by Angie Carducci | Feb 18, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are blessed with world-class talents like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel and Kris Letang. It’s also something of a curse. The Stanley Cup is not just the goal; it’s the expectation. The Penguins are defending, back-to-back champions,...
by Angie Carducci | Oct 23, 2017 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
“I think right now, we’re a flawed hockey team. We’ve got to shore up a lot of areas.” Head coach Mike Sullivan didn’t mince words after his Penguins were on the wrong end of a 7-1 score in Tampa Bay on Saturday. It was their second loss of the humbling variety in...
by Angie Carducci | May 21, 2017 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
After scoring a total of three goals in the first three games of the Eastern Conference Final, the Pittsburgh Penguins are starting to look a lot like the Pittsburgh Penguins again. If the Penguins’ 3-2 win in Friday’s Game 4 signaled that they had started to poke...
by Angie Carducci | May 16, 2017 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
It had been a while since the Pittsburgh Penguins had outshot an opponent. Since April 16, to be exact, when they outshot the Columbus Blue Jackets, 47-37 – and had 94 shot attempts – in the third game of their first-round series. Generating that kind of offense...
by Angie Carducci | May 11, 2017 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
This was supposed to be the Washington Capitals’ year. Again. After another dominant regular season where they ran away with the Presidents’ Trophy, the Caps entered the playoffs as a runaway favorite to finally capture their elusive Stanley Cup. As usual, though, the...