Penguins Evening Links: Season Ticket Delivery, Prospects Tourney Update, Sid's Training camp plans.

Just a few links for your evening reading pleasure.


Today, 14 Penguins players delivered season tickets for the fifth straight year. You can find video of Sidney Crosby delivering tickets here. There are also pictures of the deliveries on the Pens site as well. 


The Pens prospects have lost the first two of three games in Oshawa, Ontario. The Pens dropped a game against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night, losing 4-0. Then on Saturday, the team lost to the prospects of the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1, after scoring the first goal only 12 seconds into the game. The Pens prospects face-off against the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday afternoon. 


Also Shelly Anderson, over at the Post-Gazette writes that Sidney Crosby will be evaluated at some point this week, to determine what level of participation he can have in this years training camp. 

Sidney Crosby Press Conference: Crosby is a Ferrari

We began today  waiting to hear from Sidney Crosby and his doctors regarding Sid's prognosis for the upcoming season. What came out of the press conference seemed to be more positive than negative. What the press conference did was end all of the speculation that surfaced throughout the summer. Sid was flanked by his doctors and General Manager Ray Shero. We heard words such as "full recovery," and "long career" thrown around quite liberally. We learned that doctors were basically in constant contact with Sid throughout the offseason. We most importantly learned what the status of Sid's concussion is, and has been since he attempted to come back in April. Of course there is no timeline to when he will be fully recovered, but we do know that it is likely Sid will be in uniform this season.

UPDATED: Sidney Crosby to Hold Press Conference Tomorrow

Sidney Crosby is slated to hold a press conference at 12:30p.m. tomorrow the 7th according to multiple articles across the continent.  It has been about 8 months since Sid has been diagnosed with a concussion and it seems that he has yet to kick the symptoms from the injury. Of course rumors will spread across the internet ranging from Sid not being ready for training camp in 10 days to him never playing hockey again.

However, the news that Sid delivers likely won't be big news. The gut feeling has to be that Sid will announce he will not be participating fully in training camp when it begins in a little over a week.

However, Sid can be holding this presser to say that he is symptom free and is ready to go for camp. Amid all the speculation coming from this offseason surrounding Sid's brain, that would likely fall in the realm of "shocking news." Whatever the news is, this press conference will be streamed live by someone.

Looks like the Pens website will have coverage of the press conference, so all of you at work tomorrow can watch during lunch. Root Sports and 105.9 The X will be covering it as well.

Crosby Breaks Silence Makes Contact with Penguins.

Huge news broke at around 9 p.m. tonight from the Penguins regarding Sidney Crosby's status. After the outcry resulting from lack of information from Sid and his representation, we've finally heard what we are all waiting for...

The Media's Execution of Sidney Crosby

As the summer draws to an end, speculations about Sidney Crosby begin to rise. Multiple reports out of Canada have Crosby not being ready for training camp and there have been articles calling for Sid's retirement. While these ridiculous reports are common from the Canadian media, it is inexcusable for the Pittsburgh media to start turning on Sid and scrutinizing him during the offseason. This is what is occurring, and quite frankly it may be time for most of these beat writers in the city to focus their attention to the Steelers preseason preparation. 

CrosbyWatch: Sid's Brain Takes the Spotlight (Again...)

This offseason has taken more turns than any of us have anticipated. First we stayed up all hours of the night for a week hoping that a past hero would return for one final go for the flightless birds, only to then chose to pull on the sweater of our most hated rival. Then we lose Max Talbot to the same team. Up next the Pens provided us footage of Evgeni Malkin training back in Russia as if he was Ivan Drago. Well OK maybe not to that extent, but your imagination runs rampant during the offseason. We also found out, very recently, that Islanders fans are having a meet up to watch the cage match between the Pens and Islanders, as if it was a great hockey game. However, the one story that has been kind-of-but-not-so-much on the back-burner was Sidney Crosby's brain. That was until today.

Sidney Crosby to Start Summer Workouts

The Penguins dropped some very good news this afternoon, that Sidney Crosby will begin to get into his summer workout routine with his personal training in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Crosby met with Dr. Michael Collins, and apparently got the go-ahead to being the off-ice workouts. Not sure what this means exactly, but it has to be taken as good news, and we all know that Crosby's off-season plan is likely move involved than most NHL players. This means that it is a possibility that Sid's concussion symptoms have been gone for at least some period of time. There has been a time during the past 5 months that we really weren't sure if we'd see Sid back in top form. This news shows that he is progressing, and hopefully no concussion symptoms reoccur during the summer and he will be back to true Crosby form come October.

Here is the full article by Sam Kasan on the Penguins website.  

UPDATE:  Rob Rossi tweeting that the Pens are cautiously optimistic that Sid will be able to participate in normal hockey activity by training camp.

UPDATE:  Sid normally resumes on-ice activities in July.

Welcome to The Pond on 5th Ave

Well here is my debut into the world of blogging.  Take it easy on me, at least at first.  Actually I don't care what you have to say about me, so bring it on.

This Blog will contain my opinion (I'm no expert) about the Pittsburgh Penguins and the NHL.  I'm doing this because I have an opinion and the internet makes it possible to put out there for judgment.  I have no clue if anyone will read this blog, but if you do, please feel free to comment below, whether you agree or disagree with a pose.  Any suggestions are welcome as well.

When it comes to sports in Pittsburgh, everyone has an opinion and everyone is an expert.  When it comes to the Penguins, it seems more experts come on board sometime between the turn of the new year and early February. As stated above, I'm not an expert outside of a decade's worth of deck-hockey and roller-hockey.  So I'll just put my hockey thoughts up for trial here.

Secondly, I'm not an insider, and I won't pretend to be.  Anything I pose on here will contain a link from another side, or the site will be referenced.

First up:  A (semi) season in review.