What was your favorite moment or highlight of this past season?

[WayneSid9987]

Yea, that whole stretch at the end of the season where you looked at the schedule and seen the gauntlet of Metro teams we had to play and after it you had the games that have been posted in this thread, especially the Caps game at Consol where we dominated. That was certainly the reg. season highlight for me.

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Playoffs Highlight:

Game 6 vs Tampa after the Drouin goal got called back and we go on to win 5-2.

 

[Hank Plank]

I think this is my favorite part of last season:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/shows/tim-and-sid-show/ts-are-we-seeing-the-decline-of-sidney-crosby/

Beauty.

 

[Whale Mingo]

In all honesty it was the Hornqvist empty net goal in Game 6 of the Final. The way we (didn't) protect leads that game was still in doubt and NONE of us would have felt comfortable going to a Game 7, be honest.

Once that puck went in, it was finally real.

 

[Al Smith]

The end of the Caps series. I know fans of Sharks, all other western conference teams, and Lightning disagree, but that series should have been the SCF. And then to win in OT after taking three straight Delay of Game Penalties in the third. Wow.

 

[WayneSid9987]

The end of the Caps series. I know fans of Sharks, all other western conference teams, and Lightning disagree, but that series should have been the SCF. And then to win in OT after taking three straight Delay of Game Penalties in the third. Wow.

Yea, that was a crazy one.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Trading Scuderi for Daley. Honestly.

It was such a huge statement from this team, and it could only lead to good things.

 

[Malkinstheman]

I think this is my favorite part of last season:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/shows/tim-and-sid-show/ts-are-we-seeing-the-decline-of-sidney-crosby/

Majority of what they said is BS but they got one thing right. Prior to this season the Pens would change their philosophy on what type of team to be every summer. Honestly dont even know if they were trying to be a certain type of team. Just one that 'got to their game'.

 

[Ugene Magic]

 

[Allie Kitsune]

It's really weird to me, because I don't feel like this playoff had the "snapshot" moments that 2009 had (Max's "Sssssh", Satan with a maniacal grin on his face as he pounded the crap out of Eaves, Jordan Staal swinging the momentum of the Finals, Fleury stoning Grape Ape, Fleury diving at the end of Game 7 against DET, "The Geno", etc...) Aside from that, this team was probably the single most likable team of the Crosby era, though.

But I think the moment that made me think we could actually pull this off this year was Thornton doing everything in his power to troll Sid, and Sid just skating away.

Thornton was like the buzzing of flies to Sid.

 

[Ozz]

I didn't see a stipulation that I can't say it, but...winning the Cup!

This season was tons of fun and I have a bad memory off hand, so I've got nothin'.

 

[HuskerTornado]

When the resiliency began:

It began on NYE vs the Red Wings. I was at a wedding, talking to my cousin that lives out next to San Jose (which now makes this even more amusing). Pens come back after going down 0-2 to rout the Wings. I explained firing a coach mid-season ignited this group in 09 and would hopefully do the same this year.


NHL messed the date up here. 12/31/16

 

[Wes C Addle]

Favorite Regular Season moment




Favorite Postseason (non-cup raising moment)

 

[Allie Kitsune]

Neat little bit of trivia.

Both the 2009 and 2016 cups were won with players wearing two unusual numbers.

13 (Guerin, Bonino)
81 (Satan, Kessel)

 

[BHD]

Regular season: The 7-2 win against the Wings or the 6-2 blowout against the Caps.

Playoffs: the entire Caps series.

 

[socko]

 

[Waffle Fries]

It's really hard to pick. This season was just so much fun from mid-December on.

The moment that immediately comes to mind for me is when Sid rushed to celebrate with Daley after Hornqvist's OT goal in Game 4 against the Caps.

Daley stepped up in a huge way without Letang, and it was just an awesome moment to see Sid acknowledge that.

 

[Amen evil king]

- Rust's insurance breakaway goal vs Tampa in Game 6. The suspense as he broke away from Hedman, the amazing deke when everyone on earth was expecting a shot, the immense relief that this 3rd period collapse was not going to end the Penguins season... Wow.


- Kuhnhackl's game-winning SHG vs Washington in March. Big goal at a big moment to secure the mental edge over Washington before the playoffs.


- Malkin going full beast mode in the 2nd period vs Edmonton, back in the dark days of Johnston:


- The anticipation and emotional explosion of Hornqvist taking an eternity to finish the Sharks off:

 

[AjaxTelamon]

I really enjoyed game 1 against the Rags in the post season, PH getting the hattie, and Zatkoff's career highlight winning us a big game to start the playoffs right.

PH really played well this postseason, 9 goals second only to Phil, and he scored our first and last goals of the playoffs.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

All these are great.

The super late comeback against the Panthers in Florida. At the time I worried that it was a fluke, but looking back on it, right around then you could see they never felt out of any game against team.

Plus Sid was vintage Sid in that game

 

[shureshot66]

All these are great.

The super late comeback against the Panthers in Florida. At the time I worried that it was a fluke, but looking back on it, right around then you could see they never felt out of any game against team.

Plus Sid was vintage Sid in that game

Forget Sid and Letang -- that was the Kunitz Was There! Game.

Historic.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

Forget Sid and Letang -- that was the Kunitz Was There! Game.

Historic.

I'll Never forgive myself for forgetting that or "misremembering" as I am sure Steiggy says. What a joke of a call, but it gave use the best meme ever

 

[Peat]

That 6-2 blow out of the Caps. That was my third game in Consol that season, previous two had ended with the Pens scoring 6, but the Caps had been so good and me and my girlfriend knew there was no chance of 6... then wow. That was the moment when I went from "Hey, we're hot, maybe we'll make the play-offs, then who knows" to "Damn we're good, why not this year?"

Then we went and put 6-2 on the Flyers in the last game of the season too, that was fun. Four regular season games, 6 goals from the Pens in all of them. Value for money right there

Coming back from 3 down against the Senators was pretty cool too.

Hornqvist's hat trick against the Coyotes was cool, even if did cost me my Penguin puppet thing.

Post-season... Letang's goal in the final game. They score, the nerves start, then the team goes into beast mode and bam. Just the whole build up to it; it was like a boxer who's decided screw this punk, it finishes this round. I felt like we won the cup there and then, just knew whatever they did the Pens had an answer... and then they just dominated the hell out of a really good team fighting for their hopes and dreams.

 

[yuri28]

The end of the Caps series. I know fans of Sharks, all other western conference teams, and Lightning disagree, but that series should have been the SCF. And then to win in OT after taking three straight Delay of Game Penalties in the third. Wow.

Yeah, easily my highlight of those POs.
Brutal serie

 

[Dying Alive]

Scuderi getting traded right before the game and Steigy finding out while a game was going on.

I got a text alert for that while I was sitting at the game and I yelled "Oh my god, they traded Scuderi!" Everybody around me immediately whipped out their phones.

Definitely kunitz going to the penalty box....when he didnt get called for a penalty.

Was it during the Rangers series where he lost his mind and crosschecked an opposing player and then turned around and crosschecked the net right off the moorings? It feels like years ago but I swear it was during the playoffs.

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Was it during the Rangers series where he lost his mind and crosschecked an opposing player and then turned around and crosschecked the net right off the moorings? It feels like years ago but I swear it was during the playoffs.

Awwww yeah

This is legit one of the funniest things to happen in a hockey game. It needs more love.