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Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry scheduled to start home opener
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry is scheduled to start his team’s home opener against the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday. Coach Dan Muse announced Jarry’s status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. The decision to start Jarry comes on the heels of a 25-save effort...
Penguins forward Bryan Rust resumes practicing
The start of the 2025-26 season is pretty similar to how Bryan Rust began the 2024-25 campaign. Injured. Rust missed the first two games of last season and all he managed to do was set career highs in goals (31) and points (65). As the Pittsburgh Penguins forward recovers from...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs: ‘I just want to seize it and do my best’
Watching Arturs Silovs warm up requires a bit of commitment. When the Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender takes to the ice, he engages in a lengthy and elaborate process to get ready for a practice session or morning skate. First, he will slowly skate the length of the rink with gentle...
Rookie Arturs Silovs records shutout as Penguins blank Rangers in coach Dan Muse’s debut
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2025-26 season opener offered the same result as the 2024-25 opener in one respect. Mike Sullivan was not satisfied as his team was shut out. The main difference was that Sullivan’s current employer, the New York Rangers, was on the losing end as the Penguins claimed a...
Even as they move forward, the Penguins’ bond with Mike Sullivan endures
In fall 2005, Dan Muse had quite a challenge. He had to teach world history to high school freshmen. After the conclusion of his playing career as a forward at Stonehill College, Muse got a gig at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Mass., requiring him to keep the attention...
Penguins announce season-opening roster
The Pittsburgh Penguins formally announced their season-opening roster Monday evening. The group of 23 active players includes: Forwards (13) — Noel Acciari, Justin Brazeau, Sidney Crosby, Connor Dewar, Filip Hallander, Ben Kindel, Ville Koivunen, Blake Lizotte, Evgeni Malkin, Anthony Mantha, Tommy Novak, Rickard Rakell and Philip Tomasino Defensemen (8) —...
Former Penguins forward Greg McKegg joins KHL’s Shanghai Dragons
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Greg McKegg has signed with the Shanghai Dragons of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League. That team announced the transaction via a release on Monday. While the team is billed as being from China’s largest city, it currently operates out of St. Petersburg, Russia, a designated “sister city.”...
Rookies Harrison Brunicke, Ben Kindel set to make NHL debuts in Penguins’ season opener
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Harrison Brunicke and forward Ben Kindel are each scheduled to make their NHL debuts on Tuesday in the team’s season opener, a road contest against the New York Rangers. Coach Dan Muse announced the pair of teenagers would be in the lineup following a practice in Cranberry...
What will success look like in Dan Muse’s 1st year as Penguins coach?
Like anyone who spent time in the Yellowhammer State, Dan Muse is a big fan of Alabama football. But unlike many Crimson Tide fans, he has patience for Kalen DeBoer, the scrutinized coach of the program who has the daunting task of succeeding Nick Saban, arguably the greatest college football...
Penguins defenseman Ryan Graves, 4 others assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned five players to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) after they cleared waivers on Sunday. That group includes forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Boko Imama and Sam Poulin, as well as defensemen Alex Alexeyev and Ryan Graves. The most notable member of the group is Graves, who...
Things look ‘pretty cool’ for Penguins rookie Ville KoivunenVideo
Like many athletes, Ville Koivunen has a crutch phrase he leans on when he explains things. Nugatory idioms such as “obviously” or “at the end of the day” as well as “for me, personally” litter the landscape of sporting sound bites. In contrast, the Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward employs a...
Tristan Jarry is back (in black) and ready to keep his job as the Penguins’ top goaltender
Tristan Jarry is a fan of the man in black. No, not Johnny Cash. Another outlaw. Ron Hextall. The former Pittsburgh Penguins general manager was a fiery goaltender during his playing career and occasionally donned black gear in the cage. Jarry and Hextall struck up a kinship based on their...
Player-by-player breakdown of the Penguins’ 2025-26 roster
A look at all 49 players the Pittsburgh Penguins have signed to an NHL contract ahead of the 2025-26 season. Forwards Noel Acciari — A veteran bottom-six penalty killer, Acciari entered training camp with a core muscle injury. Justin Brazeau — A large human (6-foot-6, 232 pounds) with some scoring...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Phantoms to finish preseasonVideo
A goal and an assist by defenseman Chase Pietila led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 3-1 preseason win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. Forward Cal Burke recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton while forwards Kyle Criscuolo and Zach Gallant each contributed a...
The Penguins move on from defenseman Ryan Graves (for now)Video
Ryan Graves was genuinely optimistic entering his third training camp as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Even after his first two campaigns with the club were underwhelming, the left-handed defenseman was buoyant about the 2025-26 season because of the benefit of strenuous offseason training and the opportunity to impress...
Penguins hang on to junior-eligible prospects Ben Kindel, Harrison Brunicke
It didn’t take long to realize how real the Pittsburgh Penguins’ youth movement became Saturday. In the main dressing room at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, the nameplates illustrated that notion vividly. At a stall previously occupied by 30-year-old forward Danton Heinen sat Ben Kindel, an 18-year-old forward the Penguins selected...
Penguins place 5 on waivers, send 4 to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins are ready to move on from Ryan Graves. More than two years after signing the left-handed defenseman to one of the largest — by length — contracts in franchise history, placed the 30-year-old Graves on waivers on Saturday. Assuming none of the NHL’s 31 other teams make...
The kids were all right for the Penguins in preseason playVideo
Sergei Murashov is as erudite as he is flexible. But the chatty and sinewy Pittsburgh Penguins goaltending prospect has one matter he isn’t going to ruminate on in abundance: work. To be precise, he isn’t terribly eager to take a guess as to where he’ll be plying his trade by...
Sidney Crosby scores in overtime as Penguins finish preseason with win
The Penguins concluded the preseason with a 5-4 overtime win against the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena on Friday. They finished the exhibition slate with a 5-1-1 record. Penguins forward Sidney Crosby scored two goals, including the winning score 9 seconds into the overtime period. Penguins forward Philip Tomasino...
Penguins assign 6 to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Six members of the Pittsburgh Penguins cleared waivers Friday were assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). That group includes: Forwards — Danton Heinen, Joona Koppanen, Valtteri Puustinen Defensemen — Sebastian Aho, Phil Kemp Goaltender — Filip Larsson Heinen is the most notable member of the sextet as...
Minor league report: Penguins open preseason with shootout win
Forward Gabe Klassen scored the lone goal in a shootout and gave the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a 2-1 win against the Hershey Bears in their opening game of the preseason at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Penguins goaltender Maxim Pavelenko made 17 saves on 18 shots in regulation and...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry to start preseason finale against Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry is scheduled to start his team’s preseason finale, a home contest against the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena on Friday. According to coach Dan Muse, Jarry is slated to split the contest with prospect Sergei Murashov. Jarry has appeared in two games this preseason...
Erik Karlsson still has something to prove in 3rd season with Penguins
Erik Karlsson figures to have a far better start to his 2025-26 than his 2024-25 campaign. And the reason is simple. He’s healthy. An undisclosed injury sidelined Karlsson for almost all of the 2024 training camp and didn’t allow him the benefit of entering the regular season at full speed....
Penguins announce potential lineup for preseason finale
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced a group of players who will potentially compose their lineup for their preseason finale, a home contest against the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena on Friday. Those slated to participate in a morning skate include: Forwards – Noel Acciari, Justin Brazeau, Sidney Crosby, Connor Dewar,...
Penguins place 6 players on waivers
The Pittsburgh Penguins placed six players on waivers Thursday. That group includes: Forwards — Danton Heinen, Joona Koppanen, Valtteri Puustinen Defensemen — Sebastian Aho, Phil Kemp Goaltender — Filip Larsson If all six go unclaimed by another NHL club by 2 p.m. Friday, they can be assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of...
