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No pain, no gain for Pens? We'll see

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 15, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- It's a short walk from Shales Café to Pizza Milano on Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, in the shadow of the steel framework that will become the new home of the Pittsburgh Penguins in about 20 months. This is the heart of Penguin Nation, and regardless of where you go these days, the mood is consistently dark. Fans have been calling for blood for weeks now, but after a 6-3 throttling at the hands of the visiting -- and, dare we say, hated? -- Washington Capitals on Wednesday, t ...

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