Penguins Are Next

The Pens Blog has suited up and put their game face on.

It seems like the Pens haven't played in months.
But the Rangers will be equally as rested.
So the rust, if there is any, will be on both sides.

What a series it is going to be.

It won't take long for the hatred to start...

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The Captain's manly facial hair already has the Pens worried -- What the hell is growing on Jagr's face?

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Penguin Factoid #1

ex-New Yorker Marie Javins at
'No Hurry in JC' blog:
Cute but Stinky --

I'm working on an Antarctica piece for Tim Leffel's Perceptive Travel website.

... my pal Edward (last seen gloating that I hadn't been to South Georgia and he had) reminded me of a detail I'd forgotten.

"Don't forget the stink of the penguins."

Oh yeah. That's right. Penguins hang out together and poop on the rocks. When you have a big group of penguins, you have a big penguin poop smell.

RP is just relaying this information as a public service. Penguins are fine little creatures as long as they remain downwind.

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John Dellapina / NY Daily News:
It's Rangers vs. Penguins in 2nd round -- A year ago, perhaps a bit too pumped up by the team's first playoff series triumph in 11 years, a couple of Rangers said some things that their second-round opponent parsed into bulletin-board fodder.

Expect no such utterances from anybody in a Broadway Blueshirt before their 2008 second round faces off Friday night in Pittsburgh. Game 2 will be Sunday afternoon. After having dispatched the Devils in five games in the first round, the Rangers are more grounded and guarded heading into the second round this time around. "I think we learned a bit of a lesson in that we gave Buffalo pretty good motivation for Game 1 last year by shooting our mouths off a little bit," Brendan Shanahan said Tuesday.

"I think that was a lesson learned - that as good as you may feel about yourself after Round 1 it really becomes, you know, 'Those newspapers are wrapping fish.' It really kind of becomes old news once Round 2 starts."...

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Steve Zipay / Newsday:
Rangers will face Crosby and his Penguins -- With Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Marian Hossa and Petr Sykora, Pittsburgh "is an explosive team," Rangers coach Tom Renney said. "They've got some terrific young players ... their goaltending certainly seems to have nailed it throughout the course of the season. They're one of those teams who will force you into mistakes by the pressure they apply offensively, so we have to be alert to those issues and try to keep a pretty good offensive team off the ice in terms of the power play." ...

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Larry Brooks / NY Post:
Cashing In On Avery Punk Act -- It's the NHL, all right - the National Hypocrites League.

Following a week during which the NHL hierarchy cast Sean Avery as the ultimate villain and took the extraordinary step of amending its rule book in the middle of the playoffs in order to outlaw the face-guarding tactics No. 16 employed against Martin Brodeur in Game 3 of the Battle of the Hudson, the league has authorized Reebok to manufacture and sell an "Avery Rule" tee shirt, The Post has learned...

Rangers vs. Pens Is Real Cros Celebre - Brooks
Avery Interning at Vogue this summer - Women's Wear Daily

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