So are the NFL's Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers.

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Baseball's New York Giants won 26 straight games in 1916, the New England Patriots took 21 consecutive NFL games in 2003 and 2004, and the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins won 17 consecutive times in 1993.

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Mario Lemieux, the current owner and former NHL player who led the Pittsburgh Penguins to two consecutive Stanley Cups, and his wife Nathalie Lemieux helped make Austin's Warrior Playroom possible as an initiative of the Mario Lemieux Foundation.

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In the odd little world of the NHL these days, the Pittsburgh Penguins, featuring Sidney Crosby, are the glamour team while the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks are bigger draws than the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings.

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The NHL game at TD Garden between the Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins, two of the top four teams in the Eastern Conference, was tentatively rescheduled for Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

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Much of the same might be said of NHL dead-money leader Sergei Gonchar, who helped return the Pittsburgh Penguins to a measure of glory with a run to the Stanley Cup finals.

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Pittsburgh was attempting to move within one of the NHL record of 17 consecutive wins set by the 1992-93 Penguins, but looked out of sync without their captain.

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