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Former Pittsburgh Penguins center Derick Brassard had no trouble finding the bright side of the trade that sent him to the Florida Panthers on Friday. “Super excited to be here,” he said after taking morning skate in Florida with his new team Saturday. “Waking up and seeing the sun and...

There are lots of ways to evaluate the trade the Pittsburgh Penguins made with the Florida Panthers on Friday. Framed in one particular fashion, it appears as though general manager Jim Rutherford pulled off another impressive piece of sleight of hand. That framing is this: The Penguins traded away two...

The Pittsburgh Penguins completed a long-rumored trade of Derick Brassard on Friday, sending the third-line center, Riley Sheahan and three draft picks to the Florida Panthers for forwards Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann. The Penguins will give Florida a second-round pick and two fourth-rounders in June’s draft. Brassard has been...

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ game against the Philadelphia Flyers Feb. 23 will be special for more than it will be played outdoors at Lincoln Financial Field. The Penguins, NHL and adidas unveiled Friday morning the jersey the Penguins will wear for the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series game at Lincoln Financial...

Evgeni Malkin has an upper-body injury and won’t play Friday against the Ottawa Senators or Saturday night in Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. Sullivan said Malkin’s status is day-to-day. Malkin was injured Wednesday when he recorded two assists in the 4-2 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. It...

Perhaps the trade seven hours earlier had a little something to do with it. Or maybe what happened was mere coincidence. In any case, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally proved they can do more than once what almost every other NHL team does rather easily. They defeated a last-place team Friday...

The last time Justin Schultz played in a hockey game, the sock tanlines he had acquired in a summer spent on the golf course had yet to fade. Schultz broke his leg Oct. 14 in Montreal. On Thursday, his road to recovery took another step forward as he joined the...

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan found the suggestion literally laughable, letting out a small chuckle when he was asked about it following Thursday’s practice in Cranberry. Is there any chance the Penguins might keep center Derick Brassard on the sidelines, even if he has recovered from the upper-body injury that...

Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin sat out Thursday’s practice in Cranberry for maintenance after a particularly grueling effort the night before. By playing a physically and emotionally engaged style of hockey, recording a pair of assists and fighting fellow superstar Steven Stamkos when tensions boiled over in the third period,...

When Derick Brassard didn’t take the ice for pregame warm-ups before the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night, the team took the unusual step of announcing the reason for his absence – a day-to-day upper-body injury – via Twitter. It’s not hard to understand why the...

When Derick Brassard didn’t take the ice for pregame warm-ups on Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team took the unusual step of announcing the reason for his absence — a day-to-day upper-body injury — via Twitter. It’s easy to understand why. According to multiple reports, general manager Jim...

After suffering a decisive 6-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Monday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins lamented their abysmal 1-7-1 record against last-place teams this season. There’s another side to that coin, though, and it’s one they hope will sustain them through some of the tougher dates on their...

As he’s developed into one of the top two-way forwards in the AHL over the past year or so, the thought of making his NHL debut frequently has crossed Teddy Blueger’s mind. Just when he made a concerted effort to stop thinking about it, the call to Pittsburgh came. Blueger...

No team in the NHL goes from zero to 60 faster than the Pittsburgh Penguins. Two days after being manhandled by the worst team in their division, the Penguins responded with a convincing victory over the best team in the league Wednesday night. Phil Kessel and Kris Letang had a...

The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled Teddy Blueger from their AHL affiliate on Tuesday, filling their void on their active roster after the Monday trade of defenseman Jamie Oleksiak with some forward depth. The 24-year-old Blueger is fourth in the AHL with 21 goals in 45 games. Blueger has a five-game point...

A day after hinting he has reached a breaking point with a leaky power play that has allowed a league-high 11 short-handed goals, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan used practice to address the problem in a unique and peculiar way. By not practicing the power play at all. It’s highly...

A Monday trade left a 6-foot-7, 255-pound hole in the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex locker room. Not because the Pittsburgh Penguins don’t have the personnel to replace Jamie Oleksiak but because the “Big Rig” will be missed. “He’s a good friend. I loved having him here,” said defenseman Brian Dumoulin,...

The Pittsburgh Penguins lost two defensemen in a six-hour span Monday. Luckily for them, the loss of one was temporary. Jack Johnson practiced fully at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex on Tuesday after he left Monday night’s game during third period because of an unspecified injury. “I feel OK,” Johnson said...

Five days after taking a starring role in the fastest-skater contest at the NHL All-star game, Kendall Coyne Schofield will do the same for a national broadcast involving the Pittsburgh Penguins. Coyne Schofield will be part of NBCSN’s coverage of the Penguins home game against the Eastern Conference-leading Tampa Bay...

As the season rolled on and total of shorthanded goals given up by his team continued to rise, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan resisted the urge to make wholesale changes to his top power play. These are guys, Sullivan would say, who have played key roles in countless victories over...

After limping through a mediocre western road trip heading into their midseason break, the Pittsburgh Penguins had a week away from the rink to get their minds right. Instead, they got pretty much everything wrong Monday night against the New Jersey Devils. Travis Zajac had a goal and three assists,...

The NHL gave Sidney Crosby another award on Monday afternoon. He still hasn’t figured out what he’s going to do with the last one he got. Crosby was named the NHL’s first star of the week Monday, beating out San Jose forward Joe Pavelski and Minnesota goalie Devan Dubnyk for...