadians ;-) just kidding.

    You guys in Pitsburgh have a great team for next year , beside Red Wings’ Dominik Hasek is leaving :

    http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=C4&Dato=20080610&Kategori=SPORTS05&Lopenr=806100801&Ref=PH

  • Moulinneuf

    Actually , American is too broad , only Etats-Unians as a nation don’t seem to care about it ( Euro 2008 ) and even in the United States there is a large group of people who watch it in the region near Mexico. CANADIAN and Mexican and the other American country all have big fan bases.

    It’s the same with Hockey BTW , there are city where hockey is very important in the states , but there are others where they have trouble filling the arena’s because the people don’t really watch nor care for it.

    Cricket is really the sport where North America and American in general seem to not care or know about it. But then again I could be generalizing , because we have great number of hindou from india and Australians and Asian population where cricket is really the sport to watch in CANADA.