Penguins/NHL category, Page 122

After the Pittsburgh Penguins’ latest loss, a 6-3 defeat in Buffalo on Wednesday night, head coach Mike Sullivan tamped down any suggestion that second-string goalie Casey DeSmith was to blame. As he should have. “I thought Casey competed hard for us tonight,” Sullivan insisted. “I thought the goals they got...

Three takeaways from a 6-3 Penguins loss at Buffalo on Wednesday night: PK problems The Pittsburgh Penguins’ penalty kill continued to struggle during a 6-3 road loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday. The Sabres’ second goal of the contest was a power-play score by forward Tage Thompson at 3:21...

Buffalo Sabres coach Don Granato knew what kind of disposition the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins carried along with their luggage as they rolled into the Nickel City on Wednesday. “Angry, absolutely,” Granato said to media in Buffalo after a morning skate at KeyBank Arena. “There’s never an easy game when you...

I know what went wrong with the Pittsburgh Penguins en route to blowing a three-goal lead Tuesday night. During their “Pittsburgh Night” festivities, with the team up 5-2 in the second period over the Boston Bruins, the Pens decided to play “Renegade” as an homage to the Steelers. Let’s just...

Coming off a carbuncle of a five-game road trip that saw them lose the final four contests, the Pittsburgh Penguins preached optimism that they were capable of doing the right things in order to get a badly needed victory. And those things relied on some basic (or cliched) principles. Sound...

The Boston Bruins always will offer significance to Pittsburgh Penguins forward Drew O’Connor. A product of Dartmouth College, he made his NHL debut during the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season at Boston’s TD Garden on Jan. 26, 2021. O’Connor and the Penguins were edged 3-2 in overtime in front of a grand...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are expected to start goaltender Tristan Jarry in Tuesday’s home game against the Boston Bruins. In six games this season, Jarry has a 4-2-0 record, a 3.02 goals against average and a .915 save percentage. Throughout his career, Jarry has played 11 games against the Bruins and...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are struggling so much offensively of late, I think there is only one solution to their problems. They should fire Matt Canada. I mean, it couldn’t hurt. Right? Seriously, I checked this TribLIVE Twitter poll yesterday, and after the first 315 votes, 92.7% of respondents said that...

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been through this before. Especially these Penguins. A four-game losing streak is far from ideal. But it’s not cataclysmic either. This group of Penguins has been through worse. They know how to pull the nose up. “We can’t feel sorry for ourselves,” said defenseman Brian Dumoulin,...

In addition to suffering their fourth consecutive defeat on Saturday in a 3-1 road loss to the Seattle Kraken, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost something else in the Emerald City. Their third-line center. Jeff Carter has been labeled as “day to day” due to an undisclosed injury according to coach Mike...

The Penguins have recalled forward Drew O’Connor from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). In a corresponding transaction, forward Drake Caggiula has been assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Appearing in eight AHL games this season, the left-handed O’Connor has six points (two goals, four assists). Entering his third professional season, O’Connor,...

Three takeaways following the Penguins’ 3-1 loss to Seattle on Saturday night: Offense dries up The Penguins’ loss at the hands of Seattle on Saturday concludes their longest road trip of the 2022-23 season. Following a victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Oct. 22, the Penguins proceeded to drop...

With his team mired in a three-game losing streak entering Saturday, Penguins coach Mike Sullivan has mixed and matched his lines and defensive pairings in order to pull his squad out of its malaise. “We’re just trying to be a little bit proactive as a coaching staff to help develop...

Three takeaways following the Penguins’ 5-1 loss at Vancouver on Friday night: Another sluggish start If the Penguins were hoping that facing the struggling Vancouver Canucks (who had a 1-5-2 record heading into Friday’s game) would offer a chance to salvage a road trip to Western Canada that has gotten...

A losing streak can elicit a lot of reactions and emotions. And none of them are good. For Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, disdain might be his most prominent feeling over the three-game skid his team carried into Saturday’s road game against the Seattle Kraken. “I don’t think anybody likes losing,”...

A son of British Columbia — born in Surrey and raised in North Delta — Tristan Jarry grew up a fan of the Vancouver Canucks in the early 2000s. Given that Jarry was a goaltender himself, he grew up a fan of ex-Canucks netminder Dan Cloutier. “I guess the goalies...

The start of Drew O’Connor’s 2022-23 season looks a lot different than how his 2021-22 campaign began. First, he found some offense almost instantly last season when he recorded three points (one goal, two assists) in his first two games. This season, he went six games before getting his first...

Thursday’s “First Call” shines a spotlight on the Pittsburgh Steelers before the NFL trade deadline. An NFC team allegedly wanted to acquire Cameron Heyward. Meanwhile, finding a match for Chase Claypool may still be hard. Plus, the Penguins’ next opponent is off to a brutal start. No harm in asking...

The Penguins’ hot start to the 2022-23 season quickly brought visions of a Metropolitan Division title and a deep playoff run to the minds of hockey fans in Pittsburgh. A 4-0-1 start. Scoring over five goals a game. The outset of this season felt like the end of 2016 or...