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Leafs in Town, Talbot Gets Extension

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Maxime Talbot

The Leafs are in town tonight to take on the Pens at 7PM. The Leafs sit in 11th place in the east, 8 points behind the Pens with a 12-13-6 record. They have won 3 of their last 4 games. Goaltending has been a bit shaky for the Leafs so no word on who will get the start tonight, Joseph or Toskala. The last time the Leafs played the Pens they lost 4-1, it was the game were Crosby scored his 100th career goal, 200th career assist and 300th point.

The Pens are coming off a 6-3 win in Atlanta on Thursday night. The Leafs should be a bit more of a challenge to the Pens then the Thrashers were, it will be a good game for sure. As expected Fluery will get the start tonight. Talbot will be back in the lineup tonight, Dupuis and Ziggomanis are still out. The Pens will be wearing their powder blue jerseys tonight, Go Pens!

Pens Headlines
- Talking about Talbot he inked a new 2 year extension that will keep him a Penguin until 2010-11.

- Ryan Whitney has been assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL for conditioning purposes. We will play in tonight’s game against the Albany River Rats.

- The Pens also traded prospect Jonathan Filewich to the St. Louis Blue for a conditional draft pick in 2010.

Sydor Traded and Other News

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Darryl Sydor

That’s right, the Penguins traded veteran defenseman Darryl Sydor for the Dallas Stars right-handed defenseman Philippe Boucher. Boucher who is 35, has 91 goals and 294 points in 723 games. He is currently a minus 4 in 16 games with the Stars this season. The one luxury he brings to the table is the right handed shot. Sydor was sitting for the pens even when they had 2 defensemen out, so he would still be sitting when they come back, but he was there when we needed him and that counted for a lot. He understood his role here in Pittsburgh, not sure if Boucher will. We wish Sydor the best of luck in Dallas and hopefully he will get more playing time then he did in Pittsburgh. Boucher will be the oldest Penguin at the age of 35.

Fluery suffered an undisclosed injury, and did not attend practice this morning, he is listed as day to day.

Paul BissNasty didn’t take long to get into another fight as he fought Jon Mirasty of Syracuse in his first game back in the AHL.


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