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Penguins breaking their goalie rotation, will it work?
The Pittsburgh Penguins are pivoting slightly with their goalie choices. Stuart Skinner has been tabbed to start a second consecutive game for the first time since joining the team when he takes the net in Calgary tonight after earning a 6-3 win in Seattle on Monday. This represents an interesting change of strategy for Pittsburgh, […]
14 days ago | 2 reads
Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Edmonton Oilers 1/22/26
Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (24-14-11, 59 points, 2nd place Metropolitan Division) @ Edmonton Oilers (25-18-8, 58 points, 2nd place Pacific Division) When: 9:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh, SN1 and TVAS in Canada, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: It’s been a lot of action lately, after tonight the Pens only have to […]
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Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Calgary Flames 1/21/26
Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (23-14-11, 57 points, 3rd place Metropolitan Division) @ Calgary Flames (21-23-5, 47 points, 7th place Pacific Division) When: 9:30 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh, SN1 and TVAS in Canada, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The road trip continues tomorrow night in Edmonton, then an uncharacteristic two-day break gives […]
14 days ago | 0 reads
Pens Points: A forceful and fun fourth line
Here are your Pens Points for this Wednesday morning… What is a traditional fourth line in hockey? Muckers and grinders with no skill? Don’t tell that to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who are getting meaningful contributions from the trio of Connor Dewar, Blake Lizotte, and Noel Acciari while the team continues to bag crucial points. [PensBurgh] […]
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Penguins trade Valtteri Puustinen to Colorado for Ilya Solovyov
The Penguins announced a trade on Tuesday, sending forward Valtteri Puustinen and a seventh round pick to Colorado in exchange for defenseman Ilya Solovyov. Puustinen, as mentioned in the last Wilkes Weekly, was climbing the ranks of the all-time WBS scoring list but will see his progress stopped with 175 career AHL points with the […]
15 days ago | 1 read
The Penguins fourth line is doing exactly what you want a fourth line to do
The Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 win over the Seattle Kraken on Monday evening was a pretty great team win. They carried play for most of the game, got some big saves from starting goalie Stuart Skinner when they needed them, quickly responded whenever Seattle pushed back, and had extremely balanced scoring from the entire lineup. They […]
15 days ago | 1 read
Crosby records historic 1,400th game in Seattle win
Sidney Crosby climbed a couple of all-time NHL leaderboards while skating in his 1,400th career game Monday afternoon in Seattle. Crosby recorded his second assist of Monday night on Rickard Rakell’s third-period goal to help lead the Penguins to a 6-3 road win over the Kraken with his 1,742nd career point. The ranks third only […]
15 days ago | 2 reads
Pens Points: Kraken Slayers
What a start to the western road trip for the Pittsburgh Penguins who put up a half dozen goals on the Seattle Kraken for a 6-3 victory on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the Emerald City. The Penguins jumped out to an 2-0 lead less than eight minutes into the game but the Kraken […]
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Penguins/Kraken Recap: Pens pull away to start road trip with a win
Pregame Pittsburgh gets Ryan Graves into the lineup and gives Jack St. Ivany a night off. Stuart Skinner gets the start in goal. First period It’s not the smoothest start for the Penguins, though you wouldn’t know if from the scoreboard. Skinner has to stop Eeli Tolvanen on a clean breakaway early. Pittsburgh gets the […]
15 days ago | 3 reads
Gamethread: Penguins @ Seattle
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Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Seattle Kraken 1/19/26
Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (22-14-11, 55 points, 3rd place Metropolitan Division) @ Seattle Kraken (21-17-9, 51 points, 3rd place Pacific Division) When: 5:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and KONG, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: Today starts another three-in-four stretch; the Pens will be in Calgary on Wednesday night, followed by a […]
16 days ago | 2 reads
The week ahead: Penguins look to keep stacking points in Western Canada
This was a weird week for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and when all was said and done they walked out of it having collected four out of a possible six points in the standings. That was a very reasonable goal at the beginning, and probably the bare minimum of what they needed to do given the […]
16 days ago | 3 reads
Pens Points: Chinakhov and Malkin finding chemistry
Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins’ newest acquisition, forward Egor Chinakhov, has found early success while on a line with fellow countryman Evgeni Malkin. [Trib Live] Injured Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson rejoined the team for practice on Sunday. He has missed the past three games with an undisclosed injury […]
16 days ago | 0 reads
Sunday Standings: Tracking the rises and the falls
The Eastern Conference this season continues to see teams surge and then fall back, fall back and then surge. Here’s the conference as of this morning. Pittsburgh, though ninth overall, would qualify for the playoffs as of today due to ranking third in the Metropolitan Division. Since Christmas, there have been some surges and some […]
17 days ago | 1 read
Penguins/Blue Jackets Recap: Crosby scores late but Columbus wins shootout
Pregame The Penguins use what they have been lately, Arturs Silovs gets his turn in the goalie rotation. First period Columbus gets the first goal of the game, a shot from Zach Werenski hits Noel Acciari and drops right to Zach Aston-Reese. Aston-Reese is quicker than Silovs as his quick shot slides on in. 1-0 […]
17 days ago | 6 reads
Gamethread: Blue Jackets @ Penguins
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Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets @ Pittsburgh Penguins 1/17/26
Who: Columbus Blue Jackets (21-19-7, 49 points, 7th place Metropolitan Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (22-14-10, 54 points, 3rd place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:00 p.m. ET How to Watch: Locally televised on SportsNet Pittsburgh and FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: This is the last game the Penguins will be playing in Pittsburgh for almost two […]
18 days ago | 6 reads
Roster improvements paying off for the Penguins
It’s been a little over a month since the trade with Edmonton sent Tristan Jarry for Brett Kulak, Stuart Skinner and a second round pick. To add a little more commentary on what was touched on earlier on this website today, the trade has been aging better by the day for the Penguins. What started […]
19 days ago | 5 reads
Early returns on Tristan Jarry trade have been promising
When the Pittsburgh Penguins traded Tristan Jarry to the Edmonton Oilers earlier this season, my immediate reaction was that it was probably a trade that needed to happen and had a good chance of working out for the Penguins. Perhaps in multiple ways. It was a great time to move Jarry’s contract, it opened the […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
Pens Points: Crosby still has that baton as Pittsburgh rolls past Flyers
Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed the Philadelphia Flyers to Pittsburgh on Thursday for a rather meaningful Metropolitan Division clash. Two minutes into the game, the Penguins claimed a 1-0 lead via a Justin Brazeau tally and never looked back. Sidney Crosby recorded another goal and assist, as […]
19 days ago | 1 read
Penguins/Flyers Recap: Pens break out of slump, down Philadelphia 6-3
The Penguins got out to an early lead, held on for dear life and gave themselves enough of a cushion to take a 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. Pittsburgh snapped a three-game losing streak and broke out of a slump where they only produced two total goals in those three games. […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
Gamethread: Flyers @ Penguins
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Ben Kindel’s goal drought is common experience for young players
Entering their game on Thursday night, Pittsburgh Penguins rookie Ben Kindel will be riding a 14-game goal-less drought. Beyond that, he has just one goal in his past 19 games going back to early December. That does not necessarily mean he has not been playing well (because he still has been), but it is still […]
20 days ago | 0 reads
Game Preview: Philadelphia Flyers @ Pittsburgh Penguins 1/15/26
Who: Philadelphia Flyers (22-15-8, 52 points, 5th place Metropolitan Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (21-14-10, 52 points, 4th place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Nationally televised game on ESPN, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The Pens get one more at home after this to see Columbus at PPG Paints on Saturday night. Then […]
20 days ago | 3 reads
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