Penguins/NHL category, Page 224

AT&T SportsNet is scheduled to potentially carry three of the Penguins’ five possible qualifying round games against the Montreal Canadiens next month. NBC is scheduled to carry Games 1 and 5 while AT&T will get the middle three games. The best-of-five series will be held in Toronto: Aug. 1 -...

The Penguins are taking part in the rebooted NHL playoff format. And it’s not with the goal of soaking in Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition and the scenery of Edmonton. No. The goal is to win a sixth Stanley Cup. The Penguins have a good chance of doing so in 2020...

“Return to play” must be a real emotional lightning bolt. Because we’ve got people fired up about all three of Pittsburgh’s pro sports teams. Readers are ready to pounce on Antonio Brown’s “retirement,” the state stopping the Toronto Blue Jays from playing at PNC Park, Matt Murray’s glove hand, and...

In regards to the structure of the day’s schedule, everything about Thursday is being designed to mimic a normal game day for the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team’s latest intrasquad scrimmage has a 7 p.m. faceoff similar to the regular season in a regular season. Nine days later, the Penguins begin...

Many are debating which goalie should start for the Pittsburgh Penguins when the NHL’s postseason begins next week. But another consequential competition is at the bottom of the depth chart. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said Wednesday that the team will bring four goalies with it when it travels to Toronto...

While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...

Sidney Crosby was back on the ice Wednesday at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, skating on his own prior to the team’s practice session. The Pittsburgh Penguins captain did not take part in the practice. Crosby had not been seen during any media availability period since he left the...

While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...

It took Penguins management less than a week to see enough of Evan Rodrigues at right wing. Filling in for Patric Hornqvist on the third line, Rodrigues spent the first five days of the team’s training camp on the starboard side of center Jared McCann while alternating with rookie Sam...

So, you’re concerned about Penguins goalie Matt Murray. You’ve heard he’s been sluggish in training camp. You haven’t been wild about his regular-season performance the last few years. You think he may not be back in Pittsburgh next season anyway because of his contract situation. And you are starting to...

Our long wait for the return of Pittsburgh’s professional sports scene is hopefully coming to an end. The Pirates are playing warmup games. Their regular-season debut is slated for Friday in St. Louis. The Penguins’ first exhibition game is July 28 against the Philadelphia Flyers. That’s also the day the...

The Penguins’ franchise center has been hard to notice the past few days at training camp. To be frank, he’s been a non-factor. Completely inert. You could say he’s been missing. Sidney Crosby’s unexplained absence from the team’s practices and scrimmages since Saturday has left a considerable void. And the...

Nine Penguins players who were withheld from the first week of training camp as a precaution for potential secondary exposure to coronavirus were cleared to resume practicing Monday. The team did not identify the players, per the NHL’s new rules on withholding all medical information during the pandemic. But forwards...

While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...

The Penguins can’t be blamed for trying to generate hype for a Stanley Cup playoff that begins in August. But they might have regrets about putting the livestream of Saturday’s scrimmage online. Sidney Crosby left that scrimmage early. The NHL’s covid-mandated injury policy of “don’t ask because we won’t tell”...

Former Penguins forward Alexei Kovalev and goaltender Petr Skudra have been named to the head coaching positions of teams in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kovalev, an all-star forward for the Penguins in the late 1990s and early 2000s, takes over the Kunlan Red Star, the league’s only team based...

The Penguins announced nine players who were withheld from the first week of training camp as a precaution for potential secondary exposure to coronavirus have been cleared to resume practicing. The team did not identify the players, per the NHL’s new rules on withholding all medical information during the pandemic....

Based on the Penguins’ history when it comes to their players’ health, I’m sure we all had the same thought when the team returned to practice during the coronavirus pandemic. “Sid is going to get it. Mumps. Concussions. A broken jaw from a teammate’s slapshot. He’s gonna get the virus.”...

While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...

Sidney Crosby was two months removed from lifting the Stanley Cup when he turned his attention to winning another championship. It was early September 2016, and the Pittsburgh Penguins captain stepped on the ice in Ottawa for Canada’s training camp ahead of the World Cup of Hockey. Players had gone...

Penguins forward Sidney Crosby did not participate in Sunday’s practice at the team’s facility in Cranberry. During the second period of a scrimmage Saturday, Crosby left the ice and retreated to the team’s dressing room. Coach Mike Sullivan declined to comment on Crosby’s status after the scrimmage, citing the NHL’s...