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The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference, and have played their home games at PPG Paints Arena, originally known as Consol Energy Center, since 2010. The team previously played at the Civic Arena, also known as “the Igloo”. The Penguins are currently affiliated with two minor league teams – the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL.
The twin rink facility replaced both the IceoPlex at Southpointe and the 84 Lumber Arena as the Penguins’ regular practice facility, freeing up the Consol Energy Center for other events on days the Penguins are not scheduled to play. It is also played just before the beginning of a home game, and after a Penguins victory. As with most other NHL arenas, the Penguins make use of a goal horn whenever the team scores a goal at home. Their current goal horn made by Nathan Manufacturing, Inc. and introduced in 2005 to coincide with Sidney Crosby joining the team, was used at both the Civic Arena and the Consol Energy Center.
Baz Bastien, a former coach and general manager of the AHL’s Hornets, later became general manager. The Penguins began the 1980s by changing their team colors; in January 1980, the team switched from wearing blue and white to their present-day scheme of black and gold to honor Pittsburgh’s other sports teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as the Flag of Pittsburgh. The decade closed with a playoff appearance in 1979 and a rousing opening series win over the Buffalo Sabres before a second-round sweep at the hands of the Boston Bruins. The Penguins missed the playoffs in 1977-78. Bastien traded prime draft picks for several players whose best years were already behind them, and the team would suffer in the early 1980s as a result.
