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Penguins rally past Wild to extend point streak
Ryan Shea and Bryan Rust each registered a goal and an assist, and the Pittsburgh Penguins pulled away for a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night in St. Paul, Minn.,Ben Kindel and Anthony Mantha also scored for Pittsburgh, which earned at least one point for the eighth game in a row. Th...
Fresh off OT losses, Wild try to rebound vs. surging Penguins
Only 11 games into their season, the Minnesota Wild already find themselves answering questions about moral victories.,Minnesota will try to post the only kind of victory it is interested in -- the kind that appears on the scoreboard -- when it faces off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday n...
Bobby Brink delivers Flyers to chaotic shootout win over Penguins
Bobby Brink scored a dazzling shootout goal Tuesday, providing the difference in the Philadelphia Flyers' action-packed 3-2 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins.,Travis Konecny scored his 200th career goal -- all with the Flyers -- while Brink also scored in regulation for the hosts. Samuel Ers...
Penguins, Flyers renew rivalry amid hot stretches
The Pittsburgh Penguins and host Philadelphia Flyers both hope to maintain their strong play of late when they clash Tuesday in a Keystone State showdown., ,The Penguins are 5-0-1 in their last six games, punctuated by Monday's 6-3 home victory over the St. Louis Blues., ,Sidney Crosby notched a goa...
Penguins' Sidney Crosby scores 1,700th point in win vs. Blues
Sidney Crosby reached the 1,700-point plateau with a goal and two assists as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the St. Louis Blues 6-3 Monday night.,Crosby, who added two assists, became the ninth player in NHL history to score at least 1,700 points.,Bryan Rust had a goal and two assists and Evgeni M...
Pitt counting on new PG Damarco Minor against Youngstown St.
The fate of Pittsburgh men's basketball season may just ride on the shoulders of fifth-year senior guard Damarco Minor.,The 6-foot Minor is a transfer from Oregon State after playing his first two seasons at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.,Eighth-year coach Jeff Capel hopes Minor can fill...
Penguins, minus Rickard Rakell, look to exploit Blues' defense
The Pittsburgh Penguins will be without one of their top goal scorers in Rickard Rakell when they try to return to the win column at home against the St. Louis Blues on Monday.,The Penguins will need to get used to playing without Rakell. The winger, who scored 35 goals last season to lead the team,...
Penguins F Rickard Rakell (hand) out 6-8 weeks
Pittsburgh Penguins top-line forward Rickard Rakell is expected to be sidelined six-to-eight weeks after undergoing surgery on his left hand.,Rakell's surgery was performed at UPMC Mercy Hospital. He sustained the injury during the third period of Pittsburgh's 5-4 shootout loss to the Columbus Blue ...
Jackets let lead slip away, but sink Penguins in shootout
Kent Johnson, Adam Fantilli and Kirill Marchenko scored in the shootout to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.,Dmitri Voronkov had two goals and Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov also scored for the Blue Jackets, who blew a two-goal third-per...
Jackets let lead slip way, but sink Penguins in shootout
Kent Johnson, Adam Fantilli and Kirill Marchenko scored in the shootout to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.,Dmitri Voronkov had two goals and Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov also scored for the Blue Jackets, who blew a two-goal third per...
Sidney Crosby, Penguins ride hot streaks into matchup with Jackets
Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins are so hot that the superstar doesn't even have time to consider the numbers he continues to pile up and the names that he equals and surpasses.,Crosby has nine points (five goals and four assists) during a five-game point streak for the Penguins, who have w...
Sidney Crosby tallies 3 points as Penguins extend Panthers' slump
Sidney Crosby posted two goals and one assist to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to their fourth straight win, a 5-3 victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night in Sunrise, Fla.,The Penguins, who have won their past three road games, also got a goal and an assist from Rickard Rakell plus a goal...
Veterans clash: Sidney Crosby's Penguins face Brad Marchand's Panthers
Two of the NHL's elders -- 38-year-old Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins and 37-year-old Brad Marchand of the Florida Panthers -- are showing that they can still get the job done.,Crosby and Marchand figure to be two of the most-watched players on Thursday night when the Panthers play host to...
Sidney Crosby sets Penguins scoring mark in rout of Canucks
Sidney Crosby became Pittsburgh's career leader in combined regular-season and playoff points by scoring one of his team's three goals spanning 3:08 of the second period, and the host Penguins topped the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 on Tuesday night.,Tommy Novak gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead on a power play w...
Canucks out to continue perfect road trip vs. trending Penguins
The Vancouver Canucks are off to a strong start on their first extended road stretch of the season. ,Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Penguins aim to carry over some recent away success when they return home. ,The Canucks can improve to 4-0-0 on their five-game trip by keeping the Penguins from a third con...
Penguins stalwarts blank Sharks, keep San Jose lone winless team
Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin each scored a goal and added an assist, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-0 win over the host San Jose Sharks on Saturday night., ,Anthony Mantha also scored for the Penguins, who have won back-to-back games and improved to 4-2-0 to start the season., ,Tristan Ja...
Jaromir Jagr, 53, begins 38th professional season
Still competing in the Czech League at age 53, former NHL star Jaromir Jagr began his 38th season of professional hockey on Friday night.,The forward finished with 10:08 of ice time while playing on the fourth line in his season debut with his hometown Kladno Knights in a 3-1 defeat of Vitkovice.,Ja...
Sharks eye elusive first win as Penguins close out trip
The Pittsburgh Penguins played with the right attitude while snapping a two-game losing streak on Thursday, according to first-year coach Dan Muse.,He will hope to see the same intensity on Saturday when the Penguins wrap up a three-game California road trip with a matchup against the San Jose Shark...
Filip Hallander's 1st NHL goal helps Penguins upend Kings
Filip Hallander's first NHL goal proved to be the game-winner as the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to double up the host Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Thursday night.,Evgeni Malkin, Connor Dewar and Sidney Crosby also scored for the Penguins, who snapped a two-game skid and won for the third time this seas...
Filip Hallander's 1st NHL goal helps Pens upend Kings
Filip Hallander's first NHL goal proved to be the game-winner as the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to double up the host Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Thursday night.,Evgeni Malkin, Connor Dewar and Sidney Crosby also scored for the Penguins, who snapped a two-game skid and won for the third time this seas...