Penguins Fall to Flyers

The Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup run was ended early this season by the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers beat the Pens in the first round 4 games to 2. The Flyers took an early 3 game lead on the penguins and it looked like they could sweep the series, but the pens battled back to win two games before loosing 5-1 on sunday. The Flyers were lead by forward Claude Giroux who had 14 points in the series (6 goals, 8 assists).

Pens/Flyers Game 4

The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers are playing each other in the first round of the 2012 Stanely Cup Playoffs. The Flyers lead the Penguins in the series 3 games to none. Game 4 is tonight and the Flyers are looking to end the series without letting the Pens win a game. However, this will be no easy task, the Penguins will not go down without a fight. A few bounces and defensive blunders have the penguins down in the series but they are looking forward at getting their shot tonight. The Penguins believe that they still have a chance at winning the series and it all starts with a win tonight. For the pens it's win or go home and ending the season this early into the playoffs is not an option for the penguins.

Crosby Is Back

The wait is finally over, Sidney Crosby has returned to action for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Crosby missed 40 games before returning. This season Crosby has 17 points in only 11 games, 2 goals and 15 assists. Crosby's return has come at a perfect time as the NHL is gearing up for the fast approaching playoffs. As well as Sidney Crosby returning, Evgeni Malkin is having an MVP year. The penguins are looking to have a great playoff run this post season. The team is finally healthy and is looking forward to the remaining games this season as well as the playoffs.

Lemieux Statue

This Wednesday outside of the CONSOL Energy Center a statue of former Pittsburgh Penguins' captain Mario Lemieux will be revealed. The statue will be by the intersection of Centre Avenue and washington place, right outside of the Trib Total Media gate. Nationally-Acclaimed bronze sculptor Bruce Wolfe created the statue. Mario Lemieux was a premier hockey player in the NHL in 1984-97, and then again from 2000-06 and is now in his 13th season as owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Lemieux is the #7 all time scorer in the NHL. He had a career 1,723 points, 690 goals (8th all-time) and 1,033 assists(10th all-time). The statue will be revealed at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday and will be open to the public.

Career Interest Area

My career interest area is facility management. I want to do this because I don't like the idea of sitting in an office all day, I want to be able to move around and do more than paper work or look a a computer screen. For our career interest area project in Introduction To Sport Management last semester i interviewed the general manager of CONSOL Energy Center and he gave me a lot of insight on his job. This made me even more interested in facility management because many of the aspects that we discussed were very appealing to me.