Pittsburgh Penguins News

The Thrashers will get an indication of how far they've come as a hockey team Saturday.

Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar is expected to return to the lineup in less than two weeks.

It's injury season in the NHL and the Pittsburgh Penguins have caught the bug. At the start of the season, the team was without Game Seven hero Max Talbot and injuries have slowly trickled down to forwards Kennedy, Malkin and Kunitz.

This stat might come as a surprise to Penguins fans who follow the team's prospects, but Wilkes-Barre/Scranton is among the lowest-scoring teams in the American Hockey League this season, averaging 2.42 goals per game.

Alex Kovalev is a different cat. As Senators practice was winding down Wednesday, he meandered through centre ice with a puck while the forwards did a drill at one end and the defencemen worked at the other.

The trio now must adapt in a different way. With three players who were in the AHL 10 days ago manning half of the Penguins ' defensive unit, McKee, Eaton and Skoula have seen their responsibilities expand.

A Cambria Suites project has broken ground here. Horizon Hospitality and the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins are the development/ownership partnership.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to notch a third straight victory as they begin a three-game road trip with this evening's clash against the Ottawa Senators at Scotiabank Place.

Ryan Getzlaf's timing is impeccable. The Anaheim Ducks' star got off to a slow start this season after being set back by off-season hernia surgery, a procedure which also forced him to miss the development camp for Canada's Olympic team.

A less-than-full house for the Battle of Ontario cannot be a good sign in the fight for the hearts and minds and wallets of hockey fans in the nation's capital.

Penguins Stanley Cup hero Max Talbot will return to the lineup tomorrow in Ottawa.

There are a lot of reasons why the Penguins are in as bad of a slump as they are right now, but here are the top three contributing factors.

When the Pittsburgh Penguins got government funding for a new $325 million hockey arena, the team also promised to develop the area nearby.

Canadian hockey star Sidney Crosby is gearing up to run with the Olympic torch when it arrives in the Halifax area Wednesday.

The classic bar stool hockey debates usually look back in time. Who was the better goaltender, Terry Sawchuk or Glenn Hall? Which player would you build your team around, Wayne Gretzky or Bobby Orr? At least one topic for today's bar stool arguments has hardcore Canadian fans casting a look ahead, to Dec.

A few hours before Saturday night's game with the Boston Bruins, Dan Bylsma and the Pittsburgh Penguins announced that top-line left wing Chris Kunitz would miss two weeks with an always ridiculously specificA "lower body injury." Bylsma calmly explained to the media, " Chris [Kunitz] has been dealing with a lower-body injury for a while now.

An NHL general manager says Peter Forsberg is going to stay in Sweden this season.

Pascal Dupuis scored in overtime Saturday night to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a 6-5 win over the Boston Bruins and goalie Tim Thomas of Davison.

Bill Guerin ended Pittsburgh's eight-game streak without a power-play goal by scoring in the first period, Jordan Staal scored short-handed and the Penguins wrapped up Anaheim's winless four-game road trip by beating the Ducks 5-2 on Monday night.

Evgeni Malkin's return from a seven-game absence was enough to help the Penguins snap their longest losing streak of the season.