Jonathan Bombulie stories, Page 30

PHILADELPHIA – The long-standing rivalry between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will feature a new element Monday night. For the first time in a long time, the Flyers have a goaltender to be excited about. Carter Hart, a 20-year-old rookie, is expected to start against the Penguins. He’s 8-0...

PHILADELPHIA – After watching his team give up 12 shorthanded goals this season, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan appears to have finally reached his breaking point. At morning skate as the Penguins prepared to take on the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, Sullivan had two defensemen on each power-play unit....

PHILADELPHIA – After missing the five previous games with an upper-body injury, Evgeni Malkin is probable to play against the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. Malkin was injured on a hit by Tampa Bay’s Dan Girardi in a Jan. 30 game. The Penguins went...

PHILADELPHIA – Hockey players get used to suffering all sorts of unusual injuries, but this was a new one for Pittsburgh Penguins forward Nick Bjugstad. In the third period of Saturday’s 5-4 Penguins loss at Tampa Bay, defenseman Mikhail Sergachev’s skate came up and slice through his jersey and into...

PHILADELPHIA — Matt Murray and the Pittsburgh Penguins won’t be submitting the video of their victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night to the Carnegie Museum of Art. But looking at the standings and the calendar, it’s long past time for the Penguins to stop worrying about artistic merit....

PHILADELPHIA — Evgeni Malkin made a positive impact on the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night in his return from a five-game absence because of an upper-body injury. They’ll have to wait to hear from the league to know whether they’ll have him in the lineup again Wednesday night against Edmonton....

The Pittsburgh Penguins have had no shortage of hurdles standing in the way of their prospective prosperity this season. For a while, they were giving up odd-man rushes like it was going out of style. Occasionally, the goaltending was leaky. From time to time, they weren’t showing up with the...

For decades, Mario Lemieux’s name stood atop most every significant statistical list in the Pittsburgh Penguins record book. On Saturday night, Sidney Crosby finally elbowed his way in there. Crosby played his 916th career game as the Penguins lost 5-4 to the Tampa Bay Lightning, breaking Lemieux’s record of 915....

TAMPA, Fla. – Nearly five years after making his NHL debut, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Garrett Wilson has finally scored a goal. Wilson finished off a two-on-one break with Teddy Blueger in the first period of Saturday night’s 5-4 Penguins loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. It was the 60th game...

Coming into Saturday’s games, the teams in second through ninth place in the Eastern Conference were separated by seven points. At least one good team will be sitting at home disappointed when the playoffs start. Given their inconsistency, it’s reasonable to expect the Pittsburgh Penguins will be fighting for their...

TAMPA, Fla. – The last time the Pittsburgh Penguins met the Tampa Bay Lightning, on Jan. 30 at PPG Paints Arena, it was reasonable to expect a high-flying showdown between two of the NHL’s most skilled offenses. Instead, it got a little nasty. Cedric Paquette leveled Kris Letang with a...

TAMPA, Fla. – Matt Murray is medically cleared to return from an upper-body injury, but he’ll back up Casey DeSmith as the Pittsburgh Penguins take on the first-place Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night. Throwing Murray into the fire against a potent Lightning offense after he sat out Wednesday’s practice...

TAMPA, Fla. – When it comes to the fickle nature of goal scoring in the NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Patric Hornqvist has lived at both ends of the spectrum this season. Remember his natural hat trick in the third period of a 6-3 Penguins win over Colorado on Dec. 4?...

TAMPA, Fla. — When Sidney Crosby tied Mario Lemieux for the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise record with 915 career games played Thursday night, it was a bit of a bittersweet occasion. On one hand, it was a moment for Penguins fans to savor. They’ve been able to witness each and every...

TAMPA, Fla. – Among a handful of players fighting through injuries at Pittsburgh Penguins practice on Friday, goalie Matt Murray might have received the best news. Murray, who missed Thursday night’s game in Florida with an upper-body injury, was a full participant in practice and didn’t rule out playing Saturday...

There was a fairly obvious game within a game being played when the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Florida Panthers on Thursday night. It was a matchup of four players who had just been traded for one another last week. Jared McCann got the goal, but Derick Brassard and Riley Sheahan...

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Pittsburgh Penguins provided a lesson Thursday night that could come in handy as the frenzy that surrounds the Feb. 25 NHL trade deadline builds. Two players the Penguins acquired in midseason trades, Jared McCann and Marcus Pettersson, scored important goals. Without further contributions from the players...

SUNRISE, Fla. – While staying squarely within the boundaries of foggy NHL injury disclosure, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan mapped out a bit of a timeline for the return of four injured players Thursday. Sullivan said Matt Murray (upper body), Justin Schultz (leg), Evgeni Malkin (upper body) and Zach Aston-Reese...

SUNRISE, Fla. – There was something on Riley Sheahan’s mind as he prepared Thursday morning to face the team that traded him away six days earlier. It wasn’t necessarily the inherent awkwardness of competing against players who were his teammates less than a week prior. It wasn’t an overwhelming desire...

SUNRISE, Fla. – Say this for Derick Brassard. He’s consistent. During 12 months in a Pittsburgh Penguins uniform, he was consistent in his ineffectiveness as the center on the team’s third line. He’s also always been consistent in his explanation of why things went wrong. “Just the role that I...

TAMPA, Fla. — Evgeni Malkin is a little bit nervous. It’s not a condition that plagues him often, as his Conn Smythe Trophy and three Stanley Cup rings can attest, but that’s the emotion he felt as he sat in his locker stall after the Pittsburgh Penguins practiced Friday afternoon...

They’ve lost six of their last 10 games and are about to embark on a tough, three-game road trip with a precarious hold on an Eastern Conference playoff position. They’re working on integrating newly acquired forwards Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann into the lineup while Evgeni Malkin and Justin Schultz...

The Pittsburgh Penguins will begin a three-game road trip with uncertainty in net due to an injury to goalie Matt Murray. Coach Mike Sullivan said Murray missed Wednesday’s practice because he was being evaluated for an upper-body injury. Sullivan said Murray will make the trip, which opens Thursday night in...

When the Pittsburgh Penguins were stuck in the depths of a November swoon, winger Patric Hornqvist was always the player in the locker room putting things in perspective. It would only take one shift or one goal to turn it around, he said on numerous occasions. These days, the Penguins...