Penguins/NHL category, Page 312
Penguins expect physical fireworks in matchup with Lightning
TAMPA, Fla. – The last time the Pittsburgh Penguins met the Tampa Bay Lightning, on Jan. 30 at PPG Paints Arena, it was reasonable to expect a high-flying showdown between two of the NHL’s most skilled offenses. Instead, it got a little nasty. Cedric Paquette leveled Kris Letang with a...
Penguins’ Sullivan picks DeSmith over Murray for Saturday night showdown in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. – Matt Murray is medically cleared to return from an upper-body injury, but he’ll back up Casey DeSmith as the Pittsburgh Penguins take on the first-place Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night. Throwing Murray into the fire against a potent Lightning offense after he sat out Wednesday’s practice...
Scoring touch goes cold for Penguins’ Patric Hornqvist
TAMPA, Fla. – When it comes to the fickle nature of goal scoring in the NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Patric Hornqvist has lived at both ends of the spectrum this season. Remember his natural hat trick in the third period of a 6-3 Penguins win over Colorado on Dec. 4?...
As he sets Penguins’ games played record, Sidney Crosby happy to stay in one place
TAMPA, Fla. — When Sidney Crosby tied Mario Lemieux for the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise record with 915 career games played Thursday night, it was a bit of a bittersweet occasion. On one hand, it was a moment for Penguins fans to savor. They’ve been able to witness each and every...
Injured Penguins goalie Matt Murray could return as soon as Saturday
TAMPA, Fla. – Among a handful of players fighting through injuries at Pittsburgh Penguins practice on Friday, goalie Matt Murray might have received the best news. Murray, who missed Thursday night’s game in Florida with an upper-body injury, was a full participant in practice and didn’t rule out playing Saturday...
In battle of traded players, Penguins’ Jared McCann gets goal, but Florida gets win
There was a fairly obvious game within a game being played when the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Florida Panthers on Thursday night. It was a matchup of four players who had just been traded for one another last week. Jared McCann got the goal, but Derick Brassard and Riley Sheahan...
Panthers’ overtime goal sends Penguins to 3rd straight loss
SUNRISE, Fla. — The Pittsburgh Penguins provided a lesson Thursday night that could come in handy as the frenzy that surrounds the Feb. 25 NHL trade deadline builds. Two players the Penguins acquired in midseason trades, Jared McCann and Marcus Pettersson, scored important goals. Without further contributions from the players...
Murray, Schultz closer to returning from Penguins’ injured list than Malkin, Aston-Reese
SUNRISE, Fla. – While staying squarely within the boundaries of foggy NHL injury disclosure, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan mapped out a bit of a timeline for the return of four injured players Thursday. Sullivan said Matt Murray (upper body), Justin Schultz (leg), Evgeni Malkin (upper body) and Zach Aston-Reese...
Riley Sheahan has sights set on one particular Penguins weakness
SUNRISE, Fla. – There was something on Riley Sheahan’s mind as he prepared Thursday morning to face the team that traded him away six days earlier. It wasn’t necessarily the inherent awkwardness of competing against players who were his teammates less than a week prior. It wasn’t an overwhelming desire...
Derick Brassard feels trade from Penguins to Panthers lifted burden
SUNRISE, Fla. – Say this for Derick Brassard. He’s consistent. During 12 months in a Pittsburgh Penguins uniform, he was consistent in his ineffectiveness as the center on the team’s third line. He’s also always been consistent in his explanation of why things went wrong. “Just the role that I...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin hopes injury doesn’t prolong slump
TAMPA, Fla. — Evgeni Malkin is a little bit nervous. It’s not a condition that plagues him often, as his Conn Smythe Trophy and three Stanley Cup rings can attest, but that’s the emotion he felt as he sat in his locker stall after the Pittsburgh Penguins practiced Friday afternoon...
5 plotlines to watch as stressed, injured Penguins begin road trip
They’ve lost six of their last 10 games and are about to embark on a tough, three-game road trip with a precarious hold on an Eastern Conference playoff position. They’re working on integrating newly acquired forwards Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann into the lineup while Evgeni Malkin and Justin Schultz...
Upper-body injury sidelines Penguins’ Matt Murray
The Pittsburgh Penguins will begin a three-game road trip with uncertainty in net due to an injury to goalie Matt Murray. Coach Mike Sullivan said Murray missed Wednesday’s practice because he was being evaluated for an upper-body injury. Sullivan said Murray will make the trip, which opens Thursday night in...
Ill-timed goals put Penguins in hole, Patric Hornqvist says
When the Pittsburgh Penguins were stuck in the depths of a November swoon, winger Patric Hornqvist was always the player in the locker room putting things in perspective. It would only take one shift or one goal to turn it around, he said on numerous occasions. These days, the Penguins...
Penguins fall to Hurricanes, lose ground in playoff raceVideo
When the Pittsburgh Penguins are at their best, they finish scoring chances with ruthless precision. When that part of their game fails, they usually are in pretty big trouble. That was the case Tuesday night as goalie Curtis McElhinney made 23 saves, and Jordan Martinook gave him all the offensive...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust adapting to life without fellow Notre Dame grad Riley Sheahan
Pittsburgh Penguins winger Bryan Rust hasn’t noticed teammates giving him the cold shoulder in the locker room or avoiding sitting next to him on the team bus, but it would be easy to see why they might. Rust’s closest friends have been finding their way off the roster as of...
Penguins hope to avoid Eastern Conference playoff pile-upVideo
Drivers who have designs on winning the Daytona 500 in a couple of weeks will have to do one thing before they think about taking the checkered flag: They’ll have to stay out of the multi-car pile-up that invariably occurs at some point on NASCAR’s biggest tracks. That’s the spot...
Team games played record a taboo topic to Sidney Crosby
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby does literally hundreds of interviews during the course of any given season, politely answering thousands of questions. After Monday’s practice in Cranberry, he finally found a hockey-related topic he refused to discuss. Crosby has played in 913 games in his career. Mario Lemieux holds the...
Potential position switch doesn’t faze newest Penguins
Newly acquired Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jared McCann hasn’t exactly made the smoothest of transitions from the climate of South Florida to his new home in Western Pennsylvania. “I might have to go to the mall and pick up some more pants. I brought a lot of shorts for some reason,”...
Return of Justin Schultz could help Penguins strengthen weak point in their game
A little after 11 a.m. Monday, Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz stepped on the ice for his first full contact practice since breaking his leg in October. About a half-hour later, coach Mike Sullivan stopped a drill with a sharp tweet of his whistle and loudly dressed down his team...
Super Bowl wasn’t super boring to Penguins coach Mike Sullivan
Complaints were rampant on social media. Television ratings were not good. The average sports fan was not particularly enamored with the entertainment value of the New England Patriots’ 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan is apparently not an average sports...
Penguins’ Teddy Blueger showing he belongs in NHL
Nick Bjugstad is a 6-foot-6 blue-chipper with a 24-goal NHL season on his resume. Jared McCann is a former first-round pick with a shot teammates rave about. But the new addition making the biggest impact for the Pittsburgh Penguins these days might be Teddy Blueger, the little Latvian who could,...
Newly acquired Nick Bjugstad laments missed chances in Penguins loss to Toronto
TORONTO – By racing in from the airport and turning in a strong performance in his first home game just hours after being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, forward Nick Bjugstad already made a good first impression on his new team. On Saturday, he just missed a couple...
Sidney Crosby takes blame in Penguins loss to Maple Leafs
TORONTO — Sidney Crosby scored a crackerjack first-period goal on a power-play one-timer Saturday night and was named one of the three stars of the game. He didn’t commit a glaring turnover or take an ill-timed penalty. On the surface, it looked like he turned in the type of standout...
Newest Penguins get crash course before team takes on Toronto
TORONTO – Friday night’s 5-3 Penguins victory over Ottawa gave coach Mike Sullivan a reminder of the biggest reason for any winning hockey team’s success. It’s the talent, effort and execution of the players. He came to that conclusion after watching Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann get off a plane,...
