Dejan Kovacevic is a sports writer for the Tribune-Review.
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Kovacevic: It’s about time for these Penguins
By Dejan KovacevicOTTAWA — Maybe, just maybe, these Penguins finally got sick and tired of looking so eminently beatable. Tired of blowing leads. Tired of blowing coverages. …
Kovacevic: Pens improve under microscope
By Dejan KovacevicOTTAWA — Analyzing hockey can be like molecular science, if you think of it in a weird way: The sport looks more chaotic than it …
Kovacevic: Why did Pens even get Iginla?
By Dejan KovacevicOTTAWA — When the Penguins’ line of Jarome Iginla, Evgeni Malkin and James Neal broached the boards for the first time Sunday night, that actually …
Kovacevic: It doesn’t have to be this hard
By Dejan KovacevicOTTAWA — Even at the end, it’s hard. After the two-month run, after all the bumps, bruises and butt-ends to the sternum, they wheel the …
Kovacevic: Do Senators have anything left?
By Dejan KovacevicOTTAWA — The Penguins arrived in Canada’s capital Saturday with a clear purpose and a clearer plan: End this Stanley Cup playoff series with the …
Kovacevic: The smartest man in hockey
By Dejan KovacevicHe's the pitcher with the 99 mph heat who still can fan the Mendoza Line hitter with a filthy curve. He's the quarterback capable of …
Kovacevic: Penguins do it their way
By Dejan KovacevicIt took no more than a shift or two, I’m guessing, for a half-million Western Pennsylvanians to reach for the TV remote to see if …
Kovacevic: Pens must adjust, but not in net
By Dejan KovacevicUNIONDALE, N.Y. — Tomas Vokoun is the goaltender. Let’s start right there, before I even get going with this column of wholly unsolicited advice for …
Kovacevic: Penguins should thank Islanders
By Dejan KovacevicUNIONDALE, N.Y. — Somehow, some way, it had been three years and 17 days since Pittsburgh’s allegedly annual contender of a hockey club had been …
Kovacevic: Penguins revisit their foundation
By Dejan KovacevicWatch Tyler Kennedy bury a breakaway after a brilliant rink-length spring from Kris Letang, and it’s easy to see these Penguins as some relentlessly go-go …
Kovacevic: Vokoun not Pens’ Plan B anymore
By Dejan KovacevicUNIONDALE, N.Y. — Marc-Andre Fleury owns a Stanley Cup ring, a stranglehold on the Penguins’ record book and a special level of athleticism that, in …
