Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports Good morning! This is the Shotgun Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup. Welcome, By-Godders, to The Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU’s best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor, and daily distractions. It will probably come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, but West Virginia has been ranked the best tailgate school in…… read more »
Aug. 18—WOODCOCK TOWNSHIP — Two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins and current Penguins radio broadcaster Phil Bourque was the Greater Meadville Area Day dinner’s featured speaker. Wednesday’s event at The Country Club of Meadville was hardly Bourque’s introduction to Meadville. The “Ol’ Two-Niner” is well aware of the Meadville Bulldogs hockey team. “I…… read more »
At 6’0″, Swoyer is a bit undersized compared to the other defensemen brought in under the Hextall regime but makes up for it with his skating ability. Swoyer scored 23 points (5-18) in 36 games during his senior season at Michigan Tech. The 24-year-old blueliner finished last season with the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins, where he…… read more »
When the Golden Knights arrived on the scene, the hockey world was shocked when the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins failed to protect franchise goaltender and former first-overall pick Marc-André Fleury. The Golden Knights jumped on the opportunity and selected Fleury in the expansion Draft. The former Penguins superstar promptly led the upstart franchise…… read more »
Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images Will Sam James catch a pass for a TD & run back both a punt AND a kick-off for a TD ? Like a Sam James Scoring Trifecta? In the same game? Absolutely not. On the season? I still lean no, because a punt return touchdown is extremely tough, both…… read more »
In the not too distant past, Nathan Legare was one of the best prospects in the Pittsburgh Penguins system. Legare was drafted by the Penguins in the third round of the 2019 NHL Draft and looked to have one of the brightest futures in the organization. Ever since singing his rookie contract in September of…… read more »
Guentzel has already been one of the league’s top goal scorers the past four-five years and has consistently scored at a 40-goal pace per 82 games (even though he has rarely had a chance to actually play in 82 games). His 82-game paces going back to the start of the 2018-19 season: 2018-19: 40 2019-20:…… read more »
Set Number: X162342 TK1 For the first time since 2018, Oklahoma will visit Morgantown It has been four years since the Oklahoma Sooners visited Morgantown and the 2018 game is what led directly to the new coaching staff that we have in place in Morgantown now. Neal Brown has taken his team to Norman twice,…… read more »
The Blackhawks are signing veteran defenseman and Stanley Cup champion Jack Johnson to a one-year contract, according to a source.… read more »
The Alabama Crimson Tide won two national championships during Najee Harris’ collegiate career, but it wasn’t always smooth sailing for the running back….… read more »