Penguins/NHL category, Page 236
Versatility has increased value for the Penguins and Evan Rodrigues
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...
You’re shaky about Matt Murray as Penguins goalie? OK. Do you really trust Tristan Jarry?
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...
Biggest issues as Pittsburgh sports return: Will Jake Guentzel’s comeback get Penguins another Stanley Cup?
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...
‘It’s all about winning’ for Evgeni Malkin and Penguins
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...
Patric Hornqvist, others resume practicing with Penguins
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...
Double Team: Marc-Andre Fleury gave hope to Penguins then Golden Knights
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...
Mark Madden: Matt Murray should start Game 1 but leash should be short for Penguins goalie
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”...
Ex-Penguins Alexei Kovalev, Peter Skudra take over KHL teams
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...
Penguins players withheld as precaution against coronavirus cleared to practice
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....
What’s going on with Penguins’ Sidney Crosby? Mark Madden has sources telling him what’s up.
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.”...
Teddy Blueger keeps putting in extra work to remain in Penguins’ lineupVideo
By the time the NHL season was halted March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese had a head start on everyone else. He hasn’t played since suffering an undisclosed injury Feb. 16. So the Penguins’ first week of training camp in Cranberry in preparation of...
Double Team: Markus Naslund’s unfulfilled promise with Penguins was realized with Canucks
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...
2016 World Cup of Hockey provides lessons for NHL restart
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 remains absent from practice
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...
Conor Sheary recaptures his chemistry on the Penguins’ top line
The Penguins wore jerseys. Actual jerseys. No, not practice jerseys with a corporate sponsor’s chintzy logo on the right shoulder. Their real jerseys and uniforms. And there were referees. Granted, they were assistant coaches Mark Recchi and Ty Hennes donning the Zebra stripes, but officials were on the ice. Oh,...
Double Team: A scapegoat with the Maple Leafs, Phil Kessel became a Stanley Cup champion with the Penguins
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...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby leaves scrimmage early for undisclosed reasons
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby left during the second period of a scrimmage at the team’s facility in Cranberry on Saturday for undisclosed reasons. Citing NHL protocol, which does not permit teams to offer information on players’ health during the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Sullivan declined comment. Linemate Conor Sheary, apparently...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 44: Brooks Orpik was the first part of the Penguins’ renaissance
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 44: Brooks Orpik When Brooks Orpik was called up to the NHL for the first time in 2002, the Penguins weren’t far removed from...
Double Team: Ruslan Fedotenko scored big goals for the Lightning and Penguins
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...
Penguins notes: Mike Sullivan pleased with depth, Jason Zucker fits in on 2nd lineVideo
Even while down one of the team’s highest-profile forwards and without a defenseman who has played 73 games for them over the past two seasons, the Pittsburgh Penguins still find themselves with a surplus of players when compiling an 18-man lineup during practice this week. For coach Mike Sullivan, it’s...
Day before full intrasquad scrimmage, Penguins practice features rare 5-on-5 simulated game
Sidney Crosby went to the center-ice dot. Jared McCann, too. A third party dropped the puck. And off they went. There was no clock, the scoreboard was turned off, it lasted no more than a total of 15 minutes and line changes were relegated to a special whistle blown to...
Penguins’ Sam Lafferty has proven he belongs in NHL, but will he be in playoff lineup?Video
Sam Lafferty spent much of his first 24 years of life wanting to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins and hoping he one day would be good enough to do so. After only 50 games with the Penguins, Lafferty is convinced he belongs. “I think I have shown I can definitely...
Mark Madden: Penguins’ Jake Guentzel isn’t the only NHL player returning from injury, you know
Covid-19 and that flood in Edmonton permitting, the NHL playoffs are two weeks away. But the puck drops for refreshing hockey notes right here, right now! • Penguins fans crow about Jake Guentzel returning from injury because of the pause, but the Penguins aren’t alone in benefiting. Columbus got back...
U mad, bro?: The media is too mean to Matt Murray, Matt Feiler and Mayor Peduto
Some Pittsburgh Steelers fans feel the need to defend a player that was never even insulted. Some Penguins fans are ticked about the media trying to quell a goalie controversy that the same fans are claiming they didn’t want to see in the first place. And the mayor of Pittsburgh...
Patrick Marleau’s tireless pursuit of the Stanley Cup brought him to the Penguins
Games define Patrick Marleau’s marvelous NHL existence. Specifically, he’s played a lot of them through various contexts. He’s fifth in NHL history with 1,723 career regular-season games, barely half a season behind the all-time leader, Gordie Howe at 1,767. And with an active run of 854 straight regular-season games, he...
