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Mark Madden: Give Penguins’ rebuild time, and watch Kyle Dubas become the hero
The “2025 trade deadline” phase of the Penguins’ rebuilding project is complete. President of hockey ops/GM Kyle Dubas did well. But then the players fouled it up by winning their last two games, and against good teams, too. You can’t tell Sidney Crosby to not be Sidney Crosby. Fewer wins...
Vladislav Kolyachonok earns promotion to Penguins’ top defense pair
Vladislav Kolyachonok was inches away — probably centimeters, actually — from scoring his first goal as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday. Late in the second period against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Penguins established some extended offensive zone time ahead of intermission, and Kolyachonok fired a close-range...
Gibsonia’s Brandon Saad bets on himself by joining the Golden Knights 
If you’re going to bet on yourself, Las Vegas is quite the place to do it. That is essentially what Brandon Saad is doing these days. And so far, the Gibsonia native has largely come up aces since he joined the Vegas Golden Knights a few weeks ago. “It’s been...
Penguins scheduled to start Tristan Jarry in net vs. Golden Knights
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry on Tuesday night at home vs. the Vegas Golden Knights. Coach Mike Sullivan revealed his starting netminder following the Penguins’ morning skate in Cranberry. Jarry, called up from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on March 3, will make his...
Penguins recall defenseman Sebastian Aho, forward Matt Nieto from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled defenseman Sebastian Aho and forward Matt Nieto on Tuesday from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis. Nieto has played eight games (one goal, two assists) for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton since being placed on waivers by the Penguins on Feb. 26, after which he cleared...
Penguins’ Tommy Novak sidelined day-to-day; Ryan Shea out week-to-week
Following only two games with the Pittsburgh Penguins, forward Tommy Novak has hit a bump in the road with his new club. When Novak was absent from Tuesday’s morning skate, coach Mike Sullivan revealed the 27-year-old, acquired in a trade from the Nashville Predators on March 5, is sidelined day-to-day...
Tristan Jarry, Penguins beat Golden Knights in overtime
In the distant past, Tristan Jarry was the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltender of the future. As for his current future, things are murky, at best, considering in the near past, he was waived in mid-January and the NHL’s 31 other franchises opted not to claim him (or, more importantly, his ample...
Penguins sign defenseman Daniel Laatsch to entry-level deal
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed a member of their 2021 NHL Draft class, 23-year-old defenseman Daniel Laatsch, to a two-year entry-level contract, the club announced Monday afternoon. Laatsch, picked by the Penguins four years ago in the seventh round (215th overall), turns professional following four collegiate seasons at Wisconsin, where he...
Penguins forward prospect Tristan Broz is winning and learning in his first pro season 
Tristan Broz was simply doing his job as the second-line center of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. On a Tuesday. That’s nothing really out of the ordinary for a minor league hockey player at any level, but playing a game in the middle of the week is one of the myriad of...
Penguins ink ’24 draft pick Chase Pietila to 3-year entry-level contract 
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed another member of their 2024 NHL Draft class, defenseman Chase Pietila, to a three-year entry-level contract Sunday evening, the club announced. Pietila, 21, was chosen by the Penguins in the fourth round (No. 111 overall) of last year’s draft. His contract begins in 2025-26 and runs...
Minor league report: Penguins stopped by Crunch 
Goaltender Filip Larsson made 25 saves on 29 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-1 loss to the Syracuse Crunch at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. The result dropped Larsson’s record to 10-6-3. Forward Matthias Laferriere scored the lone goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (31-16-7-1). Highlights: The Penguins’ next...
Penguins’ Tristan Jarry beats Wild in 1st NHL game since January
Appearing in his first NHL contest in nearly two months, Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry made 30 saves on 31 shots in a 3-1 win against Minnesota Wild on Sunday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The result boosted his record to 9-8-4 and snapped a four-game losing...
Minor league report: Sam Poulin records hat trick as Penguins rout Senators 
Forward Sam Poulin had a natural hat trick and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in an 8-3 rout of the Belleville Senators at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. It was the second hat trick in Poulin’s professional career Forward Ville Koivunen contributed a goal and two assists...
Hat tricks rare among Penguins defensemen
Pittsburgh Penguins defensemen Ryan Shea and Erik Karlsson have each recently recorded two-goal games. During a 5-3 home loss to the New York Rangers on Feb. 23, Shea scored a pair of goals in the third period (which were his first two goals of the season). Then Karlsson collected two...
Penguins assign defenseman Jack St. Ivany to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned rookie defenseman Jack St. Ivany to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Saturday, one day after he was recalled under emergency roster conditions. A right-handed shot, the 25-year-old St. Ivany has split the 2024-25 season between the NHL and AHL rosters. In 19 NHL...
The Penguins have 30 picks in the next 3 NHL drafts. How did they get so many?
While the 2025 NHL Draft is still months away, the Pittsburgh Penguins are positioned to be very busy from June 27-28 in Los Angeles. The same could be said of the 2026 and 2027 drafts, because in the upcoming three years, the Penguins possess 30 picks in total, four of...
Minor league report: Penguins, Rutger McGroarty tame Wolf Pack 
A goal and two assists by forward Rutger McGroarty led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 7-1 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. on Friday. Forwards Avery Hayes, Mathias Laferriere, Vasily Ponomarev and Valtteri Puustinen each had a goal and an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton...
Penguins recall defenseman Jack St. Ivany from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled rookie defenseman Jack St. Ivany from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League under emergency roster conditions. A right-handed shot, the 25-year-old St. Ivany has split the 2024-25 season between the NHL and AHL rosters. In 19 NHL games this season, St. Ivany has recorded one assist...
Kyle Dubas sells at trade deadline, vows to ‘urgently’ return Penguins to contention
Anthony Beauvillier lived a nomadic existence throughout the 2023-24 season. Suiting up for three teams (the Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks and Nashville Predators), he was traded on two occasions. In each instance, he was dealt for ho-hum fifth-round draft picks. And again, this season, he was on the move at...
GM Kyle Dubas offers initial thoughts on Penguins’ additions 
As the dust settles following a busy NHL trade deadline for the Pittsburgh Penguins, a full inventory can now be taken of players the club added versus those who departed. Beginning with a pair of trades Wednesday and four more deals Friday, the Penguins parted with five players and two...
Penguins re-sign defenseman Ryan Shea to 1-year deal
Following an active trade deadline Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced an additional transaction, this time in house, as defenseman Ryan Shea was re-signed to a one-year deal. Shea, 28, is now under contract through 2025-26 and will make $900,000 next season. That’s up from the $775,000 he’s making in 2024-25,...
Penguins acquire Connor Dewar, Conor Timmins from Maple Leafs
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Connor Dewar and defenseman Conor Timmins from the Toronto Maple Leafs for a fifth-round draft pick in 2025. Dewar, 25, has appeared in 31 NHL games this season and has recorded three assists while averaging 9:58 of ice time per contest. Short-handed goal for Toronto!Scored...
Penguins trade forwards Cody Glass, Jonathan Gruden to Devils
The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded forwards Cody Glass and Jonathan Gruden to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward prospects Chase Stillman and Max Graham as well as a third-round draft pick in 2027. In 51 games this season, the right-handed Glass has scored 15 points (four goals, 11...
Penguins quickly flip veteran defenseman Luke Schenn to Jets for 2 draft picks
Less than two days after acquiring Luke Schenn from the Nashville Predators, the Pittsburgh Penguins flipped the veteran defenseman to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday afternoon a few hours before the 3 p.m. trade deadline. In return, the Penguins received a second-round draft pick in 2026 and a fourth-rounder in...
Penguins trade forward Anthony Beauvillier to Capitals
The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded forward Anthony Beauvillier to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a second-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft. Beauvillier (5-foot-11, 180 pounds) joined the Penguins as an unrestricted free agent this past offseason, signing a one-year contract worth $1.25 million. Appearing in 63 games this...


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