If you've been keeping up with Yahoo!'s Puck Daddy playoff coverage you've surely enjoyed the Eulogies written by opposing team writers. Matt was bestowed the honor of saying goodbye to the Pens. He starts:
"The Penguins were a good hockey team, and good men. They were men
who liked the outdoors... and hockey. And as skaters they explored the
rinks of Western Pennsylvania, from East Allegheny to the [Vegas]
Golden Triangle, and, up to Bloomfield.
They died - they died,
as so many teams in the 2008 playoffs have, before their time. In your
wisdom, Lord Stanley, you took them, as you took so many bright,
flowering young men - Montreal... New York... Philadelphia. These young
men gave their lives, and so did the Pens.
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And so, Pittsburgh
Penguins, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well
have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the
Monongahela River, which you loved so well..."