Power play continues to be the advantage
Special teams once again played a large part in the story arc of Game 5, as the Flyers continue to take advantage of Pittsburgh's lack of discipline. ...
View Article2012 NHL Playoffs: Jordan Staal unlikely hero emerging from Pittsburgh...
Playing behind Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on the depth chart hasn't hurt Jordan Staal, who has emerged as the sudden hero for the Pittsburgh Penguins, writes Scott Burnside.
View ArticleEvgeni Malkin reaches even higher mark
This was never about Evgeni Malkin arriving. When you win a Stanley Cup and a Conn Smythe Trophy and a scoring title, well, you're already here. Bu...
View Article2013 NHL season preview: Seven hottest players coming back from Europe
Scott Burnside previews the seven hottest players coming back from Europe.
View ArticleCrosby shakes off the rust in return
PITTSBURGH -- Penguins captain Sidney Crosby must have a different definition of rust than most normal people. After missing more than a month with...
View ArticlePlucky Isles push back powerful Pens
PITTSBURGH -- A night that began with a familiar celebration of Sidney Crosby's greatness and a reminder of the Pittsburgh Penguins' embarrassment of ...
View ArticleNeal picks a good time to find his mojo
OTTAWA -- A crucial fourth game that began with an optimistic bang for the Ottawa Senators ended with an embarrassing whimper. There was something ...
View ArticleIt didn't take long for the hate to emerge
PITTSBURGH -- It was probably the moment when Evgeni Malkin and Patrice Bergeron, he of the one career NHL fight, decided to drop the gloves and start...
View Article2013 NHL playoffs - Five ways the Pittsburgh Penguins can bounce back against...
The Penguins have stumbled badly so far against the Bruins, and Scott Burnside offers up five ways Pittsburgh can get back into the series.
View ArticleCan't get much bigger for Penguins
BOSTON -- From Dan Bylsma on down through starting netminder Tomas Vokoun to Jarome Iginla, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, Wednesday night looms as ...
View Article2013 NHL playoffs - Burnside: Are the Pittsburgh Penguins choking, or are the...
The Bruins-Penguins series is unfolding much like the 1997 Stanley Cup finals, in which an underrated Detroit team swept Philadelphia, writes Scott Burnside.
View ArticlePenguins focused only on Game 4
There's always a lot of hocus-pocus when a team is down 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, and while Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma acknowledge...
View ArticleScott Burnside: Is Dan Bylsma on the hot seat?
Penguins GM Ray Shero has decisions to make, and, after the Pens got swept by the Bruins, the first one might involve the future of Dan Bylsma at the helm, Scott Burnside writes.
View ArticleScott Burnside: For the Pens, it's going to be a long summer
Instead of gearing up for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final Sunday, the Penguins were cleaning out their lockers and wondering who will be back, and who wouldn't, Scott Burnside writes.
View ArticlePenguins, Malkin commit to each other
For Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero, it was never about whether he should trade Evgeni Malkin but about whether Malkin wanted to be in Pittsburgh. ...
View ArticleIginla, Bruins clicking as Penguins loom
Even Jarome Iginla, widely regarded as one of the nicest guys in the business, didn't know how this was all going to work out given the muddy water th...
View ArticleSochi Olympics - Olympics will make friends of foes
The intensity of Wednesday's Capitals-Penguins game forecasts the excitement to come in Sochi where opponents become teammates and teammates become opponents, writes ESPN.com's Scott Burnside.
View Article2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs -- Evgeni Malkin of Pittsburgh Penguins aims to...
Former NHL scoring champ and playoff MVP Evgeni Malkin returned to practice with the Pittsburgh Penguins for the first time since being felled by a foot injury on March 23.
View ArticlePens ahead despite zeros from stars
COLUMBUS -- Not sure that "puzzler" even begins to describe the current state of offensive affairs for the Pittsburgh Penguins and their roster of eli...
View ArticleNHL - 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs preview: Pittsburgh Penguins versus New York...
The last time these two teams met in the playoffs, in the second round in 2008, the Penguins were an emerging force and the Rangers&nbs...
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