With the Olympic break upon us, the trade deadline is under a month away. Where does each team stand, and what moves should they be looking to make? We continue our look around the league at teams on the playoff bubble; next up are the Penguins.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have long been synonymous with international excellence, and the early days of the Winter Olympics once again highlighted how deeply the organization is woven into the global hockey fabric.
On a day that Canada received a brief challenge from Switzerland in their Olympic hockey game, Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored a clever goal in the third period that helped his team earn a 5-1 victory.
Kyle Dubas and the Pittsburgh Penguins are in a position that nobody—including themselves—expected them to be in at the Olympic break. Second in the Metropolitan Division, with an 85.5% chance of making the playoffs according to MoneyPuck, giving them the seventh-best odds of any team in the NHL to make the postseason.
Latvia has announced that Arturs Silovs will be the starting goaltender for Saturday’s game against Germany. Silovs gets the start after Elvis Merzlikins was the starter for Latvia’s 5-1 loss to the United States on Thursday.
In the lore of the NHL, it's the Stanley Cup-winning teams that are remembered the most from seasons past. Yet, when looking back on the best of the best
Sidney Crosby has nothing left to prove at the Olympics. The Pittsburgh Penguins captain scored the overtime winner against the United States in the 2010 Vancouver final, one of the most iconic goals in Canadian hockey history.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have a clear priority heading into the March 6 Trade Deadline: reinforcing a battered blue line that has struggled to stay healthy and consistent this season.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have missed the playoffs three straight seasons, last making it in 2021-22. This was expected to be a season that saw a youth movement, and potentially not much team success.
Entering the season, the Penguins had a logjam on defense. Despite a couple of in-season additions already in Brett Kulak and Ilya Solovyov, it’s largely cleared out.
No one saw the Pittsburgh Penguins coming this season. Going into last summer, the Penguins looked like they were at the beginning of a rebuild and were not projected to be very good for the next few seasons.
The NHL heads into the Olympic break for the next couple of weeks. For Pittsburgh Penguins fans, it gives them a chance to watch the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League (AHL), as well as a handful of players from the NHL roster who will be representing their home countries in Italy.
MILAN, Italy -- Sidney Crosby waited 12 years to be back at the Olympics but the Canada captain said on Sunday that he sometimes felt as though no time had passed, as he stepped onto the ice at the Milan Cortina Games for the first time.
The Penguins appeared to fall back to earth in December after a strong start had them in playoff contention. A ten-game stretch dropped Pittsburgh to the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.
Hockey Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee made it official on February 8, 2026: Sidney Crosby will captain Canada’s men’s hockey team at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.
Hockey Canada announced its leadership group for the 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano-Cortina, naming Sidney Crosby as the captain, with Connor McDavid and Cale Makar serving as his alternates.
It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since the Pittsburgh Penguins lifted the Stanley Cup in 2016. Ten years later, the memories feel frozen in time, even as the sport and its stars keep moving forward.
Sometimes, hockey provides stories that seem almost scripted. Stuart Skinner landing in Pittsburgh and suddenly looking like he belongs there — that’s one of them.
Avery Hayes lit the lamp twice in an unforgettable NHL debut as the Pittsburgh Penguins put a stop to their two-game losing streak with a 5-2 road victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones addressed the 20-game suspension handed down by the NHL for violating the league’s performance-enhancing substances policy.
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones received a 20-game suspension Wednesday for violating the terms of the NHL's performance enhancing substances policy.
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are almost here. The world will descend upon Italy's Milan Cortina region from Friday, Feb. 6, through Sunday, Feb. 22, for the 25th running of the Winter Olympics.
Stuart Skinner is on an unreal run right now with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He’ll start again tonight against the New York Islanders. If he wins, it will be his sixth straight.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced that defenseman Ryan Graves has been activated from injured reserve. Graves had missed the last four games with an undisclosed injury after sustaining one during their 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames on January 21st, although at what point of the game he suffered the injury is not known.