Essays Tagged: "Pittsburgh Penguins"

Down In the Pitts

Down in the Pitts It would be easy to say that the Pittsburgh Penguins are quite simply the personification of everything that is wrong with the Nation ... re, but a direct result of it. It starts with the National Hockey League's decision to award Pittsburgh an NHL team in the 1967 expansion to follow in the city's solid minor league tradition. T ... place in the league in 1983 and the first overall pick in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. With the pick, Pittsburgh would select much-ballyhooed, sure-fire superstar Mario Lemieux, and began touting him as ...

(6 pages) 26 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports