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Coming off of back to back Stanley Cup victories, the 1992-93 Pens team dominated the league: they recorded 56 wins and 119 points, posted an NHL record 17 game winning streak, and captured the Presidents' Trophy for the first time in franchise history, all despite missing Mario Lemieux for 2 months while he underwent treatment for Hodgkin's ...
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
The franchise won the World Series three more times— in 1960, 1971, and 1979. In 1960, the team became the first to win a World Series on a walk-off home run, hit by Bill Mazeroski, and they remain the only team to win on a walk-off homer in the decisive seventh game. In 1979, the Pirates repeated the accomplishment of their own 1925 World ...
The Penguins surprised observers by being ranked 20th overall and third among NHL teams, while the Steelers were ranked number one and the Pirates (before the arrival of Andrew McCutchen and that team's turnaround) [101] ranked much lower on the list than its peers. The Penguins' popularity has at times rivaled that of the Steelers at the local ...
The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.). Macmillan Publishing. p. 2209. ISBN 0-02-579010-2. Forman, Sean L. "1979 World Series". Baseball-Reference.com – Major League Statistics and Information. Archived from the original on December 17, 2007 "Penguins win game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals". ABC 15. Associated Press. June 12, 2009.
Sidney Crosby broke Mario Lemieux's Pittsburgh franchise career record for assists on Michael Bunting's power-play goal and the Penguins beat the New York Islanders 3-2 on Sunday night. Crosby has ...
The following is a listing of pitching win and winning percentage records in Major League Baseball. All teams are considered to be members of the American or National Leagues, unless noted. Players denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted. An (r) denotes a player's rookie season.
MLB teams have overcome 3–1 deficits 14 times (including one 3–0 deficit), six of which occurred in the World Series. [1] This does not count the 1903 World Series, during which the Boston Americans (or Puritans, or Pilgrims, depending on the source, and later known as the Red Sox) came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, five games to three, as that was a best-of ...