Pittsburgh Penguins / NHL category, Page 197
Jake Guentzel, Jason Zucker lead the Penguins from the left wing
In advance of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ upcoming training camp, the Tribune-Review will look at the team’s depth position-by-position. Today, the left wingers: Jake Guenztel’s place in Penguins history is secure. He ensured that during the 2017 postseason when he set a handful of franchise postseason scoring records while helping the...
Ex-Penguins forward Colton Sceviour gets tryout with OilersVideo
Former Penguins forward Colton Sceviour will attend the Edmonton Oilers’ training camp on a tryout basis. On Wednesday, the veteran winger signed a professional tryout agreement (PTO). After arriving via trade in September of 2020, Sceviour, a native of Red Deer, Alberta, appeared in 46 games for the Penguins during...
Ex-Penguins forward Mark Jankowski gets tryout with DevilsVideo
Former Penguins forward Mark Jankowski will attend the New Jersey Devils’ training camp on a tryout basis. The veteran center signed a professional tryout contract (PTO) with the Devils on Tuesday. A free agent signing with the Penguins during the 2020 offseason, Jankowski’s lone season in Pittsburgh was mostly underwhelming....
Penguins to hold development camp for prospects
The Penguins will hold a development camp for prospects this weekend at their facility in Cranberry Saturday through Tuesday. A total of 24 players have been invited to the camp: Forwards (14) – Justin Almeida, Raivis Ansons, Shaw Boomhower, Jonathan Gruden, Filip Hallander, Sam Houde, Nathan Legare, Drew O’Connor, Kyle...
Penguins hire new goaltending development coaches
The Penguins have hired Charles Grant and Kain Tisi as goaltending development coach. They replace Andy Chiodo who was promoted to goaltending coach at the NHL level in August. Grant and Tisi will work with the organization’s goaltending prospects while also serve as scouts for draft-eligible goalies and college free...
Ex-Penguins forward Josh Jooris joins Geneve-Servette in Switzerland
Former Penguins forward Josh Jooris has joined Geneve-Servette of Switzerland’s National League. The 31-year-old was transferred from Lausanne, also of the National League, to Geneve-Servette. A native of Burlington, Ont., Jooris appeared in nine games for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2017-18 season and did not record a point. He...
Tim Benz: Colby Armstrong will never forget his 1st full day in America as a Penguin — Sept. 11, 2001
For former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, remembering Sept. 11, 2001 will always bring him back to his office on the South Side. Hanging up the phone after speaking with his friend Marty Schottenheimer. Ruminating over tape after a season-opening loss in Jacksonville. Preparing for the Cleveland Browns in...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby to be sidelined 6 weeks following wrist surgery
Penguins general manager Ron Hextall knew he was going to be missing a franchise center when his team’s season opened Oct. 12. Now, he will be short a pair of all-time greats at the pivot when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning in just over a month for the first...
Ex-Penguins forward Dominik Kahun signs in Switzerland
Former Penguins forward Dominik Kahun signed a three-year contract with SC Bern of Switzerland’s National League. Bern announced the signing on its website. The contract has an NHL release clause each offseason. Kahun, a native of the Czech Republic who grew up in Germany, spent the past three seasons in...
Penguins invite Mt. Lebanon’s Matt Bartkowski, veteran forward Brian Boyle to camp
The Penguins are inviting a pair of veteran NHL players, including a Western Pennsylvania native, to training camp in September, the team announced Friday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski, a Mt. Lebanon native, and forward Brian Boyle will attend camp on professional tryout contracts, hoping to make the team. Bartkowski, 33, has...
Penguins assistant coach Todd Reirden named to Mike Sullivan’s Team USA coaching staff
When he was head coach of the Washington Capitals, Todd Reirden was often tasked with figuring out a way to stop Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. At the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February, he’ll be at it again. Reirden, now a Penguins assistant coach, has been named one of...
NHL reaches agreement to send players to Olympics in Beijing
NHL players are set to return to the Olympics in Beijing this winter after reaching an agreement with international officials. The league, its players’ union, the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation struck a deal Friday that will put the best players in the world back on...
Penguins add to goalie depth, sign journeyman Louis Domingue
The Penguins signed a goaltender who figures to slot in at No. 3 on the organizational depth chart, adding Louis Domingue on a one-year deal Thursday. Domingue, 29, signed a two-way contract that will pay him $750,000 when at the NHL level and $300,000 when he’s in the minors. He...
Mark Madden: Some NHL teams retire numbers too frequently; the Penguins do it right
The New York Rangers are going to retire goaltender Henrik Lundqvist’s No. 30. Lundqvist played 15 seasons. He never won a Stanley Cup. He played in just one Stanley Cup Final. He won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goaltender once. If Lundqvist had played for Buffalo, he’d be...
First Call: A Vezina-worthy Marc-Andre Fleury save as he trains for his new team; Will Myles Garrett fight Logan Paul?
Wednesday’s “First Call” shows us that former Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury is still in top form as he prepares to join the Chicago Blackhawks. The Paul brothers are trying to suck Cleveland Browns helmet-swinger Myles Garrett into a celebrity boxing match. A potential rookie standout sees his first season end...
Former NHL forward Jimmy Hayes dies at age 31
NHL forward Jimmy Hayes, who played the last season of his nine-year pro career in the Penguins organization with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, died Monday at age 31. According to the Boston Globe, first responders arrived at Hayes’ home and pronounced him dead. A cause of death was not announced, but law enforcement...
NHL teams OK’d to add sponsor patches on jerseysVideo
Jersey advertisements are coming to the NHL. The league will allow teams to put sponsor patches on jerseys beginning with the 2022-23 season after the board of governors unanimously approved the move, according to a person with knowledge of a memo sent this week. The person spoke to the Associated...
Penguins name Alec Schall director of hockey operations
Former player agent Alec Schall has been named the Pittsburgh Penguins’ new director of hockey operations, general manager Ron Hextall announced Tuesday. Schall will be responsible for working with player contract negotiations, managing the salary cap and assisting with other hockey-related duties. “Having spent over 25 years in professional sports,...
Hall of Fame goalie, ex-Penguins GM Tony Esposito dies at 78Video
CHICAGO — Tony Esposito made an immediate mark on the Chicago Blackhawks and a lasting impression on the NHL. Esposito, the pioneering Hall of Famer who spent almost his entire 16-year career with the Blackhawks, died following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, the team announced Tuesday. He was 78....
Former Penguins coach Dan Bylsma hired by Seattle Kraken as AHL assistant
Former Penguins coach Dan Bylsma has been hired by the Seattle Kraken as an assistant coach for the club’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte. Charlotte will have shared affiliation with Seattle and the Florida Panthers this season. Its head coach will be a Panthers employee, Geordie Kinnear. Bylsma was let go...
Mark Madden: Mike Lange stands among the Penguins’ all-time greats
With Mike Lange, you could watch a hockey game on radio. Sounds dumb, but it’s true. Lange brought the action to life. He conveyed the electricity, the build. Lange didn’t just call the goal. He subtly told you the goal was imminent. He had a sixth sense. That sense didn’t...
Mike Lange’s favorite goal call, how ‘Lange-isms’ started and which was the first
Even at Heinz Field during Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, the buzz was all about Mike Lange’s retirement. After 46 years broadcasting Pittsburgh’s NHL team, the Penguins announced Monday that Lange would be stepping down from the broadcast booth before the 2021-22 season. Roughly 30 minutes before Steelers practice started, I...
Mike Lange leaving Penguins broadcast booth
Hockey nights in Pittsburgh will never be the same. After 46 years in the broadcast booth, the legendary Mike Lange has called his last Penguins game. The team announced Monday that Lange, 73, will not return to play-by-play duties when the season begins in the fall. Lange will continue to...
Who are the Penguins’ best 1-year players?Video
Cody Ceci’s tenure with the Penguins pretty much went to script. He arrived needing a course correction to his sagging career, figured things out, played some solid hockey as a steady right-handed defenseman and cashed in as a free agent. Last week, Ceci joined the Edmonton Oilers by signing a...
Penguins re-sign restricted free agent forward Zach Aston-Reese
The Penguins avoided arbitration and re-signed restricted free agent forward forward Zach Aston-Reese to a one-year contract with a salary cap hit of $1.725 million. Aston-Reese, 26, recently completed a two-year contract that carried a salary cap hit of $1 million. Last season, Aston-Reese, one of the team’s better defensive...
