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Level Green native selected for USA Hockey’s preliminary roster for World Juniors
San Jose Sharks forward prospect Brandon Svoboda, a native of Level Green, was selected for the U.S. National Junior Team’s preliminary roster in advance of the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Junior Championship tournament which begins later this month. USA Hockey announced that roster via a release Monday. A...
Penguins forward Michael Bunting: ‘I know what I’m capable of’Video
Mike Sullivan used a bad name to describe one of his players Saturday. Well … bad from a certain perspective. Like one a goaltender would hold. What obscene nomenclature did the Pittsburgh Penguins coach utilize? “Patric Hornqvist.” Sullivan invoked that vexing term after a 6-2 home win against the Calgary...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Bears; Nailers’ winning streak reaches 8Video
Defenseman Filip Kral had two goals and two assists for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-4 win against the rival Hershey Bears at Mohegan Sun Arena in Hershey on Saturday. Forward Rutger McGroarty scored the winning goal at 18:45 of the third period and recorded an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-4-1-0)...
Penguins keep rolling, stomp out FlamesVideo
The 2024-25 season hasn’t gone as Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic would have preferred. When you have a save percentage of .877 — as was the case before Saturday — going into December, nothing has gone as scripted. But Nedeljkovic and the Penguins managed to draft something new on Saturday....
Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic scheduled to face Flames
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic is scheduled to start Saturday’s home game against the Calgary Flames at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Nedeljkovic’s status approximately two hours before the opening faceoffs. In 11 games this season, Nedeljkovic has a 3-4-3 record, a 3.42 goals against average and an...
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin fined for slashingVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin was fined $5,000 by the NHL for slashing Boston Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei during Friday’s game. The league announced the fine — as well as an identical fine to Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov — on Saturday. At 19:38 of the first period of the Penguins’...
Minor league report: Penguins come back to down RocketVideo
Forwards Ville Koivunen, Joona Koppanen and Sam Poulin each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-3 comeback win against the Laval Rocket at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Defenseman Mac Hollowell and forward Emil Bemstrom both recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (10-4-1-0)...
Forward Philip Tomasino gets winning goal as Penguins beat Bruins
Philip Tomasino has been a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins for less than a week after being acquired via a trade with the Nashville Predators on Monday. So, he’s still getting acclimated to his new surroundings. But he is under no misconceptions about one aspect of his new gig. Skating...
Penguins are getting power-play goals but still seek improvementVideo
For all the Pittsburgh Penguins’ woes this season — and boy, there are a lot — the power play isn’t exactly one of them. After struggling badly with the man advantage over the past two seasons — the 2023-24 campaign in particular — the Penguins entered Thursday ranked 13th in...
Penguins forward Bryan Rust understands the need to be a leader
Bryan Rust is no stranger to adversity. After all, he is a Detroit Lions fan. That makes Thanksgiving something of a double-edged sword of emotions for him given that franchise’s futility — its last championship came in 1957 — during Rust’s 32 years on earth. “Thanksgiving is awesome in the...
Penguins defenseman Owen Pickering remains sidelined due to illness
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie defenseman Owen Pickering was absent from practice Thursday in Cranberry because of an unspecified illness. He was scratched from a 5-4 home win against the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday for the same reason. After Thursday’s practice, coach Mike Sullivan indicated Pickering is still being evaluated, and it...
Minor league report: Nailers’ winning streak reaches 6 gamesVideo
Two goals by defenseman Mats Lindgren led the Wheeling Nailers to a 4-1 win against the Toledo Walleye at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Wednesday. Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 36 saves on 37 shots to improve his record to 7-2-0 while forwards Atley Calvert and Jordan Martel each contributed...
Penguins thankful for holding on to 3rd-period lead, beating Canucks
Mike Sullivan doesn’t believe in the significance of Thanksgiving. To be clear, he’s totally cool with the holiday. Turkey, pumpkin pie, family, football, the whole deal. He digs it. But the Pittsburgh Penguins head coach doesn’t put much weight into the notion that has become popular in recent years that...
Penguins assign Valtteri Puustinen to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton; activate Blake Lizotte from injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Valtteri Puustinen cleared waivers Wednesday and was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. That transaction allowed the team to activate forward Blake Lizotte from injured reserve prior to Wednesday’s home game against the Vancouver Canucks. Lizotte has missed the previous five games due to a...
New Penguins forward Philip Tomasino wants — and needs — a fresh start
It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. Maybe apples-to-hot dogs. But the Pittsburgh Penguins traded for a right winger named Phil who is looking for a fresh start. In 2015, they brought in All-Star forward Phil Kessel, and that maneuver led to two Stanley Cup banners as well as countless memes about...
A bad mood won’t help the Penguins avoid more bad results
Everything came down to a one-on-one confrontation Monday in Cranberry. Forward Matt Nieto vs. goaltender Tristan Jarry. Nieto attacked. Jarry reacted. Nieto scored. As Nieto skated toward the left-wing boards to celebrate, half of the Penguins roster — all clad in yellow practice jerseys — mobbed Nieto to celebrate winning...
Penguins acquire forward Philip Tomasino from PredatorsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Philip Tomasino from the Nashville Predators on Monday. In return, they exchanged a fourth-round pick in the 2027 draft. Tomasino, 23, was a first-round draft pick (No. 24 overall) in 2019. A right-handed shot, he has appeared in 11 games this season and has recorded...
Minor league report: Nailers, Sergei Murashov conquer KometsVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made a season-high 48 saves on 52 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 6-4 road win against the Forth Wayne Komets at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Saturday. Murashov improved his ECHL record to 6-2-0 as Wheeling (9-3-1-0) extended a...
Utah spoils Sidney Crosby’s milestone night as Penguins suffer 8th loss in past 10 games
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic didn’t have to ruminate a great deal when asked how to describe his team last week. “Inconsistent is probably a good word, a good way to describe it,” Nedeljkovic said in Cranberry on Wednesday. “Game to game, period to period, sometimes even shift to shift....
Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic scheduled to start against Utah Hockey Club
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic is scheduled to start Saturday’s home game against the Utah Hockey Club at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Nedeljkovic’s status approximately two hours before the opening faceoff. In 10 games this season, Nedeljkovic has a 3-3-3 record, a 3.17 goals against average and...
West Mifflin’s Logan Cooley finds comfort in his second NHL season with Utah
Coming home is always special for Logan Cooley. It’s even more special when his mother, Cathy, offers a grand feast in their West Mifflin abode. Such was the case on Friday as Cooley, a forward with the Utah Hockey Club, had a day off before facing the Pittsburgh Penguins on...
Former Penguins forward Nick Bonino signs in SloveniaVideo
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Nick Bonino has signed with HK Olimpija Ljubljana, a team based in Slovenia that competes in the International Central European Hockey League (ICEHL). In addition to Slovenia, that league has teams based in Austria, Italy and Hungary. HK Olimpija Ljubljana announced the signing via a release...
Minor league report: Penguins, Joel Blomqvist shut out IslandersVideo
Goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 23 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-0 shutout of the Bridgeport Islanders at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. It was the first shutout of the season for Blomqvist, who improved his American Hockey League record to 1-1-0. Forward Emil Bemstrom had two...
Jets send skidding Penguins to 7th loss in past 9 games
Mike Sullivan has directed a blunt missive to his team in recent days. “We’ve got to be harder to play against,” the coach said Wednesday. That may leave some room for interpretation, but in practice Thursday, it translated into a physically demanding session. Players hit the ice — literally —...
Penguins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk remains ‘a work in progress, for sure’
It was a pretty sedate offseason for the Pittsburgh Penguins this past summer. After splurging on the likes of defensemen Ryan Graves and Erik Karlsson the year prior, management mostly operated with a frugal budget and looked for the clearance rack of dented cans or torn boxes in the rear...
