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Marcus Pettersson professes love for Penguins, but contract situation looms
Skelleftea is situated in northern Sweden, near the east coast along the Gulf of Bothnia. And it’s not exactly an easy place to reach. One of its more notable residents, Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson, estimates it takes between 20 and 24 hours — spread out over two days —...
Penguins fall to Jets in goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic’s season debut
Making his season debut at the NHL level, Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic made 31 saves on 36 shots in a 6-3 loss to the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sunday. An undisclosed injury suffered during a preseason game on Sept. 30 hobbled Nedeljkovic for...
Minor league report: Filip Larsson, Penguins shut out PhantomsVideo
Goaltender Filip Larsson made 41 saves and recorded his first shutout of the season, leading the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 3-0 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. The victory boosted Larsson’s record to 1-1-0 while forward Sam Poulin recorded two assists...
Penguins taking 3 goaltenders on Western Canada road trip
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ best goaltender this season opened a practice session in Cranberry on Saturday as a spectator. After all, Joel Blomqvist got plenty of work the night before when his teammates allowed the Carolina Hurricanes to fire 39 shots at him during a 4-1 loss at PPG Paints Arena....
Minor league report: Alex Nedeljkovic leads Penguins to winVideo
In his season debut, goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic made 33 saves on 36 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 home win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Nedeljkovic was deployed to the American Hockey League affiliate on Thursday as a conditioning...
Penguins outworked in latest loss to Hurricanes
The Carolina Hurricanes have offered plenty of frustration to the Pittsburgh Penguins in recent years by employing a suffocating and aggressive man-on-man style of defense somewhat exclusive to their team. As a result, they had compiled an 11-3-1 record against the Penguins in the previous 15 games between the two...
Penguins still believe in goaltender Tristan Jarry despite rough start
Approximately a half hour after the Pittsburgh Penguins’ regulars left the ice following a morning skate in Cranberry, the team’s reserves — or projected healthy scratches — remained on the ice. One by one, they lumbered into the dressing room, well after the likes of Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang...
Other than Evgeni Malkin’s 500th goal, nothing goes as planned in Penguins’ OT win over Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin had a couple of goals in mind as he entered his 19th season in the NHL Literally. With 498 career goals on his resume to open the 2023-24 season, Malkin wanted to reach that barrier of 500 which seems to vault a superstar into a...
Hollidaysburg’s Sam Lafferty offers veteran presence for Sabres
Having turned 29 in March, Sam Lafferty is hardly an old man. An electron microscope would be required to find any kind of wrinkles on his face, and a playoff beard is probably more of a hope than a forecast for him. But with the Buffalo Sabres, the Hollidaysburg native...
Penguins’ bottom-6 forwards offer early season scoring
During the Pittsburgh Penguins’ preseason finale, a 7-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena on Oct. 4, all but one of the hosts’ goals came from what could be considered their bottom-six forwards. Noel Acciari (twice), Lars Eller (twice), rookie Rutger McGroarty and Jesse Puljujarvi were...
Goaltender Tristan Jarry gets 1st win as Penguins beat Canadiens
Tristan Jarry’s pursuit each and every time he steps into the net for the Pittsburgh Penguins is obvious. “To win more games, that’s always the goal in mind,” Jarry said Sept. 18 in Cranberry. “I want to win as many games (as possible).” Jarry achieved the desired result Monday as...
Minor league report: Goaltender Sergei Murashov leads Penguins to win in debutVideo
In his Americn Hockey League debut, goaltender Sergei Murashov made 27 saves on 28 shots and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 road win against the Springfield Thunderbirds at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass. on Sunday. Forward Jimmy Huntington recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (1-1-0-0) while forwards...
Are Penguins’ defensemen Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany a shutdown pairing?
With 20 years on his odometer as an NHL superstar, Sidney Crosby has butted heads with plenty of defensemen. One strain of blue liner seems to be the most common in Crosby’s encounters. A shutdown defenseman. A pair of them, in fact. Earlier in his career, Crosby would duke it...
Minor league report: Penguins drop season-opener to CheckersVideo
Forward Emil Bemstrom had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who lost their season opener, 7-6, to the Charlotte Checkers at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Defensemen Sebastian Aho and Nate Clurman as well as forwards Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all recorded two assists...
Penguins lose to Maple Leafs as goaltender Joel Blomqvist starts again
When Joel Blomqvist found out he would be getting a promotion — albeit a temporary one — as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ backup goaltender while incumbent Alex Nedeljkovic convalesced from an undisclosed injury, he was modest about the development. But confident. “I feel like my game is getting better all the...
Rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist leads Penguins to 1st win
The Pittsburgh Penguins need Joel Blomqvist. After all, established backup goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic opened the 2024-25 season on injured reserve due to an undisclosed ailment and someone has to be the backup. But they really needed him Thursday. Making his NHL debut, Blomqvist made 29 saves on 32 shots and...
Penguins shut out by Rangers in ugly season opener
Evgeni Malkin has plenty of perspective as an NHLer. Like 19 years’ worth of perspective. So he knows how much gravity one contest out of an 82-game schedule should command. And he’s fully aware the Penguins will have 81 more chances to correct all of what went wrong in their...
Penguins ownership remains confident in Kyle Dubas, Mike Sullivan
Tom Werner wasn’t happy. Neither was Sidney Crosby. With the Pittsburgh Penguins floundering in the standings late in the 2023-24 campaign, the chairman of the franchise’s ownership group had a chat with the team’s captain. “We’re all disappointed last year that we didn’t make the playoffs,” Werner said. “I was...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry scheduled to start season opener
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry on Wednesday in their season-opening contest against the New York Rangers at PPG Paints Arena. This will mark the fifth consecutive campaign Jarry has been the team’s starting goaltender in a season-opener. Only Marc-Andre Fleury (12) and Tom Barrasso (10)...
Penguins-Red Wings game rescheduled for later start
Thursday’s game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena has been rescheduled for start time a little after 8 p.m. The contest originally was slated to begin shortly after 7 p.m. The NHL announced the rescheduling Tuesday. This change was prompted by Game 4...
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry knows what matters
Tristan Jarry knows a little bit about what Joel Blomqvist is going through at the moment. Once upon a time, Jarry was the intriguing goaltending prospect who arrived in Pittsburgh to back up an incumbent starter who had fallen on hard times and out of favor with the locals. That...
Won’t change tactics? Won’t play the kids? Penguins coach Mike Sullivan pushes back at critics’ ‘narratives’
During his time as a defenseman with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Matheson had a way with words. Especially when it came to those who had a way with words. Like his coach at that time, Mike Sullivan. “The first thing I noticed about him is just the way he speaks,”...
Penguins president Kyle Dubas wants to ‘change the story’
Kyle Dubas knows what is said about the club he is charged with crafting and steering. After two seasons of being a spectator for the playoffs — and six springs without a postseason series victory — the external view of the Pittsburgh Penguins isn’t what it once was. And it...
Minor league report: Penguins top Phantoms in preseason finale
Forwards Emil Bemstrom and Tristan Broz each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton which won its preseason finale by defeating the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms, 5-1, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. Goaltender Filip Larsson made 27 saves on 28 shots in the victory while...
Penguins place Sebastian Aho, Boko Imama on waivers
The Pittsburgh Penguins placed defenseman Sebastian Aho and forward Boko Imama on waivers Sunday according to Puckpedia. Should they go unclaimed by 2 p.m. Monday, the Penguins can assign them to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. The NHL’s deadline for teams to submit a season-opening roster is 5 p.m....
