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DeSmith of Penguins being evaluated for injury

Pittsburgh Penguins Casey DeSmith is being evaluated for an upper-body injury. The goalie did not practice with the Penguins on Tuesday after making 29 saves in a 5-3 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday. Pittsburgh had a scheduled day off Monday.read more »

Penguins Promote Ty Hennes to Assistant Coach

The Pittsburgh Penguins organization have always held their coaching and development staff in high regard and that continues with a promotion to Ty Hennes. Formerly a skills and development coach, general manager Ron Hextall made it official that the Penguins promoted Hennes to assistant coach. Promoting Ty to an assistant coach was one of our…read more »

Casey DeSmith Misses Penguins Practice for Precautionary Injury Evaluation

The Pittsburgh Penguins return home from a perfect three-game road trip and had near perfect attendance at practice. The only player missing from the Penguins first practice back home was goalie Casey DeSmith; emergency backup goalie Mike Chiasson was filling in. Following the practice, head coach Mike Sullivan said that the DeSmith missed practice to…read more »

Trent Reznor Quitting Twitter Over ‘Arrogance Of The Billionaire Class’

Trent Reznor Quitting Twitter Over ‘Arrogance Of The Billionaire Class’

One more artist is leaving Twitter in protest against its new owner Elon Musk’s policy decisions. “I’m about to depart [Twitter],” Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter. “We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved,…read more »

Report: Hextall looking to make a trade?

But I’ve heard he’s looking into things. Marek: I don’t think that should surprise anybody. Friedman: I’m gonna have Felix Potvin live in my house next week in case Hextall hears this and doesn’t like it…read more »

West Virginia women’s basketball team off to 3-0 start

West Virginia women’s basketball team off to 3-0 start

Chris Jones-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. The West Virginia women’s basketball is off to a 3-0 start under new head coach Dawn Plitzuweit. The Mountaineers’ latest win…read more »