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5 questions about the Penguins entering training camp
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2022 training camp won’t be nearly as fraught with consternation as the 2021 edition. A year ago, it remained to be seen who would play center as franchise pillars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were convalescing from offseason surgeries. And the futures of Malkin and All-Star defenseman...
Forward Sam Poulin happy to fill any role for the PenguinsVideo
There was a before and after to Sam Poulin’s first professional season in 2021-22. Jan. 8. As a rookie with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Poulin labored through a difficult first portion of the season. In his first 22 games, Poulin, a first-round pick (No. 21 overall) in 2019, could only muster...
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby welcomes a return to normalVideo
Monday presented a new experience to Sidney Crosby. He asked someone out on a date for homecoming. To be clear, he aided someone in that task. Crosby helped re-institute a tradition for the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday as he and several of his teammates made personal deliveries to season-ticket holders...
Joining the Penguins was an easy choice for prospect Jack St. IvanyVideo
Penguins defensive prospect Jack. St. Ivany is a bit young to be truly considered part of the “Gretzky Generation.” When Wayne Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, countless kids in Southern California took up the sport. But by the time St. Ivany was born in 1999,...
Penguins defensive prospect Ryan McCleary offers different game from his father
Pittsburgh Penguins defensive prospect Ryan McCleary looks up to his father. And former NHL forward Trent McCleary does the same with his son. Literally. At 6-foot-2, Ryan has something of a vertical advantage over Trent. “I barely scraped six feet,” said Trent McCleary, who suggested that extra height came from...
Penguins goaltender Filip Lindberg eager for 1st game in 10 months
Saturday’s rookie tournament game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins at LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo is hardly a major affair. It’s a scrimmage between prospects, the majority of whom will spend the 2022-23 season in the American Hockey League. But for Filip Lindberg, it could represent a significant milestone....
Penguins forward Valtteri Puustinen’s goals are easy to understandVideo
English is still a challenge for Valtteri Puustinen. And the Finnish-born winger doesn’t hide from that. “I try my English,” Puustinen said after the first day of the Penguins rookie camp Thursday in Cranberry. “It’s not very good. But I understand OK.” He seems to have a pretty firm grasp...
Who’s coming to the Penguins’ rookie camp?Video
Ever since he was hired in February of 2021, Penguins general manager Ron Hextall has had a stated goal of replenishing the Penguins’ shallow pool of prospects. It might be a bit too early to be doing cannonballs into that pool. After all, it’s only about ankle-deep. But it’s starting...
Former Penguins forwards Carter Rowney, Adam Johnson sign in Germany
Former Penguins forwards Carter Rowney and Adam Johnson have each signed with teams in Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The 33-year-old Rowney joined Lowen Frankfurt after spending the 2021-22 campaign as a member of the Detroit Red Wings. In 26 games last season, Rowney scored six points (four goals, two...
Former Penguins forward Evan Rodrigues signs with AvalancheVideo
Former Penguins forward Evan Rodrigues, one of the more versatile players in the NHL, has joined the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. On Monday, the Avalanche announced Rodrigues, 29, joined that club, signing a one-year contract. According to Cap Friendly, the deal is worth $2 million. Capable of playing...
Former Penguins forward Dominik Simon returns to CzechiaVideo
Former Penguins forward Dominik Simon has signed a two-year contract with HC Sparta Praha in his native Czechia. The signing was announced by the team on Saturday with a release as well as a video presentation. According to the team’s release, Simon indicated the Penguins offered him an opportunity to...
Former Penguins defenseman Nathan Beaulieu joins Ducks on tryout
With NHL training camps approaching, former Penguins defenseman Nathan Beaulieu has joined the Anaheim Ducks on a professional tryout contract (PTO). Cap Friendly, a website that tracks any and all contractual information throughout the NHL, reported the transaction. Beaulieu joined the Penguins via a trade with the Winnipeg Jets on...
Penguins to have 15 games on national television in 2022-23
The Penguins will appear on national television 15 times during the 2022-23 season. On Wednesday, the NHL announced its national television schedule in the United States with ABC, TNT and ESPN. Most notably, the Winter Classic, which pits the Penguins against the Boston Bruins at Boston’s Fenway Park on Jan....
Penguins invite 57 players to training camp
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced the roster for their upcoming training camp, which will begin Sept. 22 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. In total, 30 forwards, 21 defensemen and six goaltenders are scheduled to attend. Forwards — Corey Andonovski, Raivis Ansons, Josh Archibald, Teddy Blueger, Drake Caggiula, Jeff Carter, Sidney...
Penguins commit to coach Mike Sullivan with 3-year contract extension
It was the middle of July, and the Pittsburgh Penguins were staging their prospect camp for players in the embryonic stages of their professional existences. As usual, the organization’s minor-league coaches and development staffers were tasked with running the drills and the individual instruction. Mike Sullivan was present, but was...
Penguins to hold rookie camp in September
The Penguins will stage a rookie camp for the organization’s prospects Sept. 15-20 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. A full roster has yet to be announced. As part of the camp, the Penguins will play one game in the Buffalo Sabres’ prospect tournament against the Boston Bruins. The game...
Penguins re-sign forward Danton Heinen for one year, $1 millionVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins wanted to keep Danton Heinen, even if they took steps that were, in theory, antithetical to him returning this offseason. Ultimately, all parties decided it was in the best interest of all involved to maintain a mostly fruitful union. On Thursday, the Penguins re-signed Heinen to a...
3ICE enjoys best turnout yet at PPG Paints Arena
Parker Milner has a job. As the food editor of the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., he covers the dining scene in a tourist destination. Good work if you can get it. But his weekend gig differs from what he does on the weekdays. He’s a goaltender in 3ICE,...
Inspired by his brother, Penguins prospect Luke Devlin’s hockey journey is just beginningVideo
Things were a bit chaotic during the second day of the NHL Draft on July 8 at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Rogers Communications, a giant conglomerate that handles a major portion of any and all electronic communications in Canada, had a major outage that morning. The disruption was so significant that...
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres signs in Austria
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres has signed with Villacher SV, an Austrian team that plays in that country’s ICE Hockey League. A first-round pick (No. 30 overall) in 2009, Despres spent parts of four seasons at the NHL level with the Penguins. In 140 games with the Penguins, Despres scored...
Penguins re-sign forward Kasperi Kapanen, avoid arbitration
The Penguins have re-signed restricted free agent forward Kasperi Kapanen to a two-year contract that carries a salary cap hit of $3.2 million. Reaching an agreement avoids a salary arbitration hearing that was scheduled for July 30. Kapanen, who turns 26 on Saturday, appeared in 79 games last season and...
Goaltending prospect Taylor Gauthier wants to prove the Penguins ‘made the right choice’Video
Penguins prospect Taylor Gauthier had two idols as a goaltender while growing up in Calgary. One was former Montreal Canadiens All-Star Jose Theodore. The other was Logan Thompson, currently of the Vegas Golden Knights. And the reasons he looked up to Theodore and Thompson were right. Literally. Like Gauthier, Theodore...
Penguins forward prospect Raivis Ansons offers assets that ‘are essential to winning’Video
Tom Kostopoulos knows a thing or two about grit. After all, he carved out a 20-year playing career as a hard-scrabble checking forward, including 12 seasons in the NHL. That’s a lot of forechecking, plenty of bruises from blocking pucks or absorbing hits on the boards and more than a...
New 3ICE hockey league rolls into Pittsburgh on SaturdayVideo
At 42, Ryan Malone is still a hockey player. He’s just not an NHL player anymore. The power forward’s final games in the NHL came early in the 2014 season with the New York Rangers. But he never fully got the game out of his system. That’s what led the...
Former Penguins forward Dustin Jeffrey signs in Germany
Former Penguins forward Dustin Jeffrey has signed with Grizzlys Wolfsburg of Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The team announced Jeffrey’s contract via a release on Monday. A sixth-round pick (No. 171 overall) of the Penguins in 2007, Jeffrey spent parts of six seasons with the Penguins in the late 2000s...
