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Maple Leafs goaltender Matt Murray returns to PittsburghVideo
Tuesday’s game at PPG Paints Arena was significant for Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Matt Murray. After all, it was only his second game of the season. Hobbled since suffering a groin injury — an adductor tendon — during a morning skate Oct. 15 in Toronto, Murray was activated from long-term...
Penguins scheduled to start goaltender Casey DeSmith against Maple Leafs
The Pittsburgh Penguins are expected to start goaltender Casey DeSmith for Tuesday’s home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at PPG Paints Arena. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan announced DeSmith as the team’s starting goaltender following an optional morning skate. In six games this season, DeSmith has a 2-3-1 record, a...
Penguins defenseman Chad Ruhwedel feels all right on the left sideVideo
A healthy scratch for 10 of a possible 15 games this season, Chad Ruhwedel isn’t going to be overly picky over the circumstances that will allow him to be in the lineup. And being asked to play the left side of a defensive pairing as a right-handed defenseman is a...
What’s next for injured Penguins forward Teddy Blueger?
The answer always seems to be the same. But the questions remain. “Anything new?” “Not really. I don’t know what I’m allowed to say.” That typically has been the exchange between reporters and Pittsburgh Penguins center Teddy Blueger for the past month and change. In the paranoid realm of the...
Penguins forward Filip Hallander remains sidelined due to illness
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Filip Hallander was absent from the team’s practice session in Cranberry on Monday because of an undisclosed illness. Hallander took in the practice session as a spectator behind the glass while wearing street clothes. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan did not provide a substantive update on Hallander’s...
Minor league report: Nailers conquered by KometsVideo
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 32 saves on 37 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 5-1 home loss to the Fort Wayne Komets at WesBanco Arena on Sunday. Forward Griffin Lunn scored the lone goal for Wheeling (4-6-0-0). Highlights: The Nailers’ next game is a a road contest against the...
Penguins’ 2nd line boosting offense
Much of the success the Pittsburgh Penguins had during the mostly satisfactory three-game road trip they concluded in Montreal on Saturday — in which they collected five of a possible six points — was buoyed by potent production from their second line. Currently, that unit is composed of Rickard Rakell...
Penguins assign defenseman Mark Friedman to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins assigned defenseman Mark Friedman to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Sunday. This transaction comes three days after Friedman was recalled from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Friedman was summoned to the NHL roster as a precaution after incumbent defensemen P.O Joseph and Jan Rutta were injured during a 4-1...
Minor league report: Penguins’ losing streak reaches 4Video
Goaltender Filip Lindberg made 21 saves on 24 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 home loss to the Springfield Thunderbirds at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Sam Houde and defenseman Ty Smith scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (6-4-1-0) which has lost four consecutive games. Highlights: The...
Penguins dropped by Canadiens in overtime
On the surface, the five of a possible six points the Pittsburgh Penguins claimed on the three-game road trip they completed on Saturday should be satisfactory through any lens. The way they attained the fifth point, however, left lots to be desired. Surrendering the lead on three separate occasions, including...
Minor league report: Penguins’ losing streak reaches 3Video
Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 20 saves on 22 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-1 home loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Forward Drew O’Connor scored the lone goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (6-3-1-0), which has lost three consecutive games. Highlights: The Penguins’...
Penguins hold off Maple Leafs for 2nd consecutive winVideo
As a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins for parts of five seasons, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Zach Aston-Reese battled Penguins forward Sidney Crosby countless times in practice. So, upon his first meeting with the Penguins as an opponent since he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in March, Aston-Reese was...
Penguins recall defenseman Mark Freidman from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins recalled defenseman Mark Friedman from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Friday morning, roughly eight hours before a road contest against the Toronto Maple Leafs. This transaction comes as the Penguins limped out of Wednesday’s 4-1 road win against the Washington Capitals minus two of their...
Penguins’ penalty kill takes a step in the right directionVideo
One streak came to an end for the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday. And another continued. Their 4-1 road win against the rival Washington Capitals provided some badly needed salve for the Penguins as it halted an ugly seven-game losing streak, their largest such slump since February of 2006. That triumph...
Penguins beat Capitals, snap 7-game skid despite rash of injuries on defense
Having lost seven consecutive games entering Wednesday’s road game against the rival Washington Capitals, the Pittsburgh Penguins changed their blue line considerably before the puck dropped. Once the contest began, they changed it again. And again. Then, once again. Because they had to. Despite losing three defensemen at one point,...
Minor league report: Nailers beat Walleye in shootoutVideo
Shootout goals by forwards Brooklyn Kalmikov and Cedric Desruisseaux gave the Wheeling Nailers a 4-3 road win against the Toledo Walleye at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday. Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made three saves on four shootout attempts and 36 saves on 39 shots in regulation and overtime...
Penguins rookie forward Filip Hallander is better prepared for his next NHL game
Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Filip Hallander’s recall to the NHL roster Monday was a whole lot different than the last time he was summoned from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL. He went to Pittsburgh (or Cranberry, to be provincially accurate). When the Penguins last recalled him under emergency conditions in April...
After demotion to 3rd pairing, Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin vows ‘I can be better’Video
It was a bold decision at a critical moment. The Pittsburgh Penguins were in the midst of what was close to a must-win scenario. Coach Mike Sullivan made the decision, and it paid off almost immediately. In Game 6 of a second-round series in 2016 against the hated Washington Capitals,...
Penguins recall forward Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Tuesday. In 10 AHL games this season, the left-handed Hallander is Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s leading scorer with nine points (four goals, five assists). A second-round pick (No. 58 overall) of the Penguins in 2018, the 22-year-old...
Minor league report: Filip Hallander scores twice as Penguins lose to BearsVideo
Forward Filip Hallander had two goals and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 road loss to the rival Hershey Bears at Giant Center in Hershey on Sunday. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (6-2-0-1) also got a goal and an assist from forward Jonathan Gruden while forward Valtteri Puustinen contributed two assists....
Penguins assign forward Drew O’Connor to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins assigned forward Drew O’Connor to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL. Initially recalled Oct. 31, the 24-year-old O’Connor has appeared in three NHL games this season and has no points while averaging 8 minutes, 32 seconds of ice time per contest. In eight AHL games this season, the left-handed O’Connor...
Penguins trying to boost a struggling power play
The Penguins’ practice session on Sunday in Cranberry was different. Then again, these are different times for a franchise embroiled in a seven-game losing streak for the first time since determining your top eight friends on MySpace was the world’s most distressing social media concern. There wasn’t much in the...
Minor league report: Penguins’ winning streak halted at 6Video
Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 25 saves on 27 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 2-1 home loss to the rival Hershey Bears at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Alex Nylander scored the long goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (6-1-1-0) which had a winning streak snapped at six games....
Penguins’ losing streak reaches 7 with loss to Kraken
By his own admission, Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson has a lousy memory. “I don’t even remember what I ate yesterday,” Pettersson quipped following his team’s optional morning skate at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday. So, please forgive him if his memories of the Penguins’ most recent six-game losing streak...
Penguins expected to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Kraken
The Penguins are expected to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Saturday’s home game against the Seattle Kraken. In seven games this season, Jarry has a 4-2-1 record, a 3.42 goals against average and .904 save percentage. Jarry has played in one career game against the Kraken. During a 2-1 overtime...
