Things haven’t really gone to script for the Pittsburgh Penguins so far in their series against the New York Islanders. They may hold a 2-1 advantage in the series, but the eighth seeded Islanders have run the Eastern conference champions ragged over the last couple of games. The play of goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and some [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins should feel frustrated. On paper they have arguably the best group of forwards in the NHL, but they’ve rarely been able to get that group on the ice over the last few seasons. That’s going to be the story of Game 1 of the 2013 NHL playoffs as well with top center [...]

Since the 2004-05 full season NHL lockout and the introduction of a hard salary cap ahead of the 2005-06 season, parity has ruled the day in the NHL. That can hardly be better exemplified than in the fact that in seven seasons since the lockout, the NHL has had seven different Stanley Cup champions. There [...]

The business end of the shortened 2013 NHL season has finally arrived. On Tuesday night the 2013 NHL playoffs will kick off with the final potential first round games being played on Monday May 13. A season full of surprises in the Eastern conference is sure to produce some intriguing playoff match-ups. Few would have [...]

The final day of the shortened 2013 NHL season is here. It has certainly been a whirlwind with 48 games squeezed between the mid-January start and end of April finish. 12 members of the East are in action tonight. While all eight playoff places have already been locked up, there are still a number of [...]

The NHL’s Atlantic division was expected to be the most competitive division in the shortened 2013 NHL season. However, strange things happen in longer NHL seasons, let alone in a 48-game year. That certainly feels like the case this year as the Atlantic division ended up being the first division title decided with the Pittsburgh [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Islanders 2-0 on Saturday afternoon extending their winning streak to 15 games, their home winning streak to 12 games and completing a perfect 15-0-0 record in the month of March. Two of the team’s top line forwards didn’t finish the game and they started the game with several [...]

Few NHL General Managers can be argued to have had as much success as Pittsburgh Penguins’ GM Ray Shero in terms of pulling off trades that makes his team measurably better. Shero’s track record got just a little bit better this weekend when he acquired veteran winger Brendan Morrow in exchange for Penguins’ defensive prospect [...]

When Brandon Sutter arrived in Pittsburgh last summer as a part of the trade that sent star center Jordan Staal to the Carolina Hurricanes, there were few who didn’t regard it as a very good move. The 24-year old former 11th overall pick hasn’t disappointed Penguins fans so far.

Evgeni Malkin crashed head first into the boards during Pittsburgh’s Friday game against Florida after getting tangled up with Erik Gudbranson. It was announced today that Malkin has already been ruled out of the Penguins’ match-up on Sunday due to concussion symptoms. This is a story that Pittsburgh fans have heard all too often over [...]