by Angie Carducci | Nov 22, 2015 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
For the Pittsburgh Penguins’ struggling defensive corps, as the saying goes, sometimes when a door closes, a window opens. Tuesday, 21-year-old blueliner Olli Maatta added to the bad-luck streak that’s hampered his highly promising career so far when Minnesota’s Nino...
by Angie Carducci | Nov 15, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Could the Pittsburgh Penguins’ recent success have been a mirage, masking major flaws that are now becoming impossible to ignore? After starting the season 0-3, the Penguins won nine of their next 10, largely on the strength of goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and...
by Angie Carducci | Nov 1, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
After an 0-3 start, the Pittsburgh Penguins have won seven of their past eight and are starting to inch up the Eastern Conference standings. They’ve done that largely on the shoulders of netminder Marc-Andre Fleury, whose six wins are just one behind league leaders...
by Angie Carducci | Oct 25, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
After limping out of the gate to an 0-3 start, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ record has evened up at 4-4. Their offense, however – ostensibly featuring four skilled lines with the potential to score – is still a work in progress. Evgeni Malkin leads the club with seven...
by Angie Carducci | Oct 17, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Four games into the 2015-16 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally got into the win column Thursday with a 2-0 shutout of the Ottawa Senators. And they did it by making some changes to what hadn’t been working so well in their first three contests. A loaded-up first...
by Mike Stern | Oct 9, 2015 | Dallas Stars, Homepage, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
If this were a Broadway show, you’d call it an opening night hit. The Dallas Stars defeated Pittsburgh Thursday night at American Airlines Center, 3-0, displaying an up-tempo offense and a change between the pipes as the curtains went up on the 2015-16 NHL season....
