#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting comments on Pens locker room history from beat reporter Josh Yohe recently. When talking about Geno and Sid's relationship, mentioned how Geno shut down the attempted captaincy coup during Sid's concussion, Josh said "I do think this team is closer. Sid wasn’t really allowed to be the leader back then. This team really is his. And I think it shows."

(He wouldn't say who had been involved in the captaincy stuff but said some people were guessing accurately. The most speculated about culprits are Brooks Orpik, Jordan Staal and Craig Adams.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say this was brand new information? it was interesting to me in context of thinking about locker room dynamics.

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[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say you were saying that? Calm down.

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[(Anonymous)]

According to Yohe, not just shut it down, he just said, "This is stupid, Sid's the fuckin captain," and then up and left.

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[(Anonymous)]

Geno <3
Where did you get that from?

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[(Anonymous)]

Yohe did a Good Dudes feature on Geno. Unfortunately I don't have access, I saw a screencap that's been taken down, and also saw other people on my TL talking about it.

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[(Anonymous)]

This was the infamous incident where they all came out with C's on their sweater I think. I'm such a sap it's one of my low-key favorite hockey stories about a team.

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[(Anonymous)]

My impression of the Pens' lockerroom is that it's one of the more friendly but businesslike/professional rooms in the league. Old-school guys probably think it's a little dissatisfying.

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[(Anonymous)]

There was a really interesting discussion on the Pens Roundtable last week (Rossi warning. If that's a thing you need) about the Pens locker room and how the beats anticipate it's going to change now that the second cup has secured Sid and Geno's reputations (legacies??) and they hinted around the fact that in the past the Pens locker room wasn't bad per se. But was often tense, which I thought was interesting.

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[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was interesting/funny/eyerolling that Rossi was like "I know I've always said they were only friendly teammates, but I have to concede that now Sid and Geno are actually friends".

An ex-Pen (Niskanen?) talked about how tense/stressed things were in recent seasons, not in a bad "everyone hates each other" way but regarding the expectations on the team.