Pittsbury Pinguins Essay Research Paper INTRODUCTIONPittsburgh penguins

Pittsbury Pinguins Essay, Research Paper

INTRODUCTION

Pittsburgh penguins are a team that interests me mainly because of my brother. As I was talking to him one night about my this report, I asked him if there were any sports teams in particular that he was interested in that weren t too popular around this area. He told me that the NHL playoffs were coming up, and the team that he was very much into was the Pittsburgh Penguins. I had asked him if there was a particular place where I could look up information on this team. He then told me that he had a couple of books lying around on this team and also knew of a few websites that he went on to check out scores, injury reports, news on the team and plenty more on this team. I told him that I needed to find more than just current information; I needed things like the history, and profiles of players. Appreciatively, he told me it would be no problem and if I needed help that he would be glad to. The only thing that I might have a problem with would be the coaches. In hockey, the coaches don t get as much fame as people would think they do because they don t really have that much to do with the outcome. These couches don t have to draw up plays, substitute players at the right times, or anything more then that. This might be a small obstacle I d have to go through, yet dealing with it and gathering up all the information I have to get for couches wont be as hard as I think it will be. Amazingly, there are many books, sites, magazines that I could check out to do this.

Method of research

Mostly all the places I researched at for my information were amazingly helpful. My brother, since he knows a lot more about the penguins and hockey in general than I will ever know, was the most helpful source of my research report. One of the best websites that was helpful to me, second to my brother was pittsburghpenguins.com; this site had a lot of useful information and also had many links in which I could use to look up other things such as the history of the NHL. The worst site I used was probably sportsillustrated.com. Every time would try to search for something on that website, the results came up with something totally unrelated to what I was looking for. It was good for the story on Mario Lemieux, one of the players, but besides that it was a worthless site.

League History

The league, in which the penguins play, the NHL, was started in 1917.

The NHL is an organization of professional ice hockey teams in North America, formed in 1917 by five Canadian teams, to which the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, was added in 1924. The NHL became the strongest league in North America and in 1926 took permanent possession of the Stanley Cup, representing world supremacy in ice hockey. Headquarters are in Montreal.

League membership rose to 10, then dropped, and held steady at 6 after 1942. After various periods of expansion and reorganization, the NHL in the mid-1990s consisted of 26 teams in two conferences and four divisions.

Eastern Conference:

Atlantic Division: Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals.

Northeast Division: Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Hartford Whalers, Montreal Canadians, Ottawa Senators, and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Western Conference:

Central Division: Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs.

Pacific Division: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks, Vancouver Canucks. (Site 1)

Team History

The team s history started in 1967 and had a little controversy over what name to give the franchise. There was a lot of work to be done, of course, and one of the first tasks was naming the team. (Part-owner Peter) Block was adamant that it would not be called the Hornets. “There was some (support) for it, but I basically said I wouldn’t allow it,” he said. “The Hornets were a minor-league team. I knew we were going to get some bad players (in the expansion draft), and I didn’t want to be called just another minor-league team.”

The obligatory newspaper contest was launched in the Post-Gazette, but (part-owner Jack) McGregor’s wife, the former Carol Dangerfield of Edgewood, had already found one she liked.

“When Jack got the franchise, he was so thrilled,” she remembered. “Then he said, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got to name it.’ I said, ‘I love to think of things like that.’ I was thinking of something with a P. And I said to Jack, ‘What do they call the Civic Arena.’ And he said, ‘The Big Igloo.’ So I thought, ice. . .Pittsburgh. . . Penguins.

“We talked about other names, but we kept coming back to the Penguins. Our friends really liked it. We pictured the uniforms being black and white.”

McGregor believes word of ownership’s choice leaked out, which explained why more than 700 of the 26,000 contests entries bore the name Penguins. Ownership’s choice was announced on Feb. 10, 1967, and five days later the name of Emily Roberts of Belle Vernon was drawn as the contest winner, making her the first Penguins’ season ticket holder. (History of 30 years)

Notes from Bob Grove:

There was some serious opposition to the

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