Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 7
New Penguins hall of famers remain connected to Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ heated rivalry with the Washington Capitals existed well before Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin burst into the NHL at the dawn of the 21st century. In mid-April of 1991, the original chapters of this anthology were written during the Patrick Division final of the Stanley Cup playoffs....
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start against Blue Jackets
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Saturday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate in Cranberry. The Penguins have alternated starts in net between Silovs and Tristan Jarry in every game hitherto this...
Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones placed on injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones has been placed on injured reserve and is expected to miss approximately eight weeks due to an undisclosed ailment. The team announced Jones’ status Saturday morning. Jones, a left-handed shot, was injured during a 5-3 road win against the Florida Panthers on Thursday. He did...
Minor league report: Penguins shut out Checkers, remain undefeatedVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 25 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-0 win against the Charlotte Checkers at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C. on Friday. It was the first shutout of the season for Murashov who improved his record to 5-0-0. Forwards Danton Heinen and Ville Koivunen each had...
Scotty Bowman’s impact with the Penguins was brief, but monumental
On the surface, it almost seems absurd. Having Scotty Bowman, the greatest coach in NHL history, run your player development department? It’s like getting Michelangelo to paint your garage. But the arrangement suited everybody’s needs, especially Bowman’s. In 1990, Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Craig Patrick spoke with his former junior...
Sidney Crosby scores twice as Penguins beat Panthers, extend winning streak to 4
Dan Muse is in his first year as a head coach in the NHL. But he’s experienced enough to understand success in October isn’t cause to celebrate. “It’s so early, I don’t think for anybody you’re feeling like it’s a finished product this time of year,” the Pittsburgh Penguins coach...
Minor league report: Penguins, Sergei Murashov remain undefeatedVideo
Forwards Atley Calvert and Ville Koivunen each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-1 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. The hosts also got goals from forwards Danton Heinen and Avery Hayes. Goaltender Sergei Murashov...
Even with a strong start, Penguins not satisfied
The stakes weren’t particularly high. In fact, it’s dubious if stakes even existed. After all, what is there to compete over during a short-area three-on-three drill during an optional practice? Plenty, at least based on the reaction Bryan Rust offered Wednesday in Cranberry. After mishandling a puck in the neutral...
Former Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea signs in Germany
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea has signed a contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season with Eisbaren Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Germany’s top league. That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. A native of Laval, Quebec, the 31-year-old Dea began the season with...
Goaltender Arturs Silovs beats former team as Penguins rout Canucks for 3rd straight win
Goaltender Arturs Silovs doesn’t harbor any ill will towards the Vancouver Canucks over trading him to the Pittsburgh Penguins in July. He understands it was a matter of sound roster management as the Canucks had a logjam in net and someone had to go. “It was fun to play for...
Penguins broadcaster Josh Getzoff returns to television booth
Tuesday was fairly quotidian for Josh Getzoff. After dropping his kids off at day care in the morning, he trekked to UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry to do his customary preparation as the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins on SportsNet Pittsburgh broadcasts. He updated his “boards,” which are...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to face Canucks
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Tuesday’s game against his former team, the Vancouver Canucks, at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. To this point of the season, the Penguins have alternated every start in net between...
Penguins see strong results by platooning Tristan Jarry, Arturs Silovs
Dan Muse isn’t a carbon copy of his predecessor as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan. But similarities do exist. Both hail from Boston, and both speak with accents rooted in the Bay State. And like Sullivan, Muse readily allows players to avoid the ice during optional morning skates...
Penguins suspend defensive prospect Emil Pieniniemi
The Pittsburgh Penguins have suspended defenseman Emil Pieniniemi indefinitely for failing to report to the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL. A team spokesperson confirmed the punitive action Monday. Pieniniemi, a third-round draft pick (No. 91 overall) in 2023, was assigned to Wheeling on Oct. 6 but did not report to...
Penguins, Tristan Jarry outduel Alex Nedeljkovic, Sharks
During the previous two seasons, Tristan Jarry and Alex Nedeljkovic competed with one another to be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top goaltender. On Saturday, they simply competed. Jarry made 31 saves for the Penguins in a 3-0 win against San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The...
Minor league report: Penguins come back to remain undefeatedVideo
A goal and two assists by forward Danton Heinen helped the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins score six unanswered goals and stage a 6-3 comeback win against the Bridgeport Islanders at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday. Forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all had a goal and...
Penguins forward Noel Acciari knows ‘you can’t take being here for granted’Video
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Noel Acciari set a career high in games played last year and nearly reached another fairly significant milestone in the process. But a hip flexor cost him the final three contests of the 2024-25 campaign and capped him at 79 games. And as it turned out, it...
Minor league report: Penguins beat Wolf Pack, remain undefeatedVideo
A pair of goals by forward Atley Calvert led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 5-2 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at the PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Conn. on Friday. Forward Danton Heinen recorded three assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (3-0-0-0) while defenseman Ryan Graves contributed two assists. Goaltender Sergei Murashov made...
Penalty kill pushes Penguins to comeback win against Kings
The Pittsburgh Penguins found a way to transform their penalty kill from a detriment to an asset. Score a short-handed goal. Penguins’ rookie forward Filip Hallander scored the winning goal during a penalty kill in a 4-2 comeback road win against the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena in Los...
Penguins forward Blake Lizotte is healthy and hanging on to his jobVideo
The start of Blake Lizotte’s second season with the Pittsburgh Penguins is going much better than how he began his first. That’s because he hasn’t been concussed. Not even once. After joining the club during the 2024 offseason by signing a two-year contract, Lizotte didn’t even make it to the...
Penguins’ penalty kill struggles again in loss to Ducks
There weren’t many areas the Pittsburgh Penguins were expected to be exceedingly stout in entering the 2025-26 campaign. In fact, it was anticipated that the rebuilding franchise would be one of the NHL’s least impressive clubs this season. And in at least one aspect, that has been the case. The...
With growing family and optimism intact, Penguins’ Rickard Rakell wants to stay putVideo
Life has been good for Rickard Rakell ever since he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins via a trade with the Anaheim Ducks in February of 2022. He’s become a father twice since arriving in Western Pennsylvania. Son Ziggy was born in April, joining sister Daisy and mother Emmeli. “He’s been really...
Justin Brazeau, Evgeni Malkin and Anthony Mantha form another big 3 for the PenguinsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins have had big lines before. Perhaps their most famous trio with robust dimensions was formed during the 1991-92 season. While Kevin Stevens (6-foot-3, 231 pounds) and Mario Lemieux (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) were the biggest bodies on that line, it’s almost absurd to point out that Rick Tocchet,...
Minor league report: Tristan Broz scores twice as Penguins beat PhantomsVideo
A pair of goals and an assist by forward Tristan Broz led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Sunday. Linemate Ville Koivunen, a day after being assigned by the Pittsburgh Penguins, recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton...
Penguins defensemen Connor Clifton, Matt Dumba ready to step in
For whatever reason, right-handed defensemen are harder to find than their left-handed counterparts in seemingly every level of hockey. Through less than a week of play in the NHL this season, only 88 starboard defensemen have appeared in a game while 116 port-siders have suited up. Somehow, the Penguins managed...
