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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton adds 4 Penguins prospects for playoff roster
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have added four Pittsburgh Penguins prospects to their roster for the upcoming Calder Cup playoffs. Defenseman Owen Pickering was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton after completing his season at the junior level with the Western Hockey League’s (WHL) Swift Current Broncos. Meanwhile, forwards Cooper Foster and Ville Koivunen as...
Penguins have decisions to make on 20 pending free agents
The Pittsburgh Penguins have 20 players who are scheduled to become free agents this upcoming offseason. Here is a look at every player listed in alphabetical order and distinguished between unrestricted and restricted status. (Note: All contact information is via Cap Friendly.) Unrestricted free agents Jeff Carter, center Salary cap...
Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson eager to return to playoffs
Eight months into his tenure with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Erik Karlsson is still fuzzy on a few details of his surroundings. Like his teammates’ first names. But he has the nicknames down. “You’re talking about ‘Tanger?’” Karlsson said when asked about fellow defenseman Kris Letang. “We never call him Kris.”...
Penguins A to Z: Offense, health were the only things missing for Noel AcciariVideo
With the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2023-24 season coming to an end without any postseason action, the Tribune-Review will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 50 individuals signed to an NHL contract — including those whose deals do not begin until next season — with the organization, from...
Madden Monday: ‘Unprofessional, inexcusable’ moments that wrecked the Penguins’ season
When the Pittsburgh Penguins cleaned out their lockers Thursday after another failed attempt to make the NHL playoffs, forward Lars Eller was asked where this season went wrong. “I think we had some times during the season where we just got too low — emotionally and quality of play,” Eller...
Despite disappointing finish, Tristan Jarry enters offseason as Penguins’ No. 1 option in net
Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry received votes of confidence from coach Mike Sullivan and president of hockey operations/general manager Kyle Dubas during the club’s recent end-of-year sit downs with local media. However, Jarry’s deployment — benching, to be more accurate — over the final few weeks of the season might...
Minor league report: Penguins shut out Phantoms; Nailers rout Fuel in Game 2Video
In their regular season finale, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins got 21 saves from goaltender Ludovic Waeber and shut out the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms, 2-0, at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. In his second shutout of the season, Waeber improved his record to 9-7-0. Forward Valtteri Puustinen recorded two...
Penguins reassign defenseman Ryan Shea to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ahead of AHL playoffs
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Ryan Shea, placed on waivers Thursday by the club and cleared Friday, was formally re-assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Saturday. Shea arrives with one game left in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s regular season, an away contest Saturday evening at the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Unlike their NHL...
Penguins forward Jesse Puljujarvi to compete for Finland in Euro Hockey Tour tournament
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jesse Puljujarvi has joined Finland’s A national team roster for the upcoming Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) tournament in Czechia in May. The Finnish Ice Hockey Association announced Puljujarvi’s addition via a release on Saturday. This tournament between Czechia, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland serves as something of a...
Penguins rookie forward Valtteri Puustinen is eager for a return performance
In the Pittsburgh Penguins’ regular-season finale, a 5-4 road loss to the New York Islanders, on Wednesday, rookie forward Valtteri Puustinen scored his fifth goal of the season. Twice. At first, Puustinen got behind former Penguins defenseman Robert Bortuzzo and snapped a wrister by the blocker of goaltender Ilya Sorokin...
Penguins prospect Tristan Broz inks 3-year entry-level contractVideo
Tristan Broz, a promising prospect of the Pittsburgh Penguins, turned pro Saturday, inking a three-year entry-level contract with the club. Broz, 21, will join the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for the remainder of their season on an amateur tryout contract (ATO). Wilkes-Barre/Scranton plays one more regular-season game before the Calder Cup playoffs...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Wolf Pack, Nailers drop Game 1
Defenseman Jack Rathbone had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 road loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. on Friday. Forward Austin Rueschhoff also scored a goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (38-24-8-1) while goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 32 saves on...
Goalie prospect Joel Blomqvist among players Kyle Dubas expects to push for NHL next season
Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations/general manager Kyle Dubas has made no secret of his belief that the organization needs to get younger fast. In a perfect world, the Penguins will develop and acquire youthful talent that will crack the NHL, learn from the club’s current core of Sidney Crosby,...
Mark Madden: Penguins no longer an elite team, have to realize nothing is guaranteed
The Pittsburgh Penguins need to understand what they are. They are underdogs. They have been for quite some time. Yes, you can be an underdog with Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin. The evidence is plentiful, not least finishing 10th in a terrible conference with 38 wins and 44...
Penguins president Kyle Dubas disappointed, but optimistic after 1st season
On the first day of June, Kyle Dubas was introduced to the world — or at least Uptown — as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ new president of hockey operations during an elaborate and lavish news conference in the opulent Lexus Club of PPG Paints Arena. He professed optimism that the Penguins...
Penguins’ Kyle Dubas named associate GM of Team Canada for ’24 World Championship
Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations/general manager Kyle Dubas has been added to the front office staff of Team Canada ahead of the 2024 IIHF World Championship held in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, from May 10-26. Dubas is set to serve as an associate general manager for the Canadian men’s...
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang considering surgery for undisclosed ailments
During his season-ending news conference with media Friday in Cranberry, Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas offered updates on several players who finished the 2023-24 campaign with various injuries. Most notably, defenseman Kris Letang might require surgery to correct an assortment of various unspecified injuries. “Kris was going...
Tim Benz: Penguins brass whistling a familiar tune when it comes to Tristan Jarry
Here’s a quick synopsis of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltending situation. Stop me if this sounds vaguely familiar to any other recent sports storyline in Pittsburgh. The Penguins invested a lot of faith in Tristan Jarry and positioned him as their goaltender of the future and the present. As the season...
Mike Sullivan, Alex Nedeljkovic paint Tristan Jarry, Penguins goalie situation in positive light
Alex Nedeljkovic signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1, 2023, the same day the team nailed down a more expensive piece of their puzzle. Tristan Jarry put his signature on a five-year, $26.9 million deal. The timing is only noteworthy because Nedeljkovic and Jarry,...
Penguins’ Kris Letang played through ‘myriad of injuries for a long time’ this season
Pittsburgh Penguins alternate captain Kris Letang was blunt when asked how he was feeling physically a few days before the end of the regular season. “I feel like you should feel after 81 games,” he said, responding to a media inquiry about several end-of-year maintenance days that kept him out...
Valtteri Puustinen, Jack St. Ivany, Radim Zohorna rejoin Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ahead of Calder Cup playoffs
Three Pittsburgh Penguins will get to partake in the playoffs after all, albeit in the American Hockey League. A day after the Penguins’ season came to an end, with no postseason hockey forthcoming for the second straight year, the club reassigned three players to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL to compete...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby expects contract extension discussions this summer
Any question surrounding the future of Sidney Crosby is sure to generate feelings of intense discomfort for Pittsburgh Penguins fans. After a second straight non-playoff season, Crosby completed the penultimate chapter of a 12-year deal signed in 2012. He is under contract through the 2024-25 campaign with a salary cap...
What’s next for the Penguins after missing the playoffs again?
ELMONT, N.Y. — The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2023-24 season came to an end Wednesday with a 5-4 loss to the New York Islanders at UBS Arena. For the better part of three weeks, they flirted with the postseason, staging an 8-2-3 charge to complete the campaign and falling a few points...
These 10 losses cost the Penguins critical points en route to missing the playoffs again
For the second consecutive season, the Pittsburgh Penguins will be spectators of the Stanley Cup playoffs, having fallen short of the postseason by three points. Last year, the Penguins missed out by one point, ending their streak of 16 consecutive trips to the playoffs. The Penguins’ underwhelming power play, inability...
Tim Benz: Penguins leave management with one last reality check to end 2023-24
I’ll give the Pittsburgh Penguins this. At least they’ve been consistent. Even in how they ended the 2023-24 season during a 5-4 loss on the road against the New York Islanders. One more blown lead. One more goal allowed just before the buzzer of a period. One more goal was...
