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Penguins beat Flyers in overtime as Sidney Crosby gets 500th career goalVideo
There’s little Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby can show off that would surprise the Philadelphia Flyers. They are fully aware that he is the focal point of the Penguins’ attack. It has mostly been that way since 2005 when he made his NHL debut. And it will likely be that...
By the numbers: With 500 goals, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby climbs many lists
On the occasion of his 500th career goal against the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night, here are 10 top five lists involving Penguins captain Sidney Crosby: Most goals, Penguins 1. Mario Lemieux 690 2. Sidney Crosby 500 3. Jaromir Jagr 439 4. Evgeni Malkin 429 5. Jean Pronovost 316 •...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby scores 500th career goal
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby scored his 500th career goal during Tuesday’s home game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The goal came at 16:34 of the first period on a power-play opportunity and supplied the Penguins with a 2-1 lead. A Sid-sational moment for a sensational player.Congratulations, Sidney! ???? pic.twitter.com/WrPh5R4qDx— NHL...
Penguins staffer Matt Cullen fills in for injured assistant coach Todd ReirdenVideo
Matt Cullen was in a familiar place Tuesday morning. Standing over a faceoff dot at PPG Paints Arena. One after another, the pucks smacked off the ice for a faceoff drill. “Clap! Clap! Clap!” The only difference between the 18,373 draws Cullen took during his career and the faceoffs he...
Penguins to start goaltender Casey DeSmith against Flyers
The Penguins are expected to start goaltender Casey DeSmith for Tuesday’s home game against the Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena. In 11 games this season, DeSmith has a 4-3-2 record, a 3.03 goals-against average, a .901 save percentage and two shutouts. His most recent game came in a 2-0...
Tim Benz: Sidney Crosby getting No. 500 against the Flyers would be perfect in so many ways
We can only assume that Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has done this on purpose, right? During the first game back from the All-Star break on Feb. 8, Crosby scored career goal No. 499 of his career as part of a 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins. Crosby then picked...
Penguins prospect P.O Joseph’s steady journey to the NHL continues
There are a lot of similarities between the journey Brian Dumoulin took to the Penguins’ blue line and the trek P.O Joseph is undertaking. Each defenseman was a fairly high draft pick with another organization. Dumoulin was a second-rounder (No. 51 overall) with the Carolina Hurricanes, and Joseph was selected...
Penguins defenseman Chad Ruhwedel sets career high for games
While forward Sidney Crosby’s ongoing pursuit of his 500th career goal has drawn the most attention of just about anyone with a vested interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of his teammates reached a much less heralded milestone during Sunday’s 4-2 road win against the New Jersey Devils at the...
Forward Brian Boyle leads Penguins to 3rd consecutive win
Brian Boyle’s time with the New Jersey Devils was profound. Not necessarily for anything he did on the ice. But for simply being on the ice. In 2017, the staunch defensive forward was stricken with chronic myeloid leukemia, a form of cancer, but played through his ailment before it went...
Minor league report: P.O Joseph scores again as Penguins snap losing streakVideo
Defenseman P.O Joseph scored the game-winning goal for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 3-2 road win against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. In his past seven games, Joseph has scored five goals. Defenseman Taylor Fedun and forward Nathan Legare also scored goals for...
Knee injury sidelines Penguins assistant coach Todd Reirden
Injuries and illness have pockmarked the Penguins roster of players all season. The coaching staff hasn’t escaped that misfortune either. Assistant coach Todd Reirden, who oversees the team’s defensemen as well as the power play, will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering a knee injury during the All-Star break. The ailment...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Penguins should experiment with Jeff Carter on Evgeni Malkin’s wing
The Penguins are locked into a playoff spot. The remainder of the regular season should be used to pursue home ice and favorable seeding for the postseason, but also to experiment. One thing worth testing is using Jeff Carter on Evgeni Malkin’s wing. Carter has mostly toiled as the Penguins’...
Penguins find success through avoiding the penalty box
Leading the Pittsburgh Penguins in penalty minutes is kind of like being the most honest guy in prison. Someone has to be it, by default. In the Penguins’ case, three guys are it. The “treacherous” trio of defensemen Kris Letang, Marcus Pettersson and forward Jake Guentzel are tied for the...
Minor league report: Penguins edged by SenatorsVideo
Forward Valtteri Puustinen scored the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ lone goal in a 2-1 home loss to the Belleville Senators at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 31 saves on 33 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (18-19-2-3) which has lost three consecutive games. Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is...
Bruins forward Brad Marchand disputes suspension for attacking Penguins goaltender Tristan JarryVideo
Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand doesn’t dispute that his attack on Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry earlier this week was stupid. In fact, he used that word — “stupid” — repeatedly while speaking with media Friday in Boston. But he does dispute the notion there should be consequences for his...
Penguins assign forwards Michael Chaput, Valtteri Puustinen to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins assigned forwards Michael Chaput and Valtteri Puustinen to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). Both players were recalled to the NHL roster on Monday and served as healthy scratches in each of the past two games. Neither has appeared in an NHL contest this season. Chaput, 29,...
Mark Madden: Brad Marchand’s antics are criminal, but the NHL doesn’t want that to vanish
Boston’s Brad Marchand got a six-game suspension from the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for sucker-punching Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry, then sticking him in the face. ESPN’s uber-intelligent hockey guy John Buccigross committed a rare betrayal of his sense for the game when he wondered what Jarry might have said...
Penguins, Casey DeSmith outduel Senators, Matt Murray
Matt Murray will always be a consequential figure in the history of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The franchise’s two most recent Stanley Cup championship banners are evidence of that. At one point, he was the Penguins’ goaltender of the future, but those designs went as catawampus as his play did following...
Minor league report: P.O Joseph scores again as Penguins loseVideo
Defenseman P.O Joseph scored the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins’ lone goal in a 3-1 road loss to the Rochester Americans at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, N.Y. on Wednesday. Joseph has scored goals in four of his past five games. Goaltender Alex D’Orio made 17 saves on 19 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton...
Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese seeks more offense
Zach Aston-Reese was in a familiar spot Monday. Boston. He was at TD Garden watching the famed Beanpot tournament between the men’s hockey teams of Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern, Aston-Reese’s alma mater. The Penguins forward went to a semifinal contest between Northeastern and Boston College with Brian...
Penguins assign defensive prospect Niclas Almari to Lukko in Finland
The Penguins have assigned defensive prospect Niclas Almari to Lukko of Finland’s Liiga. A native of Finland, Almari has been limited to 17 games this season between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL. In 11 AHL games, he has two...
Tim Benz: As Sidney Crosby nears 500 goals, a look at how he got there, his chances of breaking Mario Lemieux’s team record
Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby now needs just one more goal to reach 500 for his career. That’s after getting No. 499 during a 4-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. For Crosby, that would make him the leading goal-scorer for 17 of the NHL’s 32 franchises. Fun...
Mark Madden: Penguins facing end-of-era dilemmas
“You’ve always got a chance to win the Stanley Cup if you have Sid and Geno.” For Penguins fans, that’s long been a catchphrase of encouragement and sometimes desperation. It rings true: The Penguins won Cups with Crosby and Malkin in 2009, ’16 and ’17 and were a legit championship...
Bruins forward Brad Marchand suspended 6 games for attacking Penguins goaltender Tristan JarryVideo
In December, Brad Marchand criticized the NHL for not granting him to take time off in February from his job as a member of the Boston Bruins so that he could participate in the Olympics. As it turned out, the NHL was able to provide Marchand with an involuntary break...
Penguins return from break with win over Bruins to snap 4-game losing streak
The Penguins’ six-day break in the schedule for the All-Star Game event was badly needed. After all, they were fatigued mentally and physically from playing a tightly compacted sequence of games in a finite portion of their schedule. “The break came at a good time for us,” Penguins’ defenseman Marcus...
