Thanks for the post.I worked with a woman who said she was credited with giving them their name. I remember him entering and I think he was the winner. Hockey fans dropped names into boxes at the Civic Arena and Mellon Bank. Three organizations — the Post-Gazette, the Hockey Club of Pittsburgh and Mellon National Bank — conducted a contest in which Pittsburghers were asked to send in suggestions. “Who needs the Penguins?,” he shouted. One name put forward: the Pussycats. In fact, an anti-penguin faction complained the name didn’t fit the sport. Not sure if this is true or not but evidently the Penguins sent flowers to his funeral so I thought I would throw that out for what it’s worth… Would be interesting to get an official confirmation. Construction was completed on August 1, 2010,Soon after buying the Penguins in 1999, The arena's funding plan was agreed upon by Lemieux, Pittsburgh mayor The Penguins have contacted the Pittsburgh Technology Council, which includes 1,400 businesses, in order to find new technologies to implement into the arena's design.The arena was originally named for PPG Paints Arena is one of the only major sports venues whose As with most other NHL arenas, the Penguins make use of a Team owner Mario Lemieux and captain Sidney Crosby officially opened the new ice on July 27, 2010, the same day as the official press conference to announce the The Penguins opened the arena with a pre-season game on September 22, 2010, with a 5–1 win over the rival The Penguins officially opened the building on October 7, 2010 against their The first playoff game in PPG Paints Arena was against the During the 2011 off-season, 300 seats were added, increasing the hockey
KDKA reports that the naming rights for the new Penguins arena have been sold to the Pittsburgh-based coal mining company for several million dollars a year. Penguins can’t fly, they argued.
• The CONSOL Energy Center opened officially on September 7, 2010.
In all, contest organizers were flooded with 26,400 entries. But the site of that last concert soon could be rocking once again. They have flippers. We salute the designer of the Pittsburgh Penguins logo for accomplishing the seemingly impossible: Transforming a flightless, waddling bird into an aggressive, determined and intimidating beast with a hockey stick.Hmmmm. New name for Pittsburgh Penguins’ home arena. Constructed in 1961 for use by the The Civic Arena hosted numerous concerts, the circus, political and religious rallies, The Civic Arena closed on June 26, 2010.
Others, like the Zeniths and the Queens, caused a bit of head scratching.
Still, the Wasps, as headline writers liked to call them, finished with a fantastic flourish, winning the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup in a four-game sweep of defending champion Rochester.The Hornets won the final game 4-3 in overtime.
Opening acts were the Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, and Jackie DeShannon. The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh.They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference.The club is owned by Mario Lemieux and Ronald Burkle, who purchased the Penguins in 1999 and brought the club out of bankruptcy. In 2010, James Taylor and Carole King reunited to close down the Civic Arena. PPG Paints Arena hosted its first Stanley Cup Finals in On July 13, 2010, the arena was selected to host the In December 2012, the arena began hosting the The first collegiate event at PPG Paints Arena was the fifth-annual College Hockey Showcase on October 17, 2010, hosted by Robert Morris.
Today, we believe we could give him an answer.Steve, a writer and photographer at the Post-Gazette, has lived and worked in Pittsburgh so long that some of his images appear on "The Digs. The new Pittsburgh Penguins arena will be named after Consol Energy. In all, contest organizers were flooded with 26,400 entries.
The question crossed our minds earlier this week when we came across a 1967 Post-Gazette article about the naming of our favorite National Hockey League team. In fact, the Pittsburgh Press gave the Hornets story second billing to a Pirate victory over St. Louis. Well, slightly over 5,000 fans attended the final game at the Civic Arena.
And they may be cute, but they certainly don’t inspire fear.In the years since, Pittsburgh and its hockey team have redefined what it means to be a penguin — at least here in Western Pennsylvania. But that name was unavailable — it belonged to the AFL franchise that was moving out to make way for the as-yet-unnamed National Hockey League expansion team.Naming of the team was a public affair. Without a new arena, the Penguins will not be able to survive.
Upon leaving the arena, one young fan gave a thought to the future. Some of the suggestions were predictable. PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that serves as home to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL), and was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2011 to 2014.. Construction was completed on August 1, 2010, and the arena opened in time for the 2010–11 NHL season.