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Penguins build big lead, hold off lowly Senators
The Penguins haven’t been perfect this season. Far from it. There are plenty of tallies in their loss column next to their listing in the standings to verify that postulate. But they are confident. Especially in the fact that they can play a less-than-perfect game and still come away with...
Penguins forward Jason Zucker returns to injured reserve
Jason Zucker’s return to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ active roster lasted only a few days. On Thursday afternoon, the team placed the veteran forward on injured reserve due to an undisclosed ailment. Following Thursday’s 6-4 home win against the Ottawa Senators, coach Mike Sullivan indicated Zucker would be sidelined on a...
Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Senators
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Thursday’s home game against the Ottawa Senators at PPG Paints Arena. In 30 games this season, Jarry has a 19-7-3 record, a 2.08 goals against average, a .928 save percentage and three shutouts. It remains to be seen who his...
Penguins are close to fully healthy lineup for 1st time this season
There are far worse places to be marooned than Southern California in January. Such as Western Pennsylvania in January. Zach Aston-Reese experienced the former last week. After testing positive for covid-19 on Dec. 11, Aston-Reese and fellow Pittsburgh Penguins forward Danton Heinen were placed into the NHL’s protocols for the...
Penguins won’t face former goaltender Matt Murray on Thursday
Matt Murray’s return to Pittsburgh will have to wait. At least as far him being on the ice in a game is concerned. The Ottawa Senators goaltender, who led the Penguins to their two most recent Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and ’17, will not be in net for Thursday’s...
9 Penguins games rescheduled
Nine of the Penguins’ games have been rescheduled. The changes are part of a league-wide reshuffling of the overall schedule that was pockmarked by a number of postponements over the past three months because of issues related to covid-19. Five of the Penguins’ games were previously postponed because of matters...
Penguins forward Drew O’Connor sidelined on a week-to-week basis
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Drew O’Connor will be sidelined on a “week-to-week” basis, coach Mike Sullivan said. On Monday, the Penguins placed the rookie on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Jan. 15 because of an undisclosed ailment. Sullivan provided an unspecified time frame for O’Connor on Wednesday. O’Connor has appeared in...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to PhantomsVideo
Forward Jordy Bellerive scored the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ lone goal in a 3-1 home loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. Goaltender Alex D’Orio made 21 saves on 23 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-16-1-3). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is a home contest...
Penguins forward Jake Guentzel selected for All-Star Game event
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jake Guentzel has been selected for the NHL’s upcoming All-Star game event. This is the second selection for Guentzel for the event, which really is a three-game tournament of three-on-three play. He was unable to participate in 2020 because of a shoulder injury. Guentzel was selected via...
Penguins found ways to win despite imperfect play on road trip
The Penguins’ recently completed six-game road trip started off really well with a 6-2 thumping of their most enduring rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers, on Jan. 6. It ended spectacularly with a rousing 5-3 comeback win against the powerful Vegas Golden Knights this past Monday. And in between, there was a...
Jason Zucker sparks comeback win over Vegas in return to Penguins’ lineup
There’s no place like home. And there’s definitely no place like Las Vegas. For Jason Zucker, Sin City is home. On Monday, the veteran forward who grew up in Southern Nevada had a pretty nice homecoming as he returned to the Penguins’ lineup. Activated from long-term injured reserve Monday evening,...
Penguins forward Drew O’Connor placed on long-term injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Drew O’Connor has been placed on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Jan. 15. The team announced his status on Monday evening. Speaking with media in Las Vegas after a morning skate on Monday, Penguins coach Mike Sullivan indicated O’Connor would receive further evaluation upon the team’s...
Penguins forward Jason Zucker returns to lineup
There are worse places to spend a birthday than Las Vegas. Or you also could celebrate the day at home. For Jason Zucker, he got to do both. Having grown up in Sin City, Zucker turned 30 on Sunday in familiar and jubilant surroundings through a coincidence in the Pittsburgh...
Minor league report: Penguins edge BearsVideo
Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 23 saves on 24 shots and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 2-1 home win against the rival Hershey Bears on at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. Forwards Alexander Nylander and Patrick Watling each scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-15-1-3). Highlights: The Penguins’ next...
There was nothing silly about Louis Domingue’s Penguins debut
There’s a silly way to describe Louis Domingue. Literally. To use the parlance of his vocation, he’s known as a “silly sider.” By no means is it a derisive term. Nor is it a sentiment of respect. It merely is a way of pointing out that he catches the puck...
Penguins outlast Sharks in overtime
The Penguins wanted to see staunch improvements in their defensive play on Saturday. And sure enough, they did. Battling the San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., they saw a drop in the total amount of shots allowed from their previous game. Two nights after yielding...
Minor league report: Penguins snap eight-game losing streak
Defenseman Taylor Fedun and forward Felix Robert each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-2 road win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (10-15-1-3), which snapped an eight-game...
Penguins forward Brock McGinn returns to active roster
It wasn’t quite as dramatic as that time the Ewing brothers were trapped in an elevator, but Brock McGinn had the misfortune of being stuck in a confined space within Dallas over the past week. After the team had traveled to Dallas for the second leg of its ongoing six-game...
Minor league report: Penguins’ losing streak reaches 8Video
Forward Felix Robert had a goal and two assists for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 home loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Goaltender Alex D’Orio made 12 saves on 15 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (9-15-1-3) which has lost eight consecutive games....
Forward Jeff Carter extended his career with the Penguins, but for how long?
If things had ended for Jeff Carter in Los Angeles, he was more than comfortable with that. Having helped the Kings win the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 — he scored the Cup-clinching goal in 2012 — Carter carved out an enduring legacy with that franchise. And there are...
Penguins’ defense falters in ugly loss to Kings
For as much as the Penguins are routinely celebrated as an offensive force – goals are as much their brand as the skating member of the taxonomic family Spheniscidae on the crest of their black and yellow jerseys – it’s been their defense that has largely buoyed whatever success they’ve...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry selected for All-Star Game eventVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry was selected to the NHL’s upcoming All-Star Game event. He was the lone member of the team to receive this honor. The “game,” which is really a three-game tournament between the four squads based on the league’s four divisions, will be Feb. 5 in Las...
On the west side, Penguins forward Jeff Carter finds success on the left side
Jeff Carter is back in a familiar place where he has enjoyed a lot of success. Los Angeles. A vital component of the Kings’ only two Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and ‘14, Carter has a lot of warm memories of life on the West Coast. He likely will add...
Penguins recall forwards Drew O’Connor, Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins have recalled forwards Drew O’Connor and Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). O’Connor was assigned to the NHL roster while Hallander was assigned to the taxi squad. Shuffled between the NHL and AHL rosters sporadically throughout the season, O’Connor, a second-year professional who is...
Evgeni Malkin gets 3 points in return as Penguins beat Ducks
One of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ biggest players made a long-awaited return to the lineup. It had been multiple months since the last time he played in a game of consequence for the team. And with so many players out of the lineup due to various medical maladies, he was desperately...
