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Minor league report: Nailers’ opening round schedule against Royals announced
The ECHL released the schedule for the opening round of the Kelly Cup playoffs on Sunday. Having won the North Division, the Wheeling Nailers will face the Reading Royals. The schedule for that best-of-seven series: April 24 – Royals at Nailers, 7:10 p.m. April 25 – Royals at Nailers, 7:10...
Cup of Joe (Starkey): Flyers looked like 2016 Penguins in Game 1, as Rick Tocchet outcoached Dan Muse. Time to simplify
Cup of Joe: Starkey on sports in 400 words or less (sometimes more) It’s one thing to move Evgeni Malkin to the wing. It’s quite another to move him to defense — yet that is where Malkin found himself too many times in the Penguins’ Game 1 loss to the...
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Penguins rookie Ben Kindel continues to show maturity and a physical nature as a teenagerVideo
Ben Kindel wasn’t planning any kind of grand celebration for his 19th birthday Sunday. After all, he has to get to work on Monday as an employee of the Pittsburgh Penguins. “Obviously, a big game tomorrow,” the rookie third-line center said. “Probably keep it pretty chill.” Kindel and the Penguins...
Penguins aim to better handle Flyers’ physicality, intensity in Game 2Video
The tone for the remainder of the first-round showdown between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers has been set. The physicality, feistiness and excess of after-the-whistle confrontations between the two rivals that dominated Game 1 on Saturday appear likely to continue. After the Penguins’ 3-2 series-opening loss at PPG Paints...
Minor league report: Penguins, Sergei Murashov shut out AmericansVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 27 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins who closed out the regular season with an 8-0 shutout of the Rochester Americans at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. The result was Murashov’s fourth shutout of the season and improved his record to 29-9-4. Forward Rutger McGroarty had...
Tim Benz: Forget ‘Flip the Script.’ After Game 1 loss, the Penguins need a playoff rewriteVideo
The Penguins “Flip the Script” rallying cry for the playoffs is quickly taking on a different tone. Because after the team’s 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers in the postseason opener Saturday night, that script is going to need a total rewrite. “We were just off in a lot of...
‘We need to regroup’: Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin preaches need for reset ahead of Game 2Video
Inside the Pittsburgh Penguins’ locker room late Saturday night, there was a lot of agreement in the postgame takeaways offered by players. After the Penguins dropped the opening contest of their first-round series to the Philadelphia Flyers, 3-2, at home, the consensus centered around improvements being required before Game 2...
Penguins bumble through Game 1 loss to Flyers
One of the people partly responsible for several of the Stanley Cup banners that hang from the rafters of PPG Paints Arena had a nuanced, measured and calming assessment of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-2 home loss to the rival Philadelphia Flyers in Game 1 of their first-round series Saturday. Rick...
‘It’s electric’: Penguins vs. Flyers 1st playoff matchup draws rowdy, excited fans to Pittsburgh
Soaked Pittsburgh Penguins fans clamored at the doors of PPG Paints Arena on Saturday, waiting to be let in to the Stanley Cup playoff opening game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Stormy weather in the evening broke up a sunny and warm afternoon and left Jackson Butler and his friends standing...
Flyers’ Rick Tocchet prepares his club for postseason battle vs. Penguins, a familiar foe
Rick Tocchet recognizes that a large dose of physicality is inevitable during the first-round Stanley Cup playoff series between his Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. But ahead of Saturday’s series opener, Tocchet pushed back on the way his recent remarks were interpreted in Pittsburgh, with some fans concluding that...
Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner scheduled to start against Flyers in Game 1
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Stuart Skinner in Game 1 of a first-round playoff series against the rival Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday. Coach Dan Muse announced Skinner’s status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. Muse did not offer much detail as to...
Penguins vs Flyers: Previews and predictions as Penguins begin playoff push
The Pittsburgh Penguins return to the Stanley Cup playoffs after a three-year absence and will face off against the rival Philadelphia Flyers in the first round, starting at 8 p.m. Saturday at PPG Paints Arena. TribLive writers are previewing the matchup with features, commentary and need to know information. Preview...
Tim Benz: The Flyers’ identity is still intact — and the Penguins must be ready for it
If there are two things we know about the Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s that the organization is all about playing defense and running the football. We know this because every time a national broadcast comes to Acrisure Stadium, the announcers say so four or five times a game. Even at times...
Penguins goaltenders Arturs Silovs, Stuart Skinner vow to be ready no matter who starts
Arturs Silovs and Stuart Skinner have competed for playing time in a postseason series before. The victor would go on and start more games, whereas the other saw his playing time evaporate. To be certain, they weren’t teammates at the time. They were opponents. And in 2024, Skinner’s Edmonton Oilers...
Joe Starkey: Penguins coach Dan Muse is everything Kyle Dubas promised
Penguins coach Dan Muse might be a playoff newbie — this will be his first series as a head coach — but based on his inaugural regular season, I don’t think coaching will be what derails the Penguins. They are in excellent hands, just as president of hockey operations Kyle...
Joe Starkey: Thankfully, Pittsburgh sports in much better shape as NFL Draft spotlight falls upon city
We’re not quite the City of Champions again, but we’re not the City of Chumps, either. Not anymore, and thankfully not this coming week, as the eyes of the sports world descend upon Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft. It’s easier to be a good host when you’re not wearing a...
Penguins terminate contract of defenseman Matt Dumba after clearing waivers
The Pittsburgh Penguins terminated the contract of defenseman Matt Dumba on Friday after he cleared unconditional waivers. Dumba is free to sign elsewhere. The team did not announce the transaction but his departure was reflected on the NHL’s media website. A right-handed shot, Dumba was in the final year of...
Sewickely’s Ryder Fetterolf wins Jim Rutherford Trophy as OHL’s top goaltender
Ryder Fetterolf, a native of Sewickley, won the Jim Rutherford Trophy as the top goaltender of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for the 2025-26 season. In his first campaign with the Ottawa 67’s, Fetterolf appeared in 41 games during the regular season and posted a 29-9-3 record, a 2.07 goals-against...
