Penguins/NHL category, Page 19
Minor league report: Penguins win in overtime, remain unbeatenVideo
An overtime goal by forward Ville Koivunen gave the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a 3-2 win against the Charlotte Checkers at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C. on Saturday. The result improved Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to 7-0-0. The only teams in franchise history to open a season with longer winning streaks were the 2005-06...
Penguins’ winning streak comes to end with shootout loss to Blue Jackets
The Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated their marvelous history Saturday, inducting former executives Scotty Bowman and Eddie Johnston, along with former forwards Ron Francis and Kevin Stevens, into the franchise’s relaunched hall of fame. As for their present success, the reasons to rejoice came to a halt as their four-game winning streak...
New Penguins hall of famers remain connected to Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ heated rivalry with the Washington Capitals existed well before Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin burst into the NHL at the dawn of the 21st century. In mid-April of 1991, the original chapters of this anthology were written during the Patrick Division final of the Stanley Cup playoffs....
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: If the Penguins want development, a kid line is the answer
Winning when it’s not expected and when you’re supposed to be rebuilding comes with an unusual set of challenges. You’ve got to keep trying to win, but development can’t be put on the backburner. That’s the circumstance the Penguins find themselves in after a whirlwind 6-2 start that sees them...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start against Blue Jackets
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Saturday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate in Cranberry. The Penguins have alternated starts in net between Silovs and Tristan Jarry in every game hitherto this...
Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones placed on injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones has been placed on injured reserve and is expected to miss approximately eight weeks due to an undisclosed ailment. The team announced Jones’ status Saturday morning. Jones, a left-handed shot, was injured during a 5-3 road win against the Florida Panthers on Thursday. He did...
Minor league report: Penguins shut out Checkers, remain undefeatedVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 25 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-0 win against the Charlotte Checkers at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C. on Friday. It was the first shutout of the season for Murashov who improved his record to 5-0-0. Forwards Danton Heinen and Ville Koivunen each had...
Mark Madden: Eddie Johnston laid foundation for Penguins’ success
Eddie Johnston gets inducted into the Pittsburgh Penguins’ in-house Hall of Fame on Saturday night. Johnston is renowned for much during his tenure with the team, but his masterpiece was general managing the Penguins to finishing last overall in 1984, then drafting center Mario Lemieux. The tank job was fabulous,...
Scotty Bowman’s impact with the Penguins was brief, but monumental
On the surface, it almost seems absurd. Having Scotty Bowman, the greatest coach in NHL history, run your player development department? It’s like getting Michelangelo to paint your garage. But the arrangement suited everybody’s needs, especially Bowman’s. In 1990, Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Craig Patrick spoke with his former junior...
Sidney Crosby scores twice as Penguins beat Panthers, extend winning streak to 4
Dan Muse is in his first year as a head coach in the NHL. But he’s experienced enough to understand success in October isn’t cause to celebrate. “It’s so early, I don’t think for anybody you’re feeling like it’s a finished product this time of year,” the Pittsburgh Penguins coach...
Minor league report: Penguins, Sergei Murashov remain undefeatedVideo
Forwards Atley Calvert and Ville Koivunen each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-1 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. The hosts also got goals from forwards Danton Heinen and Avery Hayes. Goaltender Sergei Murashov...
Even with a strong start, Penguins not satisfied
The stakes weren’t particularly high. In fact, it’s dubious if stakes even existed. After all, what is there to compete over during a short-area three-on-three drill during an optional practice? Plenty, at least based on the reaction Bryan Rust offered Wednesday in Cranberry. After mishandling a puck in the neutral...
Aaron Rodgers, Steelers cheer on Pittsburgh Penguins
A group of Pittsburgh Steelers — including quarterback Aaron Rodgers — showed up to support their fellow Black and Gold. At the Tuesday night Penguins game, the group of guys from the team attended and were shown on video. The Penguins won 5-1 against the Vancouver Canucks at PPG Paints...
Kris Letang: Penguins have a ‘different atmosphere,’ a ‘new voice,’ a ‘different vibe’
Critics of the Pittsburgh Steelers often say that the franchise should move on from head coach Mike Tomlin because “things have gotten stale.” Or they suggest that “it’s just time for a change” because “the message is getting old” and the organization “needs to hear a new voice.” After eight...
Mark Madden: Will the Penguins repeat a costly mistake with Ben Kindel?
It’s early in the development of rookie forwards Ben Kindel and Ville Koivunen. Kindel is with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Koivunen with their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club. But here’s a cautionary tale: The Penguins picked Russian winger Aleksey Morozov in the first round of the 1995 NHL Draft (24th overall). Morozov played...
Former Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea signs in Germany
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea has signed a contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season with Eisbaren Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Germany’s top league. That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. A native of Laval, Quebec, the 31-year-old Dea began the season with...
Goaltender Arturs Silovs beats former team as Penguins rout Canucks for 3rd straight win
Goaltender Arturs Silovs doesn’t harbor any ill will towards the Vancouver Canucks over trading him to the Pittsburgh Penguins in July. He understands it was a matter of sound roster management as the Canucks had a logjam in net and someone had to go. “It was fun to play for...
Penguins broadcaster Josh Getzoff returns to television booth
Tuesday was fairly quotidian for Josh Getzoff. After dropping his kids off at day care in the morning, he trekked to UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry to do his customary preparation as the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins on SportsNet Pittsburgh broadcasts. He updated his “boards,” which are...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to face Canucks
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Tuesday’s game against his former team, the Vancouver Canucks, at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. To this point of the season, the Penguins have alternated every start in net between...
Penguins see strong results by platooning Tristan Jarry, Arturs Silovs
Dan Muse isn’t a carbon copy of his predecessor as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan. But similarities do exist. Both hail from Boston, and both speak with accents rooted in the Bay State. And like Sullivan, Muse readily allows players to avoid the ice during optional morning skates...
Penguins suspend defensive prospect Emil Pieniniemi
The Pittsburgh Penguins have suspended defenseman Emil Pieniniemi indefinitely for failing to report to the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL. A team spokesperson confirmed the punitive action Monday. Pieniniemi, a third-round draft pick (No. 91 overall) in 2023, was assigned to Wheeling on Oct. 6 but did not report to...
Lacking everyday role, Penguins’ Matt Dumba aims to seize opportunities when they come
At no point did Matt Dumba look further away from being the player the Minnesota Wild drafted seventh overall in 2012 than last season’s NHL playoffs. Dumba, in his first year with the Dallas Stars, was a nonparticipant during the postseason, serving instead as a healthy scratch for a club...
Penguins, Tristan Jarry outduel Alex Nedeljkovic, Sharks
During the previous two seasons, Tristan Jarry and Alex Nedeljkovic competed with one another to be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top goaltender. On Saturday, they simply competed. Jarry made 31 saves for the Penguins in a 3-0 win against San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The...
Minor league report: Penguins come back to remain undefeatedVideo
A goal and two assists by forward Danton Heinen helped the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins score six unanswered goals and stage a 6-3 comeback win against the Bridgeport Islanders at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday. Forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all had a goal and...
Penguins forward Noel Acciari knows ‘you can’t take being here for granted’Video
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Noel Acciari set a career high in games played last year and nearly reached another fairly significant milestone in the process. But a hip flexor cost him the final three contests of the 2024-25 campaign and capped him at 79 games. And as it turned out, it...
