by Angie Carducci | Apr 14, 2018 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
After embarrassing the Flyers 7-0 in Game 1, the Penguins opened Game 2 with another dominant effort. For the first 18:30 or so, anyway. Then they took the first penalty of the night, a boarding call against Zach Aston-Reese, and things started to unravel. Less than a...
by Angie Carducci | Apr 12, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Penguins opened Game 1 of the 2018 playoffs with the familiar, powerful voice of Chris Cornell filling PPG Paints Arena on Audioslave’s “Cochise,” just as it had through their back-to-back championship runs. They followed that with a big shot of adrenaline, as...
by Angie Carducci | Apr 8, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Finally, the long, 82-game preseason is over and the real games can begin. The Pittsburgh Penguins weren’t going to say anything like that, of course. But, when you’ve raised the Stanley Cup at the end of each of the last two seasons, how can the games before spring...
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...