Penguins/NHL category, Page 155
Tim Benz: The Penguins have suddenly reduced Igor Shesterkin from bold to broken
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)...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby moves into NHL scoring lead, hits milestone with another multi-point game
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....
Penguins rout Rangers again, take 3-1 series lead
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...
Injury problems behind him for now, Jason Zucker happy to be contributing to Penguins
Jason Zucker’s 11th NHL season has been his toughest to endure, he said Monday. Moments later, though, the Pittsburgh Penguins veteran wing spoke of “the joy” he’s feeling these days. “Just excited to be in the lineup, excited to be out there playing,” Zucker said after the morning skate in...
Paul Steigerwald, Colby Armstrong handling Penguins’ radio call for Game 4
Paul Steigerwald and Colby Armstrong will handle the local radio call Monday night for the Pittsburgh Penguins’ playoff game against the New York Rangers. The Penguins’ radio network’s regular team of Josh Getzoff and Phil Bourque are unavailable because of NHL covid-19 protocol. The team made the announcement of the...
Penguins forward Rickard Rakell rejoins teammates for morning skate
Penguins forward Rickard Rakell rejoined his teammates for Monday’s morning skate at PPG Paints Arena. It marked the first time Rakell had participated in a morning skate or practice since he suffered a presumed head injury in Game 1 of his team’s first-round playoff series with the New York Rangers...
Madden Monday: Some technical elements of Louis Domingue’s game the Rangers may try to exploit
Something I frequently hear about the Penguins-Rangers first-round playoff series is that Pens goalie Louis Domingue is an “X-factor” or a “variable” in the series. I don’t see it that way. Quite the opposite. Based on what we’ve seen from Domingue so far — he allowed five goals in his...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Bears in overtime, advance to semifinal
An overtime goal by forward Alex Nylanders gave the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a series-clinching 4-3 home win against the rival Hershey Bears in Game 3 of their Atlantic Division first-round matchup at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Monday. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton claimed the best-of-three-series, 2-1 and will face the Springfield Thunderbirds in...
Minor league report: Penguins drop Game 2 to BearsVideo
Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 30 saves on 32 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 2-1 road loss to the Hershey Bears in Game 2 of an Atlantic Division first-round series at the Giant Center in Hershey on Sunday. The best-of-three series is tied, 1-1. Forward Felix Robert scored the...
Penguins notebook: Forward Jason Zucker makes immediate impact in his return
After missing three consecutive games because of an undisclosed injury, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jason Zucker returned to the lineup in Saturday’s 7-4 home win against the New York Rangers in Game 3 of a first-round playoff series at PPG Paints Arena. And he made a pretty immediate impact. At least...
Penguins goaltender Louis Domingue continues to grow his legendVideo
Penguins defenseman Mike Matheson was one of the relatively few people in Pittsburgh who was familiar with Louis Domingue’s story when Penguins management opted to sign the journeyman goaltender to a one-year, two-way contract late in the 2021 offseason. And Matheson’s scouting report on Domingue wasn’t all that focused on...
Mark Madden: Penguins finally managed score and situation in Game 3
After Danton Heinen scored to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a 5-4 lead with 8 minutes, 58 seconds left in the third period against the New York Rangers in Game 3 of their playoff series Saturday, something odd happened: Playoff hockey broke out. The Penguins played below the Rangers’ goal line...
5 Things: Penguins historically have enjoyed playoff success vs. Vezina winners
Five stats-based observations about the Pittsburgh Penguins after a 7-4 win against the New York Rangers in Saturday’s Game 3 at PPG Paints Arena (analytics courtesy naturalstattrick.com unless specified otherwise): 1.Vezina-ed Though balloting won’t be announced until next month, Igor Shesterkin is the presumptive Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s...
Tim Benz: Penguins, Rangers treat fans to 3 games in 1 night as ‘roller coaster’ series continues
During that triple-overtime Game 1 of the Penguins-Rangers Eastern Conference playoff series, the teams played what was almost the equivalent of two full games. Then, in Saturday’s Game 3, they basically played three separate games in one night. The Penguins dominated the first period, taking a 4-1 lead into the...
Minor league report: Nailers fall to Walleye in Game 2Video
Goaltender Louis-Philip Guindon made 25 saves on 29 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 5-2 road loss to the Toledo Walleye in Game 2 of a Central Division final series at the Huntingdon Center in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday. The Walleye lead the best-of-seven series, 2-0. Forwards Matt Alfaro...
Evan Rodrigues nearly matches Mario Lemieux with 3-point 1st period in Penguins win
The first bullet point among the “Player notes” on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ team release after Saturday night’s game featured two names. One was Even Rodrigues. The other was Mario Lemieux. It was that kind of night for Rodrigues. And certainly, it was that kind of first period. “Any time you...
Penguins find vital secondary scoring to beat Rangers in Game 3
The Penguins knew they needed to find some secondary scoring entering Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the New York Rangers at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday. To be clear, that notion isn’t an exclusive strategy for overcoming the Rangers. It’s a convention that applies to virtually every...
Penguins fans excited about return of the big screen
Despite the cloudy, chilly weather, hundreds of Pittsburgh Penguins fans flocked to perch on a chair and cheer on their team outside of PPG Paints Arena as the “big screen” made its return Saturday. Fans were able to watch Game 3 of the first round from the corner of Centre...
Jason Zucker returns to Penguins lineup for Game 3 vs. Rangers
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jason Zucker made his 2022 postseason debut Saturday night during Game 3 of a first-round series against the New York Rangers. Zucker missed the regular-season finale and the first two games of the series in Manhattan because of an undisclosed injury. According to a team-provided lineup sheet,...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: No one to blame for Penguins’ goaltending situation
When failure occurs in sports, it’s required that blame be attached. There’s always something management, a coach or a player could have done to reverse the result. That’s not the case with the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltending situation. “They should have had a better veteran No. 3 goalie!” That’s a common...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry works out before morning skate
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry skated with goaltending coach Andy Chiodo prior to Saturday’s optional morning skate at PPG Paints Arena. It is believed to be the first time Jarry has skated in full gear since he suffered a right foot injury that has kept him sidelined since April 14....
Minor league report: Penguins shut out Bears in Game 1Video
Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 23 saves and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 3-0 shutout victory at home against the rival Hershey Bears in Game 1 of their Atlantic Division first-round series at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Forward Radim Zohorna had a goal and an assist for...
Penguins searching for ways to fix suddenly slumping penalty kill
Statisticians will say reading too much into a small sample sizes is folly. But when it comes to the recent performance of the Pittsburgh Penguins penalty-killing unit, coach Mike Sullivan isn’t going to let its failures attribute to math. “No,” Sullivan said Friday when it was posited that a recent...
Penguins’ Jason Zucker practices, Rickard Rakell skates, Brian Dumoulin ‘day to day’
The bombshell dropped that Casey DeSmith would miss the rest of the postseason and the Pittsburgh Penguins would be forced to rely on their No. 3 goalie for the foreseeable future, but there were other injury updates after practice Friday. Forward Jason Zucker took part in an optional practice at...
Penguins goalie Casey DeSmith out for playoffs after undergoing surgery
Move over Mr. Game 1. Welcome, Mr. First Round? Six years ago, Jeff Zatkoff forever earned him a place in Pittsburgh Penguins lore when, as a third-string goalie, he started and won the first game of the first-round playoff series en route to the franchise’s fourth Stanley Cup. A few...
