Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 144
Minor league report: Penguins beaten by BearsVideo
Goaltender Max Lagace made 27 saves on 29 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-1 road loss to the rival Hershey Bears at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. on Saturday. Forward Zach Nastasiuk scored the only goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (1-2-1). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is a home...
Penguins rally in 3rd, win Sidney Crosby’s 1,000th game
Prior to Saturday’s game at PPG Paints Arena, the Pittsburgh Penguins took to the ice en masse to celebrate their captain. The 20 players who officially dressed for the contest surrounded Sidney Crosby. So did the healthy scratches such as defenseman Chad Ruhwedel and forward Colton Sceviour and even those...
Sidney Crosby proud to share company with Al MacInnisVideo
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby is scheduled to appear in his 1,000th career game on Saturday when his team hosts the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena. He will become the fourth native of Nova Scotia to reach that milestone joining defenseman Al MacInnis (1,416) as well as forwards Bobby...
Minor league report: Nailers beaten by KometsVideo
Goaltender Francois Brassard made 22 saves on 26 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 4-1 road loss to the Fort Wayne Komets at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. on Friday. Forward Matt Alfaro scored the only goal for Wheeling (5-10-4). Highlights: The Nailers’ next...
As Sidney Crosby reaches 1,000 games, teammates share what makes him great
Numbers will largely define Sidney Crosby the player. Heck, the 87 on his back kind of tells his story considering he was born on the seventh day of the eighth month of 1987. Statistics will paint a pretty vivid picture of the Penguins’ longtime captain when his career is evaluated....
Penguins recall forwards Jordy Bellerive, Josh Currie and goaltender Emil LarmiVideo
The Penguins have recalled forwards Jordy Bellerive, Josh Currie and goaltender Emil Larmi from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League to their taxi squad. Additionally, the team assigned forwards Anthony Angello, Frederick Gaudreau and Maxime Lagace to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Bellerive, 21, has appeared in three AHL games this season and has...
Empty Thoughts: Penguins 4, Islanders 1Video
Observations from the Penguins’ 4-1 win against the New York Islanders: Mike Matheson will never make anyone forget Patric Hornqvist. Between Hornqvist’s relentlessness, rambunctious and results, he was an easy player to root for during his six seasons with the Penguins. He won the Stanley Cup twice and his nickname...
Tristan Jarry leads Penguins past Islanders
In the NHL’s temporarily reconfigured and corporate-sponsored East Division, there are a handful of teams still deploying a hard, physical, bruising element to their games. The New York Islanders are one of those squads. The Pittsburgh Penguins are not. As designed by former general manager Jim Rutherford and maintained thus...
Penguins assign defenseman Zach Trotman to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins have assigned reserve defenseman Zach Trotman to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. Trotman, 30, opened the season on injured reserve after suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee injury during training camp that required surgery. In the final year of a two-way contract with a salary...
Penguins to start Tristan Jarry against Islanders
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Thursday’s home game against the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena. This will be Jarry’s third consecutive start. Over his past two games, each against the Washington Capitals – a 6-3 win on Sunday and a 3-1 loss Tuesday...
Penguins rookie P.O Joseph eager to carry on Willie O’Ree’s message
P.O Joseph hasn’t met Willie O’Ree. But Joseph is well aware the path he is on initially was forged O’Ree. As the NHL’s first Black player in the late 1950s, O’Ree showed people of color, such as Joseph, could play the sport at its highest level. “It started with him,”...
Empty Thoughts: Capitals 3, Penguins 1Video
Observations from the Penguins’ 3-1 loss to the Capitals: Special teams really did the Penguins in during this game. To be clear, the penalty kill was actually pretty good as it went 5 for 5 and snapped a skid of seven consecutive games in allowing an opposing power-play goal. But...
Penguins stumble through loss to Capitals
Tristan Jarry has a fairly binary way of assessing his job. And considering his vocation, he largely operates in a pass-fail realm. “You want to win every game, and you want to stop every puck,” the Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender said on Monday when asked how he evaluates his performance. “When...
Penguins notebook: Marcus Pettersson returns to lineup
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson returned to the lineup for Tuesday’s home game against the Washington Capitals at PPG Paints Arena. He had been sidelined for nine consecutive games because of an undisclosed injury. The team activated Pettersson from injured reserve Tuesday afternoon. During his absence, the Penguins dealt with...
Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Capitals
The Pittsburgh Penguins will start goaltender Tristan Jarry for the second consecutive game Tuesday when they host the Washington Capitals at PPG Paints Arena. Jarry steered the team to a 6-3 home win against the Capitals on Sunday when he made 28 saves on 31 shots. This season, Jarry has...
Reserve goaltender Maxime Lagace remains ready for the PenguinsVideo
Things were shaping up to be a cozy afternoon on a frigid, gray Sunday in February for Maxime Lagace. Then he got a text. They needed him down at the office. When regular backup goaltender Casey DeSmith became unavailable because of an illness not related to covid-19, the Penguins recalled...
Cody Ceci, Mike Matheson starting to contribute after a month with PenguinsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins opened their season Jan. 13, a little more than a month ago. In some ways, it seems like it was a year ago. If nothing else, it was one general manager ago. For Cody Ceci and Mike Matheson, their debuts as members of the Penguins came during...
Empty Thoughts: Penguins 6, Capitals 3Video
Observations from the Penguins’ 6-3 win against the Capitals On Sunday, new general manager Ron Hextall and president of hockey operations Brian Burke watched a Penguins game for the first time in person since they joined the team. They saw a spirited, albeit imperfect, effort by their squad. They also...
Minor league report: Nailers routed by FuelVideo
Goaltender Hayden Hawkey made 19 saves for the Wheeling Nailers who were routed by the Indy Fuel, 6-1, at home at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Sunday. Forward Sean Josling scored the lone goal for Wheeling (5-9-4). Highlights: The Nailers’ next game is a road contest against the Fort...
Penguins notebook: Defenseman Marcus Pettersson remains sidelined
Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson remained sidelined for Sunday’s 6-3 victory against the rival Washington Capitals at PPG Paints Arena. He remains on injured reserve with an undisclosed ailment. Sidelined for the past nine games, he was injured during a 5-4 home win against the Capitals on Jan. 19. During the...
Goaltender Tristan Jarry leads Penguins past Capitals
Just looking at the basic numbers, Tristan Jarry was hardly outstanding Sunday. He was nothing close to the All-Star he was for most of the 2019-20 season. There hasn’t been a point in the 2020-21 season in which he has been in that zip code. But he was better Sunday...
Penguins recall goaltender Maxime Lagace from taxi squad
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled goaltender Maxime Lagace from their taxi squad on an emergency basis. He will serve as backup to starting Tristan Jarry for Sunday’s home game against the Washington Capitals. No reason for the transaction or the status of regular backup Casey DeSmith was provided by the team....
Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Capitals
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry is scheduled to do something Sunday he never has done. Play the Washington Capitals. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry will be in net for Sunday’s home game at PPG Paints Arena against their long-time rivals. It will be Jarry’s first career game against the Capitals....
Minor league report: Penguins beat Crunch for 1st winVideo
Forwards Chase Berger, Kyle Olson and defenseman Will Reilly each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-4 road win against the Syracuse Crunch at Upstate Medical University Arena in Syracuse, N.Y. on Saturday. It was Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s first victory of the season. Forward Jonathan Gruden...
Penguins adapt to the NHL’s latest round of covid-19 protocols
Jason Zucker doesn’t mind social distancing. At least in one specific instance. “It’s helped me a lot personally just because I’m further away from ‘Rusty,’ ” the Penguins forward joked in reference to his occasional linemate, Bryan Rust. “So I don’t have to deal with him as much on a...
