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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Pittsburgh Penguins sent a 21-man roster to Nationwide Arena for the nightcap of their home-and-away exhibition doubleheader with Columbus Sunday night. It’s entirely possible that none of those guys will be in the lineup when the Penguins open the regular season Oct. 10 against Chicago. Oh,…

The Penguins kicked off their six game 2023-24 exhibition schedule on Sunday by knocking out two game in one day, against the same opponent. A group of Penguins met a team of Columbus Blue Jackets in Pittsburgh at 1 o’clock, and then another collection of players were on the road…

PITTSBURGH — The gigantic new scoreboard at PPG Paints Arena showed the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 shootout winners over the Columbus Blue Jackets. It was the first preseason game for both organizations, and neither side put many NHL regulars in the lineup, instead opting to hand out opportunities with the NHL…

Going into his 18th season, Evgeni Malkin has seen all kinds of linemates over the years. Some have been better than others, some worked and some weren’t with Malkin or in Pittsburgh all that long altogether. Sometimes he’s found fits by accident via injury, and another time famously with the…

The 2023-24 season begins the warmup Sunday when the Pittsburgh Penguins face the Columbus Blue Jackets in a pair of split-squad games. The Penguins host the Blue Jackets at 1 p.m. at PPG Paints Arena and visit the CBJ at 7 p.m. at Nationwide. Steve Mears will have his first…

Well, that took long enough. Nonetheless, hockey is finally back, as the Pittsburgh Penguins kicked off training-camp workouts Thursday and will get into their seven-game preseason schedule with a home-and-away double-header against Columbus today. (The Blue Jackets will get a good look at a lot of Penguins personnel they’ll never…

The Penguins kick off their exhibition schedule today, and the only thing better than one hockey game is — you guessed it — two hockey games. At 1:00pm, the Pens will host Columbus, which could be confused at 7:00pm when Pittsburgh visits the Blue Jackets. It’s a split squad day,…

CRANBERRY  — Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan took the briefest moment to ponder the question from Pittsburgh Hockey Now, which deviated from the training camp battles but went instead to Sullivan’s decision-making process for those battles to be in the Penguins lineup. You don’t get a second chance to make…

In a move that has fans in Pittsburgh buzzing with anticipation, but could also see the team repeat the lack of success that was seen in San Jose when they tried something similar, the Pittsburgh Penguins are preparing to unleash a formidable duo on their power play unit. Head…

The Pittsburgh Penguins won’t subject their star players or many of their anticipated NHL regulars to the split-squad preseason games on Sunday. The Penguins host the Columbus Blue Jackets at 1 p.m. at PPG Paints Arena and visit Nationwide Arena for the second game that begins at 7 p.m. Drew…

CRANBERRY — It is very much a temporary assignment, one the Pittsburgh Penguins are offering only until Jake Guentzel recovers from ankle surgery and reclaims his place at left wing on the No. 1 line. But the Penguins have not adjusted the initial projection of how long Guentzel will be…

“The more things change, the more they stay the same”, we have all heard that refrain. Many of the faces and names of our favorite flightless fowl have changed but every time I think I am about to hear a new tune from this hackneyed franchise, the drum beat strains…

CRANBERRY — Sidney Crosby’s game didn’t have many flaws, let alone glaring ones, when he broke into the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2005. One exception was a conspicuous weakness on faceoffs, as Crosby won just 45.5 percent of his draws during his rookie season. That placed him 11th…

CRANBERRY — The Pittsburgh Penguins third scrimmage had a little more heat than the first two. Team 3, full of minor league players and those hoping to catch the organization’s eye, brought a bit of effort to the proceedings, and Team 1, led by Sidney Crosby, responded in kind. After…

The Pittsburgh Penguins training camp, complete with so many positional battles, is off to an oddly quiet start. The organization put some mandates on Tristan Jarry. Avalanche defenseman Nikita Zadorov doubled down on his criticism of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The fallout is growing over Steve Stamkos’s unhappiness, NHL…

Since Mike Sullivan stepped in as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in December 2015, he’s seen everything from two championships to the team’s first postseason whiff in 17 years. But he’s never seen anything quite like this week’s training camp. “This might be the most competitive group of players…