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Penguins’ Blake Lizotte, Cody Glass navigate frustrating concussion recovery process
Across sports, concussions rank among the more frustrating injuries for athletes to suffer, in large part because of the nonlinear nature of the recovery process. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Blake Lizotte is working his way back from a concussion suffered Nov. 13 vs. the Detroit Red Wings when a puck struck...
A bad mood won’t help the Penguins avoid more bad results
Everything came down to a one-on-one confrontation Monday in Cranberry. Forward Matt Nieto vs. goaltender Tristan Jarry. Nieto attacked. Jarry reacted. Nieto scored. As Nieto skated toward the left-wing boards to celebrate, half of the Penguins roster — all clad in yellow practice jerseys — mobbed Nieto to celebrate winning...
Penguins acquire forward Philip Tomasino from PredatorsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Philip Tomasino from the Nashville Predators on Monday. In return, they exchanged a fourth-round pick in the 2027 draft. Tomasino, 23, was a first-round draft pick (No. 24 overall) in 2019. A right-handed shot, he has appeared in 11 games this season and has recorded...
Penguins reassign forward Sam Poulin to AHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forward Sam Poulin to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League Monday following a team practice in Cranberry. Poulin, the Penguins’ first-round (No. 21 overall) draft pick in 2019, skated in a career-high six NHL contests this season after playing in three both in 2022-23 and 2023-24....
Kevin Hayes returns to Penguins’ lineup as club attempts to pull out of tailspin
Kevin Hayes has not enjoyed the experience of having to watch from the press box as the Pittsburgh Penguins navigate an early-season tailspin. Hayes, who suffered an unspecified upper-body injury Nov. 5, returned to the Penguins’ lineup Saturday vs. Utah Hockey Club, but he missed the eight previous games as...
Tim Benz: Penguins’ weekend on center stage shows how bad things have gotten
In the not-too-distant past, a pre-Thanksgiving mini-bye for the Steelers would’ve been the perfect time for many Pittsburgh sports fans to shelve their NFL obsessions and take in a little Penguins hockey for a few days. Not only were the Steelers off this past weekend because of their Thursday night...
Penguins rookie defenseman Owen Pickering earns promotion to top pairing
Ryan Shea probably could say he knows Pittsburgh Penguins rookie defenseman Owen Pickering better than most in the club’s locker room. Pickering, 20, was promoted to the NHL just over a week ago, and through his first three games, had paired with Shea. Naturally, Pickering and Shea have conversed quite...
Minor league report: Nailers, Sergei Murashov conquer KometsVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made a season-high 48 saves on 52 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 6-4 road win against the Forth Wayne Komets at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Saturday. Murashov improved his ECHL record to 6-2-0 as Wheeling (9-3-1-0) extended a...
Utah spoils Sidney Crosby’s milestone night as Penguins suffer 8th loss in past 10 games
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic didn’t have to ruminate a great deal when asked how to describe his team last week. “Inconsistent is probably a good word, a good way to describe it,” Nedeljkovic said in Cranberry on Wednesday. “Game to game, period to period, sometimes even shift to shift....
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby scores 600th career goal in 2nd period vs. UtahVideo
Both symbolically, as one of the most important figures in Pittsburgh Penguins franchise history, and statistically, as arguably the most gifted all-around player of his generation, Sidney Crosby walks on the same ground as Mario Lemieux. With his 600th career goal Saturday against Utah Hockey Club at PPG Paints Arena,...
Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic scheduled to start against Utah Hockey Club
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic is scheduled to start Saturday’s home game against the Utah Hockey Club at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Nedeljkovic’s status approximately two hours before the opening faceoff. In 10 games this season, Nedeljkovic has a 3-3-3 record, a 3.17 goals against average and...
Penguins activate Kevin Hayes from injured reserve, send Vasily Ponomarev to AHL
Ahead of their Saturday night home game against Utah Hockey Club, the Pittsburgh Penguins activated forward Kevin Hayes from injured reserve. Hayes has missed the past eight games with an unspecified injury and last suited up Nov. 5 against the New York Islanders. In 14 games, the 32-year-old has three...
West Mifflin’s Logan Cooley finds comfort in his second NHL season with Utah
Coming home is always special for Logan Cooley. It’s even more special when his mother, Cathy, offers a grand feast in their West Mifflin abode. Such was the case on Friday as Cooley, a forward with the Utah Hockey Club, had a day off before facing the Pittsburgh Penguins on...
Former Penguins forward Nick Bonino signs in SloveniaVideo
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Nick Bonino has signed with HK Olimpija Ljubljana, a team based in Slovenia that competes in the International Central European Hockey League (ICEHL). In addition to Slovenia, that league has teams based in Austria, Italy and Hungary. HK Olimpija Ljubljana announced the signing via a release...
Minor league report: Penguins, Joel Blomqvist shut out IslandersVideo
Goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 23 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-0 shutout of the Bridgeport Islanders at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. It was the first shutout of the season for Blomqvist, who improved his American Hockey League record to 1-1-0. Forward Emil Bemstrom had two...
Penguins teammates commend Sidney Crosby for fight vs. Winnipeg’s Kyle ConnorVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is known for many things, such as possessing perhaps the most refined 200-foot game of his generation, elite passing skills and a wicked backhand. A propensity for dropping the gloves, however, not so much. Yet, the 37-year-old fought 6-foot-1 winger Kyle Connor of the Winnipeg...
Jets send skidding Penguins to 7th loss in past 9 games
Mike Sullivan has directed a blunt missive to his team in recent days. “We’ve got to be harder to play against,” the coach said Wednesday. That may leave some room for interpretation, but in practice Thursday, it translated into a physically demanding session. Players hit the ice — literally —...
Kris Letang, Kevin Hayes game-time decisions vs. Jets; Tristan Jarry scheduled to start
The Pittsburgh Penguins may return a pair of veterans to their lineup Friday night for a showdown at PPG Paints Arena against the NHL’s best club. Defenseman Kris Letang, who has missed three games because of illness, and forward Kevin Hayes, who is on injured reserve with an undisclosed ailment,...
First Call: Browns DB calls George Pickens ‘fake tough guy’ after skirmish; Penguins host best team in NHLVideo
A Cleveland Browns defensive back is not pleased with Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens. The Penguins face a stiff test amid an early season slump. The Duquesne men’s basketball team enjoys a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. And the Robert Morris hockey team is heading out to play a true college hockey...
Penguins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk remains ‘a work in progress, for sure’
It was a pretty sedate offseason for the Pittsburgh Penguins this past summer. After splurging on the likes of defensemen Ryan Graves and Erik Karlsson the year prior, management mostly operated with a frugal budget and looked for the clearance rack of dented cans or torn boxes in the rear...
Penguins forward prospect Tanner Howe traded in Western Hockey LeagueVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect Tanner Howe was traded within the Western Hockey League (WHL) on Thursday. A left-handed shot, Howe was dealt by the Regina Pats to the Calgary Hitmen in exchange for forward Keet Fawcett and defenseman Reese Hamilton as well as draft picks in future WHL draft. Serving...
Penguins’ Drew O’Connor adjusts to life at center; Bryan Rust tapped as temporary alternate captain
Drew O’Connor offered a self-critique about his game earlier this week, specifically regarding a recent change to his nightly duties, having been deployed at center as opposed to the wing. “There’s definitely some things I can continue to work on — faceoffs being one of them,” O’Connor said. “That’s probably...
Injured Penguins forward Kevin Hayes closing in on return to lineup
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Kevin Hayes is closing in on a potential return to the lineup as he recovers from an undisclosed injury that has sidelined him for the past seven games. On Thursday in Cranberry, Hayes skated in practice in a full capacity. He engaged in full contact but did...
Where are the Penguins after a quarter of the season?
The Pittsburgh Penguins had only 14 players on the ice for practice Wednesday in Cranberry. It wasn’t an optional practice. Specific players — i.e. the ones who have played the most minutes recently — were told to stay off the ice for what was termed as a “recovery day,” a day...
Mark Madden: Rivalry with Sidney Crosby helps shape Alex Ovechkin’s place in hockey history
Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s career goal-scoring record has been temporarily halted by a knee injury that has Ovechkin listed as week to week. Ovechkin isn’t just chasing a number. He’s solidifying his place in hockey history. If he breaks hockey’s most sacred career mark, Ovechkin can’t help but...
