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The NHL free agency period doesn't begin until Wednesday, but the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins locked up one of their own on Monday.

Mike Prisuta is a sports columnist for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7923. As it turns out, formulating a plan to get the Stanley Cup from British Columbia to Boston, and from Grand Rapids, Minn., to the Czech Republic in the days allotted for the Penguins to individually celebrate winning was a little more ...

As the Penguins continue their victory tour around the city, Ray Shero is already back to work.

As you might have heard, the Penguins are Stanley Cup champions. Unfortunately, they won't have long to savor the moment.

Pegged as the next Hockey megastar from the time he was a teenager, Crosby needed just four pro seasons to win a Cup at age 21, becoming the youngest captain to raise the trophy.

ANY QMJHL FAN who watched the Pittsburgh Penguins clinch the Stanley Cup last week had to notice the junior league's influence on the outcome.

Goligoski re-signs with Penguins Alex Goligoski, seen posing with the Stanley Cup after the Penguins' Game 7 victory in Detroit, has signed a new three-year contract with Pittsburgh.

When the Pittsburgh Penguins were defeated in the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, no one with a computer or a pen or a job at any major sports outlet was giving them a chance of returning to the Finals the following season... by Eric K 108 reads When the Pittsburgh Penguins were defeated in the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, no one with a computer or a pen or a ...

Will the same crew still be around for another run at glory? It's never too soon to talk repeat as the Penguins will have big salary cap issues and blueline problems to overcome in their quest for a second Stanley Cup.

Ninety minutes into his run as general manager of a Stanley Cup champion, Ray Shero still was on the ice at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

The Stanley Cup, the monstrous silver chalice that represents the NHL championship, has more tales attached to it than it does silver rings.

The old hockey maxim that "Excuses are for losers" seems a little vicious on the surface.

Evgeni Malkin has the MVP that matters most. For leading the playoffs in points - and the Penguins to the Stanley Cup with a 2-1 win on Friday at Detroit - Malkin earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason Most Valuable Player.

Penguins coach Dan Bylsma opened Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday by matching C Jordan Staal's line against the Red Wings ' unit that included Cs Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk .

Penguins center Jordan Staal's shorthanded goal was the first by the Penguins in 30 post-season games, dating to Evgeni Malkin's insurance goal in a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2008 Eastern Conference final.