The Pittsburgh Penguins lost back-to-back games against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night (2-1) and the Carolina Hurricanes (4-2) on Thursday night.  Despite the losses, they still retained 1st place in the Atlantic Division, however they are just 1-point ahead of the New Jersey Devils who have a [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Saturday and took sole ownership of 1st place in the Atlantic Division and 2nd place in the East, 2-points ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers.  Evgeni Malkin continued his torrid leadership of the injury-riddled Penguins, scoring 3 more points [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins lost to the Atlanta Thrashers 4-1 on Wednesday, one night after beating the New Jersey Devils 4-2.  The Penguins outshot the Atlanta Thrashers 30-27, but were only able to put 1 (legitemately) past Kari Lehtonen on a chip shot by Ryan Whitney midway through the 3rd period.  Despite [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins suffered an overtime shootout loss to the Washington Capitals on Monday night in a spirited high scoring affair.  Despite the score, the Penguins were outshot 30-15 by the Capitals and were fortunate to pick up a point on the night to move them back into [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins won their 1st Sid-less game in the Crosby Era on Saturday night as they shutout the Canadiens 2-0 in Montreal.  Pittsburgh netminder Dany Sabourin picked up his 2nd career shutout as turned aside 31 shots in his first start in the last 12 Penguins’ outings (since [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins lost 4-1 at home on Thursday night to the #2 team in the league, the Ottawa Senators.  It was the Penguins’ second straight loss after winning 7 of their prior 8 games.  Despite the score, the Penguins played very well, especially coming off from an [...]

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 [...]

The surging Pittsburgh Penguins won their 3rd straight game in a road shootout win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.  The win, Pittsburgh’s 6th in their last 7 games, came off the stick of rookie defenseman Kris Letang who scored the deciding goal in the 4th round [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins winning streak ended at 3-games on Saturday night as they lost to Toronto Maple Leafs by a score of 4-2.  Despite a 3rd period surge, the Penguins were unable to break the stifling defense played by the Leafs.  Vesa Toskala, in net for the Leafs, frustrated the [...]

The struggling Pittsburgh Penguins traveled to Ottawa on Thanksgiving and overcame adversity as they came from behind twice to beat the league leading Senators by a score of 6-5 after an extended shootout.  The game, played with a tremendous amount of intensity from both teams, could well signify [...]