by Angie Carducci | Feb 21, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Saturday, Feb. 20, started like any other game day for Jeff Zatkoff. The Penguins’ backup netminder reported to work at CONSOL Energy Center, just as he has for most every game this season, expecting to back up starter Marc-Andre Fleury. But fate had other plans for...
by Angie Carducci | Jan 23, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The good news is that the Penguins have delivered on head coach Mike Sullivan’s promise when he was hired that they would become a more resilient team. The bad is that they’re consistently putting themselves into situations where they have little choice but to battle...
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...