by Neal McHale | Jun 23, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are the 2016 Stanley Cup champions. If you took a collective poll prior to Christmas, there might not have been many that thought those words could have been written. It was December 19 when the Penguins had lost their fifth-straight game and...
by Angie Carducci | Jun 13, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Phil Kessel was traded to Pittsburgh last July by a Toronto Maple Leafs organization that didn’t consider him a winner. Trevor Daley wasn’t seeing the ice in Chicago when the Blackhawks sent him to Pittsburgh in December for Rob Scuderi. Justin Schultz was having the...
by Angie Carducci | Jun 7, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Evgeni Malkin hasn’t been playing poorly in this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. But, regardless of how much he and the Pittsburgh Penguins have dominated play whenever he’s been on the ice, there are those who haven’t been able to see past his lack of offensive...
by Angie Carducci | Jun 2, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
When Conor Sheary first got called up from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins this year and found himself on a line alongside Sidney Crosby, the Penguins’ captain took him under his wing. “He told me I was there for a reason; I was playing with him for a reason,”...
by Anthony Garofalo | Jun 1, 2016 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks
In two short weeks, the National Hockey League will officially wrap up the 2015-16 season. Before that summer hiatus happens, the pinnacle of the treacherous grind through training camp, preseason scrimmages, 82 regular-season games, and 12 victories in the spring...