Mental Health Day

Last Friday I took a "Mental Health Day" and went to watch the Pens practice.

Here are some photos I snapped...

The "White" team stretches

Janne Pesonen

Jeff Taffe sporting his new number - #22

Mike Yeo diagramming the drill

Casual observations...

- Miro Satan and Ruslan Fedetenko have a good shot - similar to the sniping Petr Sykora. Should get a lot a goals set up by Crosby and Malkin, respectively.

- Pesonen looks small and light. I worry if his body will hold up over a season of big-timebanging in the NHL.

- Fleury stoned Crosby on the shoot out and proceded to glide across the ice "riding his stick" in triumph!

- I would like to think Taffe will be around after the pre-season. My guess is Ryan Stone won't be.

GGG

Ahhh Vacation

Ahh the beach...

Back from vacation I can see that not much has gone on in the hockey world.

We do have a shot at the first hockey mom VEEP ... who happens to be a Pens fan ... cool

...Kudos to Pensblog/DenP for the Picture...

Oh yeah, and a bunch of Pens changed their jersey numbers...

"The Penguins' roster on their Web site has a few changes to some jersey numbers. Mark Eaton is now No. 7 instead of No. 3. Jeff Taffe is now No. 22 instead of No. 38. And Alex Goligoski is now No. 13 instead of No. 67."

Hats off to Empty Netters for spotting this...why the hell would Goligoski choose Dan Marino's number? After all 67 is one bad-ass number, dont cha think? Being wedged between the greatest player of all time and one of the greatest players (albeit a cry-baby) isn't all that bad, is it?

Maybe he wanted to avoid comparisions...but now he is going to be compared to another great player that never won the big one.

In any case it's time to put away the clubs....

....and get out the hockey jerseys!

Until next time...GGG