Why you'll watch - October

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Have Penguins Cutback On ‘Student Rush’ Tickets
Published 7/18/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... promotions. For those games, college and high school students will be able to purchase discounted tickets for $20. A total of 400 tickets will be available for each of the four games.” We wanted to contact a team official to find out if that absolutely means there will only be four games where student discounted tickets but we spent the better part of our day yesterday in a pool. Sorry, we’re lazy. We’ll try to get word by Monday. read on for a breakdown of the Penguins October schedule…

Are the Penguins screwing their fans or doing good business?
Published 7/18/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... the guys aren't much older than us, so we feel a camaraderie that's unprecedented in the league. These are our Pittsburgh Penguins." Well, not really. The Penguins are no more the fans' than McDonald's is the carnivores'. They're a business; and in case you haven't noticed, they've slightly increased payroll for the next two seasons. It appears the Student Rush promotion may be a casualty of this escalation. The eagle eyes of Seth Rorabaugh on Empty Netters noticed this tidbit on the Penguins' boastful press release on ...

Stay in school for a discount on tickets...to four games
Published 7/18/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Richard Pollock) at IllegalCurve.com
... about how they had a renewal rate of 99 percent from their season ticket holders for next season, there's one little item that's somewhat buried. "The club also plans to select four games for special "Student Rush" promotions. For those games, college and high school students will be able to purchase discounted tickets for $20. A total of 400 tickets will be available for each of the four games." Read the entire entry from Rorabaugh here. Rorabaugh is exactly right when he ...

Game-By-Game Reasons To Watch: October
Published 7/22/2008 by JP (noreply@blogger.com) at Japers' Rink
... blog over at the something-or-other Post Gazette , and Seth is currently in the midst of providing his readers with individual reasons to watch each and every game on the local team's 2008-09 schedule . On a totally unrelated note, I thought it would be a great idea to provide Rink readers with individual reasons to watch each and every game on the local team's 2008-09 schedule. And while I could easily cut and paste "Because you don't want to miss what Alex Ovechkin might do next," that wouldn't give me six days-worth of content in late July. So without further ado, let's ...

Taking The Easy Way Out
Published 7/26/2008 by snoopyjode (noreply@blogger.com) at The Sidney Crosby Show
... Seth over at Empty Netters has been working overtime recently. He's written a series that takes an in depth look at the Pens' 2008-09 schedule and analyzes "Why You'll Watch." I have to admit that I haven't made my way through all of them yet, but he's got it all covered: October, ...