Penguins Off-Season Thread: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl

[Tom Hanks]

Thought I’d make an off season thread where we can post things that don’t quite fit in the other threads.

Saw this thought it was kind of cool although the celebration felt a bit underwhelming. Where’s the hugging and jumping all over each other?

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[Jacob]

Jeff Taffe sighting

 

[Tom Hanks]

Jeff Taffe sighting

I don’t remember him but I only started following the Penguins from December 2008. Pretty sure Game 7 was a Friday night. Halfway through the game I get a call asking me to work for a few hours on Saturday. I still said yes but warned him I’d be in rough shape.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Game 7 was finals week for me in grad school, and I remember appealing to my Structure of Old East Slavic teacher's strong Russian nationalism to get a two day extension on my final paper.


It totally worked.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Also, it's worth noting that I didn't specify which Russian I was rooting for in the 2009 SCF.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

I remember Jeff Taffe, another guy in a long line of nobodies that came up from WBS, got hot for a bit, was tried on Sids wing and did nothing and then faded into oblivion. Fun times though

 

[Big McLargehuge]

I'm pretty sure Jeff Taffe scored in 3/4 of the games I went to in 07-08

 

[End of Line]

Game 7 was finals week for me in grad school, and I remember appealing to my Structure of Old East Slavic teacher's strong Russian nationalism to get a two day extension on my final paper.


It totally worked.

Had my HS grad party 2 days after this. I didn’t really care all too much for it since I was still riding the high of winning the cup lmao.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Had my HS grad party 2 days after this. I didn’t really care all too much for it since I was still riding the high of winning the cup lmao.

Okay, just leave my bones for the crows on the mountain top because now I feel old.

 

[End of Line]

Okay, just leave my bones for the crows on the mountain top because now I feel old.

My bad man . Hopefully those crows come from Odin lmfao.

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

I warned you folks about the slippery slope we started down with the PPG helmet decal. Turns out, spoiler alert(!), the league was lying about the ad being a one year deal. Apparently sweaters will be eligible for corporate sponsorship next season. Hopefully the league will have the restraint and good taste to avoid the soccer model, but who knows?

 

[orby]

I don't like ads on helmets/jerseys, but it's frankly inevitable and no amount of hemming and hawing by aggrieved fans will stop it.

 

[Gurglesons]

I warned you folks about the slippery slope we started down with the PPG helmet decal. Turns out, spoiler alert(!), the league was lying about the ad being a one year deal. Apparently sweaters will be eligible for corporate sponsorship next season. Hopefully the league will have the restraint and good taste to avoid the soccer model, but who knows?

TBH. I thought the helmet ads were cool. The Colorado “Ball” ones were my fav

 

[dogthateats]

I am a fan of the ad near the blue line that wiggles around on occasion.

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

I am a fan of the ad near the blue line that wiggles around on occasion.

Right now in Uniondale, it is a very sexy Clorox decal. Fits Long Island to a T!

 

[Ugene Magic]

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

Me and Mr. Yuk always saw eye-to-eye. Nice work, as always!

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

Me and Mr. Yuk (I thought he was green?) always saw eye-to-eye. Nice work, as always!

double post delete pls.

 

[HandshakeLine]

TBH. I thought the helmet ads were cool. The Colorado “Ball” ones were my fav

I want to see Dick's make an ad for ours but with a printing error on the apostrophe.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I don't like ads on helmets/jerseys, but it's frankly inevitable and no amount of hemming and hawing by aggrieved fans will stop it.

Pretty much. The ads on jerseys/helmets/ice thing is only gonna accelerate with the lost revenue to Covid too.

 

[Pens x]

The PPG logo looks ok on the yellow and black helmets, but it’s atrocious on the white buckets.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

The ads on hockey helmets and jerseys look stupid. So tired of corporate greed ruining so many long-standing traditions and ways.

 

[Shady Machine]

The ads on the helmets were fine and you totally understood why the league did it. Struggling for revenue during a pandemic and I thought they were non-obtrusive. Ads on jerseys is a little much but I’ll reserve judgement until I see what they look like.

 

[HandshakeLine]

How dare the league besmirch the proud tradition of the Subway (tm) Sandwich of the Game? This is a sacred honor!

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Advertise to me and you lose my business.

It's my job to be difficult and damn it, I'm good at it.

I'm only half serious here...but the other half is so ****ing fed up with the endless advertising that I wish I wasn't.