After squeaking into the last playoff wildcard spot on the last day of the regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ reward was a first-round matchup against the league’s best team. For the first time since 2007, Pittsburgh entered the postseason as a heavy underdog...
As the Pittsburgh Pirates look forward to their home opener Monday, their hockey counterparts are down to their final out. The Pittsburgh Penguins couldn’t hold a 3-0 lead Tuesday in a 4-3 overtime loss at Ottawa, then couldn’t solve a sharp Jaroslav Halak in a...
With three games remaining in the regular season, this wasn’t where the Pittsburgh Penguins expected to be. Instead of sitting comfortably in one of the top few spots in their division, playoff spot clinched, fine-tuning their game for a run at the Stanley Cup, the...
After going 1-5-1 over the past two weeks, the Pittsburgh Penguins got the best news possible Saturday when they learned Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist, two of their most important offensive players, were ready to return to the lineup. “It’s not fun” to watch from...
After closing a 2-1-1 swing through the western U.S. with reason for optimism, the Penguins returned for a three-game homestand at CONSOL Energy Center that left cause for concern. Thursday, Pittsburgh came out as it was supposed to against the low-ranked Edmonton...
The Penguins opened their four-game swing through the western U.S. last Wednesday with a lackluster showing in Colorado, where they dropped a 3-1 decision to a team that’s out of playoff contention. By the time they returned to Pittsburgh in the wee hours of Tuesday...
For most of the regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins have persevered through a glut of injuries to stay at or near the top of the Metropolitan Division, and in the upper half of the Eastern Conference playoff picture. However, as the team inches closer to full...
The Pittsburgh Penguins are on a 4-6-2 skid that has dropped them to second place in the Metropolitan Division – five points behind the New York Islanders – and fifth in the Eastern Conference. And, while their overall record of 26-12-6 seems like the mark of a pretty...
Pittsburgh Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford has been candid about being in the market for a top-six winger or two since the start of the season. Friday, he got one, and he didn’t have to part with a current roster mainstay or one of the organization’s top...
With patchwork lineups resulting from 10 players on injured reserve, the Pittsburgh Penguins battled back from big deficits in Florida and Tampa Bay before the Christmas break, falling short by a goal in both efforts but showing plenty of character. “You don’t like to...
Two days after Sidney Crosby was scratched for the Penguins’ weekend contests, the team confirmed what most who had seen his swollen face Friday suspected – the Pittsburgh captain is now one of 14 NHL players to be diagnosed with mumps. Crosby, who participated in the...
Although the Penguins have endured some tough stretches of injuries, illnesses and conditions over the past few seasons, the team has always been careful to avoid using bad luck as an excuse. With top-tier names like Chris Kunitz (fractured foot), Patric Hornqvist...
With Pascal Dupuis sidelined for likely the rest of the season due to a blood clot in his lung, the Pittsburgh Penguins are scouting the trade market for a top-six winger. Pittsburgh has the luxury, however, of not being in any hurry to make a move or overpay for a...
The Penguins departed for Tuesday’s contest in Montreal down a man, as Laval, Quebec, native Pascal Dupuis’s doctor visit found cause for concern. After turning in a dominating, 4-0 win over the team with the league’s best record, the Penguins returned home and found...
Since the Penguins last took the ice at CONSOL Energy Center, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury rode a strong start that included three shutouts in four games to an unexpected, four-year, $23-million contract extension. Pittsburgh hit the road for five games – their...
Marc-Andre Fleury is in a tough position. Regardless of what he does during the NHL’s regular season, Pittsburgh’s 29-year-old netminder won’t be judged until spring, where the burden to deliver a second Stanley Cup championship has been squarely on his shoulders for...
When the Penguins lost to Philadelphia on national TV Wednesday, it was discouraging but hardly surprising to see their cross-state rival turn Pittsburgh’s 3-1 lead into a 5-3 win. The Flyers have made something of an art form of stunning the Penguins with comeback...
At age 35, Pascal Dupuis remains one of the Penguins’ hardest workers. His commitment to conditioning is well-documented, to the point of making sure he loses a single pound each year to allow him to maintain his quickness as he gets older. This summer, he worked even...
New head coach Mike Johnston wants to see his Penguins playing an uptempo, puck-possession game – giving opposing teams trouble with their speed, jumping on opportunities to make plays, encouraging defensemen to join the offense. So, what did he think of the club’s...
For Keith Allain, coach of the Yale Bulldogs, the end couldn’t have been more fitting. “To me, right now, that’s probably the biggest goal in the history of Yale hockey,” Allain said of the one scored by his captain, senior forward Andrew Miller, who notched his 17th...
PITTSBURGH – The Yale Bulldogs entered the NCAA Division 1 men’s ice hockey tournament as the No. 15 seed. They were the last at-large team to make the tournament at all, securing their spot only when Michigan lost its conference title game. And, as a No. 15 seed,...
With nine goals each through two games, the Quinnipiac Bobcats and St. Cloud State Huskies entered their semifinal matchup as the top-scoring teams in the NCAA Tournament. But it was Quinnipiac that started scoring 1:49 into the contest, built a commanding, 3-0 lead...
