by Angie Carducci | Apr 3, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
For the third consecutive year, the Washington Capitals will hang a Metropolitan Division Champions banner from the rafters. The Pittsburgh Penguins hope they, too, will celebrate a three-peat this spring, but one involving a large piece of silver drinkware. That’s...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 27, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
If you’re a Penguins fan who wasn’t thrilled with Kris Letang’s play in the early going, you’ll have to get in line behind the man himself. Letang showed up to training camp this year with only a week of skating under his belt. Surgeries like the one he had on April...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 25, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
For their past two, Stanley Cup-winning seasons, the March of the Penguins has been more than an Antarctic documentary. It’s marked a time when the NHL’s flightless birds began to, well, take flight. In 2016, from the Feb. 29 trade deadline through the end of the...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 12, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Brian Dumoulin is not an offensive defenseman. The reliable, 26-year-old blueliner averages about 15 points a season and has six goals in his NHL career – four of them this year. Saturday night in Toronto, though, he scored a beauty. With the Maple Leafs up 3-0 late...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 4, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Penguins might’ve been one of the big winners at the NHL trade deadline. But, in three games since bolstering their roster with center Derick Brassard, no winning was happening. The goals were still coming during the three-game skid, which saw the Penguins lose...