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“One More Time with Jordan DeFigio” DAL@PIT 12/12/22 Give it up for Jordan DeFigio, our lovely guest host! Tonight, it's our Penguins against the Dallas Stars. And it's going to be an interesting match up. Thank you for listening!! Follow us on Twitter @penspod, on Instagram at @flypenguinsfly, and subscribe to the Fly Penguins Fly YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3fw0IWt for video editions of sele...

“Jordan DeFigio Is Behind The Wheel...Again!” BUF@PIT 12/10/22 Tonight, the Penguins conclude their home and home against those pesky Buffalo Sabres. Same teams, different game. And anything can happen. Thank you for listening!! Follow us on Twitter @penspod, on Instagram at @flypenguinsfly, and subscribe to the Fly Penguins Fly YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3fw0IWt for video editions of select...

“Jordan DeFigio Is Behind The Wheel” PIT@BUF 12/09/22 With Jeff Taylor being on the road (& in the woods) this weekend, our dear friend of the show, Jordan DeFigio, has taken the wheel. Thank you for listening!! Follow us on Twitter @penspod, on Instagram at @flypenguinsfly, and subscribe to the Fly Penguins Fly YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3fw0IWt for video editions of select conversations you...

“A Conversation with Nick Brlansky and Nick Horwat” CBJ@PIT 12/06/22 *How* pleased am I, to have both Nicks in the house: AT THE SAME TIME?! Of course I’m referring to Nick Brlansky and Nick Horwat, co-hosts of Tip Of The Ice-Burgh Podcast. Both of them are staff writers with Inside The Penguins, as well, so be sure to subscribe to all of the above; it’s must-listen / must-read stuff if you’re an...

“Boring Blue Bear” STL@PIT 12/03/22 There may be no mascot origin story less thought-through or more unimpressive than Louie’s. Sorry, Blues fans. It’s a HOCKEY NIGHT!!!! Innnnnnn PITTSBURGH!!!! The Blues are here to take on Sidney Crosby and the Penguins. Last time Missouri’s NHL franchise were in town, the Pens came from behind in a tough-fought victory over a team who did just about anything th...

“A Conversation With Liz Knox” VGK@PIT 12/01/22 Kris Letang is out, indefinitely, after suffering a second stroke. His first was back in 2014, due in part to a condition relating to his heart. Wishing Kris and his family all the best. Today on the program I’m joined by Liz Knox, Clarkson Cup Champion goalie with the Markham Thunder and founding board member with the PWHPA. Liz and I sat down in Te...

“A Conversation With Josh Getzoff” CAR@PIT 11/29/22 What else is there to say? I’m joined today by the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Josh Getzoff. Every time "the train reaches its station," and every night the  Penguins throw themselves a "2-pt party on Fifth Ave.," you know who was behind the microphone: Josh Getzoff. The seat he holds once belonged to the Hall of Famer: Mike La...

“Canadian Rubber” TOR@PIT 11/26/22 You’re getting an early podcast today because I’m spending the whole day up in Cranberry at the PWHPA ‘Dream Gap Tour’ event at UMPC Lemieux Sports Complex! Olympic champions like Marie Philip Poulin, Hilary Knight, and Sarah Nurse will be in the house, along with a ton of other top-tier talent from all corners of North America. When the day is done and I’ve watc...

“Double Lucky” PIT@PHI 11/25/22 Malkin attempted to throw his game-winning stick, up over the protective glass and into the crowd not once, but twice as he celly’d his way up the halfwall to Dan Vladar’s left. The game finally over, Malkin’s 1001st NHL tilt tucked neatly under his belt, the W secured for Pittsburgh. In the cosmic sense, Evgeni Malkin has truly done it all: Three Stanley Cups, a Co...

“1001: A Penguins Odyssey," or,  "A Conversation With Shane Taylor” CGY@PIT 11/23/22 Before the puck drops tonight, the Penguins will honor the 2009 Conn Smythe Trophy-winning, three time Stanley Cup Champion, Penguin-for-life Evgeni Malkin with a special ceremony. Although 71’s 1000th NHL game already came and went, a 5-3 victory for his team, on the road in Chicago, the hometown fans have someth...

“Evgeni Malkin’s 1,000th NHL Game” PIT@CHI 11/20/22 Last night in Winnipeg, Tristan Jarry and the Pittsburgh Penguins played hard-and-smart for the FULL sixty minutes of regulation. They got rewarded, in the form of their very first shutout victory of the season. Following a historically bad losing streak, the Pens needed two things to come together in order for the team to feel stabilized. For on...

“The Enormous Back Of Sidney Crosby” PIT@WIN 11/19/22 The Penguins take on the Winnipeg Jets, the second in a three game road trip that already included a victory in St. Paul and concludes tomorrow at the United Center in the Windy City. Coming off that win encouraging, convincing win against the Wild, the Pens look to harness the power of Mo-vember, brandishing their devastating mustaches as they...

“Tripping On A Puck In A Minny Heart” PIT@MIN 11/17/22 Nordy. It’s not a word. Marc Andre Fleury won’t play tonight, Tristan Jarry will. My head is full of music and actual bagels and pizza, as I play out-of-town gigs with my band in the states Garden and Empire. I’ll be home in the Burgh for Thanksgiving week, and so will the Penguins - kind of. First, though, they’ve got to get through Minnesota...

“Blueger Set To Return?” TOR@PIT 11/15/22 Matt Murray. The very first thing that should come to mind, when a Penguins fan sees that name in print, is that he lifted the Pens to back-to-back Stanley Cups. Period, end of sentence. And tonight, “Muzz” is back on the Leafs’ active roster, set for a return to the ice at PPG Paints Arena. I, too, will make my return to the ice with last season’s beer le...

“Peng-Win + No World Cup?” PIT@MTL 11/12/22 It’s time to get one back from the team who handed the Penguins their first loss of the season. Tonight at le Centre Bell, Mike Sullivan’s waddling, flightless wonders will step onto the ice - for the first time today - around 6:30pm Eastern time. The Penguins did not hold a morning skate on this Saturday, the second half of a back to back. That’s become...

“Mom and Grandma” PIT@TOR 11/11/22 Tonight, your Penguins pay the Toronto Maple Leafs a visit at Scotia Bank Arena in Ontario Province. The recent seven-game losing streak snapped in Washington just two nights ago, the Pens go back to goaler DeSmith, comma Casey, of Rochester, NH in an attempt to ride the momentum of whatever chemistry may have led to the team’s first victory - 4-1, over the Caps...

“The Banshees of Cranberry” PIT@WAS 11/09/22 Tonight, your Penguins visit the Washington Capitals for what is surely “just another” must-win game, because what game isn’t, when you’re in the midst of a historical, longest-in-the-Mike-Sullivan-era, epic-ass losing streak? Do I feel better? Yep, I do. Thanks for letting me try out some words. And now that I got that off my chest, exactly what *was i...

A Conversation With Penguins Jesus SEA@PIT 11-05-22 I’m joined on this unseasonably lovely Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon by the one and only Penguins Jesus. Originator of the nickname ‘Big Jeff Carter,’ provider of regularly enjoyable, often hilarious tweets concerning the state of the Penguins hockey club, he takes us on a ride through some fun Penguins history, sharing recollections of: The in-g...

A Conversation With Taylor Haase PIT@BUF 11/02/22 Today on the podcast I’m joined by the always-excellent Taylor Haase, of DK Pittsburgh Sports. Taylor covers the Penguins as well as the Wilkes Barre Scranton “Baby Pens,” appears as co-host of ‘Podcast On Fifth Avenue,’ and is a great Penguins-centric follow on Twitter (@TaylorHaasePGH). We talk a little about the reverse retro jerseys the Penguin...

“Can You Believe it?” BOS@PIT 11/01/22 Fly Penguins Fly Episode 100: BOS@PIT 11/01/22 … One Hundred Mother-Forking episodes!? Can you believe it? I’d say time flies, but when the Penguins are in the midst of a four game losing streak, time seems to move rather SLOWLY, am I right? Seriously, though: THANK YOU for listening to Fly Penguins Fly Game-Day Podcast, and here’s to many, many hundreds more...

Episode 99: A Conversation With David Goodnight PIT@SEA 10/29/22 Fly Penguins Fly Episode 98: PIT@VAN 10/28/22 … Like a good neighbor, David Goodnight is here. Forget Jake from State Farm, we’ve got David from the South Hills on the show today. He’s a dek hockey rink rat, playing for multiple teams in various divisions here in the Pittsburgh area. We watched the Penguins fall to the Canucks last n...

Episode 98: A Conversation With Jordan DeFigio PIT@VAN 10/28/22 Fly Penguins Fly Episode 98: PIT@VAN 10/28/22 … I’m joined today by my friend (and friend-of-the-show), Jordan DeFigio. Jordan is a Penguins-Hockey-universe podcaster herself [Podcast On Fifth Ave], as well as a highly talented singer and songwriter. Head Coach Mike Sullivan got “salty” with the players at the post-practice chat at ce...

Episode 97: "Slidetacklin' Barley Farmer, Tristan Jarry" PIT@CGY 10/25/22 Fly Penguins Fly Episode 97: PIT@CGY 10/25/22 … It’s the second half of what will be TWO back-to-back’s for the Penguins on this western Canada road trip, and the first half was a real doozy. Connor McDavid and company ran the Boys-from-the-Burgh straight outta Rogers Place last night, scoring four goals against PIT in the 2...

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 96: "A Conversation With Jesse Marshall“  Welp, there’s no avoiding it. Once or twice a season you’ve gotta face off against the greatest and do your best to contain them. The Penguins will take on precisely that challenge in Alberta Province tonight, going up against Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. They, like Crosby and Malkin are an honest-to-goodness 2-headed monster...

Fly Penguins Fly Episode 95: "A Conversation With Hunter Hodies" ...  Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! Follow @penspod on Twitter and @flypenguinsfly on Instagram. It’s been a high-scoring start to the 2022-2023 Penguins’ NHL regular season. Hunter of [Locked On Penguins Podcast - see link below] and I talk a little about those first few games, including Thursday’s decisive 6-...