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. Senior big man Tre Mitchell has been named the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. Mitchell averaged 16.0 points,…… read more »
It might be the sign that his season is about to really start going well for him and the Penguins. While his goal-scoring had dried up a bit over the past few weeks, he was still generating offense and brought a five-game point streak into Monday’s game that saw him tally seven assists. Given the…… read more »
Weezer recently released “I Want A Dog,” the lead single from SZNZ: Winter, the latest in a series of four EPs that began with the release of SZNZ: Spring in March. SZNZ: Winter, the final EP in the series, is due to arrive on December 21. A release describes SZNZ: Winter as “a stripped-back, acoustic-leaning…… read more »
Here’s the case for Jarry’s play being one of the factors leading the Penguins’ improvement: one thing that hasn’t changed throughout these wildly different stretches of the 2022-23 season is that the Penguins have consistently had one of the most porous defenses in the NHL. At an average of 34 shots against per game, the…… read more »
A goal just 19 seconds into the game put the Pittsburgh Penguins in a hole early but they never stop battling and clawed their way back for a 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars to push their winning streak to six games. Pierre-Olivier Joseph evened the score with his first goal of the season on…… read more »
Steppenwolf have announced that a new The Epic Years 1974-1976 3CD box set will be released on January 27. In the early 1970’s, the American-Canadian rock band released eight albums and enjoyed huge success. Steppenwolf disbanded in February 1972, with John Kay recording a solo album, but by 1974 they had emerged once again and…… read more »
The playoffs are still months away for Pittsburgh and Dallas. Yet they provided a glimpse of what likely awaits each of them in the spring, a time of year when space gets tight and open ice essentially vanishes. For two of the NHL’s highest-scoring teams, playing responsibly on the defensive end in December can be…… read more »
Evgeni Malkin pounced on a loose puck and fired it into the net with 35 seconds remaining to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins by the Dallas Stars 2-1 on Monday night.… read more »
Pittsburgh then gets a couple calls of their own, with a poor looking opening power play followed up by a second chance when Evgeni Malkin is impeded. The second power play group scores with P.O. Joseph sniping his first goal of the year by beating a goalie drafted a few picks after him, with some…… read more »
Pierre-Olivier Joseph (Pittsburgh Penguins) with a Goal vs. Dallas Stars, 12/12/2022… read more »