Eulogy: Remembering the 2009-10 Pittsburgh Penguins

And to another White Out crowd at the now retired Mellon Arena.Pensblog,Mario Lemieux,Ronald Burke and all other Penguin dignitaries.We in Capsland wish to extend to you our deepest and heartfelt condolences.In the future you should remember that we don't wear white at home games any more, a black out would have been much cooler.

You were taken from us not one second too soon.

Unfortunately the 2009-10 Penguins don't leave us with too many memories.A fourth place finish to the season.A Richard trophy won due to a nine game playing advantage.Hmm can't think of anything else.

Not only did they not win a single measly thing,they have nothing positive this season to look back on.

This spot is where I would go back to a Pens blog post and mock it but I don't care too.

.....Death leaves us with many questions too.

Does anyone on Pittsburgh know how to play defence.Was MAF too busy thinking how he would make sweet loving to Sidney Crosby after the Pens crushed the Habs that he forgot to stop a few pucks?

Dan Bylsma wouldn't want you to remember him for the coach who stuck with his goalie who couldn't stop the puck when it mattered.

Lets not go into the work of Ray Shero,bringing in Poni to help the Pens create more offence but him being scratched for games 5 and 6.

We'd say something about Sidney Crosby and Geno Malkin but were not even sure they even played in the series.Well I actually think I saw them a few times,but I'm not really sure.

And can I throw out a who put the 87 in eliminated?Nah!! but what the hell.

I think after this we can see that the Crosby Ovechkin debate is in fact a very stale and monotonous debate indeed.Crosby that of the Whiner-diver-sucks crybaby-break a few sticks in frustration indeed isn't but a fraction of the player and leader Ovechkin is.

Crosby is the face of the league and of Canadian hockey.I think everyone watching was more captivated by Montreal's P.K Subban in games 1-7.In fact they were probably more captivated by Montreal's Kostysen brothers.

Pens fans can now think about not having a banner to raise in their new digs next season.

Now we can pile on the dirt.

The lasting image of Crosby taking a stupid penalty ten seconds into game seven and opening the flood gates,brings this strange karma-tic feeling after last years round two game seven.That it even does give a feeling of some consolation to many Caps fans.But its his lack of leadership or his inability to get to the level of intensity of his teammates that stands out the most.

We like to think the last thing that went through Crosby's head wasn't how Halak got the best of him,you need to shoot the puck more than 20 times in seven games to get that feeling,but rather how He was completely dominated by Montreal for seven games.He also may have been thinking,wow Ovechkin really is just much better than me .

We hope when Crosby shook Halaks hand,well we really just were hoping he would shake hands.

We hope that when Crosby was in fact shaking hands that he wasn't crying!

We hope that next year in all those meaningless games we will play against the Pens, that once again we will sweep them.

We really don't care about the golf courses in the Pens dreams.

(This whole post for those that don't know is a right back at you post of the Pensblogs eulogy of the Caps as posted on Puck Daddy)