by Angie Carducci | Dec 6, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Twenty-five games into the 2015-16 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins are a puzzling study in contrasts. Often on the same night. Are they the team that steamrolled to their first win in San Jose in 18 years Tuesday, setting a season high for goals in a 5-1 victory that...
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 | 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 Angie Carducci | Sep 26, 2015 | Homepage, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
After a fifth consecutive year of falling well short of their postseason goals, the Pittsburgh Penguins emerged from this summer a significantly reshaped team. Third-line center Brandon Sutter was shipped out to Vancouver in a deal that brought back center Nick Bonino...
by Liz Montroy | Feb 19, 2015 | Homepage, Vancouver Canucks
The Canucks’ defence corps is looking a little thin – there was no Alex Edler, Chris Tanev, Kevin Bieksa or Frankie Corrado on the Canucks’ flight to New York on Tuesday for their first game in a five-game road trip due to injuries. Currently placed...