Jonathan Bombulie stories, Page 15

The Penguins signed one of the top minor league goalies on the free agent market Monday, adding Dustin Tokarski on a one-year AHL deal. Tokarski, 29, has won the Calder Cup twice in his 10-year pro career, including last season with the Charlotte Checkers. He was dealt to Charlotte at...

In the latter stages last season, any time the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins took the ice, it looked like hockey’s version of football’s Senior Bowl. No fewer than six college free agents reported to the AHL team for their first taste of pro hockey, representing schools such as Boston College, Penn State,...

Signing a four-year contract extension is the one thing Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan will do this summer that will have the longest-lasting impact on his life and career. He’s got plenty of other offseason irons in the fire as well, though. Here’s a look at five things Sullivan has...

Pittsburgh Penguins winger Zach Aston-Reese was the only one of the team’s four remaining restricted free agents to file for salary arbitration by Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Forwards Teddy Blueger and Adam Johnson elected not to file. Defenseman Marcus Pettersson did not have enough service time to earn the right...

With a new contract in his pocket, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan is attempting to pull off a trick extraordinarily rare in hockey circles. It might be more difficult than winning back-to-back Stanley Cups like he did in 2016-17. He’s going to try to coach the same NHL team for...

Up until recently, Andy Chiodo’s greatest claim to fame in NHL circles was probably something he did on a Wednesday night in February in Glendale, Ariz., 15 years ago. As a rookie with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chiodo was the goalie who ended a team-record 18-game losing streak with a 28-save...

The Pittsburgh Penguins kept one of their restricted free agents Wednesday, signing winger Joseph Blandisi to a one-year, two-way contract. Blandisi, 24, will make $700,000 when in the NHL and $200,000 at the AHL level. Acquired from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Derek Grant in January, Blandisi went scoreless...

Just after signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday afternoon, winger Brandon Tanev held a conference call with reporters. It was clear that he had a different take on the state of the Penguins than those who were lobbing questions at him. The inquisitors wanted to know what Tanev was...

The most impactful signing Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford must ponder this offseason might have nothing to do with a forward, defenseman or goalie. Coach Mike Sullivan is heading into the final year of his contract. Now that he’s handled the bulk of his player-acquisition duties for the summer,...

Dipping into the free agent pool will have consequences for the Pittsburgh Penguins. After signing winger Brandon Tanev to a six-year, $21 million contract Monday afternoon, the Penguins have about $79.2 million committed to 20 players, leaving them about $2.3 million under the cap. They still need to re-sign restricted...

The Pittsburgh Penguins added to their depth chart in free agency Monday afternoon, signing defenseman David Warsofsky and forward Andrew Agozzino to two-year, two-way contracts. Both players will be paid $700,000 when in the NHL. Warsofsky, 29, spent the better part of two seasons in the Penguins organization from 2015-17,...

Becoming harder to play against can be expensive. That was the lesson general manager Jim Rutherford and the Pittsburgh Penguins learned as the NHL’s free-agent signing period opened Monday afternoon. The Penguins signed 27-year-old winger Brandon Tanev to a six-year deal — the longest the Penguins ever have handed out...

In explaining his rationale for trading winger Phil Kessel to the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night, general manager Jim Rutherford said he wanted to add players to his locker room who weren’t content with their accomplishments and were excited to be Pittsburgh Penguins. He checked those boxes with Alex Galchenyuk....

As of now, the trade Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford made Saturday night will be remembered as the Phil Kessel-for-Alex Galchenyuk swap. By Monday afternoon, it could have a slightly different flavor. Before saving $1.9 million in salary cap space by completing the Kessel deal, Rutherford said the Penguins...

The first question that springs to mind after the Pittsburgh Penguins traded winger Phil Kessel to the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night is the easiest one to answer. Friday, Dec. 6. That’s when the Coyotes visit PPG Paints Arena this season, giving fans the chance to show their appreciation for...

April 11, 2015: Kessel records a goal and an assist in a 4-3 shootout loss to Montreal in what would be his last game in a Toronto jersey. Despite recording 394 points in 446 games over six seasons, the Leafs are, according to Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons, growing tired...

The long-rumored split between the Pittsburgh Penguins and popular winger Phil Kessel finally happened Saturday night, and it wasn’t exactly the prettiest divorce of all time. The Penguins sent Kessel, a fourth-round pick and defense prospect Dane Birks to the Arizona Coyotes for winger Alex Galchenyuk and defense prospect Pierre-Olivier...

As Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford wrapped up an uneventful trip to Vancouver for last weekend’s NHL Draft, he admitted the next few days — the time leading up to the start of the league’s free-agent signing period Monday — would be his best chance to make the deals...

North Huntingdon native Austen Swankler will be playing much closer to home next season. The 17-year-old winger signed with the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters on Friday. Swankler spent last season in the United States Hockey League, starting in Waterloo, Iowa, before being traded to Sioux Falls, S.D. He had...

When the Pittsburgh Penguins used their first two picks in last weekend’s NHL draft to select power forwards Samuel Poulin and Nathan Legare, the question came almost immediately. Do they skate well enough to be impact players in the modern game? It was fitting, then, that the team’s annual development...

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have a new coach with strong championship credentials. The Penguins announced Friday night that WBS coach Clark Donatelli had resigned for personal reasons and was replaced by Mike Vellucci, who parted ways with the Carolina Hurricanes organization earlier in the day. Vellucci, 52, coached Carolina’s AHL team,...

A generation ago, it wasn’t a line buried at the bottom of a scouting report. It might be the No. 1 reason a player became a millionaire. The ability to deliver a big, open-ice hit was a sought-after commodity in the hockey community. Brooks Orpik and Colby Armstrong, for instance,...

When defenseman Olli Maatta was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks earlier this month, the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room was almost completely cleared out of Finns. It won’t stay that way for long. The next crop of Finnish players is on the verge of arriving, and it’s practically a tidal wave....

When Philippe Boucher was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins by the Dallas Stars in November of 2008, the timing was absolutely perfect in one way. Boucher’s son Matthew was a few weeks shy of his 11th birthday. It’s a formative time for a young sports fan, and the playoff run...

One of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top prospects could use a change of scenery. Clayton Phillips, an offensive defenseman picked in the third round of the 2017 draft, is in the middle of the transfer process after spending the first two years of his college career at the University of Minnesota....