What the Olympics meant for Pens and the U.S.
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 24, 2026
Things were fairly ordinary on a dreary, cloudy Sunday at UMPC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. As members of the Pittsburgh Penguins gathered to refine their skills for practice, fans watched fro...
NHL’s return to Olympics lived up to the hype
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 24, 2026
MILAN (AP) — The long wait for the best hockey players in the world taking the ice in an international tournament lived up to the hype. Four of the seven games in the knockout round at the Milan Corti...
Prospect Howe looking good following knee surgery
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 21, 2026
It wasn’t exactly a work of art. Then again, Tanner Howe isn’t exactly Vincent Van Gogh. He’s more of a Francis Harrington Glidden. That’s to say the Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect plays somethi...
Penguins’ defenseman Ryan Shea finds his spot
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 14, 2026
Ryan Shea has nothing personal against the Chicago Blackhawks. Honest. He swears. But, it’s scary — at least to Blackhawks goaltenders — to think what he could do if he did harbor any umbrage against ...
NHL has more Olympic content access in Milan
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 13, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Not getting to show iconic moments such as Sidney Crosby’s golden goal for Canada in Vancouver in 2010 or T.J. Oshie’s shootout heroics for the U.S. against Russia in Sochi in 2014 has be...
Skinner meshing well inside Penguins’ locker room
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By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
February 12, 2026
As a preteen, Stuart Skinner attended a goaltending camp in Toronto put on by youth development coach Eli Wilson. When Skinner was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 12, he thought back to that...
Tkachuks and Hughes brothers make USA a family affair
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 12, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Charlie McAvoy doesn’t have any brothers. In his family, there were only sisters, so he can’t truly understand what it would be like to play on a global stage with a brother as a teammate...
Olympics are here for many NHL stars left waiting
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 11, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon knew he wouldn’t make Canada’s 2014 Olympic team as an 18-year-old NHL rookie, while Germany’s Leon Draisaitl and Czechia’s David Pastrnak were still a year away from bei...
Sullivan tight-lipped about Team USA’s plans
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 10, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Mike Sullivan wanted his players to get their blood moving, break out a sweat and adjust to a new time zone with most of them fresh off flying across the Atlantic Ocean. He did not want a...
NHL players excited for return to Olympics after 12 years
NHL, Olympics, Sports
February 9, 2026
MILAN (AP) — Lukas Dostal was in a rush to get to the Olympics. Earlier this week, the Czech goaltender became the first NHL player to take the ice for practice with his national team. “What would I d...
Penguins’ Olympians treasure NHL’s return after 12 years
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 7, 2026
Erik Karlsson has an odd way of explaining his most recent exposure to the Olympics in 2014. “Not very good memories about that,” the Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman said Jan. 2 in Cranberry. “But no, ...
Kings acquire Panarin in trade with N.Y. Rangers
NHL, Sports
February 5, 2026
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artemi Panarin needed a new home after 6 1/2 seasons with the New York Rangers. The Los Angeles Kings have needed a scorer of Panarin’s stature for a whole lot longer than that. And...
Rust returns, Penguins lose to Islanders in OT
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 4, 2026
Despite having forward Bryan Rust rejoin the lineup, the Pittsburgh Penguins suffered a 5-4 loss in overtime to the New York Islanders on Tuesday at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. The result cluttered up t...
Bumbling Penguins see streak come to an end
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 3, 2026
Just like every Cypriot alpine skier, Hungarian speed skater and Romanian luger representing their respective countries, Rickard Rakell is excited about going to Italy next week for the Olympics as a ...
Bottom-six forwards spark Penguins again
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 2, 2026
Five goals in Saturday’s victory over the Rangers came from the third and fourth lines. The Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed back members of their 2016 Stanley Cup championship squad Saturday for a ceremo...
Lightning rally to stun Bruins in Stadium Series
NHL, Sports
February 2, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored the tying goal in the third period, Jake Guentzel scored the only goal in the shootout, and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat t...
Pens beat Blackhawks to up streak
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
January 30, 2026
Sidney Crosby is well educated on winning. He has a trio Stanley Cup rings stowed away in a sock drawer or a fireproof safe with a biometric lock to verify that postulate. So, he understands why the P...
Pens beat Canucks, sweep western road trip
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
January 26, 2026
Rookie Ben Kindel scores a pair of goals in the 3-2 victory. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ fourgame road trip through the western reaches of the continent over the past week wasn’t necessarily any more imp...
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By By SETH RORA-BAUGH TribLive 
January 23, 2026
Members of the Pittsburgh Penguins weren’t terribly jubilant when management decided to trade starting goaltender Tristan Jarry to the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 12. Affectionately known as “Jars” by his...
‘Everything has gone well’ for Mantha
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
January 22, 2026
Anthony Mantha doesn’t have a surplus of good memories of his time as a member of the Calgary Flames. To be clear, he doesn’t have many memories of any type in Calgary. At least on the ice. In Novembe...