Not The Oilers Mon

The following was recently sent to Nittanyproudfoot headquarters in beautiful Tube City, Pa. The message come from Nittanyproudfoot Winter Sports annalist Sanka Coffie. Mr Coffie who is currently in training for the World Pushcart Championships will be joining us on a regular basis during the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver but he has asked us to pass this little op-ed piece along before the start of this year's Stanley Cup Finals

Over the last year a lot has been made over the comparison between the 1980's Oilers and the current Pittsburgh Penguins. It hasn't exactly been difficult to do. You have a young teams beating all expectations led by the face of the league (Crosby/ Gretzky) with a second center that is almost as talented as the first ( Malkin/ Messier) both teams feature an outstanding offensive defensemen (Gonchar? Whitney? Letang?/ Coffey) and both have made long miraculous playoff runs very earlier in their careers.

But the Penguins are not the Oilers and the Oilers are not the Penguins the comparison dose not do justice to the work that either team has put in to their Cup run. The Penguins cannot play like the Oilers in the Finals and expect to win.

All I'm saying, mon, is if we walk Penguin, talk Penguin , and *is* Penguin, then we sure as hell better play hockey Penguin.

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Experience the Evolution! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its hockey time! Lord Stanley!

Snaka Coffie Nittanyproudfoot Winter Sports Analyst

Ladies and gentlemen if you are new to the sport of hockey listen to this very carefully. What is about to happen is very rare and very special. You will not see your team in the Finals every year. It doesn't matter if your team is led by Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux, Gordie Howe, or Maurice "Rocket" Richard. Its just too hard to survive the Stanly Cup Playoffs. Enjoy the next week for what it is...one of the greatest events in the sporting world. No mater what the experts have said you better watch closely because anything can happen in the Finals.

Its a Great Day for Hockey