Letang continues to mentor young defensemen
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 8, 2025
Owen Pickering was starstruck when he first encountered Kris Letang. And for good reason. It was at the NHL Draft in Montreal on July 7, 2022, and Pickering was just selected by the Pittsburgh Penguin...
Penguins fall to Hurricanes in overtime
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
January 6, 2025
Sebastian Aho scored the gamewinner at 1:30 of the OT period. The Pittsburgh Penguins completed the first half of the 2024-25 season in a fashion that has been far too quotidian in their first 41 game...
Penguins salvage point in shootout loss
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
January 4, 2025
Since Nov. 7, the Pittsburgh Penguins have largely operated with two different power-play units featuring their top players spread across each squad. That binary approach to the man advantage accounte...
Sidney Crosby becomes Penguins’ all-time assists leader in 3-2 win against Islanders
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 30, 2024
Pittsburgh moved into the second wild-card seed with the victory over its Metropolitan Division rival. Sidney Crosby knows better than to draw comparisons between himself and the Pittsburgh Penguins’ ...
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 28, 2024
Michael Bunting didn’t score the winning goal during the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 7-3 victory against the hated Philadelphia Flyers on Monday at PPG Paints Arena. Officially, that designation went to forw...
Penguins getting lift from Crosby, Rakell, Rust
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 27, 2024
They’ve formed a potent top line during the team’s 9-3-1 run. Things were different for the Pittsburgh Penguins during Monday’s 7-3 rout against the visiting Philadelphia Flyers. No, watching Sidney C...
Aho embracing leadership role with Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton
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By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
December 26, 2024
The veteran defenseman is trying to work his way back to the NHL. Sebastian Aho probably would admit this season has taken a different turn from what he had in mind last summer when inking a twoyear d...
Crosby ties franchise record in win over Flyers
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December 24, 2024
He and Mario Lemieux both have 1,033 career assists. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored a goal and added three assists to tie Mario Lemieux’s franchise record for most assists in team history and ...
Pens reunite with defenseman Joseph via trade
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
December 20, 2024
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ divorce from P.O Joseph did not last long. A little more than five months after the Penguins allowed Joseph to walk away as a free agent, they brought the left-handed defensem...
Rakell’s goal gives Pens OT win over Kings
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
December 18, 2024
It hasn’t been overly complicated as to why the Pittsburgh Penguins have been surging in recent weeks. At least not in the estimation of captain Sidney Crosby. To him, the Penguins’ 6-2-1 record in th...
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 16, 2024
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Marcus Pettersson suffered an undisclosed injury during the first period of a 3-2 overtime loss to the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on Saturday. He ...
Rust’s hat trick leads Penguins’ 9-goal outburst
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
December 13, 2024
As a team with many limitations, the Pittsburgh Penguins need to get offense from just about every component of the roster. On Thursday, seemingly every molecule of their lineup contributed as the Pen...
Avalanche buries Penguins behind Rantanen hat trick
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December 11, 2024
In his 600th game, Mikko Rantanen scored a hat trick to help Colorado beat Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mikko Rantanen collected his 10th career hat trick and added two assists as the Colorado Avalan...
Graves works his way back into Penguins’ lineup
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 10, 2024
He was part of the third defensive pairing as he returned to the ice for Saturday’s game. Anytime the Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Avalanche cross paths, as will be the case Tuesday at PPG Paints ...
Rangers snap Penguins’ season-high win streak
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
December 7, 2024
Forward Artemi Panarin scored two goals in New York’s 4-2 victory. The Pittsburgh Penguins look much better in early December than they did when the 2024-25 campaign began in early October. But they w...
Crosby, Karlsson remain only Penguins players named to 4 Nations Face-Off rosters
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By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
December 5, 2024
As it pertains to the Pittsburgh Penguins, no surprises were in store following Wednesday’s formal reveal of the upcoming 4 Nations Face-Off rosters. Sweden and Finland’s 23-man rosters (20 skaters, t...
Pens beat Panthers in OT
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December 4, 2024
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Rust scored 1:31 into overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins avoided another late collapse by beating the Florida Panthers 5-4 on Tuesday night. The Penguins let a threegoal thir...
New Penguin Tomasino not afraid to shoot
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PENGUINS NOTEBOOK
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
December 4, 2024
Barely a week into his tenure with the Pittsburgh Penguins, forward Philip Tomasino already has made history. By getting game-winning goals in a 2-1 road victory against the Boston Bruins on Friday an...
Rakell ‘definitely playing with more purpose’
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By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
December 4, 2024
Last year, Rickard Rakell offered a simple but profound tenet on those in his vocation. “I mean, I’m a hockey player,” Rakell said Oct. 27, 2023. “I love to score goals.” That affection went unfulfill...