If Spain doesn’t find a way to finish in the next 15 minutes, you just sense they’ll lose in penalties.

Pens' first home division game is Nov. 30 v. Jackets.

Pens will be home on Thanksgiving Eve for the 14th consecutive season when the NHL was playing (2012, 2020 were exceptions). They'll be facing Calgary on Thanksgiving Eve for just the second time (2-1 SO win in 2022).

Pens will be home on Thanksgiving Eve for the 14th consecutive season when the NHL was playing (2012, 2020 were exceptions). They'll be facing Calgary on Thanksgiving Eve for just the second time (2-1 SO win in 2022).

Pens will play 13 of 19 games on the road from Feb. 13 to March 20.

Last season Pens had 21 afternoon games, but that number drops to 13 this season.

Pens have 3 four-game road trips and 1 six-game road trip (Feb. 13-23). They will have 3 four-game homestands.

Pens had 16 sets of back-to-back games last season; they will have 15 this season.

The previous longest stretch of consecutive games against division foes was 9: 2015-16 (March 6-24, Pens went 7-2-0) 2007-08 (Nov. 3-21, Pens went 2-6-1)

Pens also have 12 of their last 13 games, and 14 of their last 20 games, against division opponents. Last season, they played 7 of their last 20 games against division foes, and the season before it was 5.

The most striking thing about the Pens' schedule is a stretch of 11 straight division games from March 16-April 6. It's the longest such stretch in team history.

What usually happens when you have no possession.

With the September 30 opener @ Flyers, Pens will have played a regular season or playoff game in every month except July. Played one exhibition game in July 2020 before the Covid playoffs.

Spain with another masterclass on how to defend. Gave France nothing today.

The amount of holding that is allowed on corners has become absurd.

Expected Bellingham to be an important figure for England, but not this important. What a tournament for him.

Thx to @nchurricanes.bsky.social I learned that this behavior from an NHL owner is not new. Knew about the Pocklington case, but not this or Florida’s owner doing similar. So apparently the NHL/Hall doesn’t care.

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Ilitch put eight family members on the Cup in 2008. So, *9* Ilitches on the Cup.

Been watching Tom Dundon get roasted for his Stanley Cup engraving debacle. Hopefully it continues. Where is the NHL on this? We all believe the trophy is sacred, but only the NHL can defend that belief with actions.

Quite a run by USA, created a lot of excitement. Unfortunate their worst game of the tournament came at the worst time. Just have to keep building.

Defending in the box atrocious again.

Given their history of gut-wrenching losses in the World Cup, the amount of time they played down a man, the atmosphere, the altitude… just an incredible character win for England.

Haaland just continues to amaze. They keep talking about how rarely he gets touches, but he only needs a few to shape a game. Premier League, World Cup, doesn’t matter. Force of nature.

Paraguay’s thuggery just continues despite the fact they should be, you know, trying to get a shot on goal.

World Cup=drama machine.

Highly entertaining second half between Croatia and Portugal. Kovacic having himself a game since halftime.

Character effort tonight by U.S. What a scene.

Pens' last trade with Chayka was sending Kessel, Birks and a fourth-rounder to Coyotes for PO Joseph and Galchenyuk on 6/29/19.

Pens' last trade with Leafs was sending a fifth-round pick to them for Timmins and Dewar at the 2025 deadline.

Pens wound up with 6 picks today and have taken 19 players over the last 2 drafts. The last time they selected more players over 2 drafts was 23 taken in 2003 (11) and 2004 (12).

Pens' draft choices since Dubas was named GM: Goalies: 1 Def: 12 Forwards: 17 WHL: 9 OHL: 7 USHL: 5 Europe: 5 College: 2 QMJHL: 2