Thursday links: Prospects beat Toronto 4-1, introducing the new SBNation.com, Ovechkin rides zamboni

by FrankD on Sep 10, 2009 5:15 AM EDT in News

The Penguins prospects turned things around last night against the Maple Leafs prospects, beating Toronto 4-1 for their first win of the tourney. Four different guys - Justin Dowling, Nathan Moon, Robert Bortuzzo and Dustin Jeffrey - popped goals each, putting the team at a 1-2 record at the tourney up in Kitchener. Bortuzzo's name is really getting tossed around a lot in this tournament. Keep eyes and ears open. Last game of the tourney is tonight against the Bruins. [Post-Gaz]
Thanks to Pensburgh reader Becky who passed along a link from the Maple Leafs' site with some decent highlights from Game One and Three between the rookies. [Maple Leafs]
Behold - the new SBNation.com. It's just better. Click around, get familiar. Definitely check out the NHL section You have to join with the check mark thingy (just like any blog on the network) but you can do so by logging in with your Pensburgh username and just clicking "join." Easy. [SBNation.com]
Theo Fleury is waiting patiently to see if the NHL will reinstate him. After bouts with substance abuse in the past, it may not be as simple a decision as, say, Claude Lemieux in 08/09. But I don't care. Let the dude play. [TSN]
In case you haven't heard from at least one, if not every hockey site in existence, Alex Ovechkin drove a zamboni through the streets of NYC yesterday. Maybe now Caps fans will stop whining about Sid being the face of the league over Ovie all the time. Maybe. Doubtful. Probably not. [Yahoo]

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What I Love/Hate the Most About Prospects Tournaments

What I love most about Prospects Tourneys:

- It generates excitement about the young players in the Penguins system.

What I hate most about Prospects Tourneys:

- It generates (too much) excitement about the young players in the Penguins system.

Now I am not accusing this post of getting over-excited about things, it’s just that each recap of prospects’ results is inevitably followed by comments such as “Let’s put Caputi on Sid’s wing….Why Can’t Tangradi play with Malkin next year…..Veilleux would look great on the third line….etc, etc, etc.”

Obviously, there have been no comments about this, so I am probably jumping the gun. It is just a pet peeve of mine, and I had to blow off some steam.

by Link_Gaetz on Sep 10, 2009 8:30 AM EDT reply actions

Oh I agree. All I said was keep eyes and ears open. Prior to this tournament I never heard a word about Bortuzzo. So maybe he’s generating enough attention that everyone will get on the unwarranted “promote Bortuzzo” wagon for next year, similar to the one we saw for Caputi and Pesonen last year or Lovejoy this year.

Follow the Penguins on SBN @ Pensburgh.com and twitter.

by FrankD on Sep 10, 2009 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

The Zamboni was invented in California by a man from Utah. California is not at the top of the list of where I would have thought the Zamboni came from.

by AngelaMc on Sep 10, 2009 8:46 AM EDT reply actions

I hope I’m not sounding overexcited, but I’m glad the Pens prospects won one.

As long as the substance abuse is really in the past, well, let Theo Fleury back in.

I love it when Caps fans call us Pens fans whiners and Crosby overhyped. I always think about something my great-great-grandma used to say, how the human hand is so designed that when you point one finger at someone else, three fingers point back at you.

Awesome illustration, by the way.

"Darling, you say Brooks Orpik 'checked' that guy. He did not 'get under him and put him into the wall'."--Beloved to me, Winter 2007

by GreenEyedLilo on Sep 10, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions