In 47 Days.....

In 47 days, the Pittsburgh Penguins will begin their 47th season in the National Hockey League (it would be 48th season, but Bettman Sucks). After yesterday's incredible TK tribute, it's going to be tough to beat that post, especially with not nearly as many players have been notable in wearing the number 47 for the black and vegas gold (formerly mustard gold). In those 47 years, only 6 players have worn the number 47 for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Those six players are Maxim Galanov, Kent Manderville, Michal Sivek, Micki DuPont, Tim Brent, and Simon Despres.

Michal Sivek deserves an honarable mention for this post because he was acquired by the Penguins on July 11, 2001 in one of the most famous (yet horribly awful) trades that has ever happened in Pittsburgh Penguins history. Sivek was acquired along with Kris Beech, and future considerations for Frantisek Kucera and some guy named Jaromir Jagr.

Legend

Sivek played in a whopping 38 games as a Penguin and tallied 3 goals and 3 assists, was a -5 (since thats the tell all, tell all stat for a hockey player) and recorded 14 PIMs. Sivek spent the parts of the next 3 seasons with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins before returning to his native Czech Republic to play through the 2007-08 season. To this day, not sure anyone (including his mother) knows where Michal Sivek is...

The real post today though is going to be on none other than

Simon Despres

Despres was the Penguins first round pick (30th overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.  Despres has played in 85 total NHL games (otherwise known as Dan Bylsma Syndrome Effect) and has tallied 3 goals and 13 assists. He recorded his first goal on December 17th, 2011 against the Buffalose Buffao Sabres.

Seriously, what a shift by TK on that goal.

Random thought: So glad the Penguins switched from Blur - Song 2 back to The Hey Song for their goal song.

 We don't take Despres' stats into consideration since he was playing for coach who hated the French and had mush for brains.

Live shot of someone looking inside Dan Bylsma's brain.

The four of us here at Heyyyyy Fannnssss are expecting big things out of Simon Despres and Jim Rutherford should be happy that he re-signed here knowing how bad that Ray Shero and Dan Bylsma fucked him over. Mike Johnston is going to get the best out of Simon Despres and we truly believe he is going to be.

We expect to see stuff like this.

What a shot.

The one thing to take away from those videos are, God how bad is Paul Steigerwald.

That's about all we have on Simon Despres and Michal Sivek. If Bylsma was a cockhat, we might be able to write more.

We can't wait to #GetToOurGame tomorrow to bring you #46.

Until then

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