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Rob Rossi is the Penguins beat writer. He can be reached via e-mail . Also check out Rossi's blog or follow him on Twitter .

Even constant pain in his left shoulder couldn't stop Maxime Talbot from putting on a heroic Game 7 performance in the Stanley Cup Final last month.

Along with his family, Scuderi returned from a two-week vacation. He likely came back to spend one last full day as a Penguin .

The Penguins have made it through the first four days of free agency without suffering any irreparable damage to their lineup.

Ray Shero is doing all he can to try to keep a Stanley Cup championship roster intact in the salary cap world.

Rob Rossi is the Penguins beat writer. He can be reached via e-mail . Also check out Rossi's blog or follow him on Twitter .

Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik, battling Detroit forward Tomas Holmstrom during last season's Stanley Cup final, was invited to the United States' pre-Olympic orientation camp.

Rob Rossi is the Penguins beat writer. He can be reached via e-mail . Also check out Rossi's blog .

It's easy to pick out the high point in the Penguins ' 2008-09 season. Rule of thumb: Anytime you win your final game and someone hands you an oversized trophy a couple of minutes later, odds are pretty good that is it.

Sidney Crosby has scored 21 points in the playoffs before the final round began on Saturday.

How did the Penguins, in the span of four months, go from the brink of irrelevance to celebrating a third Stanley Cup? In the following timeline that weaves its way through this special section, we highlight many of the key dates from an improbable four months.

As captain, Sidney Crosby was the first with the Cup that night in Detroit. And when the engraver begins his work, he will be the first player whose name goes on the Cup.

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

Philadelphia, and especially Scott Hartnell, made the penalty box the Flyers' second home.

I'll start a difficult post with a bit of a confession. To some extent, it's easier to go through twenty or thirty stories and round them up than it is to discuss individual stories, and that's true for a simple reason--Red Wings fans pore over every word that their "deep diggers'" produce.

The fingerprints of new Minnesota Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher, right, are all over this year's Pittsburgh Penguins.

Sunday, Evgeni Malkin looked a bit like he belonged in Las Vegas when he walked into the Penguins' locker room at Mellon Arena wearing shades and carrying the Conn Smythe Trophy he had just picked up as NHL playoff MVP.

When the Pittsburgh Penguins reached the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit, Sidney Crosby, Ruslan Fedotenko, and Sergei Gonchar held press conferences with the media, discussing their Game 7 match-up against the Detroit Red Wings.

Maxime Talbot, who scored both of Pittsburgh's goals in the Penguins' dramatic 2-1 Game 7 victory over the Red Wings;in Detroit on Friday, jumps into the crowd during Monday's Stanley Cup victory parade.

Pittsburgh's Sergei Gonchar played the last two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a partially torn knee ligament that could have sidelined him for months.