Pittsburgh Penguins – Inside Hockey

With Team-First Identity, Depleted Penguins Win Five Straight

Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Penguins took on the Colorado Avalanche – owners of a spotless, 5-0 start to their season – without five of their top nine forwards. With only 11 healthy forwards on Pittsburgh’s roste...

The Way Too Early NHL Power Rankings 2019-2020

Year in and year out the NHL can fluctuate tremendously. The teams that should have been good are irrelevant, and teams that have a so-so roster end up making cup runs. It’s sports, and it happens; but it happe...

Malkin, Crosby Push Reset on Lethargic Start to Season

Sidney Crosby saw Columbus’ Pierre-Luc Dubois lay a high hit on Jake Guentzel, the 24-year-old who’s been on Crosby’s left wing for most of his three NHL seasons, and the 5’11” Penguins captain skated over to c...

Jarry Makes Team, Johnson Back in Top Four as Pens Finalize Roster

Two days before the start of their regular season, the Penguins finalized their 23-man roster Tuesday. Twenty are players who skated for Pittsburgh last year, along with new forwards Alex Galchenyuk (acquire...

Penguins ‘Change the Mix’ with Kessel-for-Galchenyuk Swap

Ever since the Penguins were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the New York Islanders, it’s been clear they wouldn’t be returning the same team in October. The past two early playoff exits were si...

Kessel Traded to Arizona

The much maligned and enagmatic Phil Kessel that existed in Toronto had seemingly evaporated when the star scorer exchanged the blue and white for black and yellow. The club made the deal in hopes of a spark in...

Metro Division in Free Agency Part I: The Quiet Ones

Not only did the St. Louis Blues title help end the franchise's 52-year Cup drought, it also returned the Stanley Cup to the Central division, regular keepers of it during Chicago's three in six modern day dyna...

Game 4: Isles Sweep Pens Out of Playoffs

For the first 35 seconds – the first 2:08, really – things were going the Penguins’ way in Game 4. The Penguins’ top-line pair of Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel, held off the scoresheet throughout this seri...

Game 3: After Failing to Solve Isles Again, Penguins Face Elimination

Down 0-2 in their first-round playoff series, Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan was asked how he hoped his team would approach Game 3. “A lot of people use the word ‘desperation’ to describe certain situatio...

Game 2: Pens Look to Rally from 0-2 Deficit

Sidney Crosby was back in his practice stall Saturday in the Pittsburgh suburb of Cranberry, away from the hostile environs of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders had sent Crosby’s Penguins pack...