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Vitals Player: Egor ChinakhovBorn: February 1, 2001 (Age 24/25 season)Height: 6’ 1”Weight: 203 poundsHometown: Omsk, RussiaShoots: LeftDraft: 2020 first round (21st overall) by the Columbus Blue Jackets2025-26 Statistics: 72 games played, 21 goals, 21 assists = 42 points (w/ Penguins: 43 games played, 18 goals, 18 assists=36 points); 6 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists in playoffs.Contract Status: Just completed a two-year contract originally signed […]
Frank Seravalli threw out a list of 25 trade targets for the off-season. Interestingly, no Penguin players were on the list. Last summer, Seravalli included players like Erik Karlsson, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell at times. Following a playoff appearance this season, it doesn’t seem like those names are quite in the rumor mill like […]
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins faced a win or pack it in for the year situation in Game 5 of the best-of-five series against the Springfield Thunderbirds. Unlike the majority of the very closely contested series, this game wasn’t in doubt very long. Tristan Broz scored two of the Pens’ four goals in the first period, finally […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins accomplished two things this past season: Getting Sidney Crosby another run at the Stanley Cup playoffs (though it was a short run), while continuing their search for younger pieces for the future (see: Chinakhov, Egor). GM Kyle Dubas will continue to try to straddle that delicate line again this summer. And to that end, Dan Kingerski of Pittsburgh Hockey Now has suggested four young players that Dubas can try to acquire over the next couple of months. We'll start...
Since there were no upsets for conference final teams in the NHL playoffs (gah) the Penguins won’t advance their selection and are locked in at 22nd overall for the draft. With the event approaching in about a month, some rankings, mock drafts and other tidbits are starting to creep up. Now that the venerable Bob […]
When the Penguins were at the 41-game mark back in January, we made some calls on which players would have better second halves and which ones might have been in danger of dropping the paces that they had set in the first half. Let’s see how those predictions held up against actual performance. We started […]
While most of the focus for the offseason is going to be on the Pittsburgh Penguins pending unrestricted free agents (like, say, Evgeni Malkin) and what they do with their available salary cap space, there’s another group of players that should get some attention. It is the eight players entering the final year of their […]
Seventeen years ago today, Evgeni Malkin put on a show with one of the most remarkable goals of his career in the Eastern Conference Final. In 2009, the Penguins stormed back to the Stanley Cup Final by blowing past the Carolina Hurricanes in the Conference Final, thanks in part to Evgeni Malkin’s spectacular play with […]
Get ready to see Kyle Dubas try to reunite with Mason Marchment. Dubas admits that over the course of his time in hockey, Marchment is the only player who got away from him, and now the Pittsburgh Penguins president has a chance to land Marchment in free agency. Expect to see the Penguins make a multi-year lucrative offer to the pending free-agent forward the first day they're able July 1. Dubas will likely replace Anthony Mantha with Marchment in the Penguins top six, even though Mantha had a...
It’s official! The PWHL will play in San Jose next season. In a press conference this afternoon, officials from the Professional Women’s Hockey League were joined on stage by San Jose soccer legend Brandi Chastain and Bay Area skating legend Kristi Yamaguchi to make the announcement. While there are a lot of details to be ironed out before the season starts in December, there are some things that PWHL Executive Vice President of Business Operations Amy Scheer can promise. “I think there’s...
We have looked at bounce back candidates. We have looked at potential regression candidates. Now it is time to look at some of the Pittsburgh Penguins young players that could break out in a big way for the 2026-27 season. The candidates are mostly obvious, but how high should we be setting the ceiling? Let’s […]
Vitals Player: Connor DewarBorn: June 26, 1999 (Age 26 season)Height: 5’ 10”Weight:187 poundsHometown: Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, CanadaShoots: LeftDraft: 2018 third round (92nd overall) by the Minnesota Wild2025-26 Statistics: 78 games played, 14 goals, 16 assists = 30 points; 6 games played, 2 goals, 0 assists in playoffs.Contract Status: Dewar was set to become a free agent this summer but resigned with the Penguins on […]
Here are your links for today: Devils Links “Everybody knows the Hughes brothers want to play together. Maybe Jack wants to come to Minnesota now to join forces with Quinn rather than wait or have it the other way around. It would be complicated, though, because it’s hard to believe Jack would leave their youngest […]
Eighteen years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1992. The Penguins, full of a mix of youth and grizzly veterans, had made their return to the postseason a year prior, quickly dispatched in five games by the Ottawa Senators. Now a year later, […]
There’s a dwindling number of teams remaining in the NHL playoffs and a former Penguin will be celebrating a Stanley Cup championship this summer – we just don’t know exactly which one yet. Carolina The Hurricanes have roared out to an 8-0 postseason, getting halfway there without so much as losing a playoff game. Carolina […]
We already looked at some of the bounce back candidates for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2026-27 season, so now it’s time to take a look at some players on the opposite side of that spectrum that could be candidates to regress a little next season. There were a lot of Penguins players that exceeded […]
Ten years ago today, Sidney Crosby scored an overtime game winning goal in the Eastern Conference Final against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Pittsburgh had dropped the opening game of the Eastern Conference Final to Tampa and Game 2 was going to overtime with the Penguins at risk of falling behind 2-0 in the series. A […]
Sidney Crosby has broken most of Mario Lemieux’s records but the current Penguin captain was behind the former one in the CHL’s listing of their top 50 players of all-time. Lemieux was named No. 1, followed closely by Crosby at No. 2. a Other Penguin related names on the list included Paul Coffey (12), Jarome […]
The Edmonton Oilers may have made a mistake in trading Brett Kulak away. In December 2025, the Oilers sent Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, and a 2029 second-round pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Tristan Jarry and prospect Samuel Poulin. Jarry, who was available on waiver just over a year prior, had a tough stretch of…
Player: Tommy NovakBorn: April 28, 1997 (28 years old)Height: 6’1Weight: 190 poundsHometown: St. Paul, Minnesota, USAShoots: LeftDraft: 2015, third round, No. 85 overall2025-26 Statistics: 82 games, 16 goals, 26 assists, 42 total points, +1Contract Status: Signed through 2026-27 season at $3.5 million against the salary capHistory: Monthly Splits via Yahoo! Novak is the only Penguins player that appeared in every game […]
If Sergei Bobrovsky doesn't make it to July 1, Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Stuart Skinner will be one of the top netminders set to be on the free agent market this summer. But will his next job be as a starter or a backup, or something in between? He shared duties with Arturs Silovs for much of the season after getting traded to Pittsburgh, and was outplayed by him in a timeshare during the Penguins' six-game first-round playoff loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. But overall, Skinner has pl...
Yesterday started with Kyle Dubas praising Bill Zonnon as the 2025 first round draft pick was about to turn pro full time. To say Penguin management is impressed with Zonnon’s habits would be an understatement after the player showed he was going above and beyond to watch and learn the system before even joining the […]
Seventeen years ago today, the Penguins blew past the Washington Capitals in a series-deciding game on the road, sending Pittsburgh to the Eastern Conference Final for a second straight season. It was 2009. The Penguins and the Capitals were putting on a show for the hockey world with six games of what felt like uncontrolled […]
It sounds like Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins are getting their wish. After their season ended after their first-round defeat to the Philadelphia Flyers, Crosby and the rest of the Penguins went public with their thoughts on Evgeni Malkin's future. With the Russian forward's contract expiring this season, there's been plenty of speculation about Malkin's future in Pittsburgh. However, on Tuesday, Kyle Dubas released a statement and made it clear the organization would lo...
Game 4 contained multitudes for Danila Yurov. After being blanked on the scoresheet for his first six games, Grand Casino finally got to explode with Daniel Flores' iconic saxophone solo. At the end of it, the crowd shouted, "Danila!" The "Tequila" bit is the standard celebration of a Yurov goal, an...