USA’s McAvoy sending message with physicality at 4-Nations
NHL, Sports
February 17, 2025
MONTREAL (AP) — Charlie McAvoy lined up Connor McDavid and delivered a textbook hit that sent the best hockey player in the world careening into the glass and down to the ice. A mere 19 seconds later,...
Cards, binging and napping: Passing time on a team flight
NHL, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO Trib Total Media 
January 30, 2025
These days, Sidney Crosby doesn’t even try to fight it. No matter what he does, it’s going to happen and happen fast. When Crosby gets on the team plane to travel to away games, a countdown begins. “I...
NHL, Sports
PENGUINS AND THE CBA
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 29, 2025
Kris Letang has seen labor strife between the NHL and NHLPA before. More than a decade ago, the league canceled the first three months of the 2012-13 season after several negotiations between the NHL ...
Baby Pens in good hands under MacDonald
NHL, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO Trib Total Media 
January 28, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed a considerable amount of trust in Kirk Mac-Donald. MacDonald, 41, is in his first campaign leading the Penguins’ American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes- Barre/S...
Letang, Pettersson happy with unexpected reunion
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 28, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ decision to weld Kris Letang with Marcus Pettersson on a defensive pairing in recent weeks wasn’t necessarily rooted in a sense of familiarity between the two long-time teamma...
Avs felt ‘timing was right’ to move on from star Rantanen
NHL, Sports
January 27, 2025
BOSTON (AP) — Facing the prospect of Mikko Rantanen becoming an unrestricted free agent after this season, Colorado general manager Chris MacFarland felt the timing was right to trade the star forward...
Rust injured in Penguins’ loss to Anaheim
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THURSDAY’S LATE GAME
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 25, 2025
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bryan Rust suffered an undisclosed injury and prematurely exited a 5-1 loss to the Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on Thursday. Aside from a posting on...
Penguins’ 4th-liners earning trust defensively
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 24, 2025
Through their first 49 games, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ most prominent line is their top line. No duh. Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust (from left wing to right wing) have largely keyed mos...
Pens find balance with Karlsson, Grzelcyk pair
NHL, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO Trib Total Media 
January 22, 2025
Back in mid-December, Marcus Pettersson landing on injured reserve forced the Pittsburgh Penguins to do some tinkering on the blue line. Pettersson had been part of a defensive pairing with Erik Karls...
NHL, Sports
MONDAY’S LATE GAME
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 22, 2025
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves on 26 shots in a 5-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto. com Arena in Los Angeles on Monday. The result boosted Nedeljkovic’s rec...
NHL, Sports
By By JONATHAN BOMBULIE TribLive 
January 20, 2025
They’re 3-8-3 against Metropolitan foes. Hockey fans who believe in omens could have seen this coming before the season was 20 minutes old. In the first period of their season opener Oct. 9, the Pengu...
Paul Skenes aims to be catalyst in creating a championship culture
NHL, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
January 20, 2025
He looks like a long-term rotation anchor after finishing third in last season’s Cy Young voting. Before the arrival of Paul Skenes, the expectation around the Pittsburgh Pirates was that the players ...
Nedeljkovic makes history with goal, assist
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 18, 2025
Alex Nedeljkovic became the second goaltender in Pittsburgh Penguins history to score a goal during a 5-2 victory against the host Buffalo Sabres on Friday at Key-Bank Center. His score came on an emp...
Penguins turn to Blomqvist, Nedeljkovic in net
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
January 17, 2025
Tristan Jarry cleared waivers and is back in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. It seemed like an innocuous comment at the moment. But with the benefit of almost nine years, it proved to be insightful. During the...
Malkin’s Cup rings discovered in home
NHL, Sports
By By MICHAEL DIVITTORIO TribLive 
January 17, 2025
Allegheny County Police reported that Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin’s Stanley Cup Championship rings, previously thought to have been stolen in a burglary this month, have been located inside...
Penguins press on without Tristan Jarry
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 16, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins opened practice Wednesday in Cranberry in a different fashion. They talked. To be clear, only Mike Sullivan spoke as his players gathered around him near the home bench at UPMC...
Pens’ presence still felt in Jagr’s last season
NHL, Sports
By By RENATTA SIGNORINI Trib Total Media 
January 16, 2025
A few Jaromir Jagr Penguins jerseys were in the crowd during a December game of the Kladno Knights, the team he owns and still plays for, in the Czech Republic, according to an article in the Philadel...
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 15, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-2 loss against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday at PPG Paints Arena was a fitting conclusion to a dreadful five-game homestand that saw them go 1-3-1. This sequence of games on...
Penguins aware penalty kill needs improvement
NHL, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO Trib Total Media 
January 15, 2025
In a change of pace, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ penalty kill was not a liability Sunday evening against the Tampa Bay Lightning. That was partly because it didn’t get any opportunities to struggle, as T...
Penguins lose to Lightning despite effort
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 14, 2025
There was plenty to like about the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday. They hemmed in the offensive attack of an opponent blessed with some luminary All-Star talent. Also, there were signs of improvement. ...