Synopses & Reviews
This definitive resource on the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of the NHL's most popular and successful franchises, features exhaustive research and hundreds of exclusive photographs courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The book traces the franchise's history from its birth as an expansion team in 1967and#160;and its flirtation with bankruptcy in the 1970s to the arrival of Mario Lemieux in the 1980s and Sidney Crosby's comingand#160;in the 2000s, two acquisitions that have led to a golden age of Pittsburgh hockey.
About the Author
Rick Buker is an avid hockey fan and a freelance writer from Pittsburgh. Dave Molinari is a sports journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette who was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association for his 27-year coverage of the Pittsburgh Penguins.