Five Best Players of Pittsburgh Penguins Franchise History

Feb 26
14:08

2011

Steve Clis

Steve Clis

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The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team known to all. Entered into four Stanley Cup Finals in their history and win three Stanley Cups respectively in 1990-91, 1991-92, and 2008-09. Sidney Crosby And Evgeni Malkin entered Penguins make Penguins stronger and more interesting.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team known to all. They are one of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They won three Stanley Cups in the history,Five Best Players of Pittsburgh Penguins Franchise History Articles 2009 is the last year of their championship. Sidney Crosby And Evgeni Malkin entered Penguins make Penguins stronger and more interesting.
Early Pittsburgh fans friendly give Mellon Arena a nickname of "The Igloo", has been the home of some of the greatest hockey players to ever lace up a pair of skates. The Penguins had been holding their brand of blue-collar working-class hockey in the forty years. Here come and gone many great hockey players. One player is a special case.
He was noticed by Penguins and picked by them in 1984 NHL Entry Draft. So many fans hope him to change Penguins and the result is he really changed the team. He scored in his first show right away, but on the very first shot of his very first shift. Although he was troubled by injuries during hockey career and valian battle against Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was now deemed as one of the most important player in Pittsburgh franchise history, and one of the best player in Ice Hockey sport.
The occupational data of 690 goals, 1033 assists, and 1723 points, the data is hard enough for any player in the Hall of Fame to arrive. What amaze us is that he made these data only in 915 games.
Another all-time Penguin's top player is Jaromir Jagr, he played together with Mario Lemieux not so far to retired. Perhaps it was more than mere coincidence that the letters in Jag's first name could be arranged to spell "Mario Jr". Played for 11 seasons in the Penguins, he scored 439 goals, and would go on to score over 200 more with the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers.
The another top player is Ron Francis, who made 1798 points in his career and 613 points was done in the Penguins. It's worth noting that his three 100-point seasons came as a member of the Penguins.
The current NHL stars, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin is known to all and deemed as the hope of the Penguins. They keep the excellence of Lemieux, Jagr, and Francis.
Crosby made a data of 132 goals and 397 points, this is only till his last season with the Penguins. He attended the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 All-Star Game. Malkin, is now in his fourth season had 115 goals and 304 points, the data was compiled in only 3 full seasons. The data is similar to those compiled by Lemieux and Jagr at the beginning of their careers. If the data continues, they certainly will be another two best all-time players of Pittsburgh Penguins.