Dewar found a fit, but will he stay?
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
May 4, 2026
The 27-year old forward set career highs in games, goals & points this season. It’s not the most creative name for a line. After all, it’s just the first letter of the last name of all three forwards ...
Oilers GM admits big decisions loom after elimination
NHL, Sports
May 4, 2026
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Saying Saturday was not a day for big decisions or announcements, Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman did concede that next season’s team will “not be the same group a...
Malkin will play next year with Penguins or other team
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
May 2, 2026
Evgeni Malkin understands quite well what a youth movement can mean. He saw it firsthand two decades ago when he helped usher in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ greatest era as a 20-year-old along with a han...
Crosby will ‘wait and see’ on contract extension
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
May 2, 2026
The Penguins have several pending free agents this offseason, and forward Evgeni Malkin is, by far, the most prominent. But one player’s contractual status looms over all others. Sidney Crosby. Crosby...
Lightning beat Canadiens to force Game 7
NHL, Sports
May 2, 2026
MONTREAL (AP) — Gage Goncalves scored off his own rebound at 9:03 of overtime and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 on Friday night to force a Game 7 in the first-round series. G...
Lightning on the brink of elimination after home loss
NHL, Sports
May 1, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Another home loss in the playoffs has the Tampa Bay Lightning on the brink of an early vacation once again. Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed a fluke goal on the day he was nominated for t...
Av’s Wedgewood goes from backup to stud
NHL, Sports
May 1, 2026
DENVER (AP) — Scott Wedgewood tends to notice just about everything happening around him, no matter the task. That traffic pattern five lights ahead while driving? He’s already planned for it. The peo...
York scores in overtime to eliminate Penguins
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
April 30, 2026
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cam York buried the winner 17:32 into overtime and chucked his stick into the crowd in a wild celebration to send the Philadelphia Flyers into the second round for the first time i...
Crosby delivered when Penguins needed him to
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
April 29, 2026
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The sequence might as well have served as a metaphor of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season. There was Sidney Crosby, his left knee throbbing after absorbing a blistering shot from the p...
Pens force Game 6 with thrilling win over Flyers
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 28, 2026
Kris Letang scores the tiebreaking goal on a fluky play late in the second period. With his team extending its firstround playoff series to a fifth game, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin got ...
NHL, Sports
April 28, 2026
DENVER (AP) — Brent Burns showed off his wry sense of humor shortly after Colorado completed its firstround sweep. “Better than the alternative, I guess,” the 41-year-old defenseman cracked after comp...
‘Dreams come true’ for Solovyov in first playoff game
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 27, 2026
The Penguins rookie is only the eighth player ever from Belarus to appear in the NHL postseason. PHILADELPHIA — While Game 4 of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Phila...
NHL, Sports
April 27, 2026
BOSTON (AP) — Sabres coach Lindy Ruff shut down any talk of putting forwards Tyson Kozak and Jason Zucker back in after injuries sent them to the locker room late in Game 4 of Buffalo’s first-round pl...
Lucky goals help Avalanche take 3-0 lead on Kings
NHL, Sports
April 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cale Makar scored the tiebreaking goal, Scott Wedgewood made 24 saves and the top-seeded Colorado Avalanche moved to the brink of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a...
Penguins, Muse question officials after Game 3
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 24, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Pittsburgh Penguins had plenty of questions, and the NHL offered few answers after Game 3 of a first-round playoff series with the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday at Xfinity Mobile...
A 3-0 deficit nothing new to Penguins’ Skinner
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 24, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The history is hideous to peruse. And the math is even worse to look at. In the 213 instances throughout the NHL’s 108 years of existence in which a best-of-seven series has seen one pa...
Flyers put Penguins on brink of elimination
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 23, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — In the view of at least one member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the process of turning their first-round series with the rival Philadelphia Flyers into a more competitive entanglement wa...
Bettman: Penguins’ sale still ‘work in progress’
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 22, 2026
Once upon a time, if NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was coming to Pittsburgh, it was because he was trying to work with local or state politicians to secure funding for a new arena to keep the Penguins...
Flyers shut out Penguins to take 2-0 series lead
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
April 21, 2026
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dan Vladar stopped 27 shots, rookie Porter Martone scored for the second straight game and the Philadelphia Flyers shut out Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 on Monday ni...
Sabres score four times in 3rd to beat Boston
NHL, Sports
April 21, 2026
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Mattias Samuelson broke a tie with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night in the Sabres’ first ...