Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 34

The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed forward Valtteri Puustinen to a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000. Puustinen, 24, was scheduled to become a restricted free agent July 1. A seventh-round pick (No. 203 overall) in the 2019 NHL Draft, Puustinen is about to complete the final year of a two-year entry-level...

The Pittsburgh Penguins will hold their development camp for prospects July 1-3 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. A total of 23 players are scheduled to attend. Players the team selects in next week’s draft are expected to be invited as well. Currently, the roster includes: Forwards (12): Raivis Ansons,...

The NHL announced the order for the league’s upcoming entry draft on June 28-29. Out of the 224 picks over seven rounds, the Pittsburgh Penguins are currently scheduled to have six selections. Their selections listed by round and overall number: First round – No. 14 Third round – No. 90...

The St. Louis Blues have hired Mike Weber, a native of Cranberry, as an assistant coach. His appointment was announced by the team on Wednesday. A product of the former Pittsburgh Junior Penguins program, Weber, 35, spent parts of eight seasons in the NHL as a physical left-handed defenseman with...

Former Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Max Lagace has signed with Färjestad BK of the Swedish Hockey League. That team announced the transaction via release Wednesday. A native of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec, Lagace has spent his entire professional career in North America up until this point. His time with the Penguins was brief....

Nearly two weeks after taking over as president of hockey operations, Kyle Dubas added an All-Star to the organization. On Wednesday, the team hired former NHL forward Jason Spezza as assistant general manager. Spezza’s duties with the Penguins were not specified. Per a release from the team, Spezza will “report...

Stan Savran was an experienced interviewer. He had talked to the titans of sport ranging from Muhammad Ali to Arnold Palmer. So talking to Mario Lemieux was nothing out of the ordinary for Savran. But the circumstances were simply spectacular. In the late fall and early winter of 2000, Lemieux,...

Former Pittsburgh Penguins goaltending coach Mike Buckley was hired by the Los Angeles Kings in the same capacity. The Kings announced Buckley’s appointment via release on Friday. Buckley had been out of the NHL since being fired by the Penguins in August of 2021. His dismissal came on the heels...

Kyle Dubas is bullish on what he has to work with as the newly appointed director of hockey operations for the Pittsburgh Penguins. “I heard a lot of people that were highly skeptical of the team’s ability to contend here,” Dubas said during his introductory news conference at PPG Paints...

Mike Sullivan has some experience in helping an underachieving franchise make a course correction that leads to success. He did just that in December 2015 when he took over as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins and led them to a Stanley Cup title a little more than six months later....

The Pittsburgh Penguins yielded the NHL rights to two of their prospects Thursday, defensemen Santeri Airola and Ryan McCleary. Per NHL rules, the deadline for the Penguins to retain both players was 5 p.m. A team spokesperson confirmed the decison to not sign either player. They were part of a...

David Beeston was true to his word. On April 14, the day previous general manager Ron Hextall and president of hockey operations Brian Burke were fired by the Pittsburgh Penguins, Beeston, Fenway Sports Group executive and Penguins alternate governor, indicated finding replacements would not be a hurried endeavor. “We would...