Over the past 14 or so years I have attended a lot of Pittsburgh Penguins games.
As a credentialed member of the media. In the stands. The number is well into the hundreds. In all of those games I can honestly — and very definitively — say I have never felt a vibe in either the old building or the new building that matched the vibe that oozed out of the stands during Thursday’s 7-2 embarrassment at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers.
It was .... something.
On Thursday I was in the stands (with Hooks, actually!