Sidney Crosby said "the urgency is heightened" for the Penguins after the Flyers won the first two games of their first-round playoff series.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are officially in trouble. What started as a hopeful playoff run has now spiraled into a two-game deficit heading to Philadelphia.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are right on the edge of a collapse. After dropping two straight at home to the Philadelphia Flyers, they now head into Game 3 on April 22 with their season hanging by a thread.
How many of the most recent players to score at least 40 goals in one season for each NHL franchise can you name in five minutes?
The highly anticipated return of the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup Playoffs has not gone at all according to plan for Sidney Crosby and company.
There have been successful rookie seasons in NHL history, and there have been superior efforts worth celebrating time and time again. Here's our list of the 25 notable seasons from those with official rookie status, as deemed by the NHL, in reverse chronological order.
Coming into the Stanley Cup playoffs, it had to feel good to be a Pittsburgh Penguins fan. Making the playoffs in what was meant to be a down year certainly felt good enough, but nearly everyone predicted them to move past their first-round opponents, the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Pittsburgh Penguins felt like they had the perfect mix to do something special this postseason. Time is running short for the trio of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang to go on one more Stanley Cup run together.
Philadelphia Flyers forward Porter Martone can't legally buy a beer, and at the rate he's going, he'll never have to. Based on his incredible NHL career start, which continued Monday, he'll have a line of people in Philadelphia ready to pick up his tab.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are here, and the Pittsburgh Penguins are back in the dance. It’s the Keystone State Clash in Round 1, as Pittsburgh drew its cross-state rival, the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Pittsburgh Penguins made an improbable run to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, drawing the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round. The Penguins fell to the Flyers in Game 1, losing 3-2.
The Pittsburgh Penguins dropped a disappointing game to the Philadelphia Flyers, in Game 1 of their playoff series. Philadelphia topped Pittsburgh Saturday, 3-2.
The Philadelphia Flyers received a huge boost to their playoff push late in the season when 2025 first-round pick and top prospect Porter Martone left Michigan State and signed his first NHL contract.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are finally back in the Stanley Cup playoffs after missing out since 2022. They finished the season with 98 points and took second place in the Metropolitan Division, a big turnaround after three years of decline.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have had perhaps the most surprising season of any of the Eastern Conference playoff teams. It’s one thing to return to form after one bad season like the Boston Bruins, but it’s quite another to get back into form after three straight non-playoff seasons.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are skating back into the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a lengthy absence. Pittsburgh is starting up a series on Saturday against their in-state rival, the Philadelphia Flyers.
There have been 54 players to record multiple hat tricks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the NHL's Modern Era (since 1967-68) can you name in six minutes?
The Penguins placed defenseman Mathew Dumba on unconditional waivers Thursday for the purposes of terminating his contract, per PuckPedia. Since Pittsburgh’s regular season schedule has concluded, the pending unrestricted free agent won’t miss out on any pay.
Everybody counted the Pittsburgh Penguins out in 2026, but they got off the mat and proved them wrong. They are back in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and they have their eyes set on a deep run.
The Pittsburgh Penguins wrapped up the regular season with a 7-5 loss at the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday, but most headlines focused on a decision in net made by the Pens that could carry into the postseason.
Every general manager in the NHL makes a bad trade. Some are ones that stick with them throughout their careers. For former Toronto Maple Leafs GM (now Pittsburgh Penguins GM) Kyle Dubas, there’s one he’s never been able to let go of.
Amid a surprising 2025-26 campaign that’s seen the Pittsburgh Penguins rise well above expectations, many of its brightest prospects have been given a chance to see NHL action.
The 2025–26 season certainly has not gone the way Stuart Skinner would have expected, though in the end, it might be turning out for the best. Early-season ups and downs with the Edmonton Oilers led to Skinner being sent to the Pittsburgh Penguins as part of the return package for Tristan Jarry.
With the Penguins now having secured a playoff spot, they’re electing to get some players with nagging injuries some rest. That means that several players
It’s been a season of surprises in the Steel City, as the Pittsburgh Penguins went from being perceived as a likely landing spot for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft to a clear-cut playoff team that clinched its spot with a week to spare.
It turns out Pittsburgh players were quite aware that many predicted months ago that the club would be near or in the basement of the overall league standings by the time the second Friday of April arrived.
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