City\/Team connection (dubious or otherwise): It\u2019s a natural fit for Pittsburgh, known as the Steel City. It earned that nicknamed when it was the heart of America\u2019s steel industry, producing a massive percentage of the nation\u2019s metal and leading to the building of crucial infrastructure across the land.<\/p>\n
Fun Fact: While the steel industry has tapered off in recent years, Pittsburgh has reinvented itself to become a leader in AI and robotics, specifically in self-driving vehicles.<\/p>\n
Quotable: While the helmet almost always goes to a Penguins player, earlier this season the team presented it to a Minnesota Wild fan. Weston Paszkiewicz, a 10-year-old luekemia patient who signed a one-day contract with the Wild through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, got to hang out in the Penguins and had his photo taken with the team<\/a>. \u201cI just want to say thank you for taking a minute to make him feel special and include him and the hockey community has been amazing,\u201d Weston\u2019s dad said to the Penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City\/Team connection (dubious or otherwise): It\u2019s a natural fit for Pittsburgh, known as the Steel City. It earned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-365429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}