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Pens Points: Girard finally finding his groove

Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… The Penguins’ top line of Sidney Crosby, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell has struggled to produce offense and has been a defensive liability early in the season. Crosby scored twice in Tuesday’s 5-3 loss to Chicago for his first goals of the season, but Rakell remains […]

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When will the Penguins top line start making an impact?

If there was any positive to take out of the Pittsburgh Penguins game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night, it is the fact Sidney Crosby scored two goals. They were not only his first two goals of the season, they were quite honestly the first time that the captain really made a noticeable impact […]

Thursday Morning Bag Skate 10-15-26

This is your thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS How Roman Kantserov is quickly establishing goal-scoring identity ( Sun-Times ) Here comes the sun: Connor Bedard is back, and the Blackhawks along with him ( Athletic ) RECAPS: Blackhawks 5, Penguins 3 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) Lardis reaches developmental crossroads as Blackhawks send him down to AHL ( Sun-Times ) Stories about Connor Bedard’s possible return ( SCH ) ( Tribune ) ( Athle...

Early season stock reports on the Penguins

Now that the Penguins are enjoying a two-day break from games, let’s check in on the first seven games as a whole to issue a stock report on the players. We’ll judge this on a number of qualifications, from raw stats, advanced numbers, how they look to the eye and general vibes over how things […]

Pens Points: Heading Further West

Coming off a loss in Chicago to open their first major road trip of the season, the Pittsburgh Penguins will now continue heading west and climb to a mile above sea level for a meeting with the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night to open a back-to-back set that will conclude on Saturday in Las Vegas […]

How past Flyers GMs responded to historic winless streaks

As the Flyers are now eight games into the 2026-27 season still looking for a win, and now winless in their last 12 regular season and playoff games combined, the rumor mill is a bit louder than it was just two weeks ago. Remember two weeks ago? Philadelphia had not won a game, but they hadn’t lost either, ready to take on the Penguins and start building brick by brick towards another playoff run, and a bit more respectability. Well, 14 days later, that is a pipe dream. Philadelphia is now one...

Blackhawks instruct Connor Bedard, Patrick Kane not to ‘cheat’ after first game together

Chicago Blackhawks head coach Jeff Blashill had a reminder for Patrick Kane and Connor Bedard after their first game playing together. It didn’t take long for Connor Bedard and Patrick Kane to make an impact on the Chicago Blackhawks . In their first time playing together on the same line, they made plays all night long and helped the Hawks snap a losing streak in the 2026-27 NHL season. Still, after the win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, head coach Jeff Blahill reminded his star duo not...

The highs and lows of young goalies (and other quick Penguins thoughts)

I am not going to say the Pittsburgh Penguins played a perfectly clean, crisp game on Tuesday night against the Chicago Blackhawks. Because they didn’t. They were sloppy at times, some of their puck management and puck support was bad, and they did not capitalize on enough opportunities against a Blackhawks team that was, to […]

Wilkes Weekly: Two resounding wins for WBS Pens

The WBS Penguins started out the gates slowly with a 0-1-1 first week, they got things on track this past week by recording their first two wins of the season in blowout fashion. The Pens went on the road and took down Hartford 7-1 on Saturday and then followed up with a 6-2 victory over […]

Wednesday Morning Bag Skate 10-14-26

This is your thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS RECAPS: Blackhawks 5, Penguins 3 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) Lardis reaches developmental crossroads as Blackhawks send him down to AHL ( Sun-Times ) Stories about Connor Bedard’s possible return ( SCH ) ( Tribune ) ( Athletic ) Why the Blackhawks’ offensive zone struggles go beyond zone exits ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) RECAPS: Hurricanes 5, Blackhawks 2 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) ( Athle...

Pens Points: Murashov slips up as Blackhawks win in Bedard’s season debut

Here are your Pens Points for this Wednesday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins fell 5-3 to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday despite two goals from Sidney Crosby, including his first of the season. Pittsburgh’s power play went 0-for-4 and has failed to score in its last 16 opportunities over five games. [Recap] Penguins defenseman Kris Letang […]