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Penguins F Kevin Hayes (upper body) week-to-week
The Pittsburgh Penguins placed forward Kevin Hayes on injured reserve Monday with an upper-body injury.,The move is retroactive to his last appearance on Nov. 5, meaning he could return Wednesday against Detroit.,Head coach Mike Sullivan told reporters on Sunday, however, that Hayes is considered we...
Short-handed Islanders aim to quell Penguins' momentum
The New York Islanders know the task at hand is to make sure the season isn't lost by the time their injured stars return.,The Islanders aim to emerge from a slump Tuesday night when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins in a battle of longtime Metropolitan Division rivals.,The Islanders were off Monday...
Sidney Crosby scores twice again, Penguins sink Habs
Sidney Crosby scored twice as the Pittsburgh Penguins topped the visiting Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Saturday night.,Blake Lizotte had the other goal for the Penguins. Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for his third career win over the Canadiens. Pittsburgh has now won back-to-back games for just the se...
Hurricanes open long road trip against productive Penguins
Special moments already have come for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes this season., ,Each team will be looking for more when they meet Friday night in Pittsburgh., ,The Penguins split their first four games before defeating the visiting Buffalo Sabres 6-5 in overtime Wednesday night ...
William Nylander scores twice as Leafs knock off Penguins
William Nylander scored two goals -- one into an empty net -- and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Saturday night.,Mitch Marner added a goal and an assist and Matthew Knies also scored for the Maple Leafs in their home opener and the start of a four-game home ...
After playoff disappointment, Rangers begin season vs. Pens
The New York Rangers hope to take their first step toward their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history when they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins in the season opener for both teams on Wednesday.,The Rangers finished with the most points in the NHL last season (114) under first-year coach Peter Laviole...
Penguins acquire F Kevin Hayes, pick from Blues
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired veteran forward Kevin Hayes and 2025 second-round draft pick from the St. Louis Blues on Saturday in exchange for future considerations.,Hayes, 32, signed a seven-year, $50 million extension with the Philadelphia Flyers in July 2019 before he was traded to the Blues ...
Say what you want about the NBA, it still values its titans
For all the misguided complaints about the melodrama that can be the NBA at times, or the claims that its “wokeness” will be its ruin, or how the league beats itself up over load management or whatever else, it still offers something that none of the other three non-NFL leagues can. And that’s regul...
The Penguins lasted longer than they were supposed to
In the salary-cap era of the NHL, no team gets to go out on their shield, really. The Datsyuk-and-Zetterberg era of the Wings fled to the Eastern Conference, took a couple first-round beatdowns, and then slipped into the playoff-less ooze that the organization only might just be emerging from. Ovech...
NHL 'tough guys' are always cheapshot artists; The cause of increased scoring revealed
For a sport that really loves to tout how tough its players are, hockey players don’t seem to have much tolerance for anything that makes them feel bad in the slightest. At least on the ice. Morgan Rielly of Toronto was just the latest to wet himself when an opponent reminded him just a little too m...
The Pittsburgh Penguins are on the brink
No one ever wants to admit the end is coming, much less is here. Especially when there are signs that it’s still a bit of a ways off, if one knows where to look. There will come a day when the Pittsburgh Penguins will recede into the background, which they haven’t really done since the beginning of ...
This might be Sidney Crosby’s masterpiece, because it has to be
It hasn’t worked in Pittsburgh. While the Penguins made perhaps the offseason’s splashiest move by trading for Erik Karlsson, pairing another surefire Hall of Famer with the three they already had, they’re still only being propped up in the Metro Division by the pointless Blue Jackets. They’re only ...
The Washington Capitals only exist for one reason now
The NHL spent a good decade trying to revolve their league around a Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals rivalry, and more to the point, a Sidney Crosby-Alex Ovechkin one. Unable to come up with any original ideas, because it’s the NHL, it did its best to copy the Bird-Magic dynamic from the NBA ...
If Penguins GM Kyle Dubas is going to go down, it’s going to be with the most flames possible
Whatever Pittsburgh Penguins GM Kyle Dubas’s analytic-rep is, he’s going to be remembered for always opting for the big swing. While he may have been championed as a hockey sabermetric darling who rose to the biggest chair in the sport in Toronto, those that deride him would happily point out that a...
No one wants to get their teeth kicked through their skull by the Bruins
If the NHL ever considered instituting its own play-in tournament, and they have, and last night’s Lakers-Timberwolves what-have-ya wasn’t enough to dissuade them, then the Islanders and Penguins have recently showed the league that were they forced to waylay into each other in a single-elimination ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins might be toast
I could stop a comet. ...
Tom Brady's not the only star who couldn't quit the spotlight
For the second straight Feb. 1, Tom Brady retired from the National Football League. His first retirement lasted all of 40 days, coming back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers minutes after the NCAA Tournament field was chosen on Selection Sunday. He’s now retired “for good” and the entire sports world kno...
Here come the Pens again, falling on our heads like a memory
The NHL season has been invigorated by some surprise teams and new blood announcing themselves as either contenders now or soon to be. The New Jersey Devils sit atop the Metropolitan by open lengths, redefining what the Devils mean as a whole with their obscene amounts of speed and skill. The Dallas...
It’s time for the yearly symposium on whether this is finally it for the Penguins
This is yet another distasteful side effect of the NHL’s salary cap. Fans and observers of a certain team, especially a successful one, have to start judging just how much sand is left in the hourglass. They have to weigh the age of the best players, salaries of those players, when contracts run out...
Here are the Penguins again, hanging around, hanging around, can’t get rid of them…
In a world where the Patriots didn’t exist (and what a world that would be), perhaps the gold (and black) standard for bucking against the tides, refusing to be victims of a salary cap and system specifically designed to prevent sustained success, and just general obstinance would be the Pittsburgh ...