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Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to face Canucks
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Tuesday’s game against his former team, the Vancouver Canucks, at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. To this point of the season, the Penguins have alternated every start in net between...
Penguins see strong results by platooning Tristan Jarry, Arturs Silovs
Dan Muse isn’t a carbon copy of his predecessor as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan. But similarities do exist. Both hail from Boston, and both speak with accents rooted in the Bay State. And like Sullivan, Muse readily allows players to avoid the ice during optional morning skates...
Penguins suspend defensive prospect Emil Pieniniemi
The Pittsburgh Penguins have suspended defenseman Emil Pieniniemi indefinitely for failing to report to the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL. A team spokesperson confirmed the punitive action Monday. Pieniniemi, a third-round draft pick (No. 91 overall) in 2023, was assigned to Wheeling on Oct. 6 but did not report to...
Penguins, Tristan Jarry outduel Alex Nedeljkovic, Sharks
During the previous two seasons, Tristan Jarry and Alex Nedeljkovic competed with one another to be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top goaltender. On Saturday, they simply competed. Jarry made 31 saves for the Penguins in a 3-0 win against San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The...
Minor league report: Penguins come back to remain undefeatedVideo
A goal and two assists by forward Danton Heinen helped the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins score six unanswered goals and stage a 6-3 comeback win against the Bridgeport Islanders at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday. Forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all had a goal and...
Penguins forward Noel Acciari knows ‘you can’t take being here for granted’Video
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Noel Acciari set a career high in games played last year and nearly reached another fairly significant milestone in the process. But a hip flexor cost him the final three contests of the 2024-25 campaign and capped him at 79 games. And as it turned out, it...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Wolf Pack, remain undefeatedVideo
A pair of goals by forward Atley Calvert led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 5-2 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at the PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Conn. on Friday. Forward Danton Heinen recorded three assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (3-0-0-0) while defenseman Ryan Graves contributed two assists. Goaltender Sergei Murashov made...
Penalty kill pushes Penguins to comeback win against Kings
The Pittsburgh Penguins found a way to transform their penalty kill from a detriment to an asset. Score a short-handed goal. Penguins’ rookie forward Filip Hallander scored the winning goal during a penalty kill in a 4-2 comeback road win against the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena in Los...
Penguins forward Blake Lizotte is healthy and hanging on to his jobVideo
The start of Blake Lizotte’s second season with the Pittsburgh Penguins is going much better than how he began his first. That’s because he hasn’t been concussed. Not even once. After joining the club during the 2024 offseason by signing a two-year contract, Lizotte didn’t even make it to the...
Penguins’ penalty kill struggles again in loss to Ducks
There weren’t many areas the Pittsburgh Penguins were expected to be exceedingly stout in entering the 2025-26 campaign. In fact, it was anticipated that the rebuilding franchise would be one of the NHL’s least impressive clubs this season. And in at least one aspect, that has been the case. The...
With growing family and optimism intact, Penguins’ Rickard Rakell wants to stay putVideo
Life has been good for Rickard Rakell ever since he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins via a trade with the Anaheim Ducks in February of 2022. He’s become a father twice since arriving in Western Pennsylvania. Son Ziggy was born in April, joining sister Daisy and mother Emmeli. “He’s been really...
Justin Brazeau, Evgeni Malkin and Anthony Mantha form another big 3 for the PenguinsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins have had big lines before. Perhaps their most famous trio with robust dimensions was formed during the 1991-92 season. While Kevin Stevens (6-foot-3, 231 pounds) and Mario Lemieux (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) were the biggest bodies on that line, it’s almost absurd to point out that Rick Tocchet,...
Minor league report: Tristan Broz scores twice as Penguins beat PhantomsVideo
A pair of goals and an assist by forward Tristan Broz led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Sunday. Linemate Ville Koivunen, a day after being assigned by the Pittsburgh Penguins, recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton...
Penguins defensemen Connor Clifton, Matt Dumba ready to step in
For whatever reason, right-handed defensemen are harder to find than their left-handed counterparts in seemingly every level of hockey. Through less than a week of play in the NHL this season, only 88 starboard defensemen have appeared in a game while 116 port-siders have suited up. Somehow, the Penguins managed...
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang sidelined by injury
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang has been labeled as “day to day” due to an undisclosed injury he suffered during a 6-1 home loss to the New York Rangers on Saturday. Letang crashed into the boards awkwardly while trying to deliver a check and did not record a shift beyond...
Minor league report: Penguins, Sergei Murashov win openerVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 23 saves on 24 shots and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a season-opening 2-1 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Valtteri Puustinen scored Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s opening goal at 8:32 of the second period while defenseman Owen Pickering netted...
Penguins’ special teams falter in loss to Rangers
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ hot start was halted Saturday as they were routed by the New York Rangers, 6-1, at PPG Paints Arena. It was their first loss of the still-young season (2-1-0). A lopsided advantage in special teams propelled the Rangers to victory. They were 2 for 4 on the...
Penguins activate Bryan Rust from injured reserve, assign Ville Koivunen to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins activated forward Bryan Rust from injured reserve a handful of hours before a home game against the New York Rangers. In a corresponding transaction to make room on the active roster, rookie forward Ville Koivunen was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. Rust opened the...
Former Penguins coach Mike Sullivan remains affectionate for Pittsburgh
Mike Sullivan was never cursed with a strong attachment to sentimentality. He was brief on the occasions he was asked about his time as a bottom-six center for the expansion San Jose Sharks in the early 1990s. And discussions about his brief two-year tenure as head coach of the Boston...
Islanders’ Jonathan Drouin suspended for cross checking Penguins’ Connor DewarVideo
New York Islanders forward Jonathan Drouin was suspended one game by the NHL for cross checking Pittsburgh Penguins forward Connor Dewar in the face during a game Thursday. The league announced the suspension Friday afternoon. During the late stages of the Penguins’ 4-3 win at PPG Paints Arena, Penguins goaltender...
Now a regular, Penguins defenseman Ryan Shea wants to show ‘a different side of me’
Tuesday’s season-opening 3-0 road win against the New York Rangers represented a lot of significant firsts to celebrate for members of the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was Dan Muse’s first game as head coach. For defenseman Harrison Brunicke and forward Ben Kindel, the teenagers got into their first career NHL games....
Penguins deliver win to coach Dan Muse in ‘very special’ home opener
Dan Muse has been doing quite a bit to endear himself to Pittsburgh since he was hired as the Penguins’ 23rd coach June 4. During training camp in Cranberry last month, he held a door open for fans to enter the rink and thanked them for coming to watch practice....
Penguins debut new yellow jerseys in home opener
The Pittsburgh Penguins unveiled a new third jersey Thursday as they took the ice for their home-opening contest against the New York Islanders. Quietly teased by the team via social media for a handful of days, the jersey’s primary color is yellow and features the traditional skating penguin crest. Per...
Former Penguins forward Anthony Angello retiresVideo
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Anthony Angello has announced his retirement from professional hockey. Declaring his decision on Instagram, Angello quipped he would be finishing a degree from Cornell “at the ripe age of 30.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anthony Angello (@anthony_angello) The Penguins selected Angello...
Penguins forward Filip Hallander makes season debutVideo
Filip Hallander got what he wanted, for one night at least. More than four years after he proclaimed, with bravado, he was approaching the Pittsburgh Penguins’ training camp to “take a spot” on the roster as a promising-but-raw prospect, he got a spot in the team’s lineup for its home...
