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Schaefer ties D-man record for longest point streak to begin career

New York Islanders rookie Matthew Schaefer matched the NHL record Tuesday for the longest point streak to begin a career by a defenseman at six games.He shares the record with Marek Zidlicky, who was 26 when he accomplished the feat in 2003-04.Schaef

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Published: 2 weeks ago

Penguins Must Beware of This New York Islanders Pair

CRANBERRY — Brock Nelson and Anders Lee are not the most dangerous duo the Pittsburgh Penguins have had to face when playing the New York Islanders. There was, after all, a time when New York coach Al Arbour could send two future Hockey Hall of Fam

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Published: 10 months ago

Penguins Room: Simple Q, ‘What’s the No. 1 Reason for Better Defensive Play?’ (+)

By nearly any measure, the Pittsburgh Penguins have picked up their overall defensive game. Nearly gone from earlier are the stream of odd-man rushes against, blown leads and fumbles at the blue line. We thought we would have a little fun with the pl

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Published: 10 months ago

Pettersson Works Out on Ice Before Penguins’ Practice

CRANBERRY — Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson, who is recovering from an unspecified lower-body injury, is going through an on-ice workout at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex this morning. His session is being supervised by assistant coac

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Published: 10 months ago

The 25 greatest athletes of the last 25 years

To cap our Eras project, we select and celebrate the immense achievements of the 25 most significant athletes of the last quarter century (2000-24). The list spans every major sport, including those not covered in previous editions, and is alphab

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Published: 10 months ago

Break thoughts on Erik Karlsson, Philip Tomasino and more

Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Christmas break thoughts Following in Gretz’s footsteps from yesterday, some random Christmas break thoughts of my own... Karlsson has motivation Everyone’s got an Er

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Published: 10 months ago

Pens Points: Bits and bobs while on break

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The Pittsburgh Penguins aren’t back from their holiday break until Saturday. Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning... The Pittsburgh Penguins aren’t back from their holiday break u

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Published: 10 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: 10 months 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: 10 months 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: 10 months 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: 10 months 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: 10 months 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: 10 months ago