Tag: Pittsburgh Penguins

  • Thin Air: Bubbles

    Happy Friday, folks.  Here’s what I’m thinking about today in the world of hockey. – Is the NHL starting to feel like a bubble industry?  $500 million expansion fees to put teams in questionable locations, meteoric revenue growth being tempered by a currency drop, and more and more luxury being added for the higher paying…

  • Thin Air: Commitment to Winning-ish

    – Interesting article from Mark Masters of TSN (which I found via Kukla’s Korner) about Alex Semin. The basics are that Semin isn’t acting like the stoic coach-killer enigma he was widely reported to be. He’s contributing and seems to be… happy. Is that possible? Sure it is. Could it be that, considering the steady…

  • Jagr: Whoop-De-Do

    Can someone wake me when Jagr actually signs somewhere?  Because until then, I could care less. For all the speculation and hype surrounding our next veteran savior, it doesn’t mean a damn thing until he signs the bottom line.  And even then, it probably makes little difference. Jaromir Jagr wants to return to the NHL…