The Pens-Flyers rivalry heated up during the early ‘70s, due in no small part to the emergence of “the Broad Street Bullies.” Armed with bruisers like Dave “the Hammer” Schultz, Bob “Hound” Kelly, Andre “Moose” Dupont, and Don “Big Bird” Saleski, the Flyers beat up everyone in sight.
Pittsburgh was no exception. During a fight-filled contest at the Civic Arena on January 27, 1973, Philly stomped the home team 5-3. After mauling Pens defenseman Jean-Guy Lagace in a one-sided battle the boisterous Dupont chuckled, “Lagace should’ve gotten five minutes for receiving.”
The Flyers weren’t just mean—they were an outstanding hockey team. Philly captain Bobby Clarke emerged as one of the game’s finest two-way players. Flashy Rick MacLeish scored 50 goals. Between the pipes, Bernie Parent established himself one of the game’s all-time great puck-stoppers. Philly went on to win back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975.
We have all had it at one time or another, this is one of the worse cases ever documented of Mike Lange Syndrome
You can view more great videos like this including a hillarious re-make of that extremely annoying “Give me Back my Filet-o-Fish” commercial using Pittsburgh DJ’s from KISS FM 96.1 at www.benstonium.com...
Hello again fellow Poopers! Welcome back to the second edition of “I KNOW NOTHING!”. More musings and abusings regarding the greatest sport in the world!
POOP FOR THOUGHT – Last night I had a dream that Elvis came back to earth for one more concert. Fox Sports Pittsburgh for some odd reason had the broadcasting rights. Unfortunately they decided to show Henry Kissinger reading the white pages on TV and put Hall of famer Elvis’ concert on the radio! Feel free to make a parallel between FSP and our beloved Mike Lange!
OLD SCHOOL! I came across some interesting facts about the Pittsburgh Pirates…WAIT! Before you hit delete on this post! I am talking about the NHL Pittsburgh Pirates of 1925-1930. The Pirates whose colors were black and gold, opened their inaugural season at the now defunct Duquesne Gardens. Check out some of the amazing items of note below!
The Pirates beat Montreal goaltender Georges Vezina 1-0 in what would be his last NHL game ever. He died of tuberculosis 4 months later.
The first ever NHL game played in Pittsburgh took place on Dec.2, 1925. 8,200 fans paid $1.00 to watch the Pirates lose to the New York Americans 2-1. The Pirates and Americans later combined for 141 shots on goal in a single game in a 3-1 NY win, an NHL record that still stands today.
Pirates coach and occasional player Odie Cleghorn was the pioneer of changing lines on the fly. Odie Cleghorn also was the first coach to roll 3 lines. Until this point coaches left players on the ice until they were exhausted.
In 1931 The Pirates moved to Philadelphia while a deal for a permanent arena was being hashed out in Pittsburgh. The team was renamed the Quakers and donned orange and black uniforms (colors later adopted by the Flyers franchise). In 1980 The Boston Bruins filed a complaint with the NHL, but the Pittsburgh’s request to change to black and gold was upheld because an earlier NHL franchise in the city, the Pittsburgh Pirates wore in the 1920′s!
PLEASE HELP! Does anyone know of a good stain remover for hockey jerseys? I have a superstition about washing mine only if the Pens lose while I’m wearing that certain Jersey. The last time my jersey was so stained (wing sauce, gravy, jagr, beer, etc.) when I washed it the whole house smelled like soup! ...
Since the day they removed Mike Lange from the duties of announcing the TV games on FSN a few disgruntled Penguin fans have been up in arms about the hiring of Paul Steigerwald and Bob Errey. “The Official Fire Paul Steigerwald and Bob Errey Movement” has had an online petition for a couple years to try to get rid of Steigy and Errey and has already at the time of this post amassed 82 signatures.
The good people at ESPN can’t figure out why Pittsburgh doesn’t give them the “proper amount of love in the City of Champions“. Michael Farber has them on his short list of 7 NHL people who you hardly know but who make their teams or the game better.
Steigy and Errey don’t have the “Get in the Fast lane Grandma…” or the “Hunt Moose on a Harley” but they do have the “He Clears the Puck, But Not Out“, or the “Two Headed Picklestabbing Waterbug Monsters” and maybe much to much talk about the players “Long Sticks“. I personally don’t mind them at all, the talk the other night about how the Philly stat keepers were not counting up the hits the Penguins were dishing out and eventually removing the Penguins scores had me laughing a bit.
If you hate them, we have a way to make the games a bit more bearable. If you love them, we have a way to make your in-laws a bit more tolerable over the holidays.
The Steigy & Errey Drinking Game We play this all the time at PenguinPoop gatherings. We would welcome any phrases to add to our current list.
First: Everyone picks a phrase/word from the list below, If you have more than 8 people two people can use the same phrase. . ...
There is a rumor going around the internet from a so called reliable source that Flyers Jeff Carter Slept with Scotty Hartnell’s wife and that is the reason that their locker room is split. We are here to set the record straight, it was not Hartnell’s wife, apparently Hartnell & his wife look the same from the back side.
The Penguins have scored on 2 of the last four power play attempts when Evgeni Malkin was at the point on the powerplay. Malkin was not used at the point position on the Penguins 4th attempt on the powerplay on Tuesday night.
It’s Christmas video time! For your viewing pleasure I have Jaromir Jagr playing Jolly ole
Ded Moroz“Grandfather Frost”and Mike Lange’s 12 days of Christmas. Enjoy!
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to make a parallel between FSP and our beloved Mike Lange! 
