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PITTSBURGH — Jordan Staal won’t be on the ice when the Pittsburgh Penguins open training camp later this month.
The 21-year-old centre is still recovering from the lacerated tendon in his right foot that he suffered during the playoffs. The team announced Thursday that an infection recently delayed Staal’s recovery.
Staal suffered the injury during Game 1 of a second-round series with Montreal. Continue reading ‘Pens’ Staal to miss start of training camp’
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Evgeni Malkin must wonder when the season will ever end. Whatever season this is.
Whatever season this is.
Malkin has played or practiced hockey for all but two months since August 2008, a laborious grind even for a 23-year-old who is one of the NHL’s best players. That’s 203 regular season and playoff games in 19 months for the Pittsburgh Penguins center, plus four more in the Olympics, during what must seem like one Continue reading ‘Rite of Spring: Sens, Pens meet for third time’
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero doesn’t think it was fair Sidney Crosby received criticism after declining an opportunity to appear on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
The New York Post ran a story Sunday questioning Crosby’s decision to turn down an invitation to read the show’s Top 10 list during a stop in New York last week. The column ran under the headline: “Crosby blows NHL’s Continue reading ‘Pens GM defends Crosby in Letterman snub’
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins owner Mario Lemieux watched most of the team’s lengthy 90-minute practice, which made it a different day than usual for the Stanley Cup champions.
The boss was in the house, and he clearly wasn’t there to socialize following the end of an 0-4 road trip.
The coach wasn’t very happy, either. Dan Bylsma originally scheduled a day off Monday following two games in Florida Continue reading ‘Lemieux takes in struggling Pens practice’
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’
