Prospect Brunicke knocking on NHL’s door
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By MATTHEW PURUCKER TribLive 
July 8, 2025
Harrison Brunicke entered Pittsburgh Penguins development camp at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex coming off a breakthrough year. Among other accomplishments, Brunicke made his professional debut with the...
Penguins trade Nedeljkovic to SJ
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
July 2, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins traded goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday in exchange for a third-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft. Nedeljkovic, 29, is entering the final year ...
Goalie market dries up as NHL teams scramble
NHL, Sports
By By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer 
July 2, 2025
It is not a good time to be an NHL team in need of a goaltender. Fewer than a dozen who played in the league last season were available as unrestricted free agents, Detroit acquired John Gibson from A...
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
July 1, 2025
Kyle Dubas was beaming about his club’s future. In a somewhat ostentatious presentation by the Pittsburgh Penguins at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry on Monday, Dubas stood up on the stage co...
Penguins hire Mike Stothers as an assistant coach
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
July 1, 2025
The Pittsburgh Penguins hired Mike Stothers as an assistant coach. That appointment was announced Monday. Stothers, 63, is expected to oversee the team’s defensemen and penalty kill. A native of Toron...
Pens’ third-round pick has local ties
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
June 30, 2025
Charlie Trethewey played in the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite youth program. Charlie Trethewey will be somewhere familiar later this week: UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. He has been in the auxi...
Penguins select center Kindel with 1st-round pick
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
June 28, 2025
With the 11th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected forward Benjamin Kindel of the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen. Kindel, 18, is a 5-foot-10, 181-pound r...
Islanders choose Erie defenseman with No. 1 pick
NHL, Sports
June 28, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The New York Islanders selected defenseman Matthew Schaefer with the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft Friday night. High-scoring forward Michael Misa went second overall to the San Jose ...
An 84-game season is one change with NHL’s labor deal
NHL, Sports
By By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer 
June 28, 2025
An 84-game season is coming to the NHL as part of an extension of the collective bargaining agreement, which is expected to be announced as soon as Friday before the first round of the draft. The leag...
Don’t expect Dubas to use all of Penguins’ draft picks
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
June 27, 2025
At the end of the business day March 7 — or at least as it pertains to the NHL’s trade deadline that afternoon — Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas offered something of an inventory of...
Mogilny, Chara, Keith among Hockey HOF selections
NHL, Sports
By By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer 
June 25, 2025
Alexander Mogilny’s long wait for the Hockey Hall of Fame is over, as the high-scoring Russian winger was selected Tuesday as part of the eight-member class of 2025. Mogilny was joined by fellow forme...
Wang set to become 3rd Chinese-born player selected
NHL, Sports
By By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer 
June 25, 2025
Invited to watch his first hockey practice at an ice rink in Beijing, Haoxi Wang was no different than any impressionable, wide-eyed 4-yearold being fascinated by the equipment the players wore. They ...
Panthers celebrate back-to-back Cups with parade Sunday
NHL, Sports
June 23, 2025
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Champagne was swilled and spilled, cigars were smoked and the Stanley Cup was hoisted a few more times, all with about 400,000 people watching. The Florida Panthers are ge...
Top prospect Schaefer already making impact off ice
NHL, Sports
By By JOHN WAWROW AP 
June 23, 2025
When the time comes for defenseman Matthew Schaefer to take the stage at the NHL draft inside the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles this week, the top-ranked prospect won’t be climbing the stairs alone. ...
Hockey rides into offseason with full-on buzz
NHL, Sports
By By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer 
June 20, 2025
The 4 Nations Face-Off in February was meant to provide a taste of international competition a year before the Winter Olympics because it had been nearly a decade since the NHL’s top players were able...
Marchand played big role in Panthers’ second championship
NHL, Sports
June 20, 2025
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand sure made himself at home in Florida. Now he’s a two-time Stanley Cup champion. Getting Marchand at the trade deadline from Boston for what ended up being a single f...
Panthers repeat as Stanley Cup champs
NHL, Sports
June 18, 2025
Sam Reinhart scored four goals Tuesday as Florida wrapped up the series with a convincing win. SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Stanley’s stay in South Florida is getting extended. The Florida Panthers repeated a...
Crosby named to Canada’s preliminary Olympic roster
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
June 17, 2025
Every participating nation in the 2026 Games had to select six players by Monday. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby was named to Canada’s preliminary roster for the 2026 Olympics, which will b...
Is McDavid producing enough for the Oilers?
NHL, Sports
By By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer 
June 17, 2025
It took until 13 minutes left in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final for Connor Mc-David to score his first goal of the series, and it was after he and the Edmonton Oilers fell behind 3-0 to the Florida P...
NHL, Sports
STANLEY CUP NOTEBOOK
June 17, 2025
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s anyone’s guess who starts in goal for the Edmonton Oilers when they face elimination in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night....