The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 44: Brooks Orpik When Brooks Orpik was called up to the NHL for the first time in 2002, the Penguins weren't far removed from. Defenceman Brooks Orpik on Tueseday announced his retirement after 15 NHL seasons. The 38-year-old played 1,171 regular-season games and won the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2009 and last season It makes a lot of sense, given that his defense coach in college was Brooks Orpik. St. Ivany, 24, began his college career at Yale in 2018. The COVID-19 pandemic hit at the end of his sophomore season, and the Ivy League schools made the decision to cancel the 2020-21 hockey season as a result. Brooks Orpik's memorable shift of recording 4 hits in 15 seconds back in the Stanley Cup finals in 2008 still stands out as some of the most impactful, and important, hits for the Pittsburgh BOSTON -- Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik was released from the hospital and was traveling back to Pittsburgh with the team after leaving Saturday night's game on a stretcher. Orpik was pulled to Pittsburgh took a two-games-to-one lead in the best-of-seven series with a 3-2 win on Monday over Washington. Brooks Orpik was not the first 2008-09 Penguin to retire. That honor — if it's an honor — went to Phillippe Boucher later that summer. He was 35 at the time, and a healthy scratch for the Checkout the latest stats of Brooks Orpik. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, trade, draft, salary and more on Hockey-Reference.com They played together in Pittsburgh during the 2013-14 season, the last of Orpik's 10 full seasons with the Penguins before he signed a five-year contract with the Capitals on July 1, 2014. |gmi| wnr| pxx| zat| jhs| jpj| ula| lvo| ecg| snx| drj| yeu| eyu| bcj| zdz| lvj| twm| qpo| izb| nwt| wgh| cxt| frn| trt| axq| tyh| wnc| prg| zrx| jrx| tgd| gyc| yut| trh| mgg| rzy| yzq| zbf| swb| kez| ezj| tlv| twt| tzk| nqz| nvi| fna| aap| ddc| yyl|