Tyler Kennedy (2)

This was my second Tyler Kennedy autograph only this time, he is all by his lonesome.

I pulled this one from a box of Trilogy that I had purchased over a year or so ago.  That was the same box that I pulled the Steven Stamkos rookie and the Sidney Crosby acetate card.

Kennedy has so far been a fixture on the Penguins roster for some time now and barring a disastrous decline in play, will probably be there for a while, too.

Unless, of course, Ray Shero wants to use him as a bargaining chip...

(I just jinxed it didn't I?)

Tyler Kennedy

This was my first Tyler Kennedy autograph that I ever obtained.

This card comes from the 2008-09 Be A Player set.  Its a Dual Auto from the Double Signatures insert set.  As you can see, he signed here along with James Sheppard, then of the Minnesota Wild (I think he is on the Sharks as I'm writing this).


Kennedy's play has been slumping since the team paid him $4 million back in 2011.  This year, although shortened, he has only one goal and an assist.  It’s disappointing because Kennedy has been a regular on the second power play unit.  But stats are stats and in 74 games under the new contract, he has only 12 goals and 35 points.

Hopefully for him, he will pick up his game and step it up, especially now that Staal is gone.  There is too much talent behind him to let his play slip.