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Anatomy of a turnaround: Where the Penguins did better in 2025-26 than in 2024-25
The Penguins finished the 2024-25 season with just 80 points in the standings, good for only seventh place in their division and 13th in the Eastern Conference. Fast forward a year, and Pittsburgh was up to 98 points, a second place finish in their division that ranked seventh in the conference. Where did that turnaround […]
Podcast: Recapping summer so far
As we pass the midway point of July, the hockey doldrums of summer have descended upon us as they do every year about this time. Almost three weeks have passed since free agency opened on July 1st, with most of the top available names on the market already inking new deals for next season. For […]
Kyle Dubas draft profile revealed
An interesting card about Kyle Dubas’ draft tendency dropped on social media. The graphic condenses a lot of the information and analysis we’ve done earlier on the subject. One interesting area was just how much 2026 fed into past tendencies. Four of the six selections made were from the CHL – though the importance of […]
Penguins ticket prices reportedly trending down
Attendance across the NHL was up last season to record levels across the board. A rebound year on the ice meant improvements in Pittsburgh to fill the arena to 94% capacity in 2025-26, up from 91.5% in 2024-25. That 94% figure still ranks near the bottom of the league, with only six teams in the […]
Sizing up the impact from forgotten or unexpected players
The Penguins have loaded up on players this offseason, losing a few but gaining even more via trades and free agency. That’s even before getting to their young crop of players from the AHL that have NHL aspirations. That leaves a level of players lost in the shuffle that not too many are penciling into […]
Penguins announce the end of affiliation with the Wheeling Nailers
The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced the end of their longtime agreement and affiliation with the Wheeling Nailers. The announcement was released Thursday afternoon and Kyle Dubas said in a statement that the team is grateful for the Nailers being partners with the Penguins for the last 29 years. “It is only because of very unique […]
NHL Announces Penguins 2026-27 schedule
We got some of the opening games for the Penguins yesterday, today the NHL has announced the full season schedule. From the team: The Pittsburgh Penguins will open up their 2026.27 campaign on the road against their cross-state rival, the Philadelphia Flyers, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday, September 30 with puck drop set for […]
Replacing veteran goalie inputs will be massive challenge for the Penguins
In looking at Dom Luszczyszyn’s article about which teams improved the most, the Penguins only ranked 28th for offseason changes with a net rating on that model of -10. A line of the analysis stood out. It just doesn’t do enough to make up for what they’ve lost. I’m worried about their goaltending situation without […]
Is there a Penguins trade to be made with the Anaheim Ducks?
Kyle Dubas mentioned earlier this offseason that if the Pittsburgh Penguins are not able to complete a major, blockbuster move, they might need to focus on rebuilding this thing brick, by boring brick. That can take on a lot of different forms, and one of them for the Penguins under Dubas has been their willingness […]
Penguins open 2026-27 season on the road in Philadelphia
The NHL announced the first games for teams in the 2026-27 season, full schedule to follow tomorrow. The Pittsburgh Penguins find themselves with a marquee opening matchup, they’ll start the year in Philadelphia on Wednesday September 30th for a rematch of last spring’s first round playoff series in a nationally televised game on TNT. The […]
Roster movement this summer by former Penguin players
Keeping some tabs on the comings and goings by former members of the Penguins this offseason. We’ll start off with the most recent group of players that officially departed this offseason. Noel Acciari (Flyers, 2 years, $2.8m cap hit): Acciari getting a better contract than Connor Dewar reinforces the notion the Pens got a good […]
Nick Robertson’s new contract is a vote of confidence from Kyle Dubas
The Pittsburgh Penguins and forward Nick Robertson have avoided the player’s upcoming arbitration hearing after agreeing to a two-year contract on Tuesday. The deal carries an average annual value of $3.25 million. The new contract with his new team sees Robertson get quite the raise from the $1.82 million cap hit he had with the […]
Friedman: Brandon Pridham to join Pens as hockey ops consultant
Former Toronto Maple Leafs assistant general manager Brandon Pridham will be joining the Pittsburgh Penguins as a hockey operations consultant. According to a new report from Sportsnet inside Elliotte Friedman, Pridham is expected to handle contract, cap management, and planning responsibilities with the Penguins. The duties Pridham is expected to take on were previously being […]
Penguins, Nick Robertson reach agreement on two-year contract
Nick Robertson and the Penguins have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a two-year contract. Per Elliotte Friedman, it will carry a $3.25 million AAV. Pittsburgh got Robertson from Toronto earlier for a fourth round pick. Robertson was drafted by Toronto in the second round back in 2019 when current Pens GM Kyle Dubas was with […]
Stars get decision deadline for rumored Penguins trade target
The Dallas Stars have less than two weeks left to decide whether Jason Robertson will be traded this offseason. Robertson is set to have an arbitration hearing with the Stars on July 25, according to PuckPedia. That’s two days before Robertson’s brother, Nick Robertson, is scheduled to have his own hearing with the Penguins. The […]
Potential surprise players for the Penguins in 2026-27
Last summer we highlighted potential surprise players for the Penguins with a spotlight on Filip Hallander (no), Harrison Brunicke (kinda but not really), Alex Alexeyev (no) and Arturs Silovs (yep). 1.5 out of four is a .375 batting average that would look pretty good in baseball, at least. With hindsight, there were no shortage of […]
Nick Robertson gets July 28th arbitration date
The schedule of hearings for elected arbitration cases are out. Nick Robertson was set with a July 28th hearing date. Teams and players can still negotiate up to the start of the hearing date, which could also mean congrats to Nick Robertson for getting a new contract by July 28th. Last summer all 11 cases […]
Pens Points: Playing Catch Up
Depending on where you are located in the United States, the weather outside feels the opposite of what you expect when thinking about Pittsburgh Penguins hockey. For those of use living in Western Pennsylvania, the past few weeks have felt more like living on the surface of the Sun than anything resembling hockey weather, though […]
Ben Kindel summer highlights and pondering his spot in the Penguin lineup
Ben Kindel has been up in his native Vancouver this off-season in preparation for the 2026-27 season. His practice group made some headlines for the wrong reason when Conor Bedard got injured and subsequently had to undergo a shoulder surgery that will keep him out for the start of the season. There’s been no such […]
Center position a lingering question for Penguins
The subject was broached here earlier in the week, but let’s take another look at the 32 Thoughts lingering question of the offseason for the Penguins. Via Sportsnet: Pittsburgh Penguins: Can they add a centre before next season? GM Kyle Dubas has had a tricky job to balance between an aging core that wants to […]
Which Penguin would you want on your beer league team?
This is a good one from the NHL social media team, asking players who they would want on their beer league teams. Who would be the best from the Penguins? Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, duh, they stand apart as an opportunity you’d never forget to get to share the ice with some of the […]
Ranking the offseason changes for the teams of the Metropolitan Division
History says that at this point, most of the dust has settled on major NHL offseason moves now that we’re 10 days into the free agency period. Let’s check around the division to see what the most important competitors have been up to when it comes to changing their clubs next season. This outlook isn’t […]
Interesting wrinkle in recent goaltender contracts could shape Pens future in the net
Last weekend the Penguins re-signed two restricted free agent goalies at the same time. Arturs Silovs got a one-year extension for $2.8 million, Joel Blomqvist got a two-year deal. The details within Blomqvist’s salary are very interesting. It is a two-way contract in 2026-27 that has a $300k downside guaranteed salary, worth up to $850k […]
Is there a path for the Penguins to overachieve again?
Expectations for the 2026-27 Pittsburgh Penguins are not quite as low as they were going into the 2025-26 season, when it was generally expected that they would not only be one of the worst teams in the NHL, but that they were the only team in the NHL that was not actually trying to win. […]
Zam Plante offers talent, real questions for the Penguins
There wasn’t a more visible player on the ice at Penguins development camp 2026 than former fifth round pick Zam Plante. Plante finished sixth in the NCAA in scoring last season – finishing on the stat sheet around the same production as first round picks like Gavin McKenna, Porter Martone and Michael Hage. Plante showed […]
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