Penguins/NHL category, Page 137

There is no replacing what Sidney Crosby does for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but the man who perhaps might take his lineup spot could be Radim Zohorna. The 6-foot-6, 220-pound forward was recalled by the Penguins from their AHL affiliate Thursday afternoon, a day after Crosby left Game 5 of the...

Almost 30 years after Adam Graves became Pittsburgh’s biggest villain, another New York Rangers player is drawing Penguins fans’ ire for injuring their star player. Unlike Graves, though, Jacob Trouba won’t be suspended. According to multiple reports, Trouba will not be subjected to a hearing with the NHL’s Department of...

If Sidney Crosby’s series is over, so is the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season. Sure, the Penguins lead their first-round series with the New York Rangers, 3-2. But for Friday’s Game 6, they may be without their best player/captain/first-line center, their starting and second-string goalies, a top-pair defenseman and a top-six winger....

Five stats-based observations about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 5-3 loss in Game 5 on Wednesday that pulled the New York Rangers to within a game of evening the team’s first-round playoff series: 1. E-Rod time Evan Rodrigues was something of an odd man left out after Sidney Crosby’s injury during Game...

Pittsburgh Steelers fans are in regular-season mode already when it comes to quarterback conversation. It’s playoff time, so Penguins fans are in a lather. And we discuss zoology on the North Side. It’s quite the collection of reader responses in this week’s “U mad, bro?” We begin with Jonathan. He...

Once it was clear that Sidney Crosby wasn’t coming back from injury, the Pittsburgh Penguins needed to be better than the New York Rangers for just 20 minutes to end their first-round playoff series. They weren’t. Now they might need to be better without him for 60 minutes. Or else...

NEW YORK — The Penguins are in a strange position. Well, maybe not strange. Just unfamiliar. They have a chance to close out a playoff series. Having taken a 3-1 lead in their first-round series against the New York Rangers, the Penguins can end their rivals’ season and earn some...

NEW YORK — Injured Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry and forward Rickard Rakell participated in an optional morning skate Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. Neither is expected to participate in Game 5 of their team’s first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers. The Penguins lead the best-of-seven series 3-1....

When it comes to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goal explosion against the New York Rangers, the contrast is stark between what the Pens did in Games 1 and 2 at Madison Square Garden versus their output at home. Over the first two games at MSG, the two teams played a little...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are about to play the New York Rangers in a playoff elimination game. Momentum is on their side. And so is history. For the most part. The two teams have faced each other in the postseason seven times before this spring. The Penguins have won five of...

Forward Cam Hausinger had two goals for the Wheeling Nailers in a 5-4 home loss to the Toledo Walleye in Game 3 in a Central Division Final series at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Tuesday. The Walleye lead the best-of-seven series, 3-0. Forward Matt Alfaro contributed a goal and...

Rickard Rakell was skating swiftly and taking part in every drill his teammates did. But don’t be fooled by the black jersey he wore that matched half of the other Pittsburgh Penguins on the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex ice Tuesday. The practice between Games 4 and 5 of the Penguins’...

There are three other men who have been a head coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins when they claimed the Stanley Cup. Two are in the Hall of Fame. The other was once named NHL coach of the year. None, though, have won as many playoff games for the franchise than...

Unlike his game, Kasperi Kapanen’s sense of humor never abandoned him throughout this season. Told that his coach said he is currently playing his best hockey of 2021-22, Kapanen was as quick with a quip as he is in taking that initial stride through the neutral zone. “Yeah, I mean,...

You can flip Igor Shesterkin over. He’s done on this side. It seemed likely that goaltending would decide the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers. But not like this. Third-stringer Louis Domingue has played passably for the Penguins. Shesterkin, the likely Vezina Trophy winner as...

Five stats-based observations about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 7-2 win Monday that afforded them a 3-1 lead in their first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers: 1. No danger For the first time after a victory in this series, the primary storyline surrounding the Penguins wasn’t Louis Domingue. Domingue wasn’t...

OK. Now, this is what it looks like to break a goalie. Penguins fans should know. They’ve seen it before. Penguins vs. that-season Vezina winners in playoffs, past 40 yrs-'96Rd1 WSH Jim Carey*✅'00Rd1 WSH Olaf Kolzig✅'01Rd2 BUF Dominik Hasek✅'16Rd2 WSH Braden Holtby✅'17Rd1 CBJ Segei Bobrovsky✅'22**Rd1 NYR Igor Shesterkin❓(*-lost job; **-presumed)...

For all the talk about goaltending or matchups or that speed and age have been working against the Pittsburgh Penguins in recent postseasons, perhaps their captain serves as the proverbial weather vane for the team’s fortunes. Over the prior three playoff runs from 2019-21, Sidney Crosby combined for six points....

Reality set in bluntly. And quickly. It took barely two minutes for the New York Rangers to ruin the fun. All the memes on spicy pork and the delirium of sing-song chants gave way to a bleak realism for the Penguins. After the Rangers took the first lead on the...