For the 13th time this season, the Pittsburgh Penguins were down heading into the third period Saturday. For the seventh time this season, it didn’t matter. The Penguins once again came from behind, overcoming a 3-1 deficit to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-3. With a...
More than a quarter of the way into the 2016-17 season, it’s tough to know exactly what to make of the reigning Stanley Cup Champions. At 13-6-3, the Penguins have put together 29 points, good for second place in the Metropolitan Division and third in the Eastern...
If it’s possible to split a three-game road trip right down the middle, well, that’s what the Penguins had accomplished when they returned home to Pittsburgh late Saturday night. After three days off, Pittsburgh looked flat in Wednesday’s 7-1 shellacking at...
With a wealth of skilled young forwards, a focus on speed and a smart, gritty coach, the Toronto Maple Leafs may be on the road to winning with a similar style that helped the 2016 Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup. Saturday at PPG Paints Arena, though, the...
It wasn’t so long ago that he was The Kid. Now, with teens like Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews establishing their NHL presence, Sidney Crosby is more like an elder statesman as he meets The Heirs. Crosby’s first opportunity to meet one of the league’s next...
At age 29, Sidney Crosby has accomplished just about everything one could hope for over the course of an NHL career. But somehow – fresh off Stanley Cup and World Cup of Hockey championships, with MVP honors in both – the Penguins’ captain is showing that he might...
The Penguins have been one of the NHL’s top teams in man-games lost to injury over the past several seasons. Even for Pittsburgh, though, losing key players like goaltender Matt Murray (hand) and captain Sidney Crosby (concussion) before the season so much as got...
Symptoms from a concussion suffered in practice kept Sidney Crosby from playing in Thursday’s season opener, but they couldn’t stop him from doing one of the few things still lacking in his career – hoisting the Stanley Cup on home ice. Unlike Cup-winning goaltender...
It was only the preseason, but Marc-Andre Fleury’s broad, familiar smile was once again on display in his end stall in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ dressing room Friday. The 31-year-old netminder had just completed a 23-save shutout to beat the Chicago Blackhawks, 1-0. “I...
Just over a week removed from their victory parade, the Pittsburgh Penguins have started taking off for their offseason homes and summer vacations, the reward for the months-long grind that culminated in the franchise’s fourth Stanley Cup championship. For Jim...
Phil Kessel was traded to Pittsburgh last July by a Toronto Maple Leafs organization that didn’t consider him a winner. Trevor Daley wasn’t seeing the ice in Chicago when the Blackhawks sent him to Pittsburgh in December for Rob Scuderi. Justin Schultz was having the...
Thursday, the Penguins had an opportunity to do something no Pittsburgh team has done since 1960, when Bill Mazeroski swung for the fences against the Yankees at Forbes Field – win a championship at home. A crowd of thousands started gathering outside CONSOL Energy...
Evgeni Malkin hasn’t been playing poorly in this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. But, regardless of how much he and the Pittsburgh Penguins have dominated play whenever he’s been on the ice, there are those who haven’t been able to see past his lack of offensive...
When Conor Sheary first got called up from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins this year and found himself on a line alongside Sidney Crosby, the Penguins’ captain took him under his wing. “He told me I was there for a reason; I was playing with him for a reason,”...
Immediately after his Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference Final, captain Sidney Crosby was asked for his gut reaction on facing the San Jose Sharks for the Stanley Cup. “It’s going to be fast hockey,” he smiled. “From what I’ve...
Sidney Crosby didn’t just touch the Prince of Wales trophy this time. He lifted it along with NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, held it for photos with alternate captains Evgeni Malkin and Chris Kunitz, then carried it across the ice to the Penguins’ locker room for...
Facing elimination for the first time in the 2016 playoffs, the Pittsburgh Penguins took a page from their one-time coach Herb Brooks, who famously told his 1980 U.S hockey team that great moments are born from great opportunity. “I just told them to embrace the...
On a night when pro wrestler Shawn Michaels, the original Heartbreak Kid, came to Pittsburgh in honor of the Penguins’ HBK line, the Tampa Bay Lightning broke the Penguins’ hearts instead. In a span of 1:31 to end the first period of Game 5 and start the second, the...
The Pittsburgh Penguins not only lost Game 4 to the Tampa Bay Lightning, they lost one of their most important defensemen. They lost their composure. And their backup-turned-starting goalie, through little fault of his own, may have lost his net. The night got off to...
The Pittsburgh Penguins weathered an early Game 3 storm from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Then they remembered how they need to play to be successful, and the game started to turn on Pittsburgh’s speed, depth and simple game plan. The Penguins got pucks deep, behind the...
For Sidney Crosby to have the opportunity to do what true superstars often do on a stage this big, his Pittsburgh Penguins first had to play nearly 60 minutes of dominant hockey. After dropping Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final with a lethargic effort on home...
Coming off a big, emotional overtime win to oust the Presidents Trophy-winning Washington Capitals Tuesday, the Penguins came out Friday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final and laid an egg. Did an emotional letdown after winning that hard-fought, physical series...
In a two-minute span of the third period, the Penguins saw their goal of ending Game 6 with a handshake line on home ice starting to unravel. With a bizarre series of three consecutive delay-of-game penalties for sending pucks over the glass, Pittsburgh was forced to...
Saturday morning, with the chance to close out their second-round playoff series, the Penguins talked of trying to match the Washington Capitals’ desperation. “You know they’re going to have it,” said captain Sidney Crosby. “So hopefully you’re able to bring that same...
In a game that was nothing less than the most pivotal of both teams’ seasons, the Pittsburgh Penguins found a way to overcome the loss of perhaps their most important player, while the Washington Capitals couldn’t take advantage of a golden opportunity to pull even....
When your opponent is dominating the first period but a deflection makes you the first team on the board, then your second goal goes in a minute later from a net-front pass that deflects in off your player’s back– well, it might just be your night. Tom Kuhnhackl’s...
After a sloppy opening to their second-round playoff series at Washington, the Pittsburgh Penguins started Game 2 looking determined to get back to what got them there – speed and puck possession. “I liked our energy,” said head coach Mike Sullivan. “I thought we were...
The Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals matchup is a veritable goldmine of compelling storylines: Ovechkin vs. Crosby (or should that be Malkin vs. Ovechkin?). A rematch of the thrilling, seven-game series these teams played in 2009, with the Penguins moving on to...
Much like this opening-round playoff series, Game 5 between the Penguins and Rangers started off looking like it would be competitive. But this Penguins team was too fast and too skilled for the Rangers to keep pace. Their special teams dominated. Even their...
From the opening moments of Thursday’s 5-0 win that pushed the Rangers to the brink of playoff elimination, the Penguins were pushing the pace. “I thought we had a great start,” said head coach Mike Sullivan. “I thought we had good energy. We were playing fast, which...
