HEYYYYY FANNNSSSS: In 43 Days....

43 days from today (well yesterday since you're probably reading this on August 28th) the Pittsburgh Penguins will begin their quest for the Stanley Cup at Consol Energy Center against the Anaheim Ducks (should still be Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, IMO). If you have been following along the whole time, then congrats, you deserve a medal that we don't have or won't give.

Today (yesterday) was 43 days until the home opener. We would've had this post done but a Pirates game, drunking binges/wing night, poutine, Nate wanting to kill his dek hockey ref, and NHL 14 had us kind of forgetting about the post, but here it is.

Only 3 people have worn the number 43 in Pittsburgh Penguins history. Those players are Jeff Daniels

No not this one....

the great, Tomas Surovy, and the legend Phillipe Boucher.

We decided to write a little post up on the great Tomas Surovy

Tomas Surovy was a focal point during the X Generation.

What a disaster, seriously go look at some of the scores.

Surovy played in 126 games in his NHL career in 3 short seasons (all with Pittsburgh). Surovy scored 27 goals and 32 assists in those 126 games (that's not very good). And since +/- is the most important stat to some degenerate fans, Surovy was a -21 over those three seasons. Let's be honest though, as bad as the 3 Penguin teams that he was on, it would've been a miracle for any one of those players to be a +.

Surovy left the NHL after the 2005-06 season and began playing in Sweden as well as for his native Slovakia in the World Championships (Olympics in 2006). In 2010-11, Surovy joined the KHL and has played there ever since and he made the Slovakian Olympic team in 2014.

There's not much that we can say about Tomas Surovy so we'll give you some X Generation/Surovy clips from Youtube.