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Featuring high drama, assist from Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin’s 500th goal was unforgettableVideo
Evgeni Malkin couldn’t have asked for a much better 500th career goal. Or a crazier game for it to happen in. Without a doubt, the Penguins’ 6-5 overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena, highlighted by Malkin’s milestone, won’t soon be forgotten. “I don’t want...
Other than Evgeni Malkin’s 500th goal, nothing goes as planned in Penguins’ OT win over Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin had a couple of goals in mind as he entered his 19th season in the NHL Literally. With 498 career goals on his resume to open the 2023-24 season, Malkin wanted to reach that barrier of 500 which seems to vault a superstar into a...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin scores career goal No. 500 in 3rd period vs. BuffaloVideo
Evgeni Malkin entered his 19th NHL campaign this year knocking on the door of several individual career milestones. The longtime Pittsburgh Penguins center achieved 800 career assists on Oct. 11 and two nights later, hit 1,300 points, becoming only the 34th and 37th respective player in league history to do...
Penguins assign promising forward Rutger McGroarty to AHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned promising forward Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Wednesday. McGroarty partook in the morning skate but did not factor into any line rushes, a usual indication of being a healthy scratch on game nights. The Penguins host the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday...
Hollidaysburg’s Sam Lafferty offers veteran presence for Sabres
Having turned 29 in March, Sam Lafferty is hardly an old man. An electron microscope would be required to find any kind of wrinkles on his face, and a playoff beard is probably more of a hope than a forecast for him. But with the Buffalo Sabres, the Hollidaysburg native...
Penguins scheduled to start Tristan Jarry vs. Sabres
The Pittsburgh Penguins are expected to start Tristan Jarry on Wednesday evening vs. the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena. Jarry, the winning goalie in Monday’s road victory at Montreal, will start back-to-back games for the first time this season. Jarry is 1-1 with a 4.50 goals against average and...
Penguins’ bottom-6 forwards offer early season scoring
During the Pittsburgh Penguins’ preseason finale, a 7-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena on Oct. 4, all but one of the hosts’ goals came from what could be considered their bottom-six forwards. Noel Acciari (twice), Lars Eller (twice), rookie Rutger McGroarty and Jesse Puljujarvi were...
Goaltender Tristan Jarry gets 1st win as Penguins beat Canadiens
Tristan Jarry’s pursuit each and every time he steps into the net for the Pittsburgh Penguins is obvious. “To win more games, that’s always the goal in mind,” Jarry said Sept. 18 in Cranberry. “I want to win as many games (as possible).” Jarry achieved the desired result Monday as...
Minor league report: Goaltender Sergei Murashov leads Penguins to win in debutVideo
In his Americn Hockey League debut, goaltender Sergei Murashov made 27 saves on 28 shots and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 road win against the Springfield Thunderbirds at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass. on Sunday. Forward Jimmy Huntington recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (1-1-0-0) while forwards...
Are Penguins’ defensemen Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany a shutdown pairing?
With 20 years on his odometer as an NHL superstar, Sidney Crosby has butted heads with plenty of defensemen. One strain of blue liner seems to be the most common in Crosby’s encounters. A shutdown defenseman. A pair of them, in fact. Earlier in his career, Crosby would duke it...
Minor league report: Penguins drop season-opener to CheckersVideo
Forward Emil Bemstrom had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who lost their season opener, 7-6, to the Charlotte Checkers at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Defensemen Sebastian Aho and Nate Clurman as well as forwards Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all recorded two assists...
Rookie goalie Joel Blomqvist earns 2nd straight start for Penguins in Toronto
The Pittsburgh Penguins are turning to rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist for their third game of the season Saturday in Toronto vs. the Maple Leafs. Blomqvist, 22, impressed in his NHL debut Thursday at Detroit, making 32 saves on 35 shots vs. the Red Wings, helping the Penguins to a 6-3...
Penguins lose to Maple Leafs as goaltender Joel Blomqvist starts again
When Joel Blomqvist found out he would be getting a promotion — albeit a temporary one — as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ backup goaltender while incumbent Alex Nedeljkovic convalesced from an undisclosed injury, he was modest about the development. But confident. “I feel like my game is getting better all the...
Unlike baseball counterparts, Penguins have no complaints about new Fanatics jerseys
It’s no secret that NHL players can be notoriously picky about the gear they use and wear. Sidney Crosby always has been particular about the blade of his stick. Several seasons ago, X (then known as Twitter) account GeerGeek.com noted that Evgeni Malkin had changed sticks well over 100 times...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin records 800th career assist in win over Red Wings
When the Penguins made the decision to keep their veteran core together, they all but ensured a number of career milestones would be reached by Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang over the next few years. The first such milestone of this season arrived Thursday night when Malkin recorded...
Rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist leads Penguins to 1st win
The Pittsburgh Penguins need Joel Blomqvist. After all, established backup goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic opened the 2024-25 season on injured reserve due to an undisclosed ailment and someone has to be the backup. But they really needed him Thursday. Making his NHL debut, Blomqvist made 29 saves on 32 shots and...
Tim Benz: Nothing was working for the Penguins in their season openerVideo
With Pittsburgh Steelers players Najee Harris and Pat Freiermuth in attendance at PPG Paints Arena, the Penguins had more of a George Pickens kind of night in their season opener. Their net was “Open (Bleepin’) Always.” The Penguins lost 6-0 at home to the New York Rangers in their first...
1st showing of Penguins new-look power play gets bad reviewsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins were thumped in their season opener Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena, losing 6-0 to the New York Rangers in a game largely devoid of any offensive success. The loss offered an initial look at the club’s power play, now overseen by first-year assistant David Quinn. By game’s...
Penguins shut out by Rangers in ugly season opener
Evgeni Malkin has plenty of perspective as an NHLer. Like 19 years’ worth of perspective. So he knows how much gravity one contest out of an 82-game schedule should command. And he’s fully aware the Penguins will have 81 more chances to correct all of what went wrong in their...
Penguins ownership remains confident in Kyle Dubas, Mike Sullivan
Tom Werner wasn’t happy. Neither was Sidney Crosby. With the Pittsburgh Penguins floundering in the standings late in the 2023-24 campaign, the chairman of the franchise’s ownership group had a chat with the team’s captain. “We’re all disappointed last year that we didn’t make the playoffs,” Werner said. “I was...
Penguins fans excited for hockey season, cautiously optimistic about club’s prospects
Two seasons ago, when the Pittsburgh Penguins missed the playoffs by a single point, ending a 16-year streak, Stan Chapp took the setback to his beloved franchise hard. Chapp didn’t exactly feel motivated to attend any games the following year given the club’s decline. “We’ve been fans for years,” said...
Rangers winger Reilly Smith reflects on year with Penguins, prepares to face former club
Reilly Smith will play his first game of the 2024-25 season in a familiar building. Only he’ll be doing so for a new employer, with different colors and a No. 91 sweater. Smith, acquired via trade by the Pittsburgh Penguins two summers ago to add top-six scoring punch, navigated a...
Jake’s Shake no more, but Rusty’s ready to pour for Penguins’ home opener
Jake Guentzel is gone, but the shake remains. It’s now being taken over by Penguins winger Bryan Rust. Formerly named Jake’s Shake, the Milkshake Factory favorite was discontinued after Guentzel was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes last March. In a new partnership with the Milkshake Factory, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry scheduled to start season opener
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry on Wednesday in their season-opening contest against the New York Rangers at PPG Paints Arena. This will mark the fifth consecutive campaign Jarry has been the team’s starting goaltender in a season-opener. Only Marc-Andre Fleury (12) and Tom Barrasso (10)...
If Mike Sullivan wants to change ‘narratives’ about using young players, Rutger McGroarty provides that chance
In a recent interview with TribLive, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan adamantly pushed back against the suggestion he doesn’t trust young players enough. He did so by citing the amount of faith he put in the likes of Jake Guentzel, Conor Sheary and Bryan Rust when he first took over...
