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Penguins’ Marcus Pettersson glad to get contract done before camp starts
Marcus Pettersson was a full participant during the first day of training camp, less than 24 hours after agreeing to a one-year contract worth $874,125. A restricted free agent coming off his entry-level deal, Pettersson was hoping to sign a longer-term contract but agreed to the one-year deal in order...
Slimmed-down Evgeni Malkin: ‘I want to show to everyone I’m not done’
Evgeni Malkin limped through a 2018-19 campaign that saw injuries limit him to 68 games and 72 points. His 12 goals at even strength were the lowest total of his career, aside from the five he scored during the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season. As a result, he retooled his offseason workout...
Tim Benz: Penguins rediscovering Evgeni Malkin is bigger than replacing Phil Kessel
There were roughly six months of happy talk about how the Steelers would benefit from addition by subtraction. Subtract Antonio Brown’s shenanigans and Le’Veon Bell’s constant contract uncertainty. Benefit by getting a more harmonious locker room, fewer distractions and game plans that weren’t hindered by needing to pacify egos. Nice...
Sidney Crosby discusses Penguins’ need for urgency, desperation
Sidney Crosby had an unusual summer. Last week, his hometown of Cole Harbour was impacted by Hurricane Dorian. The volatile weather was little more than a nuisance for Crosby, who reported little damage to his inland home, but a sign welcoming visitors to the “home of Sidney Crosby” did get...
Mark Madden: Penguins have tough decisions to make with defensemen
For those who pin all of the Penguins’ woes last season on Jack Johnson and bludgeon everyone who disagrees with a club fashioned out of fancy stats, I feel you. That’s absurd simplification dipped in illogical scapegoating, but the numbers don’t lie. Unless they do. If you’d like to deal...
New Penguins play with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin as training camp opensVideo
The Penguins wasted little time testing out their most prominent offseason additions on the first day of training camp in Cranberry. They put the new guys on lines with franchise players. Dominik Kahun, acquired in a trade which sent popular defenseman Olli Maatta to Chicago in June, skated on a...
A guide to Penguins training camp
There are many questions — gripping, fundamental questions — facing the Pittsburgh Penguins as they prepare to open the 2019-20 season. Have the team’s superstars begun an age-related decline? Is there enough speed on defense to keep up with the modern NHL? Will a renewed commitment to “playing the right...
Penguins re-sign defenseman Marcus Pettersson
The Penguins re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Marcus Pettersson to a one-year contract worth $874,125. Pettersson, 23, was acquired in a trade with the Anaheim Ducks in December. He appeared in 84 games combined with each team and set a career-high with 25 points (two goals, 23 assists). Coming off...
Penguins prospect Zach Lauzon retires due to concussion-related issues
Zach Lauzon, a defenseman chosen by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the 2017 NHL draft, has retired due to concussion-related problems, TVA Sports in Quebec reported Wednesday. Lauzon, 20, did not play last season because of the injury. The Penguins did not offer him an NHL contract...
Penguins goalie Matt Murray ready to ring in new year
Last June, Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Matt Murray got a ring. It just wasn’t the kind of ring he has grown accustomed to receiving at the end of a hockey season. It was a wedding ring. Murray and his wife, Christina, held a surprise wedding at the couple’s lake house, letting...
Stormy offseason sent message to Kris Letang, Penguins starsVideo
Many words have been used to describe the four-game sweep at the hands of the New York Islanders that ended the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season in the first round of the playoffs in April. Kris Letang came up with another phrase for it as he and 14 teammates gathered for an...
Alex Galchenyuk meets new Penguins teammates, brushes up on his RussianVideo
Alex Galchenyuk’s Russian is a little rusty. Given his spot in the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry — right next to Russian superstar Evgeni Malkin — that’s about to change in a big way. Galchenyuk said he never really met Malkin on a personal...
Countdown to camp: Replacing Phil Kessel, Olli Maatta won’t be easy for PenguinsVideo
When general manager Jim Rutherford takes his perch above the practice rink and coach Mike Sullivan steps onto the ice to begin the first day of training camp Friday morning at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, both probably will have smiles on their faces. They’ve made substantive changes to...
For Penguins’ Jake Guentzel, superstar treatment could become normVideo
Jake Guentzel was going to be a star in the basement of the Dickson home in Mars on Monday afternoon no matter how many goals he scored last season. As part of an annual September tradition for the Penguins, Guentzel delivered the family’s season tickets to their home Monday afternoon....
Nathan Legare, Samuel Poulin help Penguins prospects win Buffalo rookie tournament
The high-flying duo of Samuel Poulin and Nathan Legare were at it again for the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday afternoon. Legare broke a third-period tie and Poulin added the empty netter as a team of Penguins prospects defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 6-4, to finish in first place in the annual...
Countdown to camp: Alex Galchenyuk, new faces give Penguins depth chart a boost
As the Pittsburgh Penguins prepare to open training camp on the heels of back-to-back unsuccessful playoff campaigns, the team is looking to recapture the magic it found while winning consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 2016-17. Defining that magic is the tricky part. Was it an emphasis on speed on the...
Countdown to camp: Evgeni Malkin among Penguins players with something to prove
As the Pittsburgh Penguins prepare to report to training camp Friday, Evgeni Malkin is wrapping up an offseason unlike any he’s had in his pro career. That’s not because of the trade rumors that sprung up after the Penguins unceremoniously were dumped out of the first round of the playoffs...
Penguins draft picks score in rookie tournament opener
The Pittsburgh Penguins used their first two picks in June’s NHL draft to select goal-scoring wingers from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. It didn’t take long for those players to show what they can do. First-rounder Samuel Poulin and third-rounder Nathan Legare scored goals as the Penguins opened play...
Female linesman, a Robert Morris grad, works Penguins rookie tournament game
A Robert Morris graduate was among four female officials working NHL rookie tournament games this weekend. Kirsten Welsh, a two-time all-conference defender who wrapped up her RMU career last season, worked as a linesman during a rookie tournament game between prospects from the Penguins and Boston Bruins on Friday afternoon...
Sidney Crosby’s junior team to retire his No. 87
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby’s No. 87 jersey will undoubtedly hang in the rafters of PPG Paints Arena shortly after he announces his retirement someday. The Coliseum Sun Life Financial won’t have to wait to host a similar celebration. Crosby’s junior team, the Rimouski Oceanic, announced Thursday that it will...
A player-by-player look at the Penguins’ rookie tournament roster
Whether general manager Jim Rutherford’s offseason moves have improved the Pittsburgh Penguins’ chances of returning to championship contention is a matter for debate. This isn’t: Rutherford’s summer has dramatically improved the team’s prospect pool. On defense, the Penguins picked up first-round draft pick Pierre-Olivier Joseph in the Phil Kessel trade...
Penguins Predictions: Could another 100-point season be in the cards for Sidney Crosby?
Ever since he was a teenage phenom growing up in Nova Scotia, absolutely nothing Sidney Crosby has accomplished in his hockey career has flown under the radar. He’s one of the most well-chronicled athletes in history. Still, it’s possible that something Crosby accomplished with the Pittsburgh Penguins last season has...
Penguins of the Decade: No. 1, Sidney CrosbyVideo
Beat writer Jonathan Bombulie has compiled a countdown of the top Pittsburgh Penguins of the 2010s. At No. 1 is forward Sidney Crosby. Follow the Pittsburgh Penguins all season long....
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins head coach named team’s general manager
The last three men to hold the position of general manager of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins – Bill Guerin, Jason Botterill and Chuck Fletcher – have left the job to become a GM in the NHL. Mike Vellucci does not intend to run that streak to four. The Penguins announced Thursday...
Former Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy announces retirement
Ben Lovejoy, a defenseman who did two tours of duty with the Pittsburgh Penguins and helped the team to the 2016 Stanley Cup, announced his retirement from the NHL on Wednesday night. Lovejoy, 35, played 11 NHL seasons, including parts of seven with the Penguins. He made the announcement while...
