Pittsburgh Penguins News and Rumors

Penguins Report Card: Crosby Fight, Heavy Pressure, Is Team Prepared to Play?

In the middle of the second period, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Rickard Rakell had an uncontested scoring chance on Winnipeg Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck from about 20 feet away. Hellebuyck easily made a glove save on a play Rakell has converted doze

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Published: 2 weeks ago

Pens hire Wells Oliver as team’s new Director of Hockey Systems

Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Oliver spent 15 years working for the San Diego Padres. The Penguins have hired Wells Oliver as the team’s new Director of Hockey Systems. President of Hockey Operatio

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Published: 1 week ago

Pens Points: Just Escaping the Panther Pit

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The Penguins almost blew a three-goal lead on Tuesday! Here are your Pens Points for this Wednesday morning... The Penguins avoided yet another late collapse on Tuesday night, staving off the surg

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Published: 1 week ago

Penguins Report Card: A Wild Ride, Opportunities, & Surviving an Onslaught

It was a good thing the Pittsburgh Penguins practiced their 3v3 overtime chops this week at the UPMC Lemieux Facility. Their defensive work was lacking, their breakouts were detrimental, and they were otherwise dominated by the Florida Panthers. Yet

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Published: 1 week ago

Penguins Defeat Panthers 5-4 in Overtime to Extend Win Streak to 4 Games

The Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed the Florida Panthers to Pittsburgh for an early-week matchup. Both teams looked to extend their win streaks to four in what ended up in a 5-4…

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Published: 1 week ago

NHL Highlights: Penguins 5, Panthers 4 (OT)

Evgeni Malkin picked up a goal and an assist before Bryan Rust scored the overtime winner to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a 5-4 win over the Florida Panthers.

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Published: 1 week ago

Penguins/Panthers Recap: Pens need OT to win fourth straight game and overcome Florida’s surge

Photo by Joe Sargent/NHLI via Getty Images Surviving a blown 4-1 lead, Bryan Rust scores in overtime to lift Pittsburgh to their fourth win in a row Pregame The Penguins stick with the players that they’ve been using togethe

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Published: 1 week ago

Rust’s OT Goal Salvages Penguins’ 5-4 Victory Over Florida

The Pittsburgh Penguins still face a long, steep climb to get to where they want to be in the standings, but they are closing in on a milestone that might have seemed unreachable just a week ago. They defeated Florida, 5-4, at PPG Paints Arena Tuesda

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Published: 1 week ago

Metro Notes: Graves, Berard, Bowey

Josh Yohe of The Athletic wrote a brutally honest assessment of the conundrum the Pittsburgh Penguins are facing with highly paid healthy scratch Ryan Graves. Graves is a healthy scratch once again tonight and has sat out of the lineup for the Pengui

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Published: 1 week ago

Tomasino delivers beauty backhand touch pass to set up Malkin goal

Watch as Pittsburgh Penguins’ Philip Tomasino continues to impress with his new team forcing a Florida Panthers turnover in the neutral zone before delivering a beauty backhand touch pass to set up Evgeni Malkin on the rush.

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Published: 1 week ago

(Podcast) No Pucks Given, Ep9: What’s Behind the Penguins Big Changes

Three chapters and a twist ending with a heavyweight question to ponder. The latest episode of No Pucks Given (episode 9) is all about the changing Pittsburgh Penguins. From the inside out, host Dan Kingerski delivers a few insider nuggets, some anal

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Published: 1 week ago

Gamethread: Panthers @ Penguins

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The defending champs come to town Talk about the game with Pens fans here!

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Published: 1 week ago

Ex-Penguins Update: Nathan Légaré Makes it to the Show

As I pondered compiling a standard Ex-Penguins update this morning, I stumbled upon a bit of news concerning a former black-and-gold prospect and immediately decided to make him my feature story instead. Nathan Légaré made his NHL debut last night

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Published: 1 week ago