Penguins Update: Don’t Be a Jag(ger) Off, Sign Joshua

In the movie The Natural, New York Knights manager Pop Fisher (brilliantly played by the late Wilford Brimley), frustrated by his team’s awful play, spewed forth the following lament.

“Now look at me. I’m wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I’m chokin’ to death.”

That’s great, Buker, but what does it have to do with hockey?

Well, nothing except for the dead-to-the-neck-up status of our Penguins. But I thought it would make a swell lead-in.

The real thrust of this article involves a young player currently under contract with our AHL affiliate. Last night, Jagger Joshua scored a pair of goals to help lift the Baby Pens to a 3-0 victory over blood-rival Lehigh Valley.

That makes eight goals and 17 points in 55 games for the rugged 6’2” 201-pound left wing. Certainly not the stuff of a future scoring champion.

Then again, pretty goals and fancy play aren’t the Dearborn, Michigan native’s stock in trade. Physical play is. The undrafted, soon-to-be 25-year-old forward loves to throw his weight around, and he plays with lots of passion and swagger.

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