Perhaps it’s a nod to David Quinn’s experience as the former head coach of the New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks. Perhaps it’s a nod to Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson, who won the 2023 Norris Trophy while playing for Quinn in San Jose.
After missing the playoffs two years in a row, the Pittsburgh Penguins need to have an aggressive offseason. The Penguins have missed the playoffs for the second season in a row and with the aging core of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, and Erik Karlsson, the Penguins need to go for at least one last Stanley Cup.
It was the second straight shutout for Murray and Hornqvist scored the Cup-winning goal against his former team. Seven years ago today, the Penguins won their second straight Stanley Cup and fifth in franchise history with a shutout win on the road in Game 6 against the Nashville Predators.
A new voice for this new X Generation. While June 11 has historically been kind to the Pittsburgh Penguins, there was once a time when the sun did not shine favorably for the black and gold flightless birds.
The call to play professional hockey captured Amanda Kessel. Or did her front-office training as special assistant to the president of the Pittsburgh Penguins land her a front-office role in the increasingly popular Professional Women’s Hockey League?
When Amanda Kessel first joined the Penguins' executive management program in 2022, she made clear that she wasn't retired as a player. "I knew someday my playing career would come to an end," she said.
Veteran forward Reilly Smith was acquired by the Pittsburgh Penguins from the Vegas Golden Knights last season in Vegas’ effort to clear cap space. The move was seen as a way for the Penguins to replace winger Jason Zucker, who left in free agency.
The NHL Draft is not only an inexact science; sometimes, it’s more of a guessing game. Selecting 18-year-olds who sometimes are still growing is much a different task than the NFL Draft and choosing from young men who have cleared the last stages of puberty and are old enough to order alcohol in the United States.
(WPXI) — Less yelling, more arguing. The WXPI Final Word show featured one current Pittsburgh Penguins beat writer, one former beat writer, and a football expert.
The cap is finally going up, but how will Kyle Dubas and the Pens choose to manage it? The NHL’s salary cap, calculated off revenue splits, has finally recovered from the pandemic years.
Kyle Dubas admitted he wants draft picks. The Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations/GM wants to acquire them urgently, or at least as urgently as he can do it.
The general manager comments about some topics at the NHL’s scouting combine Kyle Dubas was at the NHL’s scouting combine in Buffalo to get a look at the prospects who will be available to him in the draft coming up this later this month starting with the 44th and 46th overall picks that the Penguins have.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The NHL on Saturday set the salary cap for the upcoming 2024-25 season at an even $88 million -- a $4.5 million raise from this past season's cap of $83.5 million, and a slight bump from the league's previously anticipated figure of $87.7 million.
Kyle Dubas isn't ready to rule out a potential Jake Guentzel return to Pittsburgh. "I don't think (the door) is closed," Dubas told me when I asked about a potential Guentzel return at the NHL's draft combine in Buffalo, N.Y.
It appears the Penguins will be taking a different approach to their summer activity.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are trying to acquire more draft picks. Penguins president of hockey operations/GM Kyle Dubas didn’t mince words regarding the Penguins’ targets on the NHL trade market: Draft picks and lots of them.
The Pittsburgh Penguins showed glimpses of potential throughout the season but in the end, they fell short of the postseason for the second year in a row.
Fans aren’t the only ones who drool over big names with big stats on their resume. General managers also succumb to the temptation to project the best despite recent reality or likely outcomes.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have a chance to veer off course, and that’s not a bad thing. With about $10 million in salary cap space, the Penguins also have a chance to re-fortify their skill in the top six, perhaps finding competent filler for the hole left by the Jake Guentzel trade.
It’s time for another edition of NHL rumours. We’re on the eve of the Stanley Cup Final, but there’s plenty to hash out in the hot stove. Teams are looking to improve their rosters this off-season.
Pro Hockey Rumors continues its look around the NHL with an overview of the free-agent situation for the Penguins.
He has played 178 career NHL games so far along with 441 career appearances in the AHL.
The 2023-24 season was supposed to be a bounce-back year for the Pittsburgh Penguins. A frustrating 2022-23 season where Sidney Crosby and the Penguins missed the playoffs for the first time since Sid’s rookie season led the Penguins to make some much-needed changes on and off the ice.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are once again watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs from their living rooms after missing the postseason for the second year in a row.
Under Sullivan, the Penguins were responsible for what was the longest active playoff streak in North American sports before last spring.
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