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Minor league report: Nailers drop Game 4 to Royals
Forward Mike Posma had a goal and an assist for the Wheeling Nailers, who lost, 3-2, in overtime to the Reading Royals in a North Division semifinal round series at Santander Arena in Reading on Friday. The Nailers lead the best-of-seven series, 3-1. Forward Nolan Renwick scored Wheeling’s other goal...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby will ‘wait and see’ for contract extension
The Penguins have several pending free agents this offseason, and forward Evgeni Malkin is, by far, the most prominent. But one player’s contractual status looms over all others. Sidney Crosby. Crosby will be entering the final year of his current contract and is eligible to sign an extension as of...
‘I’m still kind of sick to my stomach’: Penguins’ Ben Kindel using last shift against Flyers as motivationVideo
Most Pittsburgh Penguins fans can’t tolerate rewatching Cam York’s series-ending overtime goal for the Philadelphia Flyers. Meanwhile, it sounds like Penguins rookie Ben Kindel can’t stop replaying it in his mind. “I’m still kind of sick to my stomach thinking about that last shift and how the season ended,” Kindel...
Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins will move forward, with or without one another
Evgeni Malkin understands quite well what a youth movement can mean. He saw it firsthand two decades ago when he helped usher in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ greatest era as a 20-year-old along with a handful of 19-year-olds in Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang. Today, approximately three months shy of his...
Penguins forward Filip Hallander returns to Sweden to resume training following blood clot
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Filip Hallander has returned to his native Sweden to begin offseason training after being sidelined for the majority of the 2025-26 campaign due to a blood clot in an unspecified leg. Hallander will be reevaluated by the team’s medical staff at an unspecified date in the...
Penguins coach Dan Muse named finalist for Jack Adams Award
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Muse was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award, which is presented to “the coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success.” The NHL announced the finalists Friday. In his first year with the Penguins, Muse guided a Penguins team that entered...
Mark Madden: Penguins face emotional, roster-altering decision with Evgeni Malkin
To Geno or not to Geno? For the Penguins this off-season, that is certainly the most emotional question. Evgeni Malkin will be a free agent July 1. He wants to keep playing, and for the Penguins. He will be 40 when next season begins. Malkin smoothly switched from center to...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Bears in Game 1Video
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 31 saves on 33 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-2 win against the rival Hershey Bears in Game 1 of an Atlantic Division semifinal series at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday. Forwards Atley Calvert, Avery Hayes and Aidan McDonough, as well as defenseman...
Beyond the Bylines: Steelers’ offensive tackle decisions, Penguins’ goalie plans, Pirates’ defense, 1980s board games
This week’s “Beyond the Bylines” covers lots of ground. Joe Starkey and I start off with the news about Broderick Jones failing to receive a fifth-year option from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then we navigate the Steelers’ constant tinkering with the offensive tackle position, Mike McCarthy’s continued praise for Will Howard...
Joe Starkey: Penguins’ old guys need help, not pink slips
I was in favor of a massive, tear-it-to-the-studs rebuild, and when we look back on all this in a year or two, I might still be proven right. Maybe that is what the Pittsburgh Penguins should have done. But president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas chose a different path, and...
Mark Madden: Penguins’ season was fun, surprising but, ultimately, wasted
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round playoff loss to Philadelphia isn’t hard to analyze: They couldn’t score. A group that finished third in goals during the NHL regular season with 293 — the most by a Penguins team in the Sidney Crosby era — scored just 11 times in six playoff games....
What did the Penguins accomplish this season? And what’s the direction for 2026-27?
PHILADELPHIA — Sidney Crosby regurgitated the notion almost immediately. During a season-ticket holder event in Sewickley this past September, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain was asked about the idea of his team not being competitive — intentionally — for the 2025-26 season for the greater good of the franchise. In other...
Tim Benz: Dreams of a Penguins comeback become a nightmare with 1 shot
Thursday night’s Penguins-Flyers Game 6 had a hypnotic effect after a while. It was nearly 80 minutes of 0-0 hockey, but with innumerable huge saves, gorgeous scoring chances, turnovers, odd-man rushes, clean looks, deflected shots, near misses, gasps, shrieks and groans. The constant flow of failed high-danger attempts lulled me...
‘They’re like family’: Crosby addresses the future with Malkin and Letang after Penguins’ season-ending loss
A 1-0 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6 of a first-round series Wednesday night might have been the end of a championship era in Pittsburgh Penguins hockey. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang have played together for 20 seasons, establishing themselves, with three Stanley Cup titles...
Flyers bring end to Penguins’ unexpected playoff march with OT victory in Game 6
PHILADELPHIA — So much about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2025-26 season was about defying expectations. Few — externally — anticipated the Penguins would contend for anything other than a lottery selection in the NHL Draft this summer. Yet, they managed to remain competitive all season to reach the playoffs and even...
U mad, bro?: Penguins’ playoff loss to Flyers, Steelers’ draft choices have fans on tilt
Losing to the Philadelphia Flyers always makes Pittsburgh fans mad. Losing in the playoffs makes Pittsburgh fans irate. Losing in the playoffs to the Flyers makes all of Pittsburgh enraged. That’s what happened Wednesday night, and it doesn’t appear that we are handling it well. At least everyone in the...
Minor league report: Nailers, Taylor Gauthier shut out Royals in Game 3Video
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 27 saves for the Wheeling Nailers in a 2-0 win against the Reading Royals in Game 3 of a North Division semifinal series at Santander Arena in Reading on Wednesday. The result gave the Nailers a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Gauthier recorded his second...
Cup of Joe (Starkey): Some of the Penguins’ most incredible moments have come in Game 6’sVideo
As the Penguins prepare for a monumental Game 6 in the City of Brotherly Shove, chasing history after falling behind three games to none, a question springs to mind: Why don’t we talk about Game 6’s more? We have an understandable societal obsession with Game 7’s because of the finality...
Penguins’ Anthony Mantha: ‘I’m not shooting enough’Video
PHILADELPHIA — One by one, several of the Penguins’ most prominent offensive threats began to find offense in Games 4 and 5 of their first-round playoffs series as they started to find fissures in the Philadelphia Flyers’ hermetically sealed defense that largely kept things stagnant in the first three contests....
Their backs against the wall, Penguins preach emotional discipline vs. Flyers
Inside the Pittsburgh Penguins’ locker room, those less hip to the club’s longstanding rivalry with the Philadelphia Flyers have quickly become apprised. Franchise pillars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang probably let their newer teammates know of the rivalry’s intensity and so far, through five games, the eighth all-time...
Penguins recall goaltender Joel Blomqvist from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
PHILADELPHIA — The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Wednesday, a handful of hours before they face the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6 of a first-round playoff series at the Xfinity Mobile Arena. The team did not announce the transaction...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start Game 6 against Flyers
PHILADELPHIA — Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Game 6 of his team’s first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers at the Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate. In two games this series, Silovs has a 2-0...
Tim Benz: 5 things the Penguins need to do in Philadelphia to win Game 6
The Pittsburgh Penguins have a chance to force a decisive Game 7 of their first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers with a win in Philly during Wednesday night’s Game 6. All the momentum is on Pittsburgh’s side after fending off elimination in each of the last two games. The...
Penguins’ power-play remains a work in progressVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ power play mirrors its regular-season ranking through five games of their first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series. The Penguins’ man-advantage was seventh-best in the NHL (24.1%) entering the playoffs, and ahead of Wednesday’s Game 6 against the Philadelphia Flyers, it sits at seventh among the league’s 16 qualifying...
Cup of Joe (Starkey): Rick Tocchet’s Flyers continue to ‘go after’ Sidney Crosby, but Crosby and Penguins getting strongerVideo
In the days leading up to what has become a highly contentious, increasingly fascinating Eastern Conference quarterfinal, Philadelphia Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said his team needed to “go after” the Pittsburgh Penguins stars. What he meant is subject to interpretation, but the Flyers have absolutely “gone after” Crosby in this...
