Mario Lemieux News

It was the 1984 NHL entry draft, back in the days when it was always held in Montreal, always started first thing in the morning and always featured a lunch break after the fifth round.

Back in November 1984, when a 19-year-old Mario Lemieux was in the first month of his NHL career, could barely speak any English and was playing in front of crowds of less than 10,000 at Civic Arena, I had planned to predict that, 25 years later, he would still be living in Pittsburgh as the owner of the defending Stanley Cup champions and watching ...

The Detroit Red Wings were in position to win the Stanley Cup against the Pittsburgh Penguins last June 9, but the man who would crown the National Hockey League champion and present Lord Stanley's Cup to them wasn't even in the Steel City.

Pascal Dupuis scored the go-ahead goal with 10:47 to play, and the Pittsburgh Penguins tied an NHL record with their seventh straight road victory to open the season, 4-3 over the last-place Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night.

For some time now, the debate has been "Which Penguin is the best hockey player, Evgeni Malkin or Sidney Crosby?". You could certainly make a terrific case for both players.

We are all witnessing the evolution. With nine goals in 12 games, Crosby is off to the best start of his five-year career.

One of the Penguins who raised the Stanley Cup less than five months ago in Detroit passed through Mellon Arena sporting a different jersey Wednesday, and he wasn't hard to spot.

Pittsburgh Penguins captain and star center Sidney Crosby will carry the Olympic torch in his native Nova Scotia next month as the flame makes its way across Canada before the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Share + Oct 26, 2009 5:47 pm US/Eastern The Mario Lemieux Foundation is looking for stories of hope and inspiration in the fight against cancer Click here to submit your video entry to the Mario Lemieux Foundation now Videos must be 3-minutes or less PITTSBURGH Cancer has touched so many of our lives in many different ways; but a local organization ...

No, Sidney Crosby can't make a puck hang in midair. It only seems that way last week in the Penguins' game vs.

Wayne Gretzky was enshrined outside Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, yet there is a distance in his relationship with the Oilers.

Click on any of the images below to launch a full gallery: 1 of 11 Sidney Crosby's ring is made of 14 karat white and yellow gold with 167 diamonds.

Growing up near Pittsburgh, Zach Tatrn was as dominant in minor hockey as Mario Lemieux was on his beloved Penguins.

What's in a uniform, exactly? Since the Pittsburgh Penguins won their second consecutive Stanley Cup in 1992, the Penguins have skated inA many differentA jerseys.

There are a few freakish, stand-alone, stand-back-and-shake-your-head athletic records.

CBC analyst Don Cherry, sporting a customary loud outfit, greets a Penguins fan as he enters Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury on his rookie year, "I remember when I first started, and we couldn't give tickets away." Defenseman Sergei Gonchar arrived in Pittsburgh in 2005 after the NHL lockout and just in time for a front-row seat to a saga that saw the Penguins' future go from iffy to spiffy in just a few years.

This is not a typical start to an NHL season, because something bigger is happening: Players are auditioning for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

He's a pretty special young player, this John Tavares. Scored one goal and set up another in his first game in the National Hockey League, and pretty much made everyone in the sellout crowd of 16,234 -- as well as everyone on both teams -- pay attention every time he went over the boards at Nassau Coliseum last night.

As the club embarks on its final regular season in Mellon Arena, we recall 12 regular-season games that turned the oldest arena in the NHL into a house of memories Sunday, October 04, 2009 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Peter Diana/Post-Gazette Mario Lemieux's return in 2000 was as emotional a night as the arena, below, has seen since the Penguins debuted ...