By Brian Metzer The Penguins left Pittsburgh on a high note last weekend after knocking off the Dallas Stars 2-1 in a shootout. Sadly, the feel good vibe dissipated just 28 seconds into the first game of the current four-game road trip when Teuvo Teravainen scored to put the Blackhawks up 1-0. That 1-0 lead…
By Brian Metzer If nothing else, this season is looking like it’s going to be a blast! While the Penguins are giving up opportunities, they are creating a ton for themselves. That offensive creativity helped them score enough to hold off a late comeback bid on Saturday and they managed to beat the Monreal Canadiens…
By Brian Metzer The 2026-27 Penguins season began with questions. How would they deploy all the excess bodies they had – especially up front? Injuries helped solve that problem a bit as Bryan Rust, Ben Kindel, Justin Brazeau, Tristan Broz and Andrei Kuzmenko were subtracted from the lineup, the latter due to the tragic loss…
By Brian Metzer It feels like I walked through the doors of the Civic Arena to cover my first NHL game yesterday. Yet here I am 20 years later ready to kick off season 21. The crazy thing about it is that when I started writing about the NHL and the Pittsburgh Penguins I never…
Was it desperation? Was it the fact that the hockey world put their captain under a microscope for the past three days? Was it simply finally finding a groove after such a long layoff for the “A” lineup at the end of the regular season? I’m not sure, but the Penguins finally started to look…