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Penguins’ power-play remains a work in progressVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ power play mirrors its regular-season ranking through five games of their first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series. The Penguins’ man-advantage was seventh-best in the NHL (24.1%) entering the playoffs and ahead of Wednesday’s Game 6 against the Philadelphia Flyers, it sits at seventh among the league’s 16 qualifying...
Cup of Joe (Starkey): Rick Tocchet’s Flyers continue to ‘go after’ Sidney Crosby, but Crosby and Penguins getting strongerVideo
In the days leading up to what has become a highly contentious, increasingly fascinating Eastern Conference quarterfinal, Philadelphia Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said his team needed to “go after” the Pittsburgh Penguins stars. What he meant is subject to interpretation, but the Flyers have absolutely “gone after” Crosby in this...
Spark from bottom-6 forwards gives Penguins life in series vs. FlyersVideo
As Rick Tocchet was preparing to face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, his foe’s secondary scoring stood out. Tocchet, a former Penguins player and assistant in Year 1 at the helm of the Philadelphia Flyers, is more familiar with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin...
Unlike 2012, Penguins need a few more strong starts to finish comeback vs. FlyersVideo
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has been on this stretch of highway before. His team was down 3-0 in a dirty, nasty first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers in 2012. The club kept the series alive by winning Game 4. It headed back to Philly for Game 6 after a...
Penguins force Game 6 against Flyers with dose of luck, stiff defense
Kris Letang has created far prettier goals. And definitely more impactful goals. His Stanley Cup-winning score from 2016 would check the box for each of those categories. But the defenseman with a resume worthy of the Hockey Hall of Fame isn’t overly selective about the cosmetic appeal of how he...
Former Penguins forward Dominik Uher signs with Lowen Frankfurt in Germany
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Dominik Uher has signed a two-year contract with Lowen Frankfurt of Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). That team announced the transaction with a release on Tuesday. A native of Czechia, the 32-year-old Uher spent this past season playing for Kolner Haie, also of the DEL. In...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby seeks improved faceoff figuresVideo
Sidney Crosby finally got on the scoreboard with his first goal of the postseason during Saturday’s 3-2 road win against the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 5 of a first-round playoff series. But his typically reliable faceoff numbers have been in the red through the first four games of the series....
Penguins scheduled to start goaltender Arturs Silovs in Game 5 against Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Game 5 of a first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena on Monday. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate in Cranberry. Silovs made his postseason debut for the Penguins on Saturday in...
Cup of Joe (Starkey): If the Penguins are going to make history, these 2 players better join the fray
Hello? Anybody there? We’re four games into the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, and Penguins wingers Anthony Mantha and Egor Chinakhov still haven’t picked up the phone. In the regular season, those two combined for 100 points and 51 goals in just 124 combined games. In this series, they have combined for...
‘Dreams come true’ for Penguins rookie Ilya Solovyov in his 1st postseason game
PHILADELPHIA — While Game 4 of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday surely commanded the attention of television viewers in every corner of Pennsylvania from McKees Rocks to Malvern, it was also appointment viewing for one town in eastern Belarus. Mogilev. That is...
Postseason success nothing new for Penguins goaltender Arturs SilovsVideo
PHILADELPHIA — There might not be another soul in the state of Pennsylvania who has a better idea of what Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs can do in a demanding situation than Rick Tocchet. Currently employed as head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, Tocchet previously held the same station with...
Minor league report: Penguins to face Bears in semifinal roundVideo
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will face the rival Hershey Bears in a best-of-five Atlantic Division semifinal round of the Calder Cup playoffs. That matchup was determined on Saturday with the sixth-seeded Springfield Thunderbirds defeating the third-seeded Charlotte Checkers in a first-round series. With the second-seeded Penguins receiving a bye through the...
Tim Benz: Sidney Crosby leads the way but isn’t alone in Penguins’ season-saving winVideo
Does the “Phans of Philly” group have any money left after they bought I-95 billboard space to mock Sidney Crosby? If they do, hopefully they buy similar billboard ad placement somewhere between Pittsburgh International Airport and PPG Paints Arena. Maybe the Penguins captain will see the signs on the way...
Penguins stay alive in series with 4-2 win in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Having missed the postseason in each of their previous three campaigns, the Pittsburgh Penguins have a heightened appreciation for the privilege of playing truly meaningful games into late April. They’ll be able to play one more such game thanks to a 4-2 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers in...
Penguins turn to rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs to extend their season
PHILADELPHIA — After turning to him for their first game of the regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins are once again turning to Arturs Silovs to extend their season. Facing a 3-0 deficit in their first-round series against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Penguins installed the rookie goaltender in their net for...
Penguins scheduled to start goaltender Arturs Silovs against Flyers in Game 4
PHILADELPHIA — Facing elimination in their first-round playoff series, the Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs in Game 4 against the Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Saturday. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate. This will be Silovs’ postseason debut...
Meet the artists behind this season’s Pittsburgh Penguins community gamesVideo
This week may have been all about football in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but the first round of the NHL Playoffs have also been ruling the thoughts of hockey fans who love their hometown team. And the Pittsburgh Penguins love their city back, which is why the team holds a number of...
Minor league report: Nailers, Taylor Gauthier shut out Royals in Game 1Video
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 20 saves and directed the Wheeling Nailers to a 4-0 shutout of the Reading Royals in Game 1 of a North Division semifinal series at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va., Friday. The result was Gauthier’s first career postseason shutout as a professional. Forward Zach Urdahl scored...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby curt on embellishment penalty
VORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J. — On Friday, Penguins forward Sidney Crosby wasn’t terribly interested in re-litigating the embellishment penalty he received Wednesday in Game 3 of his team’s first-round series against the Philadelphia Flyers. At 18 minutes, 47 seconds of the first period, Crosby lined up for a faceoff in Philadelphia’s...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin: ‘We believe (in) ourselves. And I believe (in) my team”
VORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Pittsburgh Penguins had reason to celebrate Friday. They scored a goal. During the final stages of a lengthy practice session that lasted approximately one hour — perhaps their longest such session in months — the team’s top power-play unit scored a goal. As goaltender Stuart...
Penguins may turn to Elmer Soderblom, Ilya Solovyov for Game 4
VORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Pittsburgh Penguins shuffled a few of their lines and defensive pairings during a practice session at Flyers Training Center on Friday in advance of Game 4 of their first-round playoff series with the Philadelphia Flyers. With the team facing a 0-3 series deficit in the...
Penguins notebook: Players, coach Dan Muse question officials after Game 3 loss to FlyersVideo
PHILADELPHIA — The Pittsburgh Penguins had plenty of questions, and the NHL offered few answers after Game 3 of a first-round playoff series with the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday at Xfinity Mobile Arena. During a 5-2 win by the Flyers, officials virtually installed a revolving door on the penalty boxes...
Trio of Penguins prospects sign tryout contracts with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
PHILADELPHIA — A trio of Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospects signed amateur tryout contracts (ATO) with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) for the remainder of the season on Thursday. Forwards Jordan Charron, Kale Dach and Travis Hayes agreed to ATOs with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. All three were members of...
Mark Madden: Bad calls, bigger problems: Penguins exposed beyond NHL officiating
NHL officiating is, by far, the worst of the major sports. In the playoffs, it finds a whole new level of wretched. Witness Game 3 of the Penguins-Flyers series Wednesday at Philadelphia. Sidney Crosby got called for the first embellishment penalty of his 21-year career. As Penguins coach Dan Muse...
Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner is no stranger to rebounding from 3-0 deficitVideo
PHILADELPHIA — The history is hideous to peruse. And the math is even worse to look at. In the 213 instances throughout the NHL’s 108 years of existence in which a best-of-seven series has seen one participant race out to a 3-0 advantage, that team has claimed victory in 209...
