The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Boston Bruins 5-4 on Thursday night in a thrilling game that was decided in a shootout after the Bruins posted a mighty comeback.  After going down 4-0 against the Penguins in the first half of the game, the Bruins battled back to tie the game and force the overtime marker, but…

The Pittsburgh Penguins played an uninspired 40-minutes of hockey and were unable to recover in the final 20-minutes as they were shutout by Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers on Tuesday night, by a score of 4-0.  The Penguins, who were missing Ryan Malone due to the flu, played as if most of the team…

Following their 3-2 road win over the New York Islanders, the Penguins held a players-only meeting in the locker room in which there was reportedly a lot of yelling.  Good.  There should have been.  The Penguins nearly botched a 5-minute powerplay at the end of the 3rd period by allowing the Islanders several key short-handed…

I know this is a couple of days old now, but I really enjoyed watching Gary Roberts teach Ben Eager a few lessons in fighting the other night in the game against the Flyers.  For a man of 41 years, Roberts did a commendable job of showing the 23-year old youngster that you don’t get…

The Pittsburgh Penguins are now playing the way that they were expected to at the season’s outset.  They completed a franchise first sweep of western Canada on Saturday night by beating the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 in their second consecutive overtime shootout win.  It took 6-rounds in the shootout for a decision, and the hero was…