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Flyers shake up forward lines at final practice before season opener

The Philadelphia Flyers open the regular season on Wednesday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Due to the shortened training camp and only four preseason games, the Flyers don’t have their lineup set in stone as of yet. Add in an injury to Denver Barkey, as well as banged-up Nikita Grebenkin, and there are a few more questions. PHLY’s Charlie O’Connor shared the Flyers’ lines and pairs at Tuesday’s practice. Let’s take a look at them one by one. Flyers’ forward lines in flu...

Penguins’ Kyle Dubas drops Sidney Crosby contract update ahead of 2026-27 season

Sidney Crosby has been the face of the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise for many years. Crosby is about to enter his 22nd season with Pittsburgh, and the final year of his contract. Ahead of the 2026-27 campaign, Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas is giving an update on contract talks with Crosby. “It’s always an open back-and-forth,” […] The post Penguins’ Kyle Dubas drops Sidney Crosby contract update ahead of 2026-27 season appeared first on ClutchPoints .

5 bold predictions for Flyers’ 2026-27 season

The leaves are changing colors. The morning air has shifted from balmy to slightly chilly. That coffee shop down the street has officially begun serving pumpkin spice lattes. That can all mean one thing and one thing only — hockey season is so absolutely back. With the Philadelphia Flyers just one day away from playing in their season opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins, it’s time to get sick in the head and start making some irrational (or perhaps quite rational!) season predicti...

Tuesday Morning Fly By: Season opener eve

*You can feel it in the air. The 2026-27 NHL season is starting tonight and the Philadelphia Flyers will open their season on Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins. It’s a perfect time of year. To celebrate it, the Flyers announced their 2026-27 season opening roster and it has a few interesting wrinkle. Garrett Wilson is sticking around to be an enforcer, and Carl Grundstrom is here while Denver Barkey starts the season on IR. [BSH] *Furthermore, the Flyers did get some positive inju...

Pens Points: Roster is set

There just a little over 24 hours before the Pittsburgh Penguins begin their 2026-27 season and the final touches are starting to fall into place as they prepare to head east and take on the Philadelphia Flyers tomorrow evening. The official start to the season is today, beginning with the Carolina Hurricanes raising a Stanley […]

Dubas press conference: Rust to IR, team prepares for ‘pivotal’ season

Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas has been letting his assistants Jason Spezza and Amanda Kessel do most of the talking this off-season up until Dubas’ traditional start of the season press conference today. Here are some of the takeaways: As far as injuries go: -Blake Lizotte has a big practice tomorrow to determine his status […]

Penguins finalize roster ahead of this week’s season opener

The Pittsburgh Penguins have finalized the team’s opening night roster before this week’s season-opener against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Penguins’ roster for the opening game against Philadelphia will consist of 13 forwards, 7 defensemen and 2 goalies. The opening night roster consists of Egor Chinakhov, Sidney Crosby, Connor Dewar, David Gustafsson, Filip Hallander, Ville Koivunen, […]

Scanning the waiver wire for intriguing options

The Penguins would probably figure to not use waivers to boost their lineup, given all the depth they already have. However with four players placed on IR yesterday plus the statuses of Bryan Rust (injured) and Andrei Kuzmenko (personal) still up in the air for the start of the season, the waiver wire could hold […]

The week ahead: Penguins season is back (and so are the injuries)

The 2026-27 Pittsburgh Penguins did not waste any time when it comes to accumulating injuries. The regular season has not even started yet and the team is already looking at the prospect of playing games without Ben Kindel, Bryan Rust, Blake Lizotte, and Justin Brazeu. Andrei Kuzmenko is also not here at the moment for […]

Pens Points: Opening night nears

Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… The Penguins assigned Bill Zonnon, Harrison Brunicke and Joel Blomqvist to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Sunday and placed Blake Lizotte, Ben Kindel, Justin Brazeau and Ryan Graves on injured reserve. Pittsburgh must make at least two more roster moves before Monday’s deadline to reach the 23-player limit. [PensBurgh] […]