What the Hell is your name!?

Smo Dick and myself were wondering about who had AiM, so that we would be able to chat and plan things. So if you happen to have the AiM and use the Al Gore put your S/N in the CBlog or you can sent it to me in a PM on facebook.

Primanti's mmmmmmmmmhmmm

So a little idea that Marc had awhile back now. Getting a group of us together and head to a Primanti Brothers, grab something to eat and watch a game. So let's try and make this happen, should be better then the PrimantiBlog or WingBlog's I hope. Since we will not complain about people on the Cblog and just try and have a good time. So how many people would be up for this?

Ok so here is what is sounds like so far. We will meet Sunday February 8th at the Primanti's on route 51. I am guessing that is the one near Pleasant Hill. The game is at 12:30 so lets try and get there at 12:00. More information will be coming. Also location is not final yet.

Ok a little change!

If you have been watching, it looks like we do not have to repost every time the stats are updated. So I have placed a permenit STATS WINDOW below that chat system. If you would like it to be moved let me know.

A New Era of Team PensBlog

Hello there, the site is now under new management and is going to be updated as many times a week that we can do. Also Kaynaan will I hope, will be posting somethings as well, but we will wait and see.

One thing I want to do is to make a banner that we were thinking about doing a while back. So what I need from you is a photo of your player, pick your favorite jersey and take a picture in game then send it to me.

Lastly, I was talking to a few people and they were maybe wanting a jersey. So how many people would want one, so I can get a number and a price idea to you guys.

Stats as of Sunday January 11th

PSN	SR	GP	G	A	Points	+/-	PIM	Hits
Wildthing202	B+	989	734	532	1266	+279	1335	10391
PolishSteel77	B-	667	398	580	978	+143	830	6048
Kevbo67	B-	536	402	458	860	+175	812	4624
Kaynaan	B-	418	289	224	513	+159	652	3617
jerrrrrrry	B+	399	117	233	350	-16	618	3473
Samsara	B+	284	11	108	119	+23	1479	4491
TeaJay1013	B+	272	125	114	239	+8	236	1853
Pittsmo	B	250	191	120	311	+70	404	2454
Myyrdin	B-	239	98	246	24	+43	323	2295
ZJedi945	B	226	17	128	145	+50	292	2087
Arkham1212	B-	191	27	109	136	-3	245	1699
Jaos	B	164	8	66	74	-42	420	2628
avad	B	140	87	88	175	-27	152	1105
LetsGoPens66	B	86	48	48	96	+23	98	732
TheOwenJones	B	72	85	74	159	+88	127	291
HNastee	B-	27	19	16	35	-6	24	241
Byeskey	B+	9	1	9	10	+10	6	57

This is good enough to post again

New Members wanted...

Members...haha (inside joke, sorry)

1. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lace em up with the rest of the guys on The PensBlog PS3 EASHL franchise? Well now is your chance. Post your PSN ID, Name, Position, player type (sniper, playmaker, etc) in the comments for this post. Entering the the chat above isn't the best since only so many messages are saved.
   
   
2. As some of you might have might have noticed I put together a quick new banner for our blog. It's not terrible but I think we can do better. I'd like to include as many of us as possible in it so start trying to grab your favorite screenshot and either I or someone that actually knows what they are doing with photoshop can put them into a kickass banner. Once again use the comments below to link to your photo.
   
   
3. The 3rd order of business is to officially announce the opening of our brand new forum. A link is now available in the top left of the page. Big thanks to Zack for putting this together. Please take the time to register yourself and post away.
   
   
4. These may have been posted somewhere on here already but I thought it'd be a nice refresher. The guys over at the EASHL Forum have a few good articles.
   

• Playmaking Center Strategy
• Playing Sound Defense
  
• Player Starting Attributes
• Equipment - Sticks & Skates
• Defenseman Tips

NHL 09 Third Jersey Code Released

Bing's excited about it. As ZJedi posted in the chat box it is xe6377uyrwm48frf.

Why can't we do this?

Was browsing the EASportsWorld website and thought I'd post a few of the better videos I watched. Feel free comment with some of your own videos if you want them to go on our big bad blog.

EA SPORTS World: Thats just ridiculous

EA SPORTS World: Funny save in practice

EA SPORTS World: Poooopin the Puck In

Team Stats

Here are our team stats. The first time numbers are the stats with out Division 1 rank from awhile back. 2nd are our current standings.

As promised I added some color. Green=Good/Red=Bad.

As a bonus you get some commentary.

Points - 58th (2,726) - 45th (3,172) [Good, but I'd like to see us crack top 20 for EASHL Playoffs]
Wins - 3rd (861) - 4th (1,101) [Being #1 in GP should make us shoot for #1 in W's]
Losses - 1st (650) - 1st (745) [Kinda hard to avoid with all our games...but each one hurts for sure]
OT Losses - 1st (107) - 1st (139) [Ditto with losses]
Games Played - 1st (1,618) - 1st (1,985) [Gotta love our activity level]
Goals For - 7th (2,947) - 5th (3,841) [Wins are more important but good to see we can score if we need to]
Goals Against - 1st (2,879) - 1st (3,459) [Cheap goals happen but we are getting better with defense]
Avg. Goals For - 96th (1.82) - 90th (1.94) [Like the improvement but closer to 3 would be great]
Avg. Goals Against - 99th (1.70) - 99th (1.74) [Not showing in the stats yet but we're getting better]
Avg. Time on Attack - 75th (5:41) - 79th (5:50) [time has gone up while ranking has gone down]
Avg. Win Margin - 99th (1.66) - 93rd (1.79) [We may play down to our opponents at times]
Avg. Loss Margin - 82nd (2.10) - 79th (2.14) [stat has gotten worse but we are ranked higher]
Hits - 1st (48,374) - 1st (59,709) [We're tough, but hopefully getting smarter]
Avg. Hits - 11th (29) - 13th (30) [we hit more but our rank has gone down]
Avg Shots For - 51st (17) - 40th (17) [number hasn't changed but our rank has gone up]
Shooting % - 90th (10.3%) - 87th (10.9%) [The real Pens are good with this...I'd like to see this improve]
Penalty Minutes - 1st (9,128) - 1st (11,531) [Our PK % isn't great...staying away from the sin bin may help]
Avg. PIM - 7th (5) - 14th (5) [number hasn't changed but our rank has gone down]
Power Play Goals - 4th (491) - 4th (644) [Solid number but we can do better]
PP Opportunities - 2nd (2,802) - 1st (3,478) [We like to piss teams off I guess]
PP % - 97th (17.5%) - 93rd (18.5%) [We're on the right track tons of room for improvement]
Shorthanded Goals - 7th (228) - 6th (308) [For as many times as we are on the PK...scoring helps]
SHG Against - 1st (179) - 1st (222) [The other team scores on 8% of out PP...gotta get better]
PPG Against - 1st (573) - 1st (691) [An improved PK and less penalties will fix this quickly]
Times Shorthanded - NA - 1st (4,016) [I missed this stat before but wow...big number]
Penalty Kill % - 79th (82.3%) - 82nd (82.8%) [has improved if even ranking doesn't show...lets keep it up]
Faceoffs Won - 1st (20,546) - 1st (25,139) [Lots of games = lots of faceoffs, if you aren't winning at least 45% of your faceoffs you probably shouldn't be C]
Breakaway Goals - 4th (92) - 3rd (143) [Cheese has helped but a patch would hurt this]
Breakaway % - 59th (11.7%) - 59th (13%) [Ditto]
One-Timer Goals - 23rd (201) - 22nd (341) [this is what good teams do...I like cheese free goals]
One-Timer % - 76th (6.3%) - 81st (7.2%) [higher % but lower ranking]
Avg. Passes - 80th (115) - 80th (116) [better barely...would love to see this improve]
Pass % - 54th (77.1%) - 50th (77.2%) [only thing better than more passes is smarter passing]
Blocks - 1st (9015) - 1st (10,824) [I like the number and the further away from the net we can make these blocks the better]
Shutouts - 3rd (344) - 2nd (444) [Solid...if they can't score we can't lose]