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The 2025-26 hockey season is winding down, with many leagues deep into their playoffs, if they haven’t concluded business for the year. Let’s check in on the summer 2025 Top 25 Under 25 list for the Penguins and see what the young players have been up to since the last update we made back in […]
Vitals Player: Bryan RustBorn: May 11, 1992 (Age 33 season)Height: 5’ 11”Weight: 202 poundsHometown: Pontiac, MichiganShoots: RightDraft: 2010 third round (80th overall) by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 72 games played, 29 goals, 36 assists = 65 points; 6 games played, 1 goal, 1 assist in playoffs.Contract Status: Rust has two seasons remaining on a six year deal signed back in 2022 with an AAV of […]
Happy Sunday everyone. We’re kicking it back to important events on a sleepy Sunday and there’s a lot going on for May 10th in your Penguin history books to look back on and remember. 2001: Kasparaitis the hero It’s sometimes said that a playoff OT goal can come from the most unlikely of sources, and […]
(Wrote this for tomorrow, and then realized the date was wrong. So pull up a chair for some bonus history content..) 1992: Ronnie tips the balance of the series, and playoffs Pittsburgh’s hopes to defend their 1991 Stanley Cup championship were in deep trouble on May 9th, ahead of Game 4 of the Patrick Division […]
Kyle Dubas opened up the Pittsburgh Penguins offseason on Thursday by re-signing two depth players in forward Connor Dewar and defenseman Ilya Solovyov. Dewar, a pending unrestricted free agent, received a two-year, $4.5 million extension with a $2.25 million salary cap hit per season. Solovyov, meanwhile, received a one-year, $850,000 contract. On the surface, they […]
Three players will be representing the Pittsburgh Penguins when the 2026 men’s world championship kicks off next weekend in Switzerland. Tommy Novak and Connor Clifton will be playing for the United States at the tournament, while Parker Wotherspoon will be skating for Canada. The Penguins will also be represented by assistant general manager Jason Spezza […]
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins dispatched the Hershey Bears in Game 4 last night, booting the Washington Capitals’ AHL affiliate from the playoffs with a 4-1 victory. Harrison Brunicke scored what ended up as the game-winning goal in the second period while shorthanded. Brunicke followed up on a shot from Gabe Klassen and activated all the way […]
Piggy backing off yesterday’s article here about how the Penguins got younger last season in 2025-26, how could that move forward a year? The early projected and certainly subject to change 2026-27 roster, with ages as of opening day. Rickard Rakell (33) – Sidney Crosby (39) – Bryan Rust (34)Egor Chinakhov (25) – Ben Kindel […]
Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… The Penguins re-signed forward Connor Dewar to a two-year deal and defenseman Ilya Solovyov to a one-year contract, the team announced on Thursday. [PensBurgh] Hooks has compiled a list of players he is revisiting now that the 2025-26 is in the rearview mirror. These players’ futures […]
The Penguins announced a pair of contract extensions on Thursday. Connor Dewar and Ilya Solovyov are impending free agents no longer with the news both have signed with Pittsburgh. From the team: The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed forward Connor Dewar and defenseman Ilya Solovyov to contract extensions, it was announced today by President of Hockey […]
Nothing about the 2025-26 Pittsburgh Penguins went as anybody expected it to go. When offseason began early in the summer of 2025, there was a belief that the team would not only be bad, but that it would be one of the worst teams in the NHL. There was a common theme nationally that there […]
Before the season started, I wrote about five players I was most curious to see. Now that the dust has settled, let’s check in on how that all went. Owen Pickering It was nice to see Pickering earn some NHL time (to the tune of 25 games) in his rookie season, but his NHL stint […]
Kyle Dubas won’t be in the dark to exactly how much cap room the Penguins will have this offseason with official numbers being revealed by the NHL on Wednesday. The salary cap ceiling for 2026-27 will be set at $104 million, an almost 9% increase from last season. Figuring in all the money that will […]
The NHL announced their salary cap limits for 2026-27, and as widely expected, the league has trended toward anticipated growth of a $104 million ceiling, up 8.9% from this year’s $95.5 million limit. This cap is right in-line with league estimates from as far back as January 2025, meaning that the finances are likely on […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins are about to enter what could be (and perhaps should be) a fascinating offseason. Probably one of the more fascinating offseasons they have had in years. There is the Evgeni Malkin situation looming. There is the fact the Penguins, coming off a surprising playoff appearance, have to wrestle with the reality that […]
The World U-18 tournament just wrapped up in Slovakia, Sweden took home the gold. This end-of-season tournament can be little known and fly under the radar compared to the other events on the hockey calendar like NHL playoffs, or the World Junior U-20 tournament but it serves an important chance for a last impression for […]
Here are your Pens Points for this Wednesday morning… As the debate to re-sign Evgeni Malkin continues to be the dominant news item (and figures to remain that way until a decision is made), two opposing views on Malkin’s future with the Penguins win out above everything else: one argument is that he’s still productive […]
The Wilkes-Barre Penguins won a pivotal Game 3 in their best-of-five series against Hershey last night. Rutger McGroarty came up huge by redirecting a goal in overtime to send WBS up 2 games to 1 over the Bears with a huge road win. There were a lot of important and encouraging names for Pittsburgh all […]
Whatever decision that Kyle Dubas and the Penguins make about the status of Evgeni Malkin could be the most important or telling one of the whole offseason. Bring back the 40-year old player and that sets a pretty clear course to try and make the 2026-27 season look a lot like this past year where […]
If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to switch into offseason mode as the Pittsburgh Penguins have a busy summer ahead as they look to continue to retool and build off the success of the 2025-26 season that saw them return to the playoffs for the first time in four years. There is […]
The 2025-26 season is officially in the books for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and it was mostly an unexpected success in a couple of different ways. On a team level, they exceeded every possible expectation anybody had for them in the preseason and snapped the franchise’s three-year playoff drought. The postseason run was brief and ended […]
The NHL couldn’t pass up a Saturday night time slot on ABC and started the Philadelphia/Carolina series before the first round ended. (Sidenote, there goes conspiracy theories about leagues tinkering in results: a Pittsburgh/Philadelphia Game 7 would have filled that spot really nicely, but alas). We went 3-1 on the East in the first round, […]
Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… As the Pittsburgh Penguins and their fans begin the off-season, two of the franchise’s biggest stars are in something of a “wait-and-see” mode regarding their future. Captain Sidney Crosby hasn’t decided whether he’ll continue playing beyond the 2026-27 season when his contract expires. He could sign […]
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins split the first two games of their series against the Hershey Bears. The best-of-five series now shifts for the next two games to Hershey. It started out great for WBS, getting out to a 3-0 lead that they turned into a 4-2 win in Game 1. Sergei Murashov made 31 saves in […]
Sidney Crosby is under contract next season in 2026-27 to play for the Penguins. What comes after that will have to be determined at a later date. “Just wait and see,” Crosby said on Friday about his future status during exit interviews. “I haven’t thought that far ahead, but we’ll just wait and see.” That […]