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Malkin: Penguins 'better start playing better' as tougher matchups loom

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin thinks his team better get its act together with matchups against a pair of Central Division titans next on the docket. "Great teams coming up on our schedule," Malkin told The Athletic's Josh Yohe after Satu

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Published: 1 year ago

Crosby: ‘A Lot’ Must Improve After Penguins’ Stumbling Start

The Pittsburgh Penguins have opened the 2023-24 season with five games against teams that missed the Stanley Cup playoffs this spring. They’ve won exactly two of them. No surprise, then, that in the immediate aftermath of the Penguins’ 4-2 loss i

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Published: 1 year ago

Sunday Standings: October history repeating in the Metropolitan Division

Photo by Scott Rovak/NHLI via Getty Images Just in time for spooky szn; this October is looking a lot like the last one It’s deja vu all over again. Let’s go back to last fall in October 2022, the Pens jumped out to a very

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Published: 1 year ago

Blue in St. Loo, Penguins Fall 4-2

In the wake of last night’s disturbing 4-2 loss to St. Louis, the Penguins seem to have stumbled upon a new formula. We’ll call it lather, rinse…defeat. In many ways the contest was a virtual clone of our 5-2 loss to the Red Wings on

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Published: 1 year ago

Latest On Pittsburgh Penguins Roster

The Pittsburgh Penguins finally found a goal scorer in their bottom six forwards as Radim Zohorna lit the lamp in the final minutes of the Penguins’ 4-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues last night. Zohorna was playing in his first game of the season aft

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Published: 1 year ago

Sullivan fuming after slow early season start

Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports The Penguin coach was not a happy camper last night in St. Louis All losses in the NHL are not created equal. It’s a long season, and best when steering the ship as a head coach to not let the hi

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins Wrap: Malkin Has Some Moments; Sullivan Gets Sour

ST. LOUIS — A lot of things can be said about how the past seven days went for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Almost none of them are good. The only positive for them in the past seven days might be that they had to play just two games, because there was

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins Report Card: More Sloppiness, No More Excuses After Loss to Blues

The Pittsburgh Penguins are approaching the moment when they can no longer blame the early season or jelling for absent-minded mistakes. The issues that have haunted the Penguins for a year, such as inconsistent effort and yielding odd-man rushes, we

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Published: 1 year ago

Mike Sullivan Rips Penguins: ‘We Didn’t Play Hard Enough’

ST. LOUIS — Mike Sullivan was quite animated — and obviously unhappy — at various times during the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-2 loss to St. Louis Saturday night at Enterprise Center. And he didn’t particularly try to hide his displeasure with w

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Published: 1 year ago

NHL Highlights: Blues 4, Penguins 2

Kasperi Kapanen, Brandon Saad, and Robert Thomas recorded a pair of points to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 4-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Published: 1 year ago

Penguins/Blues Recap: Bad stretch allows game to slip away from the Pens

Photo by Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Pens stumble for a short time in the second period, and it makes all the difference in a 4-2 loss to St. Louis Pregame The Penguins make some lineup changes for the fi

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Published: 1 year ago

Another Poor 2nd Period Dooms Penguins Against Blues, 4-2

ST. LOUIS — The Pittsburgh Penguins’ season is only five games old, so perhaps it’s a bit early to be identifying trends. A few things, though, are tough to overlook. Like how the Penguins have been outscored, 6-0, during the second periods of

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Published: 1 year ago