Tales from the Road: Pittsburgh Penguins in Nashville

If you follow us on Twitter, you have already seen these pictures.  Or you might have seen the tweets on our Twitter feed on the right hand side of our site.  But, since I’m sure some of you are wondering what Twitter is or cursing it as you read this, I’m posting it here as well. 

Phil Krundle, Reg Dunlop, Champ Kind, and their band of merry pranksters headed to Nashville yesterday to take in the Pens vs. Preds game.  STH35 had been set to join them, but his expertise was needed back here at the last minute. 

I did try to warn Nashville to prepare accordingly before the crew got there.

That left me back here to hold down the fort on the sort of pictures from the road thing that we were going to try.  I’ve been suspecting that I’m being hazed.  After last night, Im pretty convinced.  Reg sent great pictures throughout the night with captions.  Some people (I’m looking at you, Krundle) sent blank texts or texts of random things with no explanations.

I wanted to get this up last night, but my laptop and I had a battle that involved a lot of four letter words.  Of course, the laptop won.  So, here goes my attempt at piecing together some of their photo journal of the night.  I apologize for the small size of the pictures.  I tried to make them bigger, but between them being taken on phones and varying degrees of sobriety, some got pretty blurry when enlarged.  I’m also trying to fill in where certain people left out commentary.

The crew walking around during the afternoon:

Some of the crowd at the first bar stop of the evening:

Walking into the Bridgestone Arena:

Preds pre-game:

PenguinPoop view, off the opening faceoff:

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Gameday Poop: Pittsburgh Penguins vs Nashville Predators – February 14

Thanks to the Olympics this afternoon’s Valentine matinee 1PM game against the Nashville Predators is the last Penguin game until March. That being said the Pens should leave it all on the table as they try to take down a Predator team that is barely hanging onto a playoff spot in the western conference. Unfortunately I believe that the penguin players who will be boarding a plane immediately after the game headed to the Olympics will be playing safer than usual.

I know there are a bunch of fans that do not like Pittburgh players and other NHL players going to the Olympics because of the possibility of them getting hurt, I am not one of them. While hockey for the last month has been interesting with players pulling their punches against their soon to be Olympic teammates, it to me is well worth it for the quality of hockey I will get to see in the next two weeks.

The Penguins have been releasing Olympic pictures for you computer desktop, I haven’t seen the USA Orpik one yet, but the Canada and Russia ones are kind of scary, especially Fleury’s. I’ve never seen him look anything near that cleaned up before. You can get them here: Penguin Olympic Wallpapers

BTW: Martin Brodeur, one of the Canadian goaltenders that Fleury is competing with got pulled again last night after letting in a few to many goals to the last place Hurricanes.

For the records I believe Slovakia is going to win it all. I will be routing for USA though I do not ...