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Welcome to the 6/14 edition of the PhHN Daily! We’ve got plenty of Flyers news to go over, like the […] The post PhHN Daily: Flyers Rumors; Penguins Trade; Markstrom On the Move? appeared first on Philly Hockey Now .
The Pittsburgh Penguins have bid adieu to a former third-round pick who was suspended for a chunk of last season, in exchange for the rights to a player who spent this past year winning a championship in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). 🚨 An AHL-level TRADE 🚨 #Pens traded LHD Emil Pieniniemi to Florida in exchange to the rights to forward Oliver Okuliar. Okuliar, 26, is an unsigned RFA on a 2-year deal with Skellefteå AIK (SHL) through 2026-27. He had 15G-14A in 46GP there in 2025-26. @I...
The Pittsburgh Penguins offseason sort of began on Saturday with a minor trade that saw them send defense prospect Emil Pieniniemi to the Florida Panthers in exchange for forward Oliver Okuliar. The most significant element of this trade is what it means for Pieniniemi and how things just simply did not work out between him […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins put the Eastern Conference on notice this season when they unexpectedly made the playoffs for the first time since 2022. It wasn’t a long playoff stint, but…
An annual summer history of the players that have made the Penguins pay the most. If you dare, here’s the past looks: This season’s look is a star-studded affair. Many of these players ripped up the whole league, and the Pens were no exception. 30 players produced at least four points against Pittsburgh this season, […]
The Dallas Stars are crunched for cap space. And the biggest casualty, despite the team making him their No. 1 priority this offseason, could be Jason Robertson. The three-time 40-goal scorer is a restricted free agent, and he is reportedly seeking a new contract that will be at least on par with his teammate Mikko Rantanen's $12M AAV salary. And potentially significantly higher. With only about $10M in projected cap space right now for next season's roster, the Stars can't fit in an ext...
Seventeen years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins stunned the Detroit Red Wings to win the team’s third Stanley Cup title. The Penguins were heavy underdogs in the Stanley Cup Final series against the Red Wings, who were the defending champions from the prior year. Pittsburgh seemed extremely outmatched during stretches of the series, losing all […]
Staal is now one goal shy of the modern NHL record for the most in a Stanley Cup Final.
Among the three-to-five teams that Edmonton Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse is willing to accept a trade to are believed to be the Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins, The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta reported Thursday. A week after a report from Sportsnet’s Mark Spector indicated the Oilers would be approaching Nurse to see if he’d be willing…
Darnell Nurse is the latest high-profile player looking for a trade this summer. Nurse, 31, has a cap hit of $9.25 million for four more seasons. He has a full no movement clause currently in place, so he’ll have a say as far as where he is going to go. Friedman reported that Nurse gave […]
Winning the Stanley Cup is one of the most challenging accomplishments a professional hockey player can achieve. If you don’t believe it, ask some of the members of the Hockey…
Yesterday in Hockey History: June 10 Tomorrow in Hockey History: June 12 June 11 has been a very exciting day in NHL history. One franchise’s 45-year wait to wear the…
Nine years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins won the franchise’s fifth Stanley Cup title in team history, beating the Nashville Predators 2-0 in Game 6 of the 2017 Cup Final. The Penguins won Game 1 and Game 2 at home before Nashville held serve, winning Game 3 and Game 4 to tie the series and […]
Vitals Player: Harrison BrunickeBorn: May 8, 2006 (20 years old)Height: 6’3”Weight: 201 poundsHometown: Johannesburg, South AfricaShoots: RightDraft: Second-round, 2024, No. 44 overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 9 games played, 1 goal, 0 assists, 1 point Contract Status: By only playing in nine games this season Brunicke still has all three years of his entry-level contract remaining. Story of the Season Brunicke entered training […]
In hockey, as in life, the game of what if’s can go just about any direction possible. By now the story about the end of Jordan Staal’s stint with the Penguins is fairly famous since it gets repeated just about nightly on national hockey telecasts. Which, hey, why not, since it is such a colorful […]
If the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to be active this offseason in making changes to their roster, it is almost certainly going to be through trades. Not only because the free agent market is awful, but also because Kyle Dubas has been extremely active with trades in his first few offseasons running the team. He […]
Kyle Dubas held a nearly 40-minute end-of-season press conference and by the time it was over, the team's next steps seemed pretty clear. The Pittsburgh Penguins are not bottoming out, but they're not running it back either. They are looking for the trade that splits the difference. Per Pittsburgh Hockey Now's Dan Kingerski , Dubas said explicitly that he wants to acquire impact players in their mid-to-late 20s who can play immediately and be part of the franchise's future simultaneously...
Vitals Player: Avery HayesBorn: October 10, 2002 (age 23)Height: 5’ 10”Weight: 180 poundsHometown: Westland, MichiganShoots: RightDraft: Undrafted2025-26 Statistics: Five goals, zero assists in 16 regular-season gamesContract Status: Hayes is signed through the 2026-27 season on his $867,500 entry-level contract. Story of the Season Hayes played 16 games with the Penguins this season, but he still led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins with 24 goals in 42 […]
The Toronto Marlies just keep finding ways to win, and now they’re off to the Calder Cup Finals. Two overtime wins, an entertaining 5-1 victory, and a win in which they were outshot 36-16 helped them take their best-of-seven series against the WBS Penguins and capture the conference title. This was, for my money, the […] The post What have we learned from the Toronto Marlies’ Eastern Conference championship playoff run? appeared first on Maple Leafs Hotstove .
Vitals Player: Ben KindelBorn: April 19, 2007 (Age 18 season)Height: 5’ 11”Weight: 182 poundsHometown: Coquitlam, British Columbia, CanadaShoots: RightDraft: 2025 first round (11th overall) by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 77 games played, 17 goals, 18 assists = 35 points ; 6 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists in playoffs.Contract Status: Kindel has two years left on his entry level contract valued at a miniscule $986,250 […]
The Toronto Marlies are heading to the 2026 Calder Cup Finals after capturing the Richard F. Canning Trophy as the Eastern Conference champions with a 2-1 overtime victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Let’s jump back in time to the 2021 prospect pool for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was not a very good time for the youth in the organization, considering that the Pens only made one first round pick from 2016-21 during their period of maximizing the contending window in those days. Part of the price for […]
Welcome to trade rumor season, which is now in full swing with the news of Dylan Larkin’s request for a trade out of Detroit. The Ottawa Citizen, just a couple days prior, reported that the Islanders have been exploring the market for Mathew Barzal. While both players should be interesting to every team in the […]
Things did not go well for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Friday night, dropping Game 5 of their Eastern Conference Finals series to the Toronto Marlies by a 5-1 margin. It was close game into the third period before the Marlies erupted late in the game to take over. It sends the series back to Northeast […]
It’s getting to be mock draft season with the event now three weeks away, let’s check on a few of them. 22. Pittsburgh Penguins: Adam Novotny, LW (Peterborough Petes, OHL) Novotný would be a stellar pick here. He’s a rugged forward with an excellent shot – something we saw plenty of times with Peterborough. Novotný surpassed the […]