I blame you Hossa...

So the opening of the NHL season will be in Detroit, the defending champions, and opening the event will be a band that has 9 arms and rules, Def Leppord. Presumably if we won we would be hosting the opening game, and get to have Def Leppord playing in Pittsburgh. Janne woulda scored that goal at the last minute (correction, Janne woulda made sure his team was never 1 game from elimination). In conclusion, Marian Hossa, when you come to Pittsburgh, you will not only be facing the anger of you leaving us for presumably greener pastures, but you will be facing the anger of taking the awesomeness of Def Leppord away from the faithful fans of Pittsburgh. Rot in hell Hossa, i hope Godard punches you when you come to Pittsburgh.

Here is the link to the Face Off Rocks announcement

Where we could have been, and where we are heading...

So, as most of you already know with Penguins camp opening next week, we are at the end of our drought of news and will no longer have to resort to random-interest pieces to attract viewers and to be linked in other blogs. Anyways, I figured before we move onto the next season, we should just take one look back to what could have been, and where we are going...

Anyways, I will admit, that when Marian Hossa first came to Pittsburgh last year, I jumped on that badwagon probably faster than anybody. Hossa quickly jumped to the top of my list of Penguin players and became an instant hit in my book. Although I wasn't dumb enough as some people to go out and buy $180 on a Hossa jersey, I was one of the few that were convinced that Hossa was going to become a mainstay in Pittsburgh.

So, you have to ask yourself, what would have happened if we did resign hossa. Well, Satan and Fedetenko probably would have not signed... Chances are the Pens may have not brought Pesonen over... So instead of looking at pictures of the week and reading interesting facts about Janne, we could be workin a whole different angle...

Would you be reading hossa's house if he signed this summer?

Anyways, what happened happened, I would have loved to keep Marian in Pittsburgh, but he left, and we got Janne... Will he replace Marian... well that is why we are going to take a quick look forward...

As I expressed earlier explaining the picture of Conks and Hossa being from the future, i figured i'd share a few more interesting snap shots i got from my travels...

Two years in a row, sitting and morning on the ice in pittsburgh must be nice...

Janne Posing with the cup...and yes he decided to keep some of his sponsors when he came over,
anyways, who the hell would not want to sport Audi shin pads?

In conclusion, yes, Janne will replace Marian... and we will prevail..

Well anyway, stay tuned people, we are about to pull this into high gear, camp starts next week... Go Pens and Go Janne...

Why do we get the bad MTVs?

I recently found this old Janne interview on MTV3's website (seriously, we get stuck with MTV and MTV2, meanwhile MTV3 is covering Janne....)...

The interview was done in January, so he wasn't on the pens yet, but it's nice to get alittle more insight into the personality (via google translator of course) of our new hero Janne Pesonen.

When asked to describe himself as a hockey player, Janne responded:

The first comes to mind a good skating, and a certain type of hard drive - all done each team's effort in this regard. Silloin tuntuu parhaalta, kun joukkue menestyy. It seems the best policy, when a team to succeed. Täytyy myös sanoa nälkä, joka ei koskaan lopu. I must also say hunger, which never run out. Eli todella voitontahtoisena pelaajana. In other words, really voitontahtoisena player.

Read the rest of the interview here

I mean, this is perfect, ask any of my friends, all season long, even throughout our dominating playoff run, all I kept saying was, man the pens are great, but we really need a voitontahtoisena player...and, if only we had some voitontahtoisenas on our team, we'd be able to win the cup no problem... So after reading this, you cannot believe how happy i am to know that Janne is a self-described voitontahtoisena player, i just hope he really can bring a level of voitontahtoisena to the pens...

In other news, this picture has been circulating the internet, and I wanted to clear the air on it...


Yeah, I actually took this picture in the future, next year at this time to be precise. Hossa and Conks are laughing about two things, the irony about how they left the Penguins to win a cup then the Penguins went on to win the cup in 2008-2009, and the other thing they are happy about is that Janne just knocked up Conks wife, so atleast one of his many kids will have the genes of a good hockey player...