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Penguins to open training camp next week
The Pittsburgh Penguins will open their training camp on Wednesday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. A formal announcement of the camp was made by the team on Thursday. All non-game day practices are free and open to the public. The schedule: Wednesday, Sept. 18 9-9:45 a.m.– Team...
Training camp preview: Michael Bunting gives the Penguins a base at left wing
With the Pittsburgh Penguins scheduled to report to training camp next week, here is a position-by-position look at their roster. Today, a glance at their left wingers. The Penguins didn’t win the Jake Guentzel trade in March. Any team that parts ways with a reliable 40-goal threat isn’t celebrating a...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby ‘pretty optimistic’ he’ll sign contract extension soon
As the Pittsburgh Penguins approach the start of training camp, a major order of business has remained incomplete since July 1: extending the contract of captain and franchise icon Sidney Crosby. Crosby is entering the final year of a 12-year deal worth $8.7 million annually signed in 2012 and has...
Former Penguins Kevin Stevens, Matt Cullen elected to U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Kevin Stevens and Matt Cullen, who won a combined four Stanley Cup championships with the club, were elected into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Thursday. Stevens, 59, spent part of 10 seasons with the Penguins (1987-95, 2001-02) in a 15-year NHL career, helping Pittsburgh...
5 bobblehead nights part of Penguins’ 2024-25 promotional schedule
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced their 2024-25 home promotional schedule Wednesday, which notably includes five opportunities for fans to take home commemorative bobbleheads. The club’s Championship Bobblehead Series celebrates moments from its five Stanley Cup victories (1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, 2017). On Oct. 18, the first bobblehead featuring Mario Lemieux will...
Penguins name Joe Brand as radio play-by-play broadcaster
The Pittsburgh Penguins have found their new play-by-play voice for radio broadcasts. Joe Brand was hired for the position on the Penguins Radio Network, president of business operations Kevin Acklin announced Tuesday. Brand, 33, replaces Steve Mears, who took a position as the television play-by-play broadcaster of the Blue Jackets....
On Sports: Penguins still national TV draw; prediction of big year for Najee Harris; Rich Hill still chugging along
Friday’s “On Sports” highlights the Pittsburgh Penguins national reach and broadcast schedule, Stephen Curry adds another year with the Warriors, pitcher Rich Hill has been dealing for 20 years, and a big year for Najee Harris? National treasure They haven’t been a playoff team since 2021-22, and they are mostly...
On Sports: Penguins lacking on list of best NHL players; Steelers’ practice squad still a mystery
Today’s “On Sports” highlights a list of the NHL’s top players, which has a lack of Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as practice squad news from around the NFL, but not with the Steelers. Lacking Penguins After consecutive non-playoff seasons, maybe the problem with the Pittsburgh Penguins isn’t special teams or...
Despite no guarantee of cracking NHL roster, Rutger McGroarty excited to get going with Penguins
Last week, Rutger McGroarty was a member of the Winnipeg Jets organization and weighing a potential return to Michigan for his junior college hockey season. Much has changed for the 20-year-old forward, who was introduced by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday in Cranberry after a blockbuster trade of top prospects...
Michigan hockey coach offers measured expectations as Rutger McGroarty prepares for Penguins preseason campVideo
As the dust settled following the Pittsburgh Penguins’ recent acquisition of 20-year-old forward Rutger McGroarty from Winnipeg, the consensus seemed to be he’ll hit the ground running at his first NHL preseason camp. To be sure, the former Jets top prospect joined the Penguins with the intention of competing for...
Tim Benz: Penguins-Jets swap of 1st-rounders is as practical as it may be unconventional
On Thursday, a Pittsburgh team pulled off a trade-and-sign deal with a former first-round pick out west who was balking at a contract with his former club. But it wasn’t for Brandon Aiyuk. It wasn’t even the Steelers who made the trade. It was the Penguins who acquired Winnipeg Jets...
Penguins defenseman prospect Emil Pieniniemi signs with Kingston Frontenacs of OHL
Pittsburgh Penguins 2023 third-round draft pick (No. 91 overall) Emil Pieniniemi is set to make his North American hockey debut this upcoming season as he signed with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the club announced Thursday. Pieniniemi, a 19-year-old defenseman and native of Kuopio, Finland, spent...
Penguins swing blockbuster trade of forward prospects, shipping Brayden Yager to Jets for Rutger McGroartyVideo
Earlier this summer, a rift between the Winnipeg Jets and their 2022 first-round draft pick, winger Rutger McGroarty, became public. The 20-year-old McGroarty, selected 14th overall two years ago, reportedly was concerned with the Jets’ developmental plan for him, desiring a quicker path to the NHL. If fresh surroundings were...
Penguins sign 26-year-old Russian blueliner Nikolai Knyzhov to tryout contract
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed 26-year-old Russian defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov to a professional tryout contract Thursday, with the club’s preseason camp in September growing closer. Knyzhov, a 6-foot-3 left-handed shot, has played 81 career NHL games, all with the San Jose Sharks, over parts of four seasons from 2019-21 and 2022-24,...
Penguins’ David Quinn added as assistant coach to Mike Sullivan’s 4 Nations Face-Off staff
As he prepares to lead the U.S. men’s hockey national team at the upcoming 2025 4 Nations Face-Off, head coach Mike Sullivan will have some familiar faces on staff. On Wednesday, David Quinn, soon to begin his first year under Sullivan with the Pittsburgh Penguins, was announced as an assistant...
Penguins’ Jason Spezza, Amanda Kessel earn promotions
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced several hockey operations staff promotions and hirings Monday afternoon. • Assistant general manager Jason Spezza has additionally been named general manager of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. • Amanda Kessel, entering her third year with the Penguins, has been promoted to manager, minor league operations, and will serve...
Alex Nedeljkovic happy to be back with Penguins, teaming up with Tristan Jarry
With the possible exception of Sidney Crosby’s individual efforts, the play of Alex Nedeljkovic would probably rank atop the short list of reasons why the dysfunctional Pittsburgh Penguins made a late-season push for the playoffs last season. Nedeljkovic supplanted Tristan Jarry as the No. 1 goaltender in late March and...
Penguins acquire forward Cody Glass, 2 draft picks from Nashville
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired 25-year-old forward Cody Glass, a third-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft and a 2026 sixth-round selection from the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, the club announced. In exchange, the Penguins traded 23-year-old center Jordan Frasca, who has spent the majority of the past two seasons with...
Penguins swap pair of draft picks with St. Louis
The Pittsburgh Penguins swapped a pair of draft picks with the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday morning, president of hockey operations/general manager Kyle Dubas announced. The Penguins acquired the Blues’ second-round pick in 2026 and the Ottawa Senators’ third-round pick in 2025. In exchange, they sent the Blues their own...
New Penguins forward Blake Lizotte sticks with what got him to the NHLVideo
Blake Lizotte doesn’t stand out. At 5-foot-9 and 175 pounds, how could he? But against the context of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ roster, he sticks out. Or should. A blend of hustle, tenacity and contact, Lizotte is the type of player the Penguins don’t have a surplus of and that’s what...
Mark Madden: Penguins and Sidney Crosby should reach a deal … but what if they can’t?
Sidney Crosby has one year to go on his Pittsburgh Penguins contract. He hasn’t yet signed an extension. He was able to do so as of July 1. When his 37th birthday came and went Wednesday (Aug. 7, you know, 8/7) and the numerically obsessed Crosby still hadn’t put pen...
First Call: Mike Tomlin’s quote about Brandon Aiyuk last year; still no contract extension for Sidney Crosby
In Thursday’s “First Call,” we look back on what Mike Tomlin said about Brandon Aiyuk after he scorched the Pittsburgh Steelers last September. We are still waiting for a Sidney Crosby contract extension. A former Steeler in Baltimore is dealing with a knee injury. And the picture is getting awfully...
Madden Monday: Expect a Sidney Crosby contract soon — but if it doesn’t happen this week ‘we can start wondering’
Many National Hockey League observers assume that Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will sign his contract extension this week. After all, the notoriously superstitious No. 87 has his 37th birthday coming up on Aug. 7 (8/7). During this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast, Mark Madden of 105.9 The X and TribLive...
New Penguins forward Anthony Beauvillier is ‘glad to be on the good side’
Anthony Beauvillier had an obvious rooting interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins a long time ago. A native of Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, he gravitated to that small town’s most celebrated native, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. In fact, the first NHL game Beauvillier attended was a playoff game between the Penguins and Montreal Canadiens...
Former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Dmitri Samorukov signs in Russia
Former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defenseman Dmitri Samorukov has signed a three-year contract with HC CSKA Moscow of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). That team announced the transaction via a release on Thursday. Samorukov initially joined Wilkes-Barre/Scranton by signing a one-year American Hockey League (AHL) contract on July 31, 2023. Following the...
