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How did the Pittsburgh Penguins get their name?

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We salute the designer of the Pittsburgh Penguins logo for accomplishing the seemingly impossible: Transforming a flightless, waddling bird into an aggressive, determined and intimidating beast with a hockey stick. Hmmmm. We wonder what that designer could do with an aardvark. Or a cricket. read more

Entries were sent to a selection committee that eventually chose a name submitted by 716 different people. The winner, of course: The Penguins. “It seemed natural,” committee member Pete Block told the PG. “The penguin lives on ice; hockey players make their living on ice. read more

While the Penguins, as with the rest of the NHL, have worn their black jersey at home since the league made the initiative to do so starting with the 2003–04 NHL season, the team wore their white jerseys in some home games during the 2007–08 season and at least once during the 2008–09 season, as well as wearing their powder blue, 1968–1972 "throwbacks" against the Buffalo Sabres in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic. read more

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