Penguins get first look at Rutger McGroarty in prospect tournament

Photo by Joe Sargent/NHLI via Getty Images After leaving Michigan and the Jets organization in the hopes of cracking the Penguins’ roster, McGroarty began his fight for a spot in the NHL in Friday’s Prospects Challenge. Pe

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Published: 4 months ago

Snapshots: Crosby, Ullmark, Perfetti

Elliotte Friedman spoke on his 32 Thoughts podcast about Sidney Crosby’s contract negotiations with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Friedman believes that Crosby will sign a short-term deal because he doesn’t want to leave the Penguins in a difficult sa

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Feisty Penguins Prospects Challenge Day 1 Thoughts; Who Looked Good (+)

BUFFALO — Beef on Weck with a side of wings is a Buffalo staple. It combines a little saltiness and spice, and so did the Pittsburgh Penguins prospects team as they beat the Boston Bruins 6-3 at Harbor Center Friday. The Penguins fell behind 3-1 in

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Prospects Challenge: Penguins vs. Boston at noon

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Getting ready for the return of hockey Hockey is back! In a limited way, the prospects from Pittsburgh will play some from Boston in Buffalo today. It’s not much but it’s a break from t

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32 Thoughts Podcast: Sidney Crosby is coming back

In this edition of 32 Thoughts, Kyle Bukauskas and Elliotte Friedman unwrap the biggest news and notes from their time at the U.S. NHL Players Media Tour in Las Vegas.

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Published: 4 months ago

The Final Friday Poll: Penguin playoff hopes

Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We wave goodbye to the offseason with the final poll Our Friday Poll series petered out a bit around the time of the lineup exercise that took over a lot of the polling,

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Dan’s Daily: Sportsnet Hammers Penguins; Rookie Gets Starstruck

BUFFALO — The Pittsburgh Penguins training camp will indeed begin on Wednesday, a few days before the first preseason game on Saturday. We’ve got the full schedule, including the public practices. At least one Penguins rookie was a bit starstruck

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(Re)introducing the podcast, the Skating Penguin Network

Join us for discussion on the Penguins and hockey, but mostly the Penguins. With training camp underway and the 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins season just a few weeks away, now seems like a good time to reintroduce Pensburgh readers to w

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Murashov Ready for Penguins Closeup; Gushes Over Malkin (+)

CRANBERRY  — Before departing for Buffalo to participate in the Prospects Challenge at the Harbor Center, the Pittsburgh Penguins put their prospects team through a nearly two-hour practice at the Lemieux UPMC Complex. The practice didn’t accomp

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Ready, Set, Go: Penguins Training Camp Schedule Released

The countdown has reached single digits. The Pittsburgh Penguins announced Thursday that they will open the 2024-25 training camp with the first on-ice sessions on Wednesday, Sept. 18. All those bottom-six position battles and other interesting story

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Published: 4 months ago

Penguins Update: Sid and the Kids Part 2?

Hey all. My apologies for the blog being MIA the past few days. It seems another site that shares the same server was hacked, causing the domain host to shut the server down while performing a cleanup. All good now. I wrote this article