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Stadium</category><category>Tuomo Ruutu</category><category>Team Canada</category><category>Jody Shelley</category><category>Kris Versteeg</category><category>WHL</category><category>Eric Staal</category><category>Phil Esposito</category><category>Brian Rafalski</category><category>2009 Stanley Cup</category><category>Vezina Trophy</category><category>NHL Playoffs</category><category>Philippe Boucher</category><category>Wheeling Nailers</category><title>Going Five Hole</title><description>A general hockey blog covering all things NHL</description><link>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>828</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoingFiveHole" 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Jordan Staal's first NHL goal was a sign of things to come.

Madison Square Garden. Oct. 12, 2006. Killing a penalty.

His read on the play to intercept the pass and score on a breakaway showed what kind of defensive presence he would become as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

I was a big fan of Staal. As one of the three-headed monster, he gave the Penguins incredible strength down the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/7TUIXbNoMQU/jordan-staal-memories.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8PUxtfgt4LA/US7QShW7jTI/AAAAAAAAAzk/po1Xlfq7mns/s72-c/3624241461_904f201495.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/7TUIXbNoMQU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2013/02/jordan-staal-memories.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-7375989613845396124</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-08-16T00:26:08.701-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gary Bettman</category><title>Canadian news sites love selecting Gary Bettman photos</title><atom:summary>I've noticed something over the past year.

Whenever there's a story on some Canadiens news websites, specifically the Globe &amp; Mail, involving NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman either mainly or peripherally, the accompanying photo is far from flattering.

Case in point:




Super smiley




Confused




Deep in thought




Surprised




"This is your counter proposal?"


Now Bettman's been in charge </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/QPaq7csvNhc/canadian-news-sites-love-selecting-gary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eN94PZ1nuMo/Tk1uOlVGHsI/AAAAAAAAArM/KzLQpUz5ESM/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-08-18+at+3.51.13+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/QPaq7csvNhc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2012/08/canadian-news-sites-love-selecting-gary.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-7945518871046420601</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T15:21:32.316-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Los Angeles Kings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Columbus Blue Jackets</category><title>Pandora's box and the idea of replaying games</title><atom:summary>Go back to Nov. 2009 when Ireland and France were playing the second leg of their World Cup qualifying playoff.

A trip to South Africa and the 2010 World Cup Final was on the line and in the waning moments of the game, a clear handball by Thierry Henry was missed and led to the winning goal from France.

Game over. Irish eyes were crying ... including mine.

After the game, the incident made </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/2gLcDDbocIU/pandoras-box-and-idea-of-replaying.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9C1ltuIuF1c/TyrmU0elw5I/AAAAAAAAAsM/bfOVyWtMdzM/s72-c/NHL.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/2gLcDDbocIU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2012/02/pandoras-box-and-idea-of-replaying.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-7302705006291717534</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-11T22:32:15.528-05:00</atom:updated><title>Polls are the most inaccurate things ever</title><atom:summary>The latest ESPN Sports Poll rates Tim Tebow as "America's favorite active pro athlete".

This means ESPN PR machine will send out releases to everyone in their Rolodex promoting this and continuing the Tebow narrative that's dominated the 2011-12 NFL season. 

Here's the kicker:
"To put this in perspective, Tim Tebow rose to the top before the end of his second pro season. It took Tiger Woods </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/4btGCgqpPws/polls-are-most-inaccurate-things-ever.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/4btGCgqpPws" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2012/01/polls-are-most-inaccurate-things-ever.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-2482217543621688467</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-03T02:45:45.555-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Alexei Emelin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Joe Pavelski</category><title>Alexei Emelin on Joe Pavelski</title><atom:summary>
Beautiful. Textbook. Perfect.

Emelin and Doug Murray should have a hit off. That'd be a spectacle and a half.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/lcgEif7fxp8/alexei-emelin-on-joe-pavelski.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/lcgEif7fxp8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/12/alexei-emelin-on-joe-pavelski.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-8646308910108964833</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-28T16:28:35.458-05:00</atom:updated><title>The English meet hockey, falls in love</title><atom:summary>Guest Post from an English fan

Many years before I ever considered buying tickets to hockey games, when I first came to this country, I was in a bar talking to a Canadian hockey coach. The man was dedicated to his sport and had nothing but scorn for all others - apart from one; soccer. Or football as we Brits call it. I asked what he admired about football, and he said, "Y'see, football is the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/S-d51wLvYCU/english-meet-hockey-falls-in-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/S-d51wLvYCU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/09/english-meet-hockey-falls-in-love.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-3673333582988353872</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-04T00:47:06.043-04:00</atom:updated><title>I'm tired ...</title><atom:summary>I'm tired of reading obituaries of hockey players gone too soon.

I'm tired of the soapboxing of some debating the purpose of fighting/role of enforcers in hockey in regards to the deaths of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak.

I'm tired of reading about the uncertain returns of players who've suffered concussions like Sidney Crosby and David Perron.

I'm tired of reading about players </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/Q9GUr7Yyrrs/im-tired.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/Q9GUr7Yyrrs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-tired.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-789006259725789630</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-13T23:44:41.605-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL realignment</category><title>You could realign this or you can realign that</title><atom:summary>NHL realignment has been a hot topic of late mostly because it's July and we're down to wondering where Mike Comrie might sign next season.

With the move of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg realignment is necessary so the divisions don't look like the 14 years the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals were in the NFC East.
There've been a number of different proposals floating around. The Toronto Star had </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/-H4tutIvUtA/you-could-realign-this-or-you-can.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--0UWgkTDP28/Th5X57zcQPI/AAAAAAAAAp0/gq6rV_aNCGk/s72-c/THEHOCKEYGUYS.NET.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/-H4tutIvUtA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/07/you-could-realign-this-or-you-can.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-6087662266124167045</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-13T00:07:14.559-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Steve MacIntyre</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>The need or no need for an enforcer</title><atom:summary>So the Pittsburgh Penguins signed tough guy Steve MacIntyre to a one-year, two-way deal for $600,000 tonight closing the door on the Eric Godard era (who inked a two-year deal with the Dallas Stars on Tuesday).

Godard played 135 games with the Penguins collecting 352 penalty minutes in the process. MacIntyre has seen scant duty in the NHL after coming up during the 2008-09 season with the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/QNJFJkCHDyQ/need-or-no-need-for-enforcer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qdDbOIJnfOU/Th0YSWElzpI/AAAAAAAAApo/4EVUgYCCjEE/s72-c/MAC.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/QNJFJkCHDyQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/07/need-or-no-need-for-enforcer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-737395026245327109</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-25T06:17:00.298-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>20 years ago today ...</title><atom:summary>"The Stanley Cup has come to the city of Pittsburgh!"

"Go for it Mario, go for it."

</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/gZ7oKxgJvQk/20-years-ago-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/tenIb77iidg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/gZ7oKxgJvQk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/05/20-years-ago-today.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-5689283950012338979</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-23T16:15:45.146-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Vancouver Canucks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Henrik Sedin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL Playoffs</category><title>Vision</title><atom:summary>What Henrik Sedin sees that nobody else does.


</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/UUhUa9o0v7A/vision.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sEfL96LHM5E/TdrAHm7AjZI/AAAAAAAAAkY/5RtvDyRLquY/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-05-23+at+12.22.50+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/UUhUa9o0v7A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/05/vision.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-1972959243819660716</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-10T23:58:10.713-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL Playoffs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>False hope blinds reality: the 2010-11 Penguins season</title><atom:summary>(written while I was on a plane home from Jamaica two weeks ago)
Deep down we knew. Way in the back of our collective minds, we knew.
When Sidney Crosby exited the Penguins lineup after his second bruising hit in a week’s time in January, there still was hope.
When Evgeni Malkin tore both his ACL and MCL a few weeks later, with Crosby still having not returned, there was false hope. Hope that </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/xFj74KmIgns/false-hope-blinds-reality-2010-11.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FoSREyxv9ZY/TcoGEaASaAI/AAAAAAAAAkU/iULKs4l1uhY/s72-c/PENS1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/xFj74KmIgns" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/05/false-hope-blinds-reality-2010-11.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-2929857571653840589</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-23T19:21:51.640-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Vancouver Canucks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Roberto Luongo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL Playoffs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Chicago Blackhawks</category><title>Roberto Luongo and United Center</title><atom:summary>This theory that the United Center in Chicago is some sort of house of nightmares for Roberto Luongo is just silly if you just look at the stats over the past three playoff series (and regular season) between the Vancouver Canucks and Blackhawks.

First, the playoff numbers:

2009 at United Center: 1-2, 3.33 GAA, 10 GA
2009 at home: 1-2, 3.71 GAA, 11 GA


2010 at United Center: 2-1, 1.68 GAA, 5 </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/ek0YoEIiP0w/roberto-luongo-and-united-center.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-emRwyt-8pM0/TbNd35v0BmI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/L7DWWBxtpOI/s72-c/LUI.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/ek0YoEIiP0w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/04/roberto-luongo-and-united-center.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-490085460025729117</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-21T23:47:13.711-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Detroit Red Wings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Phoenix Coyotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL Playoffs</category><title>A series in one photo</title><atom:summary>













Of the 10 goals scored by the Phoenix Coyotes in their series against the Detroit Red Wings, only four came 5-on-5.

How?

The picture above explains everything that the Red Wings did to prevent Phoenix from scoring at even strength. Every Coyote covered. Sticks in lanes. Nowhere to put the puck to help create a scoring opportunity.

It's just one example in the series showing how </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/rNZRulU7lkg/series-in-one-photo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kXhfBeridg0/TbD2a8hRcbI/AAAAAAAAAkM/IQUBxGtxJlI/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-04-21+at+11.21.50+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/rNZRulU7lkg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/04/series-in-one-photo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-1781702668146953707</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-15T13:19:51.780-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Los Angeles Kings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">San Jose Sharks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Joe Pavelski</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NHL Playoffs</category><title>A split-second changes everything</title><atom:summary>From last night's 3-2 San Jose win over the Los Angeles.

1) If Kings defenseman Alec Martinez was a split-second quicker he would have disrupted Joe Pavelski with a stick check before the OT winner:


2) Wayne Simmonds goes for the blocked shot on Pavelski's goal, but in the process gets in Jonathan Quick's line of sight by staying on his skates and not dropping all the way down to the ice:


</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/QezrvfnbnHo/split-second-changes-everything.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pb2Zu0ia5Fs/Tah9Cc11rPI/AAAAAAAAAkE/JXuvMmLIOes/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+1.07.48+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/QezrvfnbnHo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/04/split-second-changes-everything.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-2963909811215770767</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-10T21:12:42.790-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mario Lemieux</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jerseys</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>The Pittsburgh Penguins alternate jerseys that never were?</title><atom:summary>
Lelands.com is a New York-based memorabilia auction house, and in December sold this Pittsburgh Penguins alternate jersey for $529.84.
It's an alternate jersey, but one the team never wore.
According to the item description, the jersey, designed by Pro Player, was slated to be the Pens' alternate look for the 2000-01 season. Pro Player supplied the Penguins with their jerseys, but before the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/o_AWrpALqBw/pittsburgh-penguins-alternate-jerseys.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kK2_EY0nyyg/TXmD25ngdsI/AAAAAAAAAjo/OlvUuFJmdnE/s72-c/PENSALT.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/o_AWrpALqBw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/03/pittsburgh-penguins-alternate-jerseys.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-8555289381488938472</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-10T14:19:50.918-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trade rumor</category><title>The value of "listening" to offers and having "interest" in a player</title><atom:summary>We've hit February and thus begins "silly season" -- the time of the hockey year when trade rumors begin revving up and beat writers across North America chase every made-up, half-baked deal whose genesis is either a) a message board  b) some random dude's mind c) someone looking a little too deep into Capgeek.com.

It's a frustrating time of year because majority of trades that go down you never</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/aYVb9gpiR7A/value-of-listening-to-offers-and-having.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TVL0Ne_XYJI/AAAAAAAAAjc/SpzFBKQCHBI/s72-c/Phoenix%252BCoyotes%252Bv%252BNew%252BYork%252BRangers%252BT46N0D_ataxl.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/aYVb9gpiR7A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/02/value-of-listening-to-offers-and-having.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-1139554802227743876</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-14T14:39:30.333-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">All Star Game</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011 All Star Game</category><title>NHL All-Star Game jersey or Philadelphia Phillies retro jersey?</title><atom:summary>
Yes, that's one of the NHL All-Star Game jerseys dressed up with Steve Carlton on the back. Not sure why Reebok is so in love with the stripes, but at least they didn't use navy blue or black in either of the jerseys, so we got that going for us.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/_r73tBHS4rA/nhl-all-star-game-jersey-or.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TTCmIlb7phI/AAAAAAAAAjU/P4WjB-9nMrc/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-01-14+at+2.07.27+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/_r73tBHS4rA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2011/01/nhl-all-star-game-jersey-or.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-7583089466033998385</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-27T08:12:21.450-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mario Lemieux</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>On This Date 10 Years Ago ...</title><atom:summary>Some say the Savior came back on a Sunday, but it was actually a Wednesday in late December, in the Year 2000 ...

</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/WWtMUDChqjk/on-this-date-10-years-ago.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/WWtMUDChqjk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-this-date-10-years-ago.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-2090368396953020866</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-15T17:07:13.354-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Colin Campbell</category><title>Why Colin Campbell will continue to be the NHL's sheriff</title><atom:summary>On the heels of Tyler Dellow leaking emails (cached version here if site's still down) between Colin Campbell, NHL VP Mike Murphy, now Director of Officiating Terry Gregon, and former NHL Director of Officiating Stephen Walkom that were part of a court case involving former official Dean Warren, the blogosphere is lighting up in screams of joy and beginning to decorate for a "going away party" </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/1yNGwRjB25M/why-colin-campbell-will-continue-to-be.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TOGumbAQ42I/AAAAAAAAAi0/NfMCPJLBzEE/s72-c/cpt12416473_low.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/1yNGwRjB25M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-colin-campbell-will-continue-to-be.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-5645069488184017983</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-07T12:30:47.762-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bill Guerin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mike Comrie</category><title>Bill Guerin still needs a job, right?</title><atom:summary>When Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero signed Mike Comrie over the summer the reaction -- after the "He's still around?" questions -- was that it was a good risk for the team to take. Signing Comrie to a one-year, $500,000 deal was one of those "low risk/high reward" deals you see often. If Comrie meshed well with the team and put up decent numbers, it would be a victory for both sides. Should </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/PBTM32RY2k0/bill-guerin-still-needs-job-right.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TNbeAxV3qbI/AAAAAAAAAiw/Htl-HtWQvIk/s72-c/GUERIN.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/PBTM32RY2k0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/11/bill-guerin-still-needs-job-right.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-6203379588562893645</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-02T00:48:27.366-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marc-Andre Fleury</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brent Johnson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>If Brent Johnson keeps winning, it's not a controversy</title><atom:summary>Brent Johnson: 5-0-1
Marc-Andre Fleury: 1-5-0

It's November 2nd. No need to freak out.

That's the benefit of Johnson's success so far this season. He's kept the Pittsburgh Penguins afloat as Fleury goes through a tough opening stretch. If Johnson was mediocre while Fleury struggled, the New Jersey Devils' fanbase would have company on the bridge.

What Johnson has done is give Fleury time to </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/jEMx0D0TBws/if-brent-johnson-keeps-winning-its-not.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TM-WLhrLwyI/AAAAAAAAAic/CYirvxyR7QA/s72-c/20101016wp_penguinsflyers_330.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/jEMx0D0TBws" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/11/if-brent-johnson-keeps-winning-its-not.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-282434259010160619</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-27T13:03:23.539-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pittsburgh Penguins</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ray Shero</category><title>Wingin' it with the Pittsburgh Penguins</title><atom:summary>There have been two storylines over the past few years regarding the Pittsburgh Penguins that have become a never-ending discussion. Both, oddly enough, are tied to one-another.

The first is the ongoing search for a consistent winger to play alongside Sidney Crosby. In his five-plus years in the NHL, the only player that meshed perfectly with Crosby was Marian Hossa. Of course, he was only a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/idsd39bmvLE/wingin-it-with-pittsburgh-penguins.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TMhXB3V_viI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/rbEZjNXaL4I/s72-c/2408557.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/idsd39bmvLE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/10/wingin-it-with-pittsburgh-penguins.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-7480911235057105109</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-26T23:17:57.566-04:00</atom:updated><title>I'm back ... kinda</title><atom:summary>Hi there. Been a while, right? Yeah, so I haven't written anything here in almost two years, but after thinking about it, it'd be a good thing to have a place to throw all of my thoughts that wouldn't fit on Puck Daddy.

There's no schedule of when I'll post here. Whenever I have some droppings I need placed, I'll put them here -- whether it's regarding the Pittsburgh Penguins, the NHL or a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/FhgYZvY-QI8/im-back-kinda_4476.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WIlZ5yw2bls/TMeISvAqY3I/AAAAAAAAAiI/xRlY0ZXv-gQ/s72-c/KOTTER.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/FhgYZvY-QI8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-back-kinda_4476.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167176417541427756.post-3723198580989942556</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-15T16:00:35.659-04:00</atom:updated><title>Where to Find Me</title><atom:summary>While I'm away from Going Five Hole, you can still find me talking puck at the following places, feel free to join in:FacebookTwitterPuck Daddy Subscribe in a reader</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~3/klz8n1IGPa0/where-to-find-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sean Leahy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoingFiveHole/~4/klz8n1IGPa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://goingfivehole.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-to-find-me.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
