The Pirates cleaned out the whole front office.
The Steelers needed to fight and claw to beat the awful Miami Dolphins.
Pitt did yet another Pitt thing against the Miami Hurricanes.
And the ground beneath Pittsburgh’s city streets is literally trying to swallow us whole.
Therefore, maybe the news that Evgeni Malkin has returned to practice escaped you.
But the Penguins (7-5) do play the Philadelphia Flyers (5-4-1) Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena. It’s the first installment of that heated rivalry. So that’ll put pucks back on the radar in Western Pa.
I discuss that with Penguins Radio Network host Brian Metzer in this week’s hockey podcast.
We also talk about the Erik Gudbranson trade, how the Flyers are scoring at the rate that they are, and the Penguins’ attempts to blend their returning skill-position guys into their straight-forward style of play that has worked for them during this stretch of injuries.
Oh, and heavy-metal-themed Halloween pop-up bars all around the City of Pittsburgh.
If bus-eating sinkholes don’t scare you, these will.
