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Pens Points: Celebrating Crosby. Pickering Promoted.

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Owen Pickering, the Penguins’ towering 2022 first-round pick, has earned a promotion to the team’s top defensive pairing. Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning... In what was an ot

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Published: 2 months ago

(Exclusive) Penguins Upgrade Player Development at WBS; McGroarty Hits the Gym

The Pittsburgh Penguins will soon be leaning heavily on their feeder system from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, or at least they would like to. To that end, Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas and assistant GM Jason Spezza began an ambitious program

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Published: 1 month ago

Six thoughts, numbers and observations on the Penguins at the Holiday break

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The Pittsburgh Penguins have a couple of days off so let us talk about a few different topics. With a few days off between games at the Holiday break let us check in with a few thoughts, numbers

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Published: 1 month ago

Penguins Odds & Ends: Taking a Flyer On Rivalry, Tales From Road

Bryan Rust scored the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first goal against Philadelphia Monday night at PPG Paints Arena, and later added an assist in what became a 7-3 victory. That gave him 11 goals and 14 assists in 33 career games against the Flyers. Those

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Published: 1 month ago

2025 World Juniors: Pittsburgh Penguin focus

Photo by Dennis Pajot/Getty Images What to know about hockey’s premier junior-aged tournament that is about to kick of The biggest and best junior-aged hockey tournament is upon us. The IIHF World Junior Championships starts

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Published: 1 month ago

Penguins Update: What’s Happened to Drew O’Connor (and Can He Be Fixed)?

As our Penguins cruise into the holiday break on the hockey equivalent of Santa’s sleigh (a 9-3-1 hot streak), I decided to take a gander at our individual production. I was scanning our scoring list on Hockey Reference when a name brough

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Published: 1 month ago

Penguins Prospect Check-In: Blomqvist, Howe, Král & More

The Pittsburgh Penguins are on the uptick at Christmas time as they battle for a playoff spot. Meanwhile, their farm system has a few prospects having strong seasons.  G Joel…

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Published: 1 month ago

Crosby 'never would've expected' tying Mario for most Pens assists

Sidney Crosby was in his typical self-deprecating mode after tying Mario Lemieux for the most career assists in Pittsburgh Penguins history Monday night. "It's nice, obviously. I didn't ever think I'd be close to that, and (I've) played a lot of game

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Published: 1 month ago

Penguins Naughty & Nice List: 5 Things We’ve Learned, So Far

The Pittsburgh Penguins heard the starter’s pistol in October and promptly faceplanted while many in the Eastern Conference found traction and raced up the standings. However, the Penguins have begun to find their footing in the snow, while others

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Published: 1 month ago

Merry Christmas!

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Best wishes to all, enjoy your day!

They sleighed this.

Happy Holidays from the Pittsburgh Penguins! pic.twitter.com/VtVUli3MU

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Published: 1 month ago

Lemieux, Crosby & Malkin: The Growing Penguins Legacy

The post Lemieux, Crosby & Malkin: The Growing Penguins Legacy appeared first on NHL Trade Talk. Mario, Lemieux, Sidney, Crosby, and Evgeni Malkin are growing the Pittsburgh Penguins legacy. What have Crosby and Malkin done recently? The post Lem

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Published: 1 month ago

Penguins’ Improvements in Key Areas Leading to Recent Surge

Don’t look now but the Pittsburgh Penguins have started to climb the rankings in the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins got off to a very rocky start this season and it…

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Published: 1 month ago

There’s a Reason Rakell Has Regained His Scoring Touch

Rickard Rakell is, by nature and by trade, a goal-scorer. Not a perennial contender for the Rocket Richard Trophy, to be sure, but a guy who can be counted on to produce on a fairly regular basis. Has been since he broke into the NHL with Anaheim dur

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Published: 1 month ago