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Penguins beat Jets in shootout but lose forward Teddy Blueger
At face value, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-2 shootout win against the Winnipeg Jets at PPG Paints Arena on Sunday was all an NHL team can hope for in any game. A win and two points. And for the Penguins, it’s been mostly positive as far as the results go. They...
Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese out against Jets
Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese will miss Sunday’s home game against the Winnipeg Jets at PPG Paints Arena due to an undisclosed injury. Head coach Mike Sullivan announced Aston-Reese’s status during a video conference with media prior to the game. Aston-Reese was labeled as “day-to-day.” During Friday’s 5-2 road win against...
Minor league report: Alexander Nylander leads Penguins to overtime winVideo
Two goals by forward Alex Nylander, including one in overtime, led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 3-2 comeback home win against the Toronto Marlies at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Valtteri Puustinen contributed a goal and two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (13-16-1-3) while defenseman Juuso Riikola added two...
Penguins recall forward Radim Zohorna from taxi squad
The Penguins have recalled forward Radim Zohorna to the NHL roster from their taxi squad. In four NHL games this season, Zohorna has two points (one goal, one assist). Capable of playing either center or wing, Zohorna’s most recent NHL game was a 2-1 overtime road win against the San...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby is finding more goalsVideo
He certainly has scored more iconic goals, both in their gravity and their cosmetic appeal. Heck, this one didn’t even have the impediment of a goaltender in net. But it was an important goal for Sidney Crosby within the context of his 2021-22 season. During the late stages of a...
Minor league report: Alexander Nylander leads Penguins past MarliesVideo
Two goals and an assist by forward Alexander Nylander lead the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 5-1 home win against the Toronto Marlies at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Forward Valtteri Puustinen scored the game-winning goal and recorded an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (12-6-1-3) while forward Sam Poulin contributed two...
Sidney Crosby, Penguins bail out struggling Casey DeSmith to win 4th straight game
Mike Sullivan hasn’t been keen on discussing the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltending depth as of late. Within the past week, the team’s coach has been asked if Casey DeSmith, the incumbent backup, is battling for his job with Louis Domingue, a reserve with ample NHL experience. Sullivan has offered the same...
Penguins build big lead, hold off lowly Senators
The Penguins haven’t been perfect this season. Far from it. There are plenty of tallies in their loss column next to their listing in the standings to verify that postulate. But they are confident. Especially in the fact that they can play a less-than-perfect game and still come away with...
Penguins forward Jason Zucker returns to injured reserve
Jason Zucker’s return to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ active roster lasted only a few days. On Thursday afternoon, the team placed the veteran forward on injured reserve due to an undisclosed ailment. Following Thursday’s 6-4 home win against the Ottawa Senators, coach Mike Sullivan indicated Zucker would be sidelined on a...
Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Senators
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Thursday’s home game against the Ottawa Senators at PPG Paints Arena. In 30 games this season, Jarry has a 19-7-3 record, a 2.08 goals against average, a .928 save percentage and three shutouts. It remains to be seen who his...
Penguins are close to fully healthy lineup for 1st time this season
There are far worse places to be marooned than Southern California in January. Such as Western Pennsylvania in January. Zach Aston-Reese experienced the former last week. After testing positive for covid-19 on Dec. 11, Aston-Reese and fellow Pittsburgh Penguins forward Danton Heinen were placed into the NHL’s protocols for the...
Penguins won’t face former goaltender Matt Murray on Thursday
Matt Murray’s return to Pittsburgh will have to wait. At least as far him being on the ice in a game is concerned. The Ottawa Senators goaltender, who led the Penguins to their two most recent Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and ’17, will not be in net for Thursday’s...
9 Penguins games rescheduled
Nine of the Penguins’ games have been rescheduled. The changes are part of a league-wide reshuffling of the overall schedule that was pockmarked by a number of postponements over the past three months because of issues related to covid-19. Five of the Penguins’ games were previously postponed because of matters...
Penguins forward Drew O’Connor sidelined on a week-to-week basis
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Drew O’Connor will be sidelined on a “week-to-week” basis, coach Mike Sullivan said. On Monday, the Penguins placed the rookie on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Jan. 15 because of an undisclosed ailment. Sullivan provided an unspecified time frame for O’Connor on Wednesday. O’Connor has appeared in...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to PhantomsVideo
Forward Jordy Bellerive scored the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ lone goal in a 3-1 home loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. Goaltender Alex D’Orio made 21 saves on 23 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-16-1-3). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is a home contest...
Penguins forward Jake Guentzel selected for All-Star Game event
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jake Guentzel has been selected for the NHL’s upcoming All-Star game event. This is the second selection for Guentzel for the event, which really is a three-game tournament of three-on-three play. He was unable to participate in 2020 because of a shoulder injury. Guentzel was selected via...
Penguins found ways to win despite imperfect play on road trip
The Penguins’ recently completed six-game road trip started off really well with a 6-2 thumping of their most enduring rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers, on Jan. 6. It ended spectacularly with a rousing 5-3 comeback win against the powerful Vegas Golden Knights this past Monday. And in between, there was a...
Jason Zucker sparks comeback win over Vegas in return to Penguins’ lineup
There’s no place like home. And there’s definitely no place like Las Vegas. For Jason Zucker, Sin City is home. On Monday, the veteran forward who grew up in Southern Nevada had a pretty nice homecoming as he returned to the Penguins’ lineup. Activated from long-term injured reserve Monday evening,...
Penguins forward Drew O’Connor placed on long-term injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Drew O’Connor has been placed on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Jan. 15. The team announced his status on Monday evening. Speaking with media in Las Vegas after a morning skate on Monday, Penguins coach Mike Sullivan indicated O’Connor would receive further evaluation upon the team’s...
Penguins forward Jason Zucker returns to lineup
There are worse places to spend a birthday than Las Vegas. Or you also could celebrate the day at home. For Jason Zucker, he got to do both. Having grown up in Sin City, Zucker turned 30 on Sunday in familiar and jubilant surroundings through a coincidence in the Pittsburgh...
Minor league report: Penguins edge BearsVideo
Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 23 saves on 24 shots and led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 2-1 home win against the rival Hershey Bears on at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. Forwards Alexander Nylander and Patrick Watling each scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (11-15-1-3). Highlights: The Penguins’ next...
There was nothing silly about Louis Domingue’s Penguins debut
There’s a silly way to describe Louis Domingue. Literally. To use the parlance of his vocation, he’s known as a “silly sider.” By no means is it a derisive term. Nor is it a sentiment of respect. It merely is a way of pointing out that he catches the puck...
Penguins outlast Sharks in overtime
The Penguins wanted to see staunch improvements in their defensive play on Saturday. And sure enough, they did. Battling the San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., they saw a drop in the total amount of shots allowed from their previous game. Two nights after yielding...
Minor league report: Penguins snap eight-game losing streak
Defenseman Taylor Fedun and forward Felix Robert each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-2 road win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (10-15-1-3), which snapped an eight-game...
Penguins forward Brock McGinn returns to active roster
It wasn’t quite as dramatic as that time the Ewing brothers were trapped in an elevator, but Brock McGinn had the misfortune of being stuck in a confined space within Dallas over the past week. After the team had traveled to Dallas for the second leg of its ongoing six-game...
