Flyers 2026-27 Schedule Breakdown
The 2026-27 season should start with a bang for the Philadelphia Flyers. Five months and one day after beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 in overtime to clinch their first-round series…
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The 2026-27 season should start with a bang for the Philadelphia Flyers. Five months and one day after beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 in overtime to clinch their first-round series…
The Pittsburgh Penguins still have plenty of questions entering the 2026-27 season, but the picture is not all negative. This is not a finished roster, and it would be a…
Every summer we take a look at the top young players within the Pittsburgh Penguins organization in our Top 25 Under 25 feature. The list is meant to be less predictive of the future and more of a snapshot in time for how players stack up in terms of their value today when attempting to […]
Josh Yohe questions Pittsburgh Penguins' veteran-heavy rebuild strategy.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are being tied in potential trade interest to a young center this offseason. The Athletic’s Josh Yohe reported Monday “two different sources in the Penguins’ organization” told him Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas is “intrigued” by Shane Wright. Yohe noted, however, “the asking price for Wright is, to put it lightly, substantial, […]
The Shane Wright sweepstakes continue in Seattle. According to multiple reports, the Kraken have made it known around the league they are interested in moving out the former No.4 overall pick. Wright's development hasn't been what was expected of him in Seattle to this point, and the organization wants to give him a fresh start. Insert the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins are intrigued by the idea of trading for Seattle Kraken center Shane Wright, sources told The Athletic's Josh Yohe . The ...
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The conversation about Anthony Mantha and the New Jersey Devils continued into the weekend. He’s secured in New Jersey on […]
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 […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins do not need one miracle breakout to change the direction of their 2026-27 season. They need several internal players to take real steps at the same time.…
Nick Robertson spent his entire career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, before he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1. Robertson signed a two-year contract extension worth $6.5 million with the Penguins on July 14, reuniting with Kyle Dubas and Jason Spezza. The 24-year-old could benefit from a change of scenery, and reflected…
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2026-27 schedule does not just show when they play. It shows when the season could start to tilt. Every team has rough travel pockets, rivalry games and…
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 […]
Pittsburgh Penguins’ forward Connar Dewar celebrates a goal against the Utah Mammoth. Tenei koutou katoa, It’s your tenacious Kiwi limpet, back for another number crunch. If you missed the first article, True Value: An Apples vs Apples Scouting Tool , it goes into detail about how I went about creating the True Value metric, so please click the link to give it a read. Last week, I thought my True Value ( TV ) metric found a gem in Alex Newhook , who I wrongly assumed was underva...
The Pittsburgh Penguins have more options than they had a few months ago. That should create competition, but it also creates pressure. President of hockey operations and general manager Kyle…
There’s been plenty of debate about what Anthony Mantha will actually bring to the New Jersey Devils. The 31-year-old winger […]
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 […]
Here are your links for today: Devils Links Anthony Mantha is a Devil: “Mantha is coming off a career season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, totaling 33 goals and 64 points in 81 games. He is due to regress from those numbers, but he should still be a productive winger for the Devils. Let’s look at […]
We now know who the Philadelphia Flyers play against and where and when for all 84 games of the 2026-27 season, as the team announced their full schedule , so we can plan accordingly. But what games specifically should we circle on our calendar to really be locked in for? We have eight (or 10) games that should really get noticed by every single Flyers fan and anyone reading this website in the middle of July should surely prioritize these matchups. September 30 – vs. Penguins I...
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 […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltending situation might be exciting, but that does not make it safe. If anything, it might be the clearest example of where Pittsburgh’s youth movement could either…
The Pittsburgh Penguins do not have to trade a veteran just because the roster is changing. That would be too simple, and it would ignore the fact that Sidney Crosby…
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 […]
The NHL has officially announced the full schedule for the 2026-27 regular season, returning to 84 games for the first time since the 1993-94 season. Our 84-game schedule for 2026-27 is here! Details ↓ #GoHabsGo https://t.co/bndflqUBMt — Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) July 16, 2026 The Montreal Canadiens will start on the road on the NHL’s opening night, Tuesday, September 29 in Toronto to take on the new-look Maple Leafs. They will also face off against the Pittsburgh ...
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 […]