Cleveland-born winger Michael Rupp, formerly of the New Jersey Devils, was all about the Penguins when the free-agent season opened.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed checking-line forward Mike Rupp to a $1.6 million, two-year contract, adding a physical presence to a team that didn’t have an enforcer on the ice during the playoffs. <p><a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ys4xgB4U7H8UDilRT-of12-Itp0/0/da”><img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ys4xgB4U7H8UDilRT-of12-Itp0/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”></img></a><br/> <a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ys4xgB4U7H8UDilRT-of12-Itp0/1/da”><img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ys4xgB4U7H8UDilRT-of12-Itp0/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”></img></a></p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/si_hockey/~4/Mg8Qd-RM3do” height=”1″ width=”1″/>

The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed checking-line forward Mike Rupp to a $1.6 million, two-year contract, adding a physical presence to a team that didn’t have an enforcer on the ice during the playoffs.

The 2009 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins continue to build a strong core of role players, a valuable commodity on any team, with the announced signing of forward Mike Rupp to a two-year contract.&nbsp; Rupp brings to Pittsburgh a wealt…

David Arnott, who usually writes for FirstCuts, has a story about a simple dice game with a rabid following.

David Arnott, who usually writes for FirstCuts, has a story about a simple dice game with a rabid following. In 1961, a college student named Hal Richman started selling a dice game that purported to simulate baseball.

With USA Hockey "turning a page," as Olympics team general manager Brian Burke put it yesterday, Penguins defensemen Brooks Orpik and Rob Scuderi have been taken into the fold, while veteran winger and three-time Olympian Bill Guerin has been passed over for a younger, less experienced group.