Penguins/NHL category, Page 115

As the Penguins move closer to a full lineup than they’ve had all season, the team returned three forwards to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL on Tuesday. Anthony Angello, Kasper Bjorkqvist and Filip Hallander were sent down. Bjorkqvist, 24, had the most significant NHL role of the trio in recent weeks....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With Robert Morris hockey on the shelf until the 2023-24 season, the Chatham Cougars men’s and women’s teams are the new local college hockey teams on center stage. Now the center stage itself is also new. For a few nights anyway. The Cougars men’s team will be playing a game...

The Pittsburgh Penguins just had a 10-game win streak. Jake Guentzel just had an 18-game points streak. Behold the majesty of 12 consecutive refreshing Penguins notes. Never stop never stopping! (Except the Penguins and Guentzel both got stopped.) • No one said Evgeni Malkin’s return would disrupt the Penguins’ chemistry....

If things had ended for Jeff Carter in Los Angeles, he was more than comfortable with that. Having helped the Kings win the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 — he scored the Cup-clinching goal in 2012 — Carter carved out an enduring legacy with that franchise. And there are...

For as much as the Penguins are routinely celebrated as an offensive force – goals are as much their brand as the skating member of the taxonomic family Spheniscidae on the crest of their black and yellow jerseys – it’s been their defense that has largely buoyed whatever success they’ve...

Jeff Carter is back in a familiar place where he has enjoyed a lot of success. Los Angeles. A vital component of the Kings’ only two Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and ‘14, Carter has a lot of warm memories of life on the West Coast. He likely will add...

The Penguins have recalled forwards Drew O’Connor and Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). O’Connor was assigned to the NHL roster while Hallander was assigned to the taxi squad. Shuffled between the NHL and AHL rosters sporadically throughout the season, O’Connor, a second-year professional who is...

Here’s some more spice for the Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers rivalry. As if more needs to be added. Penguins general manager Ron Hextall is being trashed by his former boss in Philadelphia. That’s Flyers legendary player and team senior vice president Bobby Clarke. Clarke was on “The Cam & Strick Podcast”...

One of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ biggest players made a long-awaited return to the lineup. It had been multiple months since the last time he played in a game of consequence for the team. And with so many players out of the lineup due to various medical maladies, he was desperately...

Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin is expected to make his season debut in Tuesday’s road game against the Anaheim Ducks. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Malkin “is going to play” to media in Anaheim following the team’s optional morning skate at the Honda Center. Having recovered from offseason surgery to his right...

I’ll admit that I had the annual “Steelers are passing the baton to the Penguins” column ready to go in my head. At some point this week, I expected to dust off the once-a-year missive about the Steelers’ season ending, and how that was meshing with the state of the...