Good morning! This is the Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup. Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in…… read more »
The Minnesota Wild beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Wild star Frederick Gaudreau scored twice. Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who spent multiple seasons with the Penguins, was honored by fans for what will likely be his final game in Pittsburgh.… read more »
The PWHL is preparing for expansion as early as next season. Early favourites for a team in the USA is Pittsburgh, and Calgary in Canada. With Minnesota out west, it’s possible they could expand a division out there. Pittsburgh has hosted a PWHL game last season and have shown consistent interest in the past year.…… read more »
Photo by Mark Alberti/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In the span of 3 months we’ve gone from the biggest hype train to fire the coach billboards. How we got from here to there is fascinating On Monday morning, October 28, 2024, the West Virginia Mountaineers were greeted with three billboards placed in strategic locations declaring…… read more »
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots in what will likely be his final game in Pittsburgh as the Minnesota Wild beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Tuesday night. Frederick Gaudreau scored twice and Kirill Kaprizov added a goal and two assists. Kaprizov tied the franchise record with his sixth straight multipoint game. Mats Zuccarello and Jakub…… read more »
Frederick Gaudreau scored two goals and added an assist and Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves against their former team, lifting the visiting Minnesota Wild to a 5-3 victory over the reeling Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday. Fleury, a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Penguins, competed presumably in his last trip to Pittsburgh, where he spent…… read more »
The six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League is launching its expansion process with plans to add as many as two franchises for the start of the 2025-26 season, a league executive announced Tuesday. Speaking at the ESPNW Summit in New York, senior vice president of business operations Amy Scheer said the league will begin sending requests…… read more »
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Rickard Rakell gets a shot past Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury for a goal as Jake Middleton (5) defends Evgeni Malkin (71) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots in what will likely be his final game…… read more »
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots in what will likely be his final game in the Steel City as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Tuesday night. Frederick Gaudreau scored twice and Kirill Kaprizov added a goal and two assists. Kaprizov tied the franchise record with his sixth straight multipoint game. Mats Zuccarello…… read more »
The BBC reported on Tuesday (October 29) that more than 50,000 Oasis UK tour tickets that were sold on secondary platforms will be canceled. Oasis’ promoters, Live Nation and SJM, have announced that all voided tickets will eventually be made available for sale again at face value through Ticketmaster. The ticket sales for Oasis’ reunion…… read more »