CRANBERRY — The Pittsburgh Penguins traded Jake Guentzel to Carolina on March 7. A few hours after the deal, which netted a package that included Michael Bunting, was announced, the Penguins absorbed a 6-0 loss to Washington at PPG Paints Arena, the by-product of their most dispirited effort of the season.
Sidney Crosby spoke about a potential contract extension during the availability. The Penguins held their locker cleanouts yesterday at the UPMC Lemieux complex following the end of their regular season and several players spoke about things including contracts and injuries.
With the Penguins missing the playoffs for the second straight year and the team potentially heading for some sort of reset, some have wondered if they could consider parting with franchise icon Sidney Crosby.
With one season left on his 12-year, $104.4 million contract, Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby said he plans to approach the team in the offseason about a contract extension.
Crosby has one season remaining on his contract and was the subject of some trade chatter this past winter.
Let’s put this out there: Pittsburgh Penguins center, megastar and team captain Sidney Crosby would not commit to much of anything as he looked ahead after the team missed the playoffs for the second straight season.
Sidney Crosby is the undisputed leader of the Pittsburgh Penguins. On the ice. Off the ice. And, not surprisingly, on the stats sheet. Crosby led the Penguins in a number of offensive categories during the 2023-24 season and, in the process, reached a couple of major milestones.
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The Pens are out of the playoffs, but the captain has done his part Way back in November we talked a little about Sidney Crosby and his hot start setting him up to make a run for one of the best age-36 seasons ever recorded in the NHL.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are still alive after 81 games. To a player, they have expressed some gratitude in context to how far they’ve come in a short time period and optimism that the hockey gods will accept their extraordinary run to end the season as proper tribute, thus granting their wish to play in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
There was an awful lot for the Pittsburgh Penguins to like about their 4-2 victory against Nashville at PPG Paints Arena Monday night. Some of them were things that happened.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are sailing in their game. However, they are doing so under the guillotine of long playoff odds and another early summer. Keeping
The Islanders clinched their fifth playoff appearance in the last six seasons with a 4-1 win over the Devils Monday night at the Prudential Center.
The Pittsburgh Penguins did their part to keep their playoff hopes alive Monday night. By the time they play the regular-season finale Wednesday on Long Island, they’ll know whether it was worth the effort they put into their 4-2 victory against Nashville at PPG Paints Arena.
“What we have to do hasn’t changed for a while now. Our game has been pretty good. We just have to continue to go a game at a time here – and that approach has served us really well and got us to this point.” — Sidney Crosby, April 2024 Pittsburgh’s captain offered the cliché after last Saturday’s thrilling 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
"Did I get the two points?" Sidney Crosby smiled upon wryly asking me this as I was walking away from his stall late Thursday night at PPG Paints Arena, this following my friendly jab in his direction about ...
In 2009, Sidney Crosby was leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to prevent the Detroit Red Wings from winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships. Fifteen years later, Crosby is still leading the Penguins and hurting the Red Wings.
Erik Karlsson scored from the top of the slot at 1:40 of overtime Thursday as the Pittsburgh Penguins topped the visiting Detroit Red Wings 6-5 to move into the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Sidney Crosby is now 10th alone on the NHL’s all-time scoring list. With a goal and two assists against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, he passed the great Phil Esposito in points with his 1,591st and recorded his 1,000th career assist in the process.
The Pittsburgh Penguins' push to make the playoffs got a huge lift on Thursday night with their 6-5 overtime win against the Detroit Red Wings. But the win is not the only thing they are celebrating.
With a goal and an assist in Thursday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings, Sidney Crosby recorded his 1,589th and 1,590th career points, tying him with Phil Esposito for 10th on the NHL’s all-time points list.
As the Pittsburgh Penguins battled the Detroit Red Wings with a potential Wild Card spot on the line, Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby reached a personal milestone.
For just the third time in his career, Sidney Crosby has scored his 40th goal of the season. Crosby scored early in the first period against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday to reach the mark.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are trying to climb their way back into a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and their captain, Sidney Crosby, is leading the charge.
It’s always a special thing in sports when a player who is considered a “generational talent” not only lives up to expectations but completely exceeds them.
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby clinched his 19th consecutive point-per-game season on Monday with a three-point outing against the New York Rangers.
Having one year remaining on his contract after this season, Crosby will have the option to leave the only team he has ever known in an attempt to finish his career on a high note.
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