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Penguins Practice: Battle Drills, Physical Play; Injury Updates

No, it wasn’t a bag skate, where players practice without pucks and hold skating drills to near exhaustion. But the Pittsburgh Penguins’ practice on Thursday was considerably more physical than usual, including fairly intense battle drills. And y

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Published: 3 weeks ago

PHN Blog: Projecting Next Penguins Cuts; What About Poulin & Young Players?

HALIFAX — The Pittsburgh Penguins have a team bonding weekend ahead, though not every player that fans wanted to see on the roster will be part of the boys’ weekend in Halifax. The Penguins trimmed the training camp roster to 37 players Thursday,

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins Hire Former Ottawa Assistant GM Trent Mann

The Pittsburgh Penguins, continuing to add to their management and hockey operations staff under Kyle Dubas, have hired Trent Mann as player development and scouting advisor, according to the team X (formerly Twitter) account on Saturday. Mann has sp

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins Hire Trent Mann

The Pittsburgh Penguins have hired former Senators assistant GM Trent Mann as a Player Development and Scouting Advisor.

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins Head Coach Has Something to Prove

With preseason underway, the Pittsburgh Penguins new and improved roster will soon be on display for the world to see. The Penguins will begin their regular season on October 10…

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Published: 1 year ago

Will Penguins’ Penalty-Killers Come Up Short Again This Season?

The Pittsburgh Penguins allowed 55 power-play goals last season. From coach Mike Sullivan’s perspective, his team ended up with such a bloated total because it displayed nearly a matching number of flaws, foibles and failures while playing shorthan

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Published: 1 year ago

Early Penguins training camp cuts to watch this season

Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This might not be the last time we see some of the players cut early from 2023 training camp. And then there were 32. The Penguins have cut and waived 21 players from the

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Published: 1 year ago

Dan’s Daily: Guerin Gets Emotional on Penguins; Fitting Karlsson & Letang

In 2015, the Pittsburgh Penguins had a dream team of assistant general managers, including New Jersey Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald, former  Buffalo Sabres GM Jason Botterill, and current Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin. Friday, Guerin was a bit emotional

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Published: 1 year ago

Pittsburgh Penguins 2023-24 season preview: Playoff chances, projected points, roster rankings

This version of the Penguins doesn’t have much time left. But they did well to hire Kyle Dubas, who's done well to give them a real shot.

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Published: 1 year ago

Jessica Campbell, Kori Cheverie breaking barriers for female coaches in NHL

Jessica Campbell joined a suddenly growing list of female coaches to take an NHL bench a day after Kori Cheverie did so with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Published: 1 year ago

Graves Thrilled With Halifax Trip; That Crosby Guy Is, Too (+)

What a welcome first-year Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Ryan Graves, who is from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is getting, as the team maneuvered to spend a long weekend in the provincial capital of Halifax. Of course, Sidney Crosby doesn’t mind, either.

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Published: 1 year ago

Ty Smith, Pitlick Make it Through Waivers Unclaimed

The Pittsburgh Penguins did not lose any of the five players they placed on waivers Thursday. Members of that group, headlined by defenseman Ty Smith and winger Rem Pitlick, can now be sent to the Penguins’ American Hockey League affiliate in Wilk

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Published: 1 year ago

Ty Smith clears waivers, Guentzel returns to practice

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images Friday afternoon news and notes Ty Smith has made it through waivers, as have the other four players waived yesterday by the Penguins. Pittsburgh has the option to re-assign all five to Wilkes

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Published: 1 year ago