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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,...
Trade to Florida leaves former Penguins center Derick Brassard with sunny disposition
Former Pittsburgh Penguins center Derick Brassard had no trouble finding the bright side of the trade that sent him to the Florida Panthers on Friday. “Super excited to be here,” he said after taking morning skate in Florida with his new team Saturday. “Waking up and seeing the sun and...
New Penguins Nick Bjugstad, Jared McCann recount frantic journey to lineupVideo
Nick Bjugstad sometimes has dreams, perhaps better described as nightmares, about what it would be like being late to a hockey game. He almost found out for real Friday night, and it wasn’t his fault. Bjugstad and his Florida Panthers teammate Jared McCann were settling down for their game-day nap...
3 takeaways from Penguins’ trade of Derick Brassard to Florida
There are lots of ways to evaluate the trade the Pittsburgh Penguins made with the Florida Panthers on Friday. Framed in one particular fashion, it appears as though general manager Jim Rutherford pulled off another impressive piece of sleight of hand. That framing is this: The Penguins traded away two...
Penguins send Derick Brassard, Riley Sheahan, picks to Florida for Nick Bjugstad, Jared McCann
The Pittsburgh Penguins completed a long-rumored trade of Derick Brassard on Friday, sending the third-line center, Riley Sheahan and three draft picks to the Florida Panthers for forwards Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann. The Penguins will give Florida a second-round pick and two fourth-rounders in June’s draft. Brassard has been...
Penguins unveil jersey for Stadium Series game vs. Flyers
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ game against the Philadelphia Flyers Feb. 23 will be special for more than it will be played outdoors at Lincoln Financial Field. The Penguins, NHL and adidas unveiled Friday morning the jersey the Penguins will wear for the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series game at Lincoln Financial...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin out at least 2 games with upper-body injury
Evgeni Malkin has an upper-body injury and won’t play Friday against the Ottawa Senators or Saturday night in Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. Sullivan said Malkin’s status is day-to-day. Malkin was injured Wednesday when he recorded two assists in the 4-2 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. It...
New-look Penguins finally do what’s expected in win against last-place Ottawa
Perhaps the trade seven hours earlier had a little something to do with it. Or maybe what happened was mere coincidence. In any case, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally proved they can do more than once what almost every other NHL team does rather easily. They defeated a last-place team Friday...
Justin Schultz nearing finish line on long road back from broken leg
The last time Justin Schultz played in a hockey game, the sock tanlines he had acquired in a summer spent on the golf course had yet to fade. Schultz broke his leg Oct. 14 in Montreal. On Thursday, his road to recovery took another step forward as he joined the...
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan: Derick Brassard will play when he’s healthy
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan found the suggestion literally laughable, letting out a small chuckle when he was asked about it following Thursday’s practice in Cranberry. Is there any chance the Penguins might keep center Derick Brassard on the sidelines, even if he has recovered from the upper-body injury that...
