PITTSBURGH — The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins will visit with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Thursday, two days before they report to training camp.
The 6 p.m. ET ceremony will occur two hours before Pittsburgh’s other championship team, the Super Bowl-winning Steelers, opens the regular season at home against the Tennessee Titans.
The Penguins won their first Stanley Cup since 1992, rallying from Continue reading ‘Pens to visit Obama, White House’
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DETROIT — The talk was all of bounces after the Detroit Red Wings got the jump on the Pittsburgh Penguins to open the Stanley Cup final.
Brad Stuart and Johan Franzen took pucks off the lively end boards at Joe Louis Arena and beat Marc-Andre Fleury as the Red Wings downed the Penguins 3-1 on Saturday night.
The two teams will continue the best-of-seven series in Game 2 at Joe Continue reading ‘Ailing Wings get the jump on Pens’
PITTSBURGH — Gretzky, Crosby. Messier, Malkin. Oilers, Penguins?
The 1983 Edmonton Oilers, led by the youthful Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, were widely hailed as hockey’s team of the future. Cast against the three-time defending champion New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup finals, they looked inexperienced and overmatched in the first two games and wound up being swept.
A year later, a transition from old to new took Continue reading ‘Pens following in Oilers footsteps?’
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Sidney Crosby saved his most daring move for after the game: He spurned hockey superstition and hoisted the Prince of Wales Trophy.
If he keeps playing like this, it might not be the only prize the Pittsburgh Penguins’ young captain raises.
The Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals, clinching a return trip with a 4-1 rout of the Carolina Hurricanes Continue reading ‘Sweep sends Pens back to Cup final’
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The Pittsburgh Penguins are tough enough to handle when one of their young stars is playing his best. When both are clicking, they’re nearly unbeatable.
Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist, Sidney Crosby added a goal and an assist, and the Penguins pushed the Carolina Hurricanes to the brink of elimination by routing them 6-2 on Saturday night.
The Penguins Continue reading ‘Raleigh rout puts Pens within one’
PITTSBURGH — When Dan Bylsma took over as interim coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in mid-February, they were barely over .500 and nearly out of the playoff race.
One remarkable turnaround later, Bylsma earned himself a new contract and the right to drop “interim” from his job title.
The Penguins officially named Bylsma their head coach after his arrival sparked Pittsburgh to an impressive 18-3-4 record over their last 25 Continue reading ‘Pens commit long-term to Bylsma’
PITTSBURGH — The Philadelphia Flyers used the power play to go a long way toward securing home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Simon Gagne and Scott Hartnell each scored with the extra man as the Flyers beat Pittsburgh 3-1 on Sunday for the Penguins’ first loss in a month.
Philadelphia won its second in a row to open a two-point lead over Pittsburgh in the race for the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference Continue reading ‘Flyers open two-point lead on Pens’
PITTSBURGH — Chris Kunitz lost a goal and a hat trick he insists he didn’t deserve. The two points? Kunitz and captain Sidney Crosby believe the Pittsburgh Penguins very much earned both of those.
Sergei Gonchar and Kunitz scored 18 seconds apart early in the third period, Petr Sykora got the game-winner later in the period and the Penguins gained a valuable victory in the Eastern Conference race, beating Boston 6-4 on Sunday.
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PITTSBURGH — No goals for 57 minutes-plus against the NHL’s worst team. Not much jump, either. No, the Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t miss Sidney Crosby.
At least not enough to lose to the New York Islanders, who were even more dismal offensively than they were — and, in this one-goal-was-enough game, that was difficult.
Petr Sykora scored with 2:28 remaining and the Crosby-less Continue reading ‘Crosby-less Pens shutout Islanders’
PITTSBURGH — Michel Therrien says he saw improvement in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ play of late and didn’t expect to be fired as head coach.
Therrien was dismissed Sunday night, after his team fell apart during a Saturday night loss to Toronto. General manager Ray Shero replaced him with minor-league coach Dan Bylsma.
“We had been playing better the past three weeks, I thought,” Therrien said Monday. “I was really encouraged Continue reading ‘Therrien: Pens will make playoffs’
