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• Oct 30th

  • From: pool906
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    headed to Columbus to see Blue Jackets and Penguines play OCt 30th GO PENNS

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• Games 4 and 5

  • From: brotruck
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    Quite the roller-coaster. From looking as good as they did in Game 4 to looking that lousy and unenergetic in Game 5. Granted, Pittsburgh came out strong in Game 5 and it was some wild edge-of-your-seat action at the beginning. And then all those Detroit goals in the 2nd mostly came on a nonstop power play with some less than smart Pens penalties in there. But it was still a pretty significant drubbing when I was going there fully of the mindset that Pittsburgh had the momentum now and this one was theirs for the taking.

    Now we're at a point where a lot of fans I think are kind of packing it in which kind of surprises me because the Pens certainly should have the advantage in Game 6 and thus it could end up just coming down to 1 game in which anything can happen. One bad loss does not a series make. The first two games the Pens lost up there they played quite well so I think reading too much into the Game 5 loss is a mistake. Last I checked, Detroit still needs to win one more and a lot of fans just seem to want to give it to them which really frustrates me. It is very much a series and if you don't think Sidney and Evgeni (among others) can pull this off then I don't know what to say. I wouldn't put anything past just those two alone much less the rest of the team that came from practically out of nowhere with a rookie coach when 3+ months ago it was looking slightly better than 50/50 that they wouldn't even be in the playoffs at all much less the Finals.

    Game 4 was incredible and the electricity in that place was awesome. A newspaper writer (I think) kept telling the fans in front of him to sit down. I was amazed to learn this. What? These fans probably paid $300 for their tickets so they're going to stand whenever the heck they want pal. And on top of that all the fans are standing in front of them anyway. So they're just supposed to stay seated when everyone stands in front of them? Some people need to get a grip. He seemed really frustrated. Get a life. You're at the Stanley Cup and got in for free and get to enjoy this incredible atmosphere but you're just going to sit there and be all nitty about doing your job, etc. I have no idea who this guy was and he has no idea who I am either so I doubt he'll ever read this but if he does I really don't care. You have to be an idiot to try to tell the 1000 or so fans directly in front of you to sit down during the Stanley Cup when that place is going that nutso like that.

    I'm really pumped for tonight's game. This series has been wild (except for Game 5 which sucked). Fingers crossed for a return trip to Detroit on Friday.

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• Way More Fun at Mellon

  • From: brotruck
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    Game 3 at Mellon Arena was way more fun. Not just because the Penguins won and got back into the series. But I really do enjoy the atmosphere at that old igloo better. The fans have a lot to do with that and all the white shirts and towels waving, etc just makes the whole place electric and brings chills to you.

    They do a lot of things right in Detroit. Their pre-game production including the flames shooting out of the scoreboard and their choice of music and the head-shots displayed on the ice like a movie screen was really terrific. But the game itself sometimes just doesn't feel as incredible to me for some reason. Maybe just a downer that the Penguins lost both games. But I think the atmosphere just isn't as good at the Joe even though I think it's generally a decent atmosphere overall.

    One guy I know who travelled up to one of the games in Detroit last year said that the Pittsburgh fans up there were making more noise than the Detroit fans. Huh? That can't possibly be correct. Now having been there I know what he's driving at but he still isn't correct on that. The Pittsburgh fans up there do make noise but obviously will be drowned out by the Red Wings fans. But it just isn't as crazy or enthusiastic a place. Good energy there. Just not great energy like you get in Pittsburgh.

    So our seats for the media at Mellon were a bit closer but they came with their own little point to criticize I guess (taking the dangerous route of actually finding something to whine about when I'm at the Stanley Cup in person). We were at the top of Section C in the corner. That means we were underneath the E section balcony seats and thus had the overhang right over us. Could not see the whole arena above us or even the scoreboard. Could see the whole ice just fine but it felt kind of weird and claustrophobic. I like being out in the open part of the arena where you get the whole effect of all the white shirts and can see everyone from top to bottom in the place losing their minds. So that was a slight sticking point there but who cares really. We could see most of the fans in the lower section and I still got some fun pics. Having to rely on their little substitute scoreboards they placed for us instead of being able to see the main scoreboard I think was tolerable.

    Getting around in that place is kind of weird though. Trying to find the right entrance and getting down to the media area is a little more complicated and less straight-forward for somebody like me who doesn't know his way around. But I figured it out eventually.

    Famous people sightings when I was strolling around down there range from Mark Messier (on hand to chat about the new Leadership Award) to Mike Tomlin and his family after the game. Don Cherry was down there too and his suit actually looked somewhat normal which kind of disappointed me.

    I hung around outside and in front for a little bit before the game just taking in the nice day and the atmosphere leading up to the game. You could hardly tell that this was a fan-base whose team was down 2 games to 0. Big and excited atmoshpere. Lot of fans gathered around Gate 2 or 3 where the band was playing. But mostly the fans were overlooking the parking lot where the players enter in hopes of catching a glimpse of Fleury or Crosby or whoever else parking their car and going to the game. Just that amount of cheering for someone getting out of the car had to be somewhat spirit-boosting for those guys. Not like they would need any help getting inspired for a Stanley Cup game anyway.

    The game itself was weird because it was probably the worst played of the three games for the Penguins yet it was the one that they won. One difference is that Osgood appeared more human and made a couple of mistakes in there while Fleury was very much on his game and kept Pittsburgh around with a solid 2nd period. They needed his solid 2nd period because the rest of the team was just lousy and struggling.

    Really liked the 3rd period play though. Not just offensively but back in the defensive end the Penguins got back to playing with the kind of urgency that they were supposed to have. The lack of Red Wings shots on goal wasn't for lack of trying or attempts. The defense got a lot of sticks and bodies on shots and helped Fleury quite a bit more than in the 2nd. That's how it's supposed to be! I've overheard multiple people refer to the Detroit team as looking like the Soviet Red Army for a combination of their uniforms as well as their machine-like ways with very few mistakes. So if that's what you're up against then play like you have to give everything to have any chance at all against these guys. I don't think that's quite the case for Pittsburgh. They just won a game in which they didn't play so hot. But that 2nd period let-down there came pretty close to costing them the series and they are somewhat lucky right now I think to be where they are because it very easily could have been 4-2 or 5-2 Detroit at the 2nd intermission.

    That's hockey of course and we're all familiar with how the crazy bounces of the puck can make you look great or terrible from one day or even one shift to the next.

    Game 4 tonight should be incredible. Now the fans are really inspired. And everyone from fans to media to players to the guys wearing the red seem to understand that this young group of Pens players have more of a "been here before" type of swagger about them. This just looks like a confident group to me whereas last year everyone knew that they were just not into it and a bit overwhelmed in the first couple games. I guess I'm observing the same stuff that everyone else is on TV but I feel like I'm able to get an even better sense than I did before just seeing these guys in person.

    What impressed me was their attitude after their Game 3 win. Didn't really surprise me. But it did impress me. They weren't overjoyed or amazed or anything. They won one game and now have three to go. Smiles for winning of course. But not huge smiles of relief that they pulled this one off.

    Before the game I was strolling down to the media room and walked past the Red Wings players do their pre-game soccer juggling game. Almost all teams do that these days including the Nailers. Everyone who wants to in a circle juggling the soccer ball and whoever drops the ball is eliminated and you go from there. Seeing the Red Wings players doing that (and almost hitting me in the face with one of their stray shots) just brought about thoughts of how these guys really aren't THAT far removed from the guys we see in the ECHL all the time. Obviously their skills and speed on the ice are superior and their salaries are just a teensy bit higher up there too. But so much of it is the same from the minors to the NHL right down to the pre-game soccer juggling ritual even before a Stanley Cup game where I guess some might think that type of thing would be scrapped just because of the mega-importance and hype surrounding the gigantic event. Still important to have some amount of looseness there.

    So I'm getting ready to head out to Game 4 and I'm pretty excited for this one. Went online and got a reasonably priced ticket for my girlfriend as well and she's excited too of course. We likely won't get to sit together but I'm not sure how much that matters. We are both so into the game that it's not like we are conversing the whole time anyway.

    One thing I mentioned before that I think is even greater in my thoughts now is how nuts it is driving me that I don't have a Nailers game to call tomorrow or something and that it's still 4 months away or so until the next season starts. It feels like forever ago that the last season ended. I took a little break in there which was nice. But all this Stanley Cup hype has me ready to go again! Oh well, I don't get to change that and will have to wait with everyone else. At least I know I get to look forward to another trip to Detroit coming up this Saturday. Hoping it's a 2-2 series for that one and if so then I have to think Pittsburgh has the better chances due to momentum even though Detroit still has Games 5 and 7 at home.

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• Stanley Cup Finals Game #2

  • From: brotruck
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    Game 2 was mostly more of the same as Game 1. Except that I was a bit more used to the whole scene than when I first showed up. Same seats, same score, same monster climb to the top of the arena, etc etc.

    Disappointing that the Pens find themselves down 2-0 for the second straight season. But the differences between this year and last year seem so obvious to pretty much everyone including the Detroit players and Coach Babcock who could tell that Pittsburgh just wasn't into it in the first couple games last year but are mostly playing quite well this year.

    Hockey is such a fluky game full of bounces. Sidney hits the posts a couple of times and Fleury lets in at least one goal and possibly two that he would normally stop while Osgood as a fine game on the other end. Not a fluky 'win' for Detroit by any stretch as they are a great team and everyone knows that. But the Penguins didn't exactly play badly and could have been in a different position with a similar performance on a different night.

    Tickets for Game 3 have been falling. I think that's kind of typical leading up to game-time anyway as some who set their prices high in hopes they would go for that much are now looking to just find a taker for the lower price at the last minute. But I also have to think that people are disappointed with the 0-2 deficit and that is playing a factor as well. If the Pens somehow lose this one and fall behind 0-3 then the tickets for Game 4 on Thursday will be at rock-bottom just from the disappointment.

    But the Penguins were here before when they trailed Washington 0-2 and they were able to pull it off. The problem here is that Detroit is a much deeper team than Washington and they have that confidence from having been champions before (several times for many of them) and, simply put, they play aand carry themselves like champions.

    I expect a real battle for tonight's Game 3 and also anticipate that getting the last change on substitutions at home will be an even bigger advantage for the Penguins than it is for most teams.

    I sat in a different seat for Game 2 than in Game 1. We had no tables and essentially were right there with the fans. The row in front of us was a bunch of Red Wings fans with a couple of Penguins fans thrown in the mix. On both sides of me were TV sports anchors from various Michigan stations outside of Detroit from cities like Grand Rapids and Flint. They were down to get some interview stuff to play on their 11 p.m. newscasts and obviously were enjoying getting to take in the game.

    So I was the only Pittsburgh guy in the whole mix of the media around me which was a little weird but everyone was respectful of course. Before the game was a great presentation by the Penguins with the fire shooting out of the top of the scoreboard and giant banners rolling all the way down to the ice and using the ice as a movie screen and having different heads-shots of each of the Red Wings players. It was awesome enough to make even the biggest Red Wings hater come away with an awesome amount of respect for the organization and their long tradition as a member of the Original Six and more recent dynasty of 4 Cups in the last 11 years (now aiming for 5 cups in the last 12).

    So all the fans are standing for the introduction and the media all look at each other and pretty much stay sitting even though we couldn't see. And when Detroit would score or Osgood would make a big save all the fans in front of us would stand and go crazy and pretty much all the media just one row back would stay seated and try to contain their excitement. I say 'try to contain' because it was still obvious they were big Red Wings fans. They knew they weren't supposed to cheer as members of the media but sitting right next to all the fans like that it was kind of tough not to get caught up in the amount of excitement for them. Obviously I was a bit more disappointed on much of the action but that's how it goes.

    On the 3rd goal Detroit scored a couple of the TV guys next to me were reacting a bit more than they had previously which didn't bother me in the least. But the anchor caught that I noticed that I think and actually apologized on behalf of the guy who was more celebratory and explained that they were excited because it was a kid from their hometown who had just scored the goal (Justin Abelkader from Grand Rapids). I told him that it looked like he had another great story to bring back to them. He's not just a guy from the region but was also playing for their AHL team in Grand Rapids as well and wasn't even supposed to be playing in the Stanley Cup except for injuries to other players (such as Pavel Datsuk). All was well. I was happy for them to have a story of their local kid making good in the Stanley Cup. There wasn't a whole lot to be happy about on the Penguins side except for the fact that they played pretty well actually. Losing and playing terribly would have been far worse.

    A lot of the fans around us were turning around and looking at all the media because they recognized many of the Michigan TV personalities. Penguins fans thought it was cool that they were sitting right in front of guys like Dan Potash and Bob Errey as well as other guys from Channels 4 and 11 in Pittsburgh for example. I wasn't quite as recognizeable for them, haha.

    So that's a lot of what I saw from Game 2 way up high in the corner.

    It feels like a year ago that I was calling Wheeling at Cincinnati in that 2OT Game 7 thriller. It's incredible how long the whole playoffs go in hockey. The ECHL is still finishing off with South Carolina leading Alaska 3 games to 2 heading into Game 6 on Thursday night. Crazy to think that if Wheeling had kept winning I could still be calling games and we could still be playing. But all this Stanley Cup excitement hanging out in Detroit and coming up on Game 3 in Pittsburgh in a couple hours has me all inspired and fired up for the upcoming Nailers season. Kind of annoying that we have so long to wait until October. But I'm going to Game 3 tonight to watch the Penguins' efforts to get back into this series and the place will be pretty crazy and it's pretty unlikely this will be a very easy night for the Wings. Maybe we can get this thing back to Detroit for Game 5.

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• Tired legs

  • From: brotruck
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    Well, we all seem to have survived the first two games of the Stanley Cup. The toughest part for the media people running all over the place? The stairs. There's a lot of them. I think at the Joe they just reserved the elevator for the main press-box people like the radio and TV announcers. Those of us in the auxiliary press-box side get some side stairway all the way to the top. It's 9 flights of stairs (somebody counted and told me). First time I did it I had no idea it was going to be so much but by the time you hit the 5th or 6th flight of stairs and your legs are getting heavier you start to notice that you've been climbing up a lot of stairs.

    Guys who are in pretty decent shape have commented on how heavy they are breathing by the time they get to the top. I don't know how some of the other reporters do it. They carry their laptops or heavy camera with them all the way up and some of these guys are 50 or 60 years old. And there are others who aren't exactly in the best of shape and it has to be a real struggle for them. A guy like Mark Madden with 105.9 The X is a pretty big guy yet there he is too at the very top row of the arena so he made it up somehow.

    Once you get up there you really don't want to go back down for the entire game. I did it multiple times in Game 1 and those 9 story climbs back and forth really took a toll. Covering the game at the Joe has to be about the best Stairmaster workout I've ever experienced.

    No idea how it will work for wherever they put our seats at Mellon Arena but I'm guessing it might be close to a similar experience.

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• Stanley Cup Finals Game #1

  • From: brotruck
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    So this is the Stanley Cup. Wow. I've never been to anything really close to this but I'm pretty sure it's something I could get used to. Really awesome and as big and monstrous as I would have guessed.

     

    As I type this I'm at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit a few hours before Game 2 of my first ever Stanley Cup Final having soaked in all the fun and hoopla of Game 1 yesterday with many an observation and story to tell. Right now, not much is happening in the long media room on floor level as there are dozens of rows of mostly empty tables and chairs while I click away on my computer with Report Number 1 of my Stanley Cup Experience. But soon this place will be buzzing with the typical activity of a pre-game before a championship event. The various television, radio and newspaper will be milling about. Barry Melrose of ESPN will walk past me from one direction and Mike Erick of NBC and Versus will walk past the other way. For a broadcasting geek like me that stuff alone is really cool. And all in between will be hundreds of other reporters milling about from Detroit, Sweden, Canada and everywhere in between.

     

    So yesterday I made the trek from Pittsburgh to Detroit along with several Penguins fans as it turned out (they were easy to spot) to "The Joe" in Detroit not really knowing what to expect for my first ever Stanley Cup Final. After parking way too far away because I don't really know my way around this place I hiked around the building and eventually reported to the NHL Media trailer on the back-end of the building to receive my coveted Stanley Cup Media Credential. Good to go for all seven games. This is pretty awesome.

     

    It was a terrific day outside and a sea of Red Wings fans were lined up at the various doors waiting to get inside. The arena is right on the river-banks here and it was a nice day for strolling by the water in the park as well before taking in the game.

     

    Lots of Penguins fans taking in the scene too. I knew there would be a lot of Pens fans here but it really blew me away and it was more than I expected.

     

    Tickets for Game 1 of the finals were going for as cheap as $120 or so on the various online sites. Whereas the cheapest tickets for Game 3 when the series returns to Pittsburgh, was going for $300 at the cheapest. And that was for a Standing Room Only seat or a Limited/Obstructed View seat. To actually be able to see the game AND get the privilege of your own seat to do it required more like $370 or so. Thus a lot of fans made the decision to cruise the 5 hours or so to Detroit and watch a game there. Even with a hotel stay it would work out cheaper than attending one of the games in Pittsburgh. Of course it does come with the drawback that you are in the minority of the fans.

     

    I can't imagine that nearly as many Red Wings fans will be seen at Mellon Arena come Tuesday night. A Saturday and Sunday for Games 1 and 2 is obviously a better day for most people to travel. And Detroit was a little bit slower to sell out their own games as it was and when they eventually did so the demand for the tickets wasn't nearly as high and that's partly due to the horrific economy around here which is significantly worse than pretty much any other place in the country. For a Tuesday night game when fewer people can take time off and travel and with the cheapest ticket available online going for well more than double the price of getting into the building in Detroit I just don't think we're going to see very much red in the stands at Mellon Arena. But there was sure a lot of Black and Gold milling about outside the building in Detroit and eventually in the stands as well.

     

    Before the game a few fans got a Lets Go Pens chant going and it actually sounded pretty darned good considering they were so badly outnumbered in that building.

     

    So back to my arrival at the Joe and picking up my Media Credential. I scan the list to see where I should be going in their press location and how I should get there. There's a list on the wall that has pretty much every media you could think of assigned to a seat in the Auxiliary Press Box which is really just a bunch of seats in the upper corner of the building with some tables attached. They have way more media than could possibly fit in their regular press box because, after all, it is the Stanley Cup. So only the established media who have been covering the Wings and Pens every single day all year get those seats inside the actual press-box. The rest of us, well more than double the number of media who actually get to sit in the regular press-box, get to sit pretty much with the fans in the very top rows in the corner. Very close to what would be the cheapest seats in the house. Who cares, right? I'm inside and that's all that matters and this is so cool I can't stand it.

     

    My radio station wasn't on their list for an assigned seat for some reason so I had to have an NHL rep assist me. This happens every year evidently and I knew I would get to watch the game from somewhere. They told me just to take a seat reserved for the NHL and if they had to move me to some no-show seat they would. All the seats are essentially the same but obviously I can't just go up there and take some seat that was assigned to somebody else.

     

    So while I'm trying to find my seat on the list I overhear a couple of guys saying, "hey, aren't you going? Mario is about to speak." Huh? I take this to mean that Mario Lemieux is about to address the media at 6 p.m. just to give some general statements and answer questions before the 8 p.m. game. So I decide that now would be a good time to follow these guys since I have no idea where the media conference room is within the vast underneath off this building and next thing I know I'm at the Mario Lemieux press conference and am recording his comments on his team getting back to the Finals for the second year and how he likes his team's chances and then casually deflecting one reporter's request to compare him and Jagr to Crosby and Malkin, etc etc.

     

    Well, I guess that cinches it. When you're showing up at the arena and making your way through the thousands of Red Wings fans to the media entrance and then stumble your way into a Mario Lemieux press conference I'm pretty sure you're REALLY getting the Stanley Cup Experience. Welcome to the big-time Bob.

     

    I have some audio which I'll be uploading as well at some point and also using for some fun feature stories next season. And, of course, I'm snapping away with my camera too. I'll be updating the blog too of course.

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• Friday night vs Johnstown

  • From: IceGirl_Melissa
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    added new pics from the friday night game vs Johnstown

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• NEW PICS!

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    HEY EVERYONE!

    I UPLOADED SOME NEW PICS (NOT MANY BUT SOME)

    SOME ARE FROM VARIOUS GAMES AND SOME ARE FROM THE "AUTOGRAPH DAY WITH THE NAILERS AT WALMART"

    CHECK EM OUT AND POST UR COMMENTS!

    THANKS!

    ICE GIRL MELISSA

    

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• ICE GIRLS

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    Hey everyone! We, the ice girls, are asking for your support for our team! We need a good, strong and supportive crowd behind them all the way. I am looking and asking for ideas we can do to get you, the fans, more involved during the games. If you have any ideas, please email me or one of the other girls or send your ideas to Craig Bommer. We are looking to keep things interesting at the games and keep fans comming to the games to support our team!

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• Yet another loss

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    During the first period of action last night against the Cincinnati Cyclones, at the end of 1 the score was 2-1 in favor of the Cincinnati Cyclones. During the first 1 minute or so the Nailers did a lot of dumping.  We really did an excellent job in the defensive zone with one of the two scores coming on a controversial call with a penalty shot goal.  The rebounds really were the one thing that really did a number on us.  During the first period we really did look like a first place team.  During the second period we did have a lot of energy.  However, because we did get into the penalty box more than that of the Cyclones by a combined 6 penalties we were not able to capitalize on the early momentum.  During the second period we were outshot big time.  With the end of the period the combined shots on goal, 30-17 in favor of the Cincinnati Cyclones.  One of the few goals for the Nailers came from a bad play of the Cyclones.  The goalie went back to move the puck out of the zone and was picked off later resulting in a goal.  Still a lot of opportunities came for both teams.  With only a second into the last period of the game the newest member of the team got into a fight in which he won.  After a big start to the third period we could not get any more momentum.  Somehow with three seconds left we scored.  Time to go to overtime, with only 22 seconds into the overtime period the Cincinnati Cyclones won the drop and drove into the zone and scored.  The Nailers do not come back into action till Jan 23 against the Johnstown Chiefs and are not home till Jan 24 against the Reading Royals.  Hopefully during that time we can get some players back and if you look at we do have a break for a little while with the all star break Jan 20-21.  Well till next time.  Leave a comment or you can message me with something you think I should talk about if the Nailers are doing something you think I should see.  If you want me to see something please only games.      

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