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What To Expect When You’re Expecting Penguins Hockey: The Defense
Updated:Part 2 of this series focusing on the units the Penguins will be deploying come Saturday’s Return to Play puck…
Read more »What To Expect When You’re Expecting Penguins Hockey: The Forwards
NHL hockey seems determined to return this Saturday in the midst of a global pandemic with some freakish tournament reminiscent of that…
Read more »Do The Penguins Have a Justin Schultz Problem?
Updated:Heading into yesterday’s Trade Deadline, GM Jim Rutherford has stated his priorities: a depth forward and, depending on the latest…
Read more »Why Is The Penguins Powerplay Struggling?
Updated:The Penguins powerplay sucks. But just don’t take my word for it: Evgeni Malkin: "The power play, it sucks." —…
Read more »SEASON PREVIEW: Is This Really Going To Be The Penguins Blue Line?
Updated:Barring an extraordinary trade or some exemplary training camp standout performance (looking your way, Juuso), the Penguins blue line is…
Read more »SEASON ROUNDUP: The Bad, The Worse, and The Ugly of Jack Johnson
Updated:When the Penguins traded Olli Maatta on June 15th, there was a sense that they moved on from the wrong defenseman….
Read more »How The Penguins Built a Monster Out of Misfit Toys
Updated:If there’s a sign outside of Jim Rutherford’s office it probably says something along the lines of, “Don’t want a…
Read more »Tristan Jarry, Ian Cole, Greg McKegg, & Justin Schultz
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Read more »Could Peter Chiarelli Target Ian Cole?
Earlier this morning, Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli spoke to the media for the first time this season. In his press…
Read more »Oh no. Another McDavid vs. Crosby comparison
For the next few seasons, every Penguins – Oilers game preview will ask “Who’s better? Crosby or McDavid?” That is…
Read more »Is It Time To End The Pouliot Experiment?
There is no more talked about Penguins prospect than Derrick Pouliot. Taken 8th overall in the 2012 entry draft in…
Read more »Schultz was the best free agent
You may know me as a mediocre (at best) blogger here or elsewhere, but my education was as a meteorologist,…
Read more »Pittsburgh Penguins suffer big, but expected, losses in free agency
In the first few hours of NHL free agency, the Stanley Cup-repeating Pittsburgh Penguins have lost several key pieces of…
Read more »Fixing Olli Maatta
Olli Maatta hasn’t had a great year. Heck, he hasn’t really had a great last season and 1/4 if we’re…
Read more »Streit Outta Purgatory
<![CDATA[The Penguins game against the Lightning was a pretty standard one on the schedule. Mark Streit played against his former…
Read more »Game Recap: Lightning Start Strong, Outpaced By Penguins In 5-2 Loss
<![CDATA[As the Lightning headed into Pittsburgh they were looking to get back to business after a week filled with emotional…
Read more »Expansion Draft Breakdown: Justin Schultz
With the prospect of the expansion draft looming plenty of people have turned their eyes towards who the Penguins should,…
Read more »The Other Coach
Pittsburgh is a town full of sports characters from Mike Sullivan and his laser beam stare to the famous “pitch…
Read more »Union Blue Radio Episode 71: Wave of Positive Emotion
Monday evening, Sam, Alison, and Matt sat down to record a podcast in the midst of a Blue Jackets winning…
Read more »Pittsburgh Penguins: The Comeback Kids
If you had told me a year ago that the Pittsburgh Penguins would consistently come back from deficits of several…
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