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Minor league report: Nailers snap losing streakVideo
A goal and an assist by defenseman Davis Bunz led the Wheeling Nailers to a 3-1 road win against the Indy Fuel at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis on Sunday. Goaltender Brad Barone made 22 saves on 23 shots for Wheeling (18-16-4-0) which snapped a four-game losing streak while...
Penguins fall to Devils in overtime despite improved defense
Having surrendered at least 40 shots in each of their previous two games, the Pittsburgh Penguins had a distinct pursuit in mind for Sunday’s road contest against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center in Newark. Don’t let them shoot that much. “The opportunity, moving forward, is to make sure...
Penguins activate forward Ryan Poehling from injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Ryan Poehling was activated from injured reserve Sunday afternoon, shortly before his team faced the New Jersey Devils in a road game at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. An undisclosed ailment has caused Poehling to miss 13 of the past 14 games and landed him on...
Minor league report: Penguins edge IslandersVideo
Forwards Drake Caggiula and Alex Nylander each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 road win against the Bridgeport Islanders at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. on Saturday. Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 22 saves on 24 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (19-13-2-3) while forward Tyler...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: NHL’s 3-on-3 overtime has become too tactical, boring
The NHL should change its overtime format. Three-on-three stinks. Three-on-three OT started out exciting, but coaching ruined it. It used to be played with reckless abandon. Now it’s about endless doubling back with the puck and staying ahead of your foe’s changes. It’s mostly boring. It’s too tactical. It would...
Injury management continues to preoccupy Penguins coach Mike Sullivan
While the Pittsburgh Penguins continue to navigate a nasty injury bug that’s kneecapped the team’s corps of defenders and chipped away at its bottom-six forwards, Friday evening’s game against Ottawa featured a major dose of good news in the return to action of goalie Tristan Jarry and blueliner Jeff Petry....
Penguins’ Kris Letang continues injury recovery, unsure if return will be before NHL All-Star Weekend
When Kris Letang took the ice donning a regular black practice jersey Saturday morning at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, it was a positive sign the Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman and alternate captain could be on the verge of rejoining the team in a full capacity. One would be hard-pressed...
3 takeaways: Penguins’ win over Ottawa includes funny episode between P.O and Mathieu JosephVideo
Three takeaways from the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-1 win over Ottawa Friday evening at PPG Paints Arena. Brother-on-brother crime Friday night’s game featured some brotherly competition that got somewhat intense in the third period. Penguins defenseman P.O Joseph, for the first time, faced his older brother, Ottawa winger Mathieu Joseph, at...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to PhantomsVideo
Goaltender Filip Lindberg made 28 saves on 33 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-2 home loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Forward Tyler Sikora recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (18-13-2-3) while forwards Nathan Legare and Lukas Svejkovsky each scored...
Tristan Jarry makes 44 saves in return as Penguins beat Senators
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry made a career-high 46 saves. The NHL issued a statistical correction and credited Jarry with making 44 saves, a figure below his career-best figure of 45. Tristan Jarry didn’t necessarily have a set return date in...
Penguins defenseman Jeff Petry returns to lineup
On Friday, Jeff Petry did something he hadn’t done since last year. Play in an NHL game. The Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman was in the lineup for Friday’s home contest against the Ottawa Senators at PPG Paints Arena. While it wasn’t literally his first game in a year, it was his...
Penguins place defenseman Kris Letang on long-term injured reserve
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang has been placed on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 28. His status was announced by the team on Friday afternoon. Previously designated to regular injured reserve, Letang has missed the past nine games due to an undisclosed injury as well as personal matters following the...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry could return to lineup against Senators
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry is expected to start Friday’s home game against the Ottawa Senators at PPG Paints Arena. Following Friday’s morning skate, Jarry was the first goaltender off the ice, typically an indication of which goaltender would start. Officially, coach Mike Sullivan labeled Jarry as a “game-time decision.”...
First Call: Where the Penguins sit after a busy night in the Metro; potentially rebooting the original Winter Classic
Friday’s “First Call” looks at where the Pittsburgh Penguins sit in the standings after a busy night in the Metropolitan Division. Plus, we look at the prospect of rebooting the original Winter Classic. And we fill up the local college basketball dance card for Saturday. Back where it all began...
Tim Benz: I’m not a fan of Ivan Provorov’s Pride Night jersey boycott, but also dislike hypocritical media fallout
I disliked Ivan Provorov’s refusal to skate in the Philadelphia Flyers pregame warmup Tuesday night. He boycotted because he didn’t want to wear the same LGBTQ+ Pride Night warmup jersey the rest of the team was wearing. But I also disliked a lot of the hypocritical media fallout from his...
Penguins rookie forward Jonathan Gruden is trying to ‘just keep playing’
When Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Jonathan Gruden made his NHL debut Monday in a 4-3 overtime home win against the Anaheim Ducks at PPG Paints Arena, much of his family was present to watch a considerable moment in the 22-year-old’s life. With one notable exception. His father. He got stuck...
3 takeaways: Penguins defensemen Brian Dumoulin, Chad Ruhwedel set season-highs in ice time
During a 5-4 overtime road loss to the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Wednesday, Penguins defensemen Brian Dumoulin and Chad Ruhwedel each logged season-highs in ice time. Dumoulin logged 24 minutes, 13 seconds. His total was buoyed by the penalty kill (9:26). His previous high-water mark for the...
First Call: Former Steelers assistant to interview for Patriots OC job; Brian Flores to Arizona ‘buzz is real’
With Matt Canada staying in place as the Steelers offensive coordinator, Thursday’s “First Call” examines if there was ever really any interest by the franchise when it came to potentially hiring Byron Leftwich. A former Steelers assistant may be in the running for the Patriots offensive coordinator job. A current...
Minor league report: Penguins edged by CrunchVideo
Forward Drake Caggiula had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 home loss to the Syracuse Crunch at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. Goaltender Filip Lindberg made 25 saves on 28 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (18-12-2-3) while forward Alex Nylander also scored for the...
Penguins lose special teams battle to Senators in overtimeVideo
The rhythm of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 5-4 overtime road against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Wednesday was established early. Like, 45-seconds-into-the-game early. That’s when Penguins forward Jason Zucker took a holding penalty after somewhat minimal contact in the neutral zone against Senators forward Claude Giroux, who didn’t...
Mike Sullivan gets philosophical on Penguins power play — now he needs to get it working
When it comes to his team’s confounding power play, you can hear Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan struggling with the contradictions. He wants it to be more “predictable,” but he doesn’t want it “robotic.” He wants his skilled players to be creative, but he also wants the execution to be...
Penguins’ Teddy Blueger on performance this season: ‘Not good’
There are a lot of adjectives that can be affixed to Pittsburgh Penguins forward Teddy Blueger and how he approaches his vocation. Detailed. Dutiful. Thorough. Reliable. Blueger offered a much different term on Tuesday. “Not good, probably,” the 28-year-old said when asked to describe his 2022-23 season after practice Tuesday...
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang rejoins team in practice
Tuesday’s practice session in Cranberry was different for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was optional. Approximately only 15 players were present. And it was fairly leisurely. Not much in the way of formal drills and certainly nothing involving line rushes or special teams units. And there was music. A satellite radio...
Mark Madden: Ron Hextall needs to fix problems he created because the Penguins need a change
Up to this point in his tenure as Pittsburgh Penguins GM, Ron Hextall has done little. Hextall has made two token deadline trades, doled out two awful contracts, retained lots of players, put the team in salary cap hell and won zero playoff series. That’s a lean two years. Hextall...
Tim Benz: Penguins pull themselves back from the brink, avoid ‘soul-sucking’ loss to lowly Anaheim
The Pittsburgh Penguins knew exactly what they were staring at late in their game Monday night. The bottom. Having lost eight of their last 10 games, the Pens had just blown a 2-1 third-period lead at home to the Anaheim Ducks — a team with just 12 wins, second fewest...
