Doc Emrick will remember this date quite well: October 13, 1960. The last time a professional championship was won within the Pittsburgh city limits by one of its three remaining pro sports teams. Here is a bit of a history lesson before the hockey talk. The Pittsburgh Pipers won the city’s last professional championship, the […]

Sidney Crosby scored his first career playoff overtime goal in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final on Monday night. He added the game winner in the third period of Game 3 last night at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fl. After a sub-par performance throughout the Eastern Conference semi-finals against the Washington Capitals, the Penguins’ […]

I thought it was a late hit. It was a target to his head. I think it was the type of hit that everyone from hockey is trying to remove from the game. – Penguins’ head coach Mike Sullivan Those were the words of the Penguins’ bench boss after Game 2 on Saturday night, referring […]

Interestingly enough, Game 2 followed much of the same script as Game 1 did for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Start fast, carry the bulk of the play, and dominate the shot total. Only this time, the push back from the Washington Capitals came in the form of their goaltender, Braden Holtby. While the Penguins utterly dominated […]

In 2009, Kris Letang came of age in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Specifically in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Washington Capitals. In Game 3, he scored the overtime winner to get the Penguins back into a series in which they had trailed 2-0 prior. For the series, he would finish with three goals and six points, averaging […]

Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again – Simon and Garfunkel It’s been seven years since the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals faced one another in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That drought will end this week when, for the ninth time in history, these two teams battle again in their […]

37 shots faced, 35 shots denied. 18, 588 Pittsburgh gold t-shirt-wearing, towel-waving fans chanting his name in full throat. A 5-2 victory in Game 1 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Welcome to the dance, Mr. Zatkoff, and well done. He’s had his moment. Now it’s time to back it up and prove to the hockey […]

Make no mistake, the Pittsburgh Penguins were a debacle following the 2013-14 season. It was that summer that the Penguins would overhaul their front office and hockey operations department. Out was general manager Ray Shero, and eventually head coach Dan Bylsma as well. In the general manager’s seat was Jim Rutherford, formerly of the Carolina Hurricanes. […]

Eleven days ago against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins all-star center Evgeni Malkin was lost for the better part of two months with an upper-body injury. The hit itself looked completely harmless. Immediate reactions to how it would affect the Pens however, told a different tale. Despite the win in Columbus that night, the […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been maddeningly inconsistent. This most recent stretch began with a sizzling victory over the New York Rangers last Thursday night. A game that saw Henrik Lundqvist lose his head and shove the net off its moorings after not being granted a stoppage in play due to an apparent injury. After letting Lundqvist […]

Tuesday night’s loss was a tough pill to swallow for the Penguins. They fell to 22-4-1 after scoring the first goal and lost for the first time when leading after the first period (18-1-0). It started promisingly enough; with Evgeni Malkin notching his first marker since returning from injury. Patrick Hornqvist continued with his hot hand, […]

As the Penguins were putting the finishing touches on a tidy 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets Saturday afternoon at Consol Energy center, their GM was busy finalizing a deal that brought once highly touted defenseman Justin Schultz to the steel city. In return the Edmonton Oilers received the Pens’ 2016 third-round draft selection. This […]

Barring a major catastrophe between now and 3pm on Saturday afternoon, Evgeni Malkin and Nick Bonino will return to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ lineup. The return of Malkin is a godsend for the Pens; especially on the power play. Their lack of scoring has been well-documented and inserting Geno back into the lineup should only help. […]

One Goal. Again. This is becoming something of a broken record here in Pittsburgh. The Penguins inability to score more than one or two goals a game. On Monday night in Sunrise the Florida Panthers held the Pens to just one goal on 32 shots. Most of those were usually right into the logo of […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins eclipsed the quarter-point of their season this past week, on Thanksgiving Eve against the Toronto Maple Leafs. As they round turn one, I thought we might take […]

They say that familiarity breeds contempt. Since the end of April, the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers have met nine times, seven of those in the Eastern Conference Semifinals […]

Give Jim Rutherford credit. A few weeks ago the Pens’ new GM made a public statement that as long as he was around the Penguins, Marc Andre Fleury would be […]

In a new season following so much turmoil and turnover during the summer, it’s a little difficult to not get caught up in the hype surrounding the Pittsburgh Penguins and […]