Somewhere Out There Ben Rothlesberger Just Breathed A Sigh of Releaf

Un-Friggen-Believable, you see..... I knew I should have waited a little longer to write my State of the NHL Post.

How ? I still can'’t believe it. In an hours time we went from the worst team in the league to Stanley Cup Favorites. It'’s like the last five years never happened. Like we never traded Lang, Herdina, Straka, Francis, Jager, Zubov, Naslund, and a cast of thousand for a pile of money we used to pay the light bill at the Igloo.

In the darkest hour when all we heard from the world of hockey was "“talks continue, no progress"”. There came from the north, a 17 year old Canadian that dramatically changed the sport in Pittsburgh BEFORE HE IS EVEN DRAFTED. Within minutes of the Draft Lottery the phones at the Mellon Arena were ringing of the hook, people from California are calling about tickets CALIFORNIA! I know people that won'’t even get on the Parkway to see a game. I heard a report this morning that said the Penguins have sold so many season tickets in the last two days that they'’re now projected to be in the top half of the league in revenue this year. How ridiculous is that! In forty-eight hours we'’ve gone from one of the prime candidates for the new revenue sharing system to one of its biggest contributors. But wait there'’s more; there are rumors that Craig Patrick'’s phone has been a little busy too, apparently a lot of soon to be released NHL players have been requesting that their agents contact the Pens. It's official Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is now the center of the hockey universe. There are NHL all-stars begging to join our team and a year and a half ago we were in the middle of a twenty game loosing streak. How the hell did we get here?!?! It'’ll be great to bring back a Kovalev or Naslund but I think its going to be even more fun to tell a LeClair or a Chelios to get lost.

Ahhhhhh Sweet Revenge

peace out yo