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Rickard Rakell: trade bait?
Whether or not any trade has been close to completion, Rickard Rakell’s name has often been in the chatter as an offseason trade possibility. That’s again this case on TSN, where Rakell comes in as a highlighted player around the league. 6. Rickard Rakell, Pittsburgh – LW Rakell, 33, had 24 goals and 48 points in […]
Ron Francis joins Penguins in advisory role
The Penguins announced that Ron Francis is back with the organization as special advisor for hockey operations. From the team: The Penguins have named Ron Francis as Special Advisor, Hockey Operations, it was announced today by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas. In his new role, Francis will assist the Penguins’ hockey […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Sidney Crosby
Vitals Player: Sidney CrosbyBorn: Aug 7, 1987Height: 5’11”Weight: 200 poundsHometown: Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, CanadaShoots: LeftDraft: First round pick (1st overall) in 2005 by the Penguins2024-25 Statistics: 68 games played; 29 goals; 45 assists; 74 points; one goal and four assists in six playoff gamesContract Status: 2026-27 is the final season on Crosby’s current contract. He’s eligible to officially extend on July 1. Story […]
Mike Reilly: the next Parker Wotherspoon?
The Pittsburgh Penguins are likely looking at replacing a defenseman from last season. Pierre LeBrun dropped a not unexpected nugget that it looks like Ryan Shea will be headed to the free agency market on July 1 since the Pens aren’t interested in giving a contract with the term (likely 3-4 years) that Shea can […]
2026 Hockey Hall of Fame candidates
For our fourth year in a row, it’s time to drum up the case for Sergei Gonchar hearing his name called on Monday when the Hockey Hall of Fame announces their 2026 class. Greg Wyshynski laid out Gonchar’s case last year: Gonchar is 19th in career points among defensemen, with 811 in 1,301 NHL games. […]
2025-26 Season In Review: Kris Letang
Vitals Player: Kris LetangBorn: April 27, 1987 (Age 39 season)Height: 6’ 0”Weight: 199 poundsHometown: Montreal, Quebec, CanadaShoots: RightDraft: Third round, 2005 NHL Draft, No. 62 overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 74 games played, three goals, 31 assists, 34 total points, minus-4Contract Status: Two years remaining on a six-year. $36.6 million contract with $6.1 million salary cap number Story of the Season Letang […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Filip Hallander
Vitals Player: Filip HallanderBorn: June 29, 2000 (25 years old)Height: 6-foot-1Weight: 203 poundsHometown: Sundsvall, SwedenShoots: LeftDraft: 58th overall (second round) in the 2018 NHL draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Regular Season Statistics: 13 games played; one goal; three assists; four pointsContract Status: Entering second year of a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $850,000. […]
What can the Penguins learn from how the 2026 Hurricanes were built?
Every time a new champion is crowned in professional sports, the rest of the league looks for ways to copy or model them. It could be an attempt to model more objective things like playing styles and strategies, to more philosophical ideas like an overall approach to the roster construction. I want to focus on […]
Examining the possible ‘pathway’ with Darnell Nurse and the Penguins
Last week’s note about Darnell Nurse’s trade request got a little more interesting when David Pagnotta reported that Pittsburgh and Los Angeles were two teams that Nurse told Edmonton where he would accept a trade. Pagnotta talked a little more: Given how the Tristan Jarry trade worked out so wonderfully for Pittsburgh, it’s encouraging to […]
Regrading the last 10 drafts for the Penguins
As the draft gets closer, let’s look back at the results for the Pittsburgh Penguins over the last 10 years. We’re going off of the look we took last year, to see what changes and developments have happened in the last twelve months that might have changed the way we see the draft now. let’s […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Ilya Solovyov
Vitals Player: Ilya SolovyovBorn: July 20, 2000 (25 years old)Height: 6’3”Weight: 208 poundsHometown: Mogilev, BelarusShoots: LeftDraft: Seventh round pick (205th overall) in 2020 by the Calgary Flames2025-26 Statistics: 0 goals and 5 assists for 5 points in 14 regular-season games; 0 points in three playoff games.Contract Status: Signed through 2026-27 ($850,000 cap hit) Story of the Season The Penguins acquired Solovyov’s expiring contract in […]
First round names to know for the Penguins at pick No. 22
Assuming the Pittsburgh Penguins stick with their choice at the 22nd overall pick on June 26th (which would be a decent-sized assumption based on Kyle Dubas’ history of trading down in the first round), which players might be around for them? Overall, the 2026 draft is now considered in some circles somewhat weak and disappointing […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Evgeni Malkin
Vitals Player: Evgeni MalkinBorn: July 31, 1986 (Age 39 season)Height: 6’ 5”Weight: 213 poundsHometown: Magnitogorsk, RussiaShoots: LeftDraft: 2004 first round (2nd overall) by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 56 games played, 19 goals, 42 assists = 61 points ; 6 games played, 2 goals, 1 assist in playoffs.Contract Status: Malkin signed a one-year deal on May 26th to return to the Penguins in 2026-27 for […]
82-0 but make it all Penguins
A recent trend has inspired several different websites to pop up in order to create a team that can go undefeated. The premise is getting a random team and decade to select a player, locking in that position once it is taken out, making the strategy to blindly make one selection before the next possibility […]
Penguins trade Emil Pieniniemi to Panthers for Oliver Okuliar
The Pittsburgh Penguins offseason sort of began on Saturday with a minor trade that saw them send defense prospect Emil Pieniniemi to the Florida Panthers in exchange for forward Oliver Okuliar. The most significant element of this trade is what it means for Pieniniemi and how things just simply did not work out between him […]
The biggest Penguin killers of 2025-26
An annual summer history of the players that have made the Penguins pay the most. If you dare, here’s the past looks: This season’s look is a star-studded affair. Many of these players ripped up the whole league, and the Pens were no exception. 30 players produced at least four points against Pittsburgh this season, […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Anthony Mantha
Vitals Player: Anthony ManthaBorn: Sep 16, 1994Height: 6’5”Weight: 240 poundsHometown: Longueuil, Quebec, CanadaShoots: LeftDraft: First round pick (20th overall) in 2013 with Detroit Red Wings2024-25 Statistics: 81 games played; 33 goals; 31 assists; 64 points; one assist in six playoff gamesContract Status: Impending free agent on July 1, completed a one-year contract Story of the Season “It just goes back to all the work […]
On this date in Penguins history: Pittsburgh stuns Detroit to win Stanley Cup
Seventeen years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins stunned the Detroit Red Wings to win the team’s third Stanley Cup title. The Penguins were heavy underdogs in the Stanley Cup Final series against the Red Wings, who were the defending champions from the prior year. Pittsburgh seemed extremely outmatched during stretches of the series, losing all […]
Looking at the Darnell Nurse trade request and the Penguins
Darnell Nurse is the latest high-profile player looking for a trade this summer. Nurse, 31, has a cap hit of $9.25 million for four more seasons. He has a full no movement clause currently in place, so he’ll have a say as far as where he is going to go. Friedman reported that Nurse gave […]
On this date in Penguins history: Pittsburgh wins 5th Stanley Cup title
Nine years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins won the franchise’s fifth Stanley Cup title in team history, beating the Nashville Predators 2-0 in Game 6 of the 2017 Cup Final. The Penguins won Game 1 and Game 2 at home before Nashville held serve, winning Game 3 and Game 4 to tie the series and […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Harrison Brunicke
Vitals Player: Harrison BrunickeBorn: May 8, 2006 (20 years old)Height: 6’3”Weight: 201 poundsHometown: Johannesburg, South AfricaShoots: RightDraft: Second-round, 2024, No. 44 overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins2025-26 Statistics: 9 games played, 1 goal, 0 assists, 1 point Contract Status: By only playing in nine games this season Brunicke still has all three years of his entry-level contract remaining. Story of the Season Brunicke entered training […]
What would the Penguins have looked like if they could have kept Jordan Staal?
In hockey, as in life, the game of what if’s can go just about any direction possible. By now the story about the end of Jordan Staal’s stint with the Penguins is fairly famous since it gets repeated just about nightly on national hockey telecasts. Which, hey, why not, since it is such a colorful […]
Which Penguins have the best trade value going into the offseason?
If the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to be active this offseason in making changes to their roster, it is almost certainly going to be through trades. Not only because the free agent market is awful, but also because Kyle Dubas has been extremely active with trades in his first few offseasons running the team. He […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Brett Kulak
Vitals Player: Brett KulakBorn: Jan. 6, 1994 (32 years old)Height: 6-foot-1Weight: 192 poundsHometown: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaShoots: LeftDraft: 2012 NHL Draft, fourth round, 14th pick (105th overall) by Calgary Flames2025-26 Statistics (with Pittsburgh): 25 games played; one goal; six assists; seven pointsContract Status: Entering unrestricted free agency on July 1 after completion of a four-year, $11,000,000 contract […]
2025-26 Season in Review: Avery Hayes
Vitals Player: Avery HayesBorn: October 10, 2002 (age 23)Height: 5’ 10”Weight: 180 poundsHometown: Westland, MichiganShoots: RightDraft: Undrafted2025-26 Statistics: Five goals, zero assists in 16 regular-season gamesContract Status: Hayes is signed through the 2026-27 season on his $867,500 entry-level contract. Story of the Season Hayes played 16 games with the Penguins this season, but he still led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins with 24 goals in 42 […]
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