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Playing to Lose - '83 Pens


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"Angotti has also said that there was an "understanding" between the two, that Lemieux was the target, and that they needed to lose, end of story. Former player Mike Bullard has even come out and said "all you have to do is look at the transactions, and roster, it tells the entire story. We did play to lose."

One particular game the Penguins were up 3-1 at the end of the 2nd, and Johnston entered the locker room and asked Angotti "What are you doing? We need to lose." according to Angotti. The Penguins would go on to lose that game, and Johnston ever the stoic PT Barnum, would deny any such claims that he wanted the team to lose.

Now what are we going to talk about in August?

We can talk about how Angotti never said such things and the fallibility of Wikipedia. ;)

Actually I'm hoping the summer gives us lots of news to discuss all around.

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