Ello everyone i is back! Had amazing and quite eventful week filled with hockey actions. My first stop of the week was in Pittsburgh for the last game of the season. I’d like to extend a big thanks to Peter V who helped me to get a ticket for this game and Erik H who was my personal tour guide slash chauffeur.
You could feel the city become more and more alive as it got closer to game time. Every time I come here it always amazes me the amount of dedication people have for sports in Pittsburgh. Its like people put their lives on hold, forget their everyday worries and tune in to cheer on their favorite teams. Despite the upbeat sports spirit you could feel some tension of unease surrounding the arena. People probably all over the world came to Pittsburgh on this day to pay their final respect to Igloo. Plenty of folks surrounding the arena reminded us of the fact that this is the last season Penguins skate on this ice. Even Gods must have been sad that day in da Burgh and let the skies cry. However i am keeping my head up because as they say “Every End Is A New Beginning”.
As expected it was a full house. It fact it felt as if the Igloo’s walls became rubber and stretched out just so more people could be here on this day. The opening ceremony started out with this amazing video …
Followed by introduction of some of the old timers … i swear i heard people weep and cry as some of the old player walked the red carpet and crowed went nuts when Mario Lemieux came out. Its was so surreal and stunningly amazing sight.
As expected Scary Gary was still Scary!
One of my top 5 favorite Penguins of all time … Matthew Barnaby got an awesome video dedication … LOVE IT! I tried my best to capture it for you.
After the puck drop it was all business. The arena exploded just seconds into the game when Brooks Orpik scored his second goal of the season. This goal set the tone for the rest of the game. No matter what Islanders did this day there was no way they could win this game. This night belong to us this game belong to Igloo. And so it went down into history 7-3.
Geno didn’t disappoint on this memorable day scored a goal and gave a nice face wash celebration to Tyler Kennedy. My Boy!
While i was in Pittsburgh i took my time to explore the city a little. Of course Primanti Bros was two of my stops. Right next to it i found an awesome store called Smithfield Outlet on Forbes which carried much of officially licensed and unlicensed merchandise. I was able to score some of those world famous on Ice Or Grass We’ll Kick Your Ass t-shirts. Took some pictures which i will forward to psamp.com for their Pittsburgh Sports Unlicensed Merchandise collection.
On top of that I have had the pleasure of meeting some of the kick ass people from Pittsburgh that i only knew from facebook/twitter. Much thanks to everyone who came out to meet me and giving me a warm welcome. In no particular order special thanks go out to …
Peter V.
Erik H.
Heather U.
Janet A.
Lisa R.
Sara E.
Sandy E who won this amazing Jet Ski and her friend Melody K.
Also special thanks to the following faceless people Mandy D, Kristen B, and last but not least Leslie D who got me an awesome Geno Pizza Hut Cup!
All pics from the game here. Geno …
Good-Bye Igloo and Lets Go Pens!!!
Tags: Evgeni Malkin, Gary Roberts, Mario Lemieux, Matthew Barnaby, Tyler Kennedy
fantastic stuff as always
[...] to Penshead for this. He was recently in Pittsburgh for the final home game of the regular season, and caught this shirt on [...]