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Winning Stanley Cup a brutal test of endurance

PITTSBURGH — June arrives this week, and an NHL season that started with September training camps is still at least three games away from ending.To say itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a grind would be inadequate.This has become an endurance contest, as it often does. If Pittsburgh wins, this won’t be the best ...

Most talented teams don’t always win Stanley Cup

If you’re giving the Nashville Predators very little chance of beating the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final, you might be interested to know that they started the season as a 30-1 shot to win the Cup.And you might have noticed that a team that doesn’t have anything close to the star power ...

Was starting Murray a tough decision?

PITTSBURGH — Penguins coach Mike Sullivan called his goaltender choice for Game 4 an incredibly difficult decision.Was it really?Sullivan believes in Matt Murray. He stuck with him in the playoffs last season long after Marc-Andre Fleury was available. He installed him as the No. 1 goalie ...

Sullivan’s gutsy choice to start Murray pays off

I would have started Fleury.Maybe thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ why I’m not the Penguins’ head coach and Mike Sullivan is. Matt Murray stood strong and made some big saves, especially late, to help the Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 Friday night and even the Eastern Conference Final at two games apiece.I ...

Hurdle stuck with bad batch of ingredients

PITTSBURGH — ThereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a TV cooking show that gives chefs an assortment of ingredients and challenges them to make a meal of the random mix.They might get chicken thighs, artichokes, peanut butter, bananas and bamboo shoots. The impossible task is to take those items and create a meal that ...

Rutherford proved to be wise in not trading Fleury

Who was it that said that the best trades are often the ones that you don’t make? Whoever said it could have been thinking of the trade that Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford didn’t make for Marc-Andre Fleury.Pirates GM Neal Huntington might disagree but more on that in a ...