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Minor league report: Nailers routed by FuelVideo
Goaltender Hayden Hawkey made 19 saves for the Wheeling Nailers who were routed by the Indy Fuel, 6-1, at home at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Sunday. Forward Sean Josling scored the lone goal for Wheeling (5-9-4). Highlights: The Nailers’ next game is a road contest against the Fort...
Penguins notebook: Defenseman Marcus Pettersson remains sidelined
Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson remained sidelined for Sunday’s 6-3 victory against the rival Washington Capitals at PPG Paints Arena. He remains on injured reserve with an undisclosed ailment. Sidelined for the past nine games, he was injured during a 5-4 home win against the Capitals on Jan. 19. During the...
Goaltender Tristan Jarry leads Penguins past Capitals
Just looking at the basic numbers, Tristan Jarry was hardly outstanding Sunday. He was nothing close to the All-Star he was for most of the 2019-20 season. There hasn’t been a point in the 2020-21 season in which he has been in that zip code. But he was better Sunday...
Penguins recall goaltender Maxime Lagace from taxi squad
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled goaltender Maxime Lagace from their taxi squad on an emergency basis. He will serve as backup to starting Tristan Jarry for Sunday’s home game against the Washington Capitals. No reason for the transaction or the status of regular backup Casey DeSmith was provided by the team....
Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Capitals
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry is scheduled to do something Sunday he never has done. Play the Washington Capitals. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry will be in net for Sunday’s home game at PPG Paints Arena against their long-time rivals. It will be Jarry’s first career game against the Capitals....
Minor league report: Penguins beat Crunch for 1st winVideo
Forwards Chase Berger, Kyle Olson and defenseman Will Reilly each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-4 road win against the Syracuse Crunch at Upstate Medical University Arena in Syracuse, N.Y. on Saturday. It was Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s first victory of the season. Forward Jonathan Gruden...
Penguins adapt to the NHL’s latest round of covid-19 protocols
Jason Zucker doesn’t mind social distancing. At least in one specific instance. “It’s helped me a lot personally just because I’m further away from ‘Rusty,’ ” the Penguins forward joked in reference to his occasional linemate, Bryan Rust. “So I don’t have to deal with him as much on a...
Penguins request opening PPG Paints Arena at 25% capacity
The Pittsburgh Penguins have made requests to Gov. Tom Wolf as well as the Pa. Department of Health seeking permission since the start of the NHL’s season in mid-January to open PPG Paints Arena to spectators at 25% capacity. The team presented a plan to the state for when it...
Minor league report: Nailers beat Komets in shootoutVideo
A shootout goal by forward Austin Fyten gave the Wheeling Nailers a 3-2 home win against the Fort Wayne Komets at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Friday. Goaltender Francois Brassard made 40 saves on 42 shots in the victory while Fyten and defenseman Patrick McNally scored regulation goals for...
Empty Thoughts: Penguins 4, Islanders 3 (SO)Video
Observations from the Penguins’ 4-3 shootout win against the Islanders. The 2019-20 season was pretty meaningful for the professional existence of Zach Aston-Reese. After a few years of scuttling along without much of a direction, Aston-Reese found his role last season on the team’s fourth (but really third) line along...
Penguins come back to beat Islanders in shootout
As they take their first steps in running the Penguins, new general manager Ron Hextall and president of hockey operations Brian Burke will find plenty of deficiencies when they begin to evaluate the team they have inherited. They will find a struggling power play, an inconsistent top goaltender, a lack...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to BearsVideo
Goaltender Emil Larmi made 33 saves on 36 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 home loss to the rival Hershey Bears at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday. Forwards Josh Currie and Tim Schaller scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (0-1-1-0). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is a road...
Penguins recall forward Frederick Gaudreau from taxi squadVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Frederick Gaudreau from their taxi squad and placed forward Jared McCann on injured reserve. Gaudreau, 27, could make his Penguins debut Thursday in a road contest against the New York Islanders. A free agent signing this past offseason, Gaudreau has spent the past six seasons...
Penguins activate forward Zach Aston-Reese from long-term injured reserve
The Pittsburgh Penguins activated forward Zach Aston-Reese from long-term injured reserve. Sidelined since undergoing surgery on his left shoulder in mid-August, Aston-Reese could make his season debut in Thursday’s road game against the New York Islanders. In recent days, he has been skating on the left wing of the team’s...
Minor league report: Nailers fall to Fuel in overtime
Goaltender Francois Brassard made 21 saves on 23 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 2-1 road overtime loss to the Indy Fuel at Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis on Wednesday. Forward Austin Fyten scored the only goal for Wheeling (3-8-4), which has lost three consecutive games. Highlights: The Nailers’...
Penguins eager to work with Ron Hextall, Brian Burke
Having been captivated by the game for most of his life, Sidney Crosby was well aware of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ rivalry with the Philadelphia Flyers well before he was directly involved in it. So the remarkable notion of a Flyers villain like Ron Hextall now being the Penguins’ general manager...
Penguins forward Jared McCann sidelined on a week-to-week basis
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jared McCann will be sidelined on a week-to-week basis, coach Mike Sullivan said. He has not been on the ice with his team since suffering an undisclosed injury during Saturday’s 4-3 road loss to the New York Islanders. Primarily used as a left winger on the third...
Why did the Penguins hire Brian Burke?
The final 10 months of Jim Rutherford’s tenure as Penguins general manager were exhausting. With covid-19 crippling seemingly every walk of life on the globe, the NHL adjusted much of its business not only to stage an unprecedented postseason tournament in August and September to complete the 2019-20 season but...
Penguins hire Ron Hextall as general manager, Brian Burke as president of hockey operations
The last time the Penguins hired a former goaltender with ties to the organization to be their general manager, it was a resounding success as it led to two Stanley Cup titles. They’re hoping for similar results with their most recent hire. On Tuesday, the Penguins tabbed Ron Hextall to...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Devils in season openerVideo
Playing their first regular season game in nearly 11 months, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins opened their 2020-21 season with a 4-3 overtime home loss to the Binghamton Devils at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Monday. Goaltender Emil Larmi made 30 saves on 34 assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton while defenseman Cam Lee...
Through success and failure, Penguins forward Teddy Blueger remains obsessed with workVideo
It was an unreliable moment. And it came from one of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ most reliable players. On Saturday night, in the late stages of a tied game against the New York Islanders, the Penguins needed to get a puck out of their own zone from the left half-wall. There...
Penguins’ Mike Sullivan on Steelers’ Mike Sullivan: ‘There are a lot of Mike Sullivans in the world’
Mike Sullivan stands out for a number of reasons. For one, he’s the only active coach in the NHL who has led a team to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships, having accomplished that feat with the Penguins in 2016 and 2017. And there’s his loud booming voice with a hint of...
Penguins defenseman Mike Matheson leaves practice with undisclosed injury
Penguins defenseman Mike Matheson left practice early on Monday in Cranberry after he accidentally collided with a teammate. Approximately 20 minutes into the session, Matheson fell to the ice after coming into contact with an unidentified teammate. Matheson laid on the ice for several moments as athletic trainer Chris Stewart...
Penguins Prospect Watch: Kasper Bjorkqvist snaps scoring slumpVideo
A weekly look at how Penguins prospects and minor leaguers have fared over the past seven days: • In Finland’s Liiga, forward Kasper Bjorkqvist scored the game-winning goal on a power play for KooKoo in a 7-2 home win against JYP on Saturday. The goal was Bjorkqvist’s first since Dec....
A look at the candidates for the Penguins’ vacant general manager position
A few hours after former Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford abruptly turned in his resignation Jan. 27, team president and CEO David Morehouse laid out what the franchise was looking for in a potential successor. The base requirements for the job really weren’t that complicated. “The criteria is the...
