Penguins/NHL category, Page 258

In a never-ending quest to boost offensive numbers, the NHL annually tinkers with the rules and regulations during the offseason. One year, the league lessened the depth of the net to give attacking players more room behind the cage to create scoring chances. Another year, it was decreed teams could...

Excluding Zach Trotman, who will likely begin the season on long-term injured reserve due to a sports hernia, the Penguins currently have nine defensemen with the NHL’s deadline to submit a season-opening roster looming on Tuesday. Most teams keep seven on the NHL roster while several will hang onto eight....

The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed goaltender Casey DeSmith on waivers. DeSmith, who served as the primary backup to Matt Murray last season, is in the first year of a three-year contract with a salary cap hit of $1.25 million which was signed in January. In 2018-19, DeSmith appeared in a...

It’s not often a Pittsburgh Steelers “Monday Night Football” game gets dwarfed by other topics in the Pittsburgh sports world. But the team has started 0-3. Sidney Crosby got hurt. Clint Hurdle got fired. And Pat Narduzzi is getting linked to another job. So, apologies. It’s going to take us...

Jared McCann is listed as a center. He often plays left wing. Which does he identify as? “Neither,” said the fifth-year Pittsburgh Penguins forward. That ambiguity over his position was on display Saturday during a 3-2 shootout loss to the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena. After top center Sidney...

Penguins forwards Sidney Crosby, Alex Galchenyuk and Bryan Rust did not participate in the team’s practice Sunday at PPG Paints Arena. According to coach Mike Sullivan, Crosby is considered day-to-day and was held out for precautionary reasons. He skated briefly before practice. Sullivan labeled Crosby’s status as “encouraging.” Rust still...

Jim Rutherford is a baseball fan. Has been most of his life. The Pittsburgh Penguins general manager shares an affinity for the Boston Red Sox along with coach Mike Sullivan. Rutherford is fully aware one of the most valuable commodities in that sport is left-handed pitching. There just aren’t as...

Penguins forward Alex Galchenyuk will miss the Penguins’ preseason finale against the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday due to an undisclosed injury which has kept him sidelined since Wednesday. According to coach Mike Sullivan, Galchenyuk skated on his own prior during the morning. He has not skated...

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby had his No. 87 retired by his junior team, Rimouski Oceanic, during a pregame ceremony Friday night at Colisee FinancierSun Life in Rimouski, Quebec. Crosby played for Rimouski of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) during the 2003-04 and 04-05 seasons. In 121 games,...

With their season opening in less than a week, the Penguins still have a handful of issues to sort out, most prominently their salary cap. As their roster stands, they are projected to be $331,625 over the NHL’s limit of $81.5 million according to Cap Friendly, a website that tracks...

Penguins forward Alex Galchenyuk was absent from Thursday’s practice in Cranberry because of an undisclosed injury that held him out of the lineup during a preseason game Wednesday. Galchenyuk, 25, was sidelined for precautionary reasons during a 4-2 victory against the Detroit Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike...

Penguins forward Alex Galchenyuk was held out of a 4-2 preseason victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday due to an undisclosed injury according to head coach Mike Sullivan. The Penguins scratched Galchenyuk for precautionary reasons per Sullivan, who characterized the ailment as “nagging.” The primary return in an...

Dressing the bulk of their projected NHL lineup for the first time this preseason, the Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 4-2, at PPG Paints Arena Wednesday. The Penguins opened the scoring 3 minutes, 20 seconds into the first period. Forward Jake Guentzel fed a pass from the end boards...

Dominik Simon’s role with this year’s Penguins isn’t yet determined. But one thing seems certain: Simon will have one. Last season was the Czech-born winger’s first full NHL campaign. He had eight goals, 20 assists and a plus-8 mark in 71 games. Simon didn’t score in his last 14 games....

The NHL’s Seattle franchise hired former Penguins defenseman Ulf Samuelsson and forward Stu Barnes as a professional scouts. Samuelsson, a member of the Penguins’ Stanley Cup championship teams in 1991 and ’92, was a bruising, violent defender for the Penguins over parts of five seasons in the 1990s. One of...

During Wednesday’s morning skate at PPG Paints Arena, Penguins forward Bryan Rust found himself in a familiar spot on the right wing next to Evgeni Malkin. Earlier in training camp, he was skating in a fourth line role with Teddy Blueger. At some point this season, he probably will line...

Casey DeSmith had an unwanted task during last year’s training camp. The Penguins backup goaltender became a chauffeur. His only client was an out-of-towner on a business trip who wasn’t all that familiar with the area — or the entire continent, for that matter: Juuso Riikola. “I hung out with...

The Penguins have hired former NHL forward and coach Duane Sutter as a professional scout. A member of the revered Sutter family, Duane Sutter will oversee scouting on the West Coast of North America. Sutter, 59, was a member of four Stanley Cup-winning teams with the New York Islanders in...

As the final week of training camp draws to a close, the Penguins are dealing with bad news as several players are hobbled with injuries. The good news is none of those ailments involve individuals who were expected to make the NHL roster out of training camp. Coach Mike Sullivan...

Former Penguins goaltender Ty Conklin has joined the University of New Hampshire as a goaltending development coach. Conklin, who spent the 2007-08 season with the Penguins, returns to his alma mater where he was an All-American in 2000 and ‘01. During his lone season with the Penguins, Conklin became a...