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Pittsburgh sports fan are very passionate about their teams. However, sometimes this passion gets in the way of how they should actually view and criticize their team and the players that play for their team, especially when the Penguins lose.

Usually after a loss, Pens’ goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury gets crushed by the fans because he’s the easiest to blame. Other popular goats are Tyler Kennedy, Evgeni Malkin and Matt Cooke.

For some reason though, I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot of hate towards Pens’ center Jordan Staal, and I can’t figure out why. Even though the Penguins are winning, fourth place in the Eastern Conference, despite not having Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in the lineup for months now, I continue to hear people complaining about Staal.

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