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Former Penguins goaltender Maxim Lagace signs in Austria
Former Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Maxim Lagace has signed with the Graz 99ers, a team based in Austria that competes in the International Central European Hockey League (ICEHL). That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. A native of Saint-Augustin, Quebec, the 32-year-old spent the past two seasons with...
Former Penguins defenseman John Ludvig signs in CzechiaVideo
Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman John Ludvig has signed with HC Dynamo Pardubice of the Extraliga ledního hokeje (ELH), in Czechia, the home country of his family. That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. His father, former NHL forward Jan Ludvig, is a skills coach with HC Dynamo...
Former Penguins forward Dominik Uher signs in Germany
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Dominik Uher has signed with Kolner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) in Germany. That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. A native of Czechia, the 32-year-old Uher has spent the past seven years playing in Germany for the Fischtown Pinguins, also...
New Penguins defenseman Connor Clifton: ‘I want to get back to my old self’
Jason Spezza welcomed Connor Clifton to the NHL. And in a blunt fashion. Making his NHL debut as a member of the Boston Bruins on Nov. 16, 2018, Clifton, a defenseman, crossed paths with Spezza, then a forward with the Dallas Stars. A shove turned into a slash, then a...
New Penguins forward Anthony Mantha vows to be ready following knee surgeryVideo
Anthony Mantha doesn’t have specific goals in mind — aside from the goals that go into a hockey net — as he enters the 2024-25 season. Except for one. Be ready. Limited to 13 games last season as a member of the Calgary Flames because of a right ACL injury...
Former Penguins forward Matt Cooke hired as junior coach in British Columbia
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke was hired as head coach and general manager of the Vernon Vipers of the British Columbia Hockey League, a junior “A” league (the second-highest tier of junior hockey in Canada). That team announced the transaction on Friday. Cooke, 46, has coached at various levels...
Joe Morrow, Penguins’ 1st-round draft pick in 2011, signs in Poland
Defenseman Joe Morrow, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round draft pick (No. 23 overall) in 2011, has signed a one-year contract with Unia Oswiecim of the Polska Hokej Liga (PHL) in Poland. That team announced the transaction with a press release on Friday. Morrow, 32, spent the past two seasons in the...
Former Penguins defenseman Ty Smith signs with KHL’s Dinamo Minsk
Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Ty Smith has signed a one-year contract with Dinamo Minsk, a team based in Belarus that competes in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). That team announced the transaction via Telegram, a popular social media platform in Europe. A native of Lloydminster, Alberta, the 25-year-old Smith spent...
Former Penguins goaltender Louis Domingue signs with KHL’s Sibir Novosibirsk
Former Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Louis Domingue has signed a one-year contract with Sibir Novosibirsk of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). That team announced the transaction with a release on Thursday. A native of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, the 33-year-old Domingue has spent the past three seasons with the New York Rangers organization,...
Forward prospect Melvin Fernstrom has no complaints about trade to PenguinsVideo
On the eastern side of North America, the transaction was orchestrated within a few minutes of midnight. But in Sweden, it happened more than two hours before the sun came up. At 11:52 p.m. on Jan 31, the Pittsburgh Penguins officially completed a multi-player trade with the Vancouver Canucks. Forward...
Penguins’ 2025-26 schedule announced
The Pittsburgh Penguins will face the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena on Oct. 9 in their home opener to the 2025-26 season. That contest was announced via social media Wednesday morning. Later in the afternoon, the entire schedule for the NHL’s season was revealed. Earlier in the week,...
Prospect Finn Harding wants ‘to prove the Penguins right for believing in me’Video
Finn Harding is patient. He waited a long time to get drafted. About a year (plus more than 200 selections). The right-handed defenseman did not hear his name called the first year he was eligible to be selected in the NHL Draft (2023). About 12 months later, Harding went through...
Penguins forward prospect Max Graham signs with Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect Max Graham signed a two-year American Hockey League contract with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Tuesday. The 21-year-old Graham (6-foot-3, 209 pounds) just completed his junior career with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League. Serving as captain of that team last season, Graham appeared in...
Former Penguins forward Josh Currie signs in Austria
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Josh Currie has signed with the Graz 99ers, an Austrian team that competes in the International Central European Hockey League (ICEHL). That team announced the transaction via a release on Tuesday. A native of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the 32-year-old Currie spent the 2024-25 season with...
Penguins prospect Chase Pietila embraces ‘meaner’ defense as his route to the NHL
Even if he isn’t in the NHL just yet, Chase Pietila had his “welcome to the NHL moment” this past spring. On March 12, three days after he signed his three-year entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Pietila was brought to UMPC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry to get a...
Former Nailers coach Derek Army hired as assistant with AHL’s Colorado Eagles
Derek Army is leaving as head coach of the Wheeling Nailers, ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, to accept an assistant coaching position with the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League. Colorado announced the hiring via a release on Monday. Army took over as interim head coach of the...
Penguins to participate in Prospect Challenge event at Buffalo
The Pittsburgh Penguins will once again participate in the Prospect Challenge event hosted by the Buffalo Sabres in September. This event is a series of scrimmages between prospects from five NHL teams. In addition to the Penguins and Sabres, the Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils will...
Penguins to face Rangers, Mike Sullivan on opening night
It won’t take long for the Pittsburgh Penguins to cross paths with former head coach Mike Sullivan. On Monday, the NHL announced the Penguins will face the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on the league’s opening night of the 2025-26 season, Oct. 7. The game is scheduled to...
Penguins management intrigued by forward prospect Mikhail IlyinVideo
Mikhail Ilyin did not wait for the translator. The young Russian answered almost immediately. When Ilyin, a Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect, was asked who his favorite player was, he knew what to say, even in a language he isn’t overly familiar with. “Evgeni Malkin,” he said with a slight smile....
Penguins acquire goaltender Arturs Silovs from Canucks
The Pittsburgh Penguins added to their goaltending depth Sunday by acquiring Arturs Silovs from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for forward Chase Stillman and a fourth-round draft pick in 2027. Silovs, 24, is entering the final year of a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $850,000. He is...
Penguins defensive prospect Emil Pieniniemi is ready for his next stepVideo
As is usually the case with most prospect development camps in the heat of summer, the Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t have many players with professional experience on hand earlier this month. More often than not, these camps are populated with recent draft picks or hopefuls trying to earn NHL contracts. Players...
Penguins defensive prospect Daniel Laatsch is more than a big bodyVideo
Daniel Laatsch is Wisconsin nice. Pardon … Wis-kahn-sin. Does he prefer Daniel or Dan? Danny, even? “Whatever you prefer,” he replies diplomatically. And if you happen to extend your hand to shake his after a hockey practice, he’ll politely decline, explaining his hands are sweaty having been in gloves for...
Even at 6-foot-6, Penguins defensive prospect Peyton Kettles is still growingVideo
Given that he shot up from 5-foot-5 in eighth grade to his current height of 6-6 as a freshly drafted defensive prospect for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Peyton Kettles had plenty of clothing to pass on to his younger brother Chase once he outgrew it. But not hockey gear. And there’s...
Penguins acquire defenseman Matt Dumba from Stars
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired defenseman Matt Dumba and a second-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft from the Dallas Stars in exchange for defenseman Vladislav Kolyachonok. This transaction follows a pattern established last offseason by Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas in acquiring veterans with large contracts along with...
Penguins sign top draft pick, forward prospect Ben Kindel
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed forward prospect Ben Kindel to a three-year, entry-level contract Tuesday. Financial terms were not announced. Kindel was the Penguins’ top selection (No. 11 overall) in the NHL Draft last month. A right-handed shot, Kindel skated for the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen last season. Appearing in...
