The Pittsburgh Penguins will raise their fifth Stanley Cup championship banner in franchise history when they host the St. Louis Blues on October 4 as the National Hockey League unveiled its regular season schedule on Thursday. The Penguins home opener is one of four games on opening night. The Toronto Maple Leafs will visit the … Read more
Patric Hornqvist of the Pittsburgh Penguins scores a goal against goalie Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators in game six of the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Finals, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 11 The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Nashville Predators 2-0 on Sunday to clinch back-to-back Stanley Cup crowns with a … Read more
The Pittsburgh Penguins made a statement Thursday, moving within one win of a second straight NHL Stanley Cup title with a 6-0 drubbing of the Nashville Predators. Back home in Pittsburgh after two defeats in Nashville, the Penguins poured it on to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven championship series. Six different players scored … Read more
Kevin Durant scored 31 points, seven of them in the closing minutes, and the Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland 118-113 Wednesday, seizing command of the NBA Finals and extending their undefeated playoff run in dramatic fashion. The Warriors scored the last 11 points to stretch their record playoff win streak this season to 15-0 and … Read more
The Nashville Predators roared back into Stanley Cup contention on Monday with a series-leveling 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Calle Jarnkrok, Frederick Gaudreau, Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg scored the goals as the Predators swept to a deserved win at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to tie the best-of-seven series at two apiece. Nashville, who dropped … Read more
Nashville Predators coach Peter Laviolette on Monday urged the team’s fans to halt their habit of throwing dead catfish onto the ice as they prepared to host the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup. Predators fans hurled five catfish onto the ice at Bridgestone Arena in Game 3 as Nashville won 5-1 to leave the … Read more
Chris Kunitz scored 5:09 into the second overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 win over Ottawa to book their spot in the NHL finals against the Nashville Predators. The defending NHL champion Penguins were able to avoid being upset by the upstart Senators who are now 0-6 in their franchise history in … Read more
Pittsburgh goaltender Matt Murray made 25 saves and the defending champion Penguins moved within one victory of the Stanley Cup Finals by routing Ottawa 7-0 in an NHL playoff game Sunday. The Penguins seized a 3-2 lead over the visiting Senators in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final series with a chance to advance by winning … Read more
The Ottawa Senators exploded for four first period goals en route to a 5-1 rout of the defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins in game three of their NHL playoff series on Wednesday. The Senators tossed away their defensive persona as they chased starting goalie Marc-Andre Fleury from the net early then breezed to a one-sided victory … Read more
Sparked by goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, the Pittsburgh Penguins continue their quest to become the NHL’s first back-to-back champions since 1998 when they meet Ottawa in the Stanley Cup playoff semi-finals. The Penguins host the Senators to open the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final on Saturday while the Nashville Predators visit Anaheim on Friday to begin the … Read more
Nick Ritchie scored the game winner and the Anaheim Ducks ended a game seven jinx by beating the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 Wednesday to book their spot in the NHL Conference finals. The Ducks won their first game seven after losing home deciders the last four seasons in a row. They also came back from being … Read more
Marc-Andre Fleury on Wednesday stopped 29 shots as the Pittsburgh Penguins punched their ticket to the NHL Eastern Conference Final with a 2-0 win over the Washington Capitals. The Sidney Crosby-led Penguins continued their playoff domination of Alex Ovechkin’s Capitals, winning the second round series in the seventh and deciding game. Bryan Rust and Patric … Read more
The Ottawa Senators booked their place in the Eastern Conference final on Wednesday after a deserved 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers in their NHL playoff battle. Mike Hoffman and Mark Stone fired Ottawa into an early lead at Madison Square Garden as the Canadian visitors got off to a dream start. Mika Zibanejad … Read more
Alex Ovechkin answered his critics as the Washington Capitals scored two third period goals just 27 seconds apart to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 in game five of their NHL playoff series on Saturday. Ovechkin and fellow Russian Evgeny Kuznetsov scored back to back to cap a three goal third period rally and cut the … Read more
Superstar forward Sidney Crosby skated on Thursday with his Pittsburgh Penguin teammates for the first time since suffering a concussion from an illegal cross-check to the head. “He’s in the process of rehabbing,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said of Crosby, who has won two Olympic gold medals in 2010 and 2014 with Canada. “We’ll just … Read more
Defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh’s hopes for a repeat crown suffered a major setback on Monday with a head injury to NHL goals leader Sidney Crosby in a 3-2 overtime loss to Washington. Penguins captain Crosby, named a finalist for the NHL’s Most Valuable Player trophy earlier in the day, was helped off the ice … Read more
Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid and Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky were named Monday as finalists for the National Hockey League’s Most Valuable Player award. The Hart Trophy, awarded to the NHL player judged most valuable to his team, was voted upon by a media panel after the regular season. The … Read more
The rivalry between two of the National Hockey League’s best players, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and Washington Capitals counterpart Alexander Ovechkin, is about to heat up the Stanley Cup playoffs. Reigning champion Pittsburgh will face season points leader Washington starting Thursday in a second-round showdown between the NHL’s two victory leaders of the campaign, … Read more
The Columbus Blue Jackets staved off elimination in the NHL’s Stanley Cup playoffs on Tuesday with a 5-4 victory over the defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Down 0-3 and facing elimination in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series, the Blue Jackets came out hard on their home ice in Columbus, Ohio. Jack Johnson, Josh Anderson, Markus … Read more
The National Hockey League announced on Monday that it will not shut down it’s regular season to allow top players to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The NHL had sent players to the past five Winter Olympics, starting with the Nagano Games in 1998, interrupting it’s regular season to do … Read more