Penguins/NHL category, Page 121
Tim Benz: Repeated blown leads against the Islanders could prove fatal for Penguins
If you really want, you can try to rationalize away the Pittsburgh Penguins’ disastrous results against the New York Islanders this season. You can try to convince yourself that if both teams qualify as the Eastern Conference wild cards, there’s not much difference between being seventh or eighth anyway. That...
Penguins collapse in another loss to Islanders
In the first half-century of the rivalry between the teams, there’s never been a deficit of heartbreak for the Pittsburgh Penguins against the New York Islanders. There has been a comeback from a three-game deficit in a best-of-seven playoff series in 1972, a bitterly narrow defeat in a best-of-five first-round...
Penguins assign forward Alex Nylander to Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonVideo
Forward Alex Nylander’s first recall to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ NHL roster was a brief excursion. On Thursday, the Penguins assigned Nylander to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. This transaction comes two days after he was recalled to the NHL level and made his debut with the NHL club. During...
Are Penguins defensemen Dmitry Kulikov and Jan Rutta a ‘shutdown pair?’Video
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Dmitry Kulikov is still trying to find his way around his new surroundings. Even to a granular level. On Thursday, after an optional morning skate at PPG Paints Arena, he took off his elbow pads and began to stack them on the shelf of a locker stall...
Penguins expected to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Islanders
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry in Thursday’s home game against the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry’s status following an optional morning skate. In 33 games this season, Jarry has a 19-7-5 record, a 2.86 goals against average,...
Penguins plan upgrades to PPG Paints Arena, including larger video board
The Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday announced plans to upgrade PPG Paints Arena for the 2023-24 season. Construction at the facility will begin at the conclusion of the 2022-23 season. The upgrades include a new video board, touted to be double the size of the one that currently hangs over the...
U mad, bro?: It’s the ‘March Madness of Mad’ for Steelers, Penguins, Pitt fans
In keeping with the March Madness theme of the week, let me give you my four No. 1 seeds when it comes to agitated Pittsburgh sports fans. •Southside Region: Steelers fans when the team goes 9-8 and fails to win a playoff game •North Hills Region: Penguins fans after the...
Minor league report: Penguins dropped by MarliesVideo
Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 22 saves on 24 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-1 home loss to the Toronto Marlies at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Foward Lukas Svejkovsky scored the lone goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (23-24-4-5), which has lost five of its past six games. Highlights:...
Penguins notebook: Season-long 5-game homestand critical in playoff race
The longest homestand of the season could not have come at a better time for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who, despite more than one extended losing streak this year and several performances unbecoming of a playoff-calibur club, remain squarely in the NHL postseason hunt. Tuesday’s contest against Eastern Conference cellar dweller...
Penguins sign 4 Make-A-Wish kids to 1-day contracts
The Pittsburgh Penguins made four transactions Wednesday morning ahead of their practice session at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. In this case, cap space and corresponding movements to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton were not necessary. To the sound of applause and cameras snapping, general manager Ron Hextall welcomed four youths from Make-A-Wish...
Penguins greats Evgeni Malkin, Kevin Stevens share more than a penalty minute recordVideo
There are a lot of ways to define the career of Evgeni Malkin. The goals. The points. The championships. The awards. And the penalty minutes. One of those things is clearly not like the others. But the superstar center has spent more time in the penalty box than any other...
Mark Madden: Tristan Jarry sinking, Jason Zucker soaring during Penguins’ playoff push
Tuesday’s 5-4 overtime win over Columbus at PPG Paints Arena was a tale of two Penguins. It’s a story that will continue being told. Goaltender Tristan Jarry put the Penguins in position to lose. Winger Jason Zucker made sure they didn’t. Zucker’s story is more fun. Jarry’s narrative needs to...
Tim Benz: Penguins’ wild comeback over Blue Jackets was entertaining, but first 2 periods were alarming
Something felt familiar about the first two periods of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ performance against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena. There was a certain smell about it. Like if you took a December Steelers’ road trip out to Oakland and put it on skates. A...
Penguins pull off improbable comeback to beat Blue JacketsVideo
Friday’s trade deadline came and went. A handful of players left the Pittsburgh Penguins while a few new ones arrived. Danton Heinen was one of the ones who stayed. And he is grateful because he and his teammates feel the Penguins, as currently constructed, can do something profound this spring....
Penguins recall Alex Nylander, place Ryan Poehling on long-term IR
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Alex Nylander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Tuesday and placed forward Ryan Poehling on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Feb. 14. Nylander’s recall was under emergency conditions because of the absences of forwards Mikael Granlund (undisclosed illness) and Bryan Rust (personal matters)....
Monessen school board: Penguins’ offer to pay for girls basketball team bus appreciated, not necessary
Efforts to pay for a charter bus to transport the Monessen girls basketball team to a PIAA playoff game — a movement that included the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation offering to foot the bill — were appreciated but not necessary, the district solicitor said at the Monessen school board meeting Tuesday...
Tim Benz: Regardless of Penguins’ additions at trade deadline, it’s high time they play their best hockey
Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ron Hextall is insisting that he helped the team get better with the trades he executed before the deadline. With the club clinging to the second wild card in the Eastern Conference, such evidence needs to be seen starting immediately — as in Tuesday night at...
Penguins expected to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Blue Jackets
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Tuesday’s home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry’s status following an optional morning skate. In 32 games this season, Jarry has a 19-7-3 record, a 2.77 goals against average, a .916...
Defenseman Dmitry Kulikov expected to make Penguins debut Tuesday
The bulk of Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ron Hextall’s focus at the recent trade deadline was on how to retool his bottom-six forwards. He jettisoned forwards Teddy Blueger, Kasperi Kapanen as well as Brock McGinn while annexing Nick Bonino and Mikael Granlund. But he didn’t ignore his blue line. On...
Nick Bonino eager to make some new memories with Penguins
Nick Bonino’s memory was a bit fuzzy. A gulf of almost six years will do that. He was a bit unsure of how to find his way to PPG Paints Arena for practice Monday. “I had my maps app,” Bonino quipped. “So, I was OK.” Cartological concerns noted, the important...
Penguins forward Jake Guentzel expected to play Tuesday after missing practice
Penguins forward Jake Guentzel was absent from practice at PPG Paints Arena on Monday for what was termed as a “maintenance day” by coach Mike Sullivan. He is expected to be available for Tuesday’s home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets according to Sullivan. A staple on the top line...
Tim Benz: An idea to honor the ‘Miracle’ men with Penguins tiesVideo
Since the (re)retirement of Tom Brady, the notion of retiring his No. 12 across the NFL has been floated on a few occasions. Nah. Brady was greatest. But too many other teams have their own iconic quarterbacks that’ll forever be known as wearing No. 12. The Steelers (Terry Bradshaw), Cowboys...
Madden Monday: All Ron Hextall accomplished at trade deadline for Penguins was ‘undo his prior mistakes’
When it comes to assessing Ron Hextall’s moves at the trade deadline, I agree with what the Pittsburgh Penguins general manager said Friday evening. I do think he “made the team better” by acquiring Mikael Granlund, Nick Bonino and Dmitry Kulikov. I also think they are better because they cut...
Minor league report: Drake Caggiula, Penguins beat MonstersVideo
Two goals and an assist by forward Drake Caggiula led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 6-4 road win against the Cleveland Monsters at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on Sunday. Forward Ty Glover scored two goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (23-23-4-5) which snapped a four-game losing streak while forward Alex Nylander contributed...
3 takeaways: Forward Nick Bonino debuts with Penguins (again)
A day after being acquired in a three-team trade, forward Nick Bonino played the first game of his second stint with the Penguins on Saturday in a 4-1 road loss to the Florida Panthers at FLA Arena in Sunrise, Fla. Primarily deployed as the center of the fourth line between...
