Top Ten things to do during this Playoff run....

Oh yeah. I do most of this. I have a particular perfume I wear on playoff game days, and everyone who knows me knows when the Penguins are playing by smell. Also, I’m pathetically proud that I got my brother into the Penguins and hockey in general this season. He’s growing a playoff beard, so I think I can count that as having him grow it for me.

I find it hard to follow a game thread and a game both, but Katielynn’s not the only one with a crush. I still have a thing for Guerin from last year’s playoffs. Rupp can look very good to me, and I forget that Crosby’s too damn young for me to even consider looking at when he’s playing on fire.

I do like: "I don’t live in Pittsburgh and attend Penguins games. "

Oh man. I have so many superstitions from last seaon’s run. Like I can’t EVER say anything on facebook about the pens, or else we’ll lose. Or I have to watch a game in a certain place or wear a certain shirt. I know it really doesn’t make any difference, but I still can’t NOT do it. Guess I’ve played too many years of hockey myself to not be affected by superstitions…

i appreciate the shout out. and y’all for dealing with my staal/sidney rants.

I’m with OSU34 above, I can’t mention anything about the penguins winning at all on any interweb place. Also, for those really important games (think last year’s SCF game 6 after our jump off the bridge poor performance in game 5), I absolutely MUST have little ceasar’s $5 pizza. Whenever I do, we win. I’m something like 7-0 when I get the pizza since last year’s run. I got some for Game 4 and 6 of our series against Ottawa, and look what happened.

I’m saving up the good mojo now though, can’t go wastin’ it in the early rounds.

It’s pretty tough to respect all my friends who are Habs fans because they say the stupidest crap regarding Crosby and the Pens. But I’ll try. At least I don’t live in Montreal anymore.

Woo, I’m in Flyers country too, and all my family except myself are Flyers fans, not to mention most of my friends who care about hockey. I feel your pain. But victory has been that much sweeter the last few years :)

Man, there’s a little something missing since I can’t grow a playoff beard this year. My grad school adviser had a talk with me about my facial hair (before the playoffs started) and hinted that it would look bad for our lab if I grew a playoff beard. So, I’m living vicariously through Max Talbot’s beard this season. Don’t hate me!

And watching games where you can get physically hurt is also fun. I’m in southwest VA where there are a ton of Caps fans. Game 7 against the Canadiens my roommate (also a Habs fan) and I cheered every Habs goal and booed every Caps goal and every time Ovechkin touched the puck. I’ll admit, it’s kinda different than Philly territory and I don’t have a family. But sometimes going into opposition territory is a great thing to do.

Every game of this playoffs :D

Hey, it’s not just hockey players with superstitions! I have a very specific warm-up that I have to do before a meet or else I’m a wreck, and then I have to cool-down the same way after my race.

As for Pens superstitions, I have a certain pair of fleur-de-lis earrings (that I made!) that I wear for every game. I also won’t wash my hoodie during the postseason unless we’re between series; it doesn’t get washed during the season unless I absolutely have to, and never before a Flyers game. The Pens have invariably lost the first game after I wash my hoodie EVERY time. I don’t know why. I also HAVE to mute the TV and turn Mike Lange on; he’s the reason I started watching hockey in the first place and I never watch a game without him.

And being nice to opposing fans? All right. I can do that. If they show a lack of respect for me or my team, though, I’ll give as good as I get. But there are a couple of people I know that I just like to hassle, like the kid on campus who’s a Caps fan or the guy my dad works with who’s a Blackhawks fan (I can’t resist jobbing him about Hossa every chance I get).

I will say that one of my favorite hockey experiences didn’t come from Mellon Arena or watching a game with my friends; it came from watching the Pens/Flyers series during the 2008 Playoff run in the lounge at PSU with the rest of the high school students who were there for the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science competition. We were literally divided down the middle, with Flyers fans on the left and Pens fans on the right. It was phenomenal; it’s hard to describe the atmosphere. I had no idea who any of these people were, but I will always remember that game.

After today’s game, I’m running out to buy a cola during the 2nd intermission. The Pens usually score on the PP when I do.

My Game day routine:

Wake up and drink my coffee from a Pens mug. During the puck drop at the beginning of every period I light a Pens Candle 1 white, 1 gold and 1 black. It seems to have worked the only series I have not done my routine was in the SCF in 2008 I was out of town on business.

I’m really surprised “Have wife call me upstairs to put crying one year old to bed during every game at approximately the 14 minute mark of the 3rd period (9pm). Then forced to watch rest of game via DVR to avoid missing any action while praying the allotted two hours of additional recording time was enough in the event of OT marathon…” didn’t make the list.

my game day routine is pretty simple. I have two sports Illustrated’s by the tv. Before every game I get down on my knees…hey where is this going??? and say, a la wayne and garth: I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy. Plus, the last two years I would work on my Duct Tape Stanley Cup. This year since it’s finished I just pour a little beer into the metal bowl at the top and take a swig so that I have touched before every game.

i never wear my fleury t-shirt on game days. EVERY TIME i’ve worn it, he’s been pulled from the game. epic fail.

I’m giving up the cola ritual… That trickler that Fleury dropped gave me a friggin heart attack

Any tips for the offseason? WHAT DO I DO NOW?!!!?!?!