Penguins/NHL category, Page 136

Bryan Rust didn’t consider the possibility. At least not until Sunday night. Game 7 of the Penguins’ first-round round playoff series against the New York Rangers, a contest Rust and his teammates lost 4-3 in overtime, was potentially his final game in a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey. “Not one time,” Rust...

Immediately after the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season-ending 4-3 overtime loss Sunday at New York, Jake Guentzel paid tribute: “I thought we had something special here.” Guentzel did: He scored eight goals against the Rangers, the first time that’s happened in a playoff series since 2009. The Penguins used to: They were...

Forward Brian Boyle underwent surgery on his left knee Monday, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced via a news release. Boyle did not play in the Penguins’ season-ending Game 7 overtime loss at the New York Rangers on Sunday after he suffered an injury early during Game 6 on Friday. The team’s...

NEW YORK — In the spring of 2010, Sidney Crosby was asked about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ former home, then named Mellon Arena, which the franchise was about to vacate in a matter of weeks. It was an outdated venue full of leaky pipes, moldy ceiling tiles, narrow hallways and unpleasant...

A lot of Pittsburgh Penguins fans seem to have sympathy for the club even though it blew a 3-1 series lead to the New York Rangers. Sunday’s 4-3 overtime result in favor of New York finished off the series comeback for the Blueshirts and ended the Penguins’ season. After all,...

The Penguins-Rangers first-round Eastern Conference playoff series lasted seven games and 13 days. With all that happened during that time, it felt like it lasted 70 games and 130 days. We witnessed: • A triple-overtime Penguins win in Game 1 and an overtime Rangers win in Game 7. • The...

Five stats-based observations about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season-ending, 4-3 Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers on Sunday: 1. Get what you deserve? Let’s get this out of the way first: the team that has the most goals/points/runs is always the one that “deserves” to win a game. In...

Despite two goals by forward Sam Poulin, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ season came to an end on Sunday with a 7-6 home loss to the Springfield Thunderbirds in Game 3 of their Atlantic Division semifinal series at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre. Springfield swept the best-of-five series. Forward Filip Hallander had...

NEW YORK – The Pittsburgh Penguins emptied the tanks. With their iconic captain and All-Star goaltender (and however you want to describe Rickard Rakell) taking to the ice after being sidelined by various maladies, the Penguins dressed as strong of a lineup as they have in weeks (or at least...

NEW YORK — Penguins forwards Sidney Crosby, Rickard Rakell and goaltender Tristan Jarry will all be in the lineup for Game 7 of their team’s first-round playoff series with the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. All three were listed as dressing for the game according to the NHL’s...

NEW YORK — Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell and goaltender Tristan Jarry have been labeled as “game-time decisions” for Game 7 of their first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Coach Mike Sullivan announced their status Sunday morning. Crosby, who...

Sidney Crosby’s suspected concussion, apparently the result of a high hit from New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba in Game 5 of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round playoff series, forced him to miss the 5-3 loss Friday in Game 6. Injuries and medical misfortune have forced other Pittsburgh athletes to miss...

Sidney Crosby made his highly anticipated return on Saturday. To practice. An optional practice. That was limited in duration. And had about as much contact as a Sadie Hawkins dance. But he was on the ice, doing whatever he can to recover from a suspected head injury. And considering how...

Penguins forward Sidney Crosby participated in an optional practice in Cranberry on Saturday, a handful of days after suffering a presumed head injury. Sidelined since being struck on a high hit by New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba on Wednesday in Game 5 of an ongoing first-round playoff series, Crosby...

Five stats-based observations about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 5-3 loss in Game 6 on Friday that forced a deciding Game 7 at the New York Rangers in the team’s first-round playoff series: 1. Nothing in net The goalies themselves differ, the situations vastly so. But recent Penguins playoff flameouts have one...

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan believes his team has been “really good” at 5-on-5 during its first-round series against the New York Rangers. So why did the Penguins miss two chances to close out the series heading into Sunday’s Game 7? “I am probably stating the obvious,” Sullivan said, “but...

For the first time in five years, the Pittsburgh Penguins will take part in a winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday. The NHL announced that the deciding game of the Penguins’ first-round series against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden would faceoff at 7 p.m. The game will be...

After 40 minutes of the Penguins-Rangers game Friday night, it dawned on me. Are we all really here at PPG Paints Arena for Game 6? Or is this a weird out-of-body experience? Are 18,187 of us just watching a hologram replay of Wednesday’s Game 5? As was the case Wednesday,...

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Brian Boyle suffered a lower-body injury early during Friday’s playoff game, taking only two shifts in Game 6 of the first-round series against the New York Rangers. After the game — a 5-3 loss that forced a Game 7 — coach Mike Sullivan said Boyle was being...

The Penguins were not at their best on Friday. And how could they be? Their wonderful captain, Sidney Crosby, convalescing from a suspected head injury, was not in the lineup. And that void was amplified by the absences of starting goaltender Tristan Jarry, stout defenseman Brian Dumoulin and skilled top-six...

Evan Rodrigues has been in this position before. And that’s because he can play a whole bunch of positions. Once again, the versatile Penguins forward is likely to be pressed into an elevated role for Friday’s home contest against the New York Rangers in Game 6 of their first-round playoff...