Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 2

It wasn’t quite like many of the terse postgame press conferences Mike Sullivan would stage during his decade as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins following losses at Consol Energy Center-turned-PPG Paints Arena. And it wasn’t even in the same stratosphere as that tour de force Michel Therrien infamously offered...

Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Sergei Murashov is scheduled to start Saturday’s home game against the Seattle Kraken at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Murashov’s status approximately two hours before the opening faceoff. In three games this season, Murashov has a 1-1-0 record, a 1.53 goals-against average, a .932...

The Pittsburgh Penguins went four days between games following a taxing trek to Sweden to spread the gospel of the NHL in Europe. On Friday, they looked as though they might have needed a fifth day — or five weeks — to get past lingering jet lag. In fact, one...

Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Friday’s game against the Minnesota Wild at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. In 10 games this season, Silovs has a 4-2-4 record, a 2.44 goals-against average, a .918 save...

Jack St. Ivany was a long shot to make the Pittsburgh Penguins roster out of training camp. And that shot got even longer when he suffered a suspected right foot injury during a 5-3 preseason road win against the Buffalo Sabres on Oct. 1. A puck struck his skate, and...

The Connors are comfortable with contact when it comes to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Forward Connor Dewar and defenseman Connor Clifton are the team’s two leaders in recorded hits this season. Dewar paces the group with 39, and Clifton is second with 33. But a significant discrepancy exists when auditing the...

Rookie defenseman Harrison Brunicke was not in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ lineup Wednesday. And for good reason. There was no lineup. The team is idle until it hosts the Minnesota Wild on Friday. If Brunicke is part of the lineup that night, it’s anyone’s guess. The plan the Penguins have for...

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Philip Tomasino cleared waivers Wednesday. That formality allows the team to send him to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League should it choose to do so. The 2025-26 season has been underwhelming for Tomasino, who has been a healthy scratch for 10 of a possible 19 games....

In recent years, the Pittsburgh Penguins have made it a priority to stock up on goaltenders. That surplus was on display Tuesday morning as they had four netminders on the ice for an optional practice in Cranberry. Granted, one of them was the team’s goaltending consultant (i.e. practice goaltender), 39-year-old...

Pittsburgh Penguins defensive prospect Peyton Kettles is scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery in Pittsburgh on Friday. His junior team, the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League, announced his status Tuesday afternoon. There was no specific word as to the nature of his ailment, a timeframe for recovery or which...

Things weren’t much different for Philip Tomasino as practice started in Cranberry on Tuesday morning. He was one of the first players on the ice. And he was one of the last players off the ice. As he has trudged through an underwhelming season that has seen him scratched for...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are in the midst of a youth movement this season. Part of that is by design, as they have integrated teenagers such as Harrison Brunicke and Ben Kindel into their lineup. But a lot of it has been a blunt necessity as they have seven players on...

Sergei Murashov is largely viewed as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltender of a promising future. On Sunday, they simply needed the rookie to guide them out of a murky present. Stopping all 21 shots he faced, Murashov recorded his first career win as the Penguins shut out the Nashville Predators, 4-0,...

Two of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top prospects, rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist and forward Rutger McGroarty, were activated from the team’s injured non-roster list and assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday. Both players entered the regular season with undisclosed ailments. Blomqvist appeared in the team’s preseason...

Generally speaking, there is little value in tracking line combinations and defensive duos during the early days of NHL training camp. It is a completely nugatory endeavor. Remember the line of Josh Archibald, Radim Zohorna and Jason Zucker that offered a potentially sophomoric — but wonderfully risible — nickname based...

The Pittsburgh Penguins understand they are in Sweden to conduct business for the NHL as ambassadors of the league this weekend. With a pair of contests against the Nashville Predators, all parties involved are hoping to spread the NHL’s version of ishockey to Sverige. But the Penguins haven’t lost sight...