Penguins

-Evgeni Malkin gets paid.

-Dan Bylmsa gets to stay.

-"I am not getting rid of Marc-Andre Fleury." - Ray Shero.

-What does Malkin's contract mean for Kris Letang (above)?

-Shero speaks:

-Happy 57th birthday to former Penguins forward Blair Chapman. A first-round pick in 1976, Chapman spent parts of four seasons with the Penguins. Appearing in all 80 of the team's games in 1976-77, Chapman recorded 37 points as a rookie. During that spring's postseason, he contributed two points in three games. In 1977-78, he hit the 20-goal mark for the first time by scoring 24 goals and 44 points in 76 games. After recording 18 points in 71 games during the 1978-79 regular season, he scored one goal in seven postseason games that spring. Chapman was traded after one game in 1979-80 to the Blues in exchange for Bob Stewart. In 227 games with the Penguins, Chapman scored 99 points, 86th-most in franchise history. In 10 postseason games, he recorded four points.

-Happy 50th birthday to former Penguins forward Randy Gilhen. Acquired in the 1989 offseason in a deal along with Jim Kyte and Andrew McBain in a deal which sent Randy Cunneyworth, Rick Tabaracci and Dave McLlwain to the Jets, Gilhen spent two seasons in Pittsburgh. The 1989-90 season saw him play in 61 games and record 16 points. In 1990-91, Gilhen appeared in 72 games and set career highs in goals (15) and points (25). Gilhen played in 16 games that postseason, scored one goal and helped the franchise earn its first Stanley Cup title. In the 1991 offseason, he was claimed by the North Stars through the expansion draft. In 133 regular season games with the Penguins, Gilhen scored 41 points.

-Happy 38th birthday to former Penguins forward Dave Roche. A third-round pick in 1993, Roche spent parts of two seasons with the Penguins. As a rookie in 1995-96, Roche appeared in 71 games and recorded 14 points. In the 1995 postseason, Roche appeared in 16 games and contributed nine points. The 1996-97 season saw Roche appear in 61 games and record 10 points as well as a team-high 155 penalty minutes. After spending the entire 1997-98 campaign with Syracuse of the AHL, Roche was traded in the 1998 offseason to the Flames along with Ken Wregget in exchange for German Titov and Todd Hlushko. In 132 regular season games with the Penguins, Roche recorded 24 points.

-Happy 35th birthday to former Penguins forward Matt Bradley. Acquired at the 2003 trade deadline in a deal which sent Wayne Primeau to the Sharks, Bradley missed the rest of 2002-03 due to a broken wrist. In 2003-04, he appeared in all 82 games and scored 16 points. Following the 2004-05 lockout, he signed with the Capitals. He spent this past season with TuTo of Finland's Mestis league.

-After the Jump: The Blackahwks and Bruins go late into the night for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final and Mark Streit heads to Philadelphia.

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 It’s Day 6 of the cycling expedition and the Point Made! team is pedaling along, They are scheduled to ride 44 miles on Thursday from Rockwood to Dunbar.

Yesterday they officially started riding on the Great Allegheny Passage. According to one of the cyclists, Sara Carr, who is writing a blog about the trip, “The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) experience was much different than the rugged and muddy C&O. The surface of the GAP is similar to the Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh.” Overnight they stay at Seven Springs.

(Mile 0 on the GAP, photo by David Tucker)

The group enjoyed lots of sights on the GAP on Day 5: Bone Cave (Mile 4 on the GAP); Helmstetters Curve (the sweeping 180-degree horseshoe curved railroad is like candy for rail enthusiasts and photographers); Brush Tunnel; Frostburg (the depot station is worth a visit, we hear); Borden Tunnel (not as spooky as the Paw Paw Tunnel, but it is not lighted, so watch out). And, of course, they crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, and our Pete Zapadka wrote about The Line on the blog yesterday (Pete is THE authority on the subject).

(On the Great Allegheny passage, photo by David Tucker)

And then…. OF COURSE... Big Savage Tunnel (Mile 22). It’s the longest tunnel on the trip. The tunnel was built in 1911 and is 3,300 feet long. It was reconstructed for trail use in 2003. David Tucker who is one of the Point Made! cyclists shot a video of it… IN it. And yes, it’s lit up. So, check it out!

We also found some photographs in our archive from the days when Big Savage Tunnel was being reconstructred. This photograph captures the workers applying a sealant mixture to the exterior of the west portal of Mt Savage. The photo was taken by the former PG photographer VWH Campbell.

But back to Day 5... there were also some occasional falls, but it looks like team's attitude is right ;)

When u fall down, u gotta pic urself up; dust urself off and... #RideOn!

— Syndicus, Inc. (@SyndicusInc) June 13, 2013

On Day 5, the team also crossed one of the most distinctive structures of the GAP, the Salisbury Viaduct. It's 1,908 feet long. Abandoned for rairoad use in the 1980s, the viaduct was decked for trail use in 1999. 

Photo of Salisbury Viaduct by Len Barcousky/Post-Gazette from 2003