Face-Off: Pittsburgh Penguins: By the Numbers

309
Hits dished out by Brooks Orpik in the regular season.

164
Shots blocked by Rob Scuderi last season.

185
Shots blocked by his off-season replacement, Jay McKee.

6
Penguins invited to 2010 Olympic training camps this summer: Crosby, Staal, Fleury (Canada); Malkin, Gonchar (Russia); and Orpik (U.S.A.).

103
Points scored by Sidney Crosby in his fifth NHL season.

13
NHL scoring titles won by Penguins players in the last 22 seasons: Lemieux, 6; Jagr, 5; Crosby, 1; Malkin, 1.

3
Game-winning goals scored in the playoffs by third-line winger Tyler Kennedy.

21
Age* of the youngest captain in the history of the NHL to win a Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby. (*Age at the time of the victory)

$321,000,000
Cost of the Penguins' new state-of-the-art Consol Energy Center, due to open in September 2010.

$5
Most expensive seat at the Civic Arena (now Mellon Arena) when it hosted its first hockey game in 1961.

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