It was no walk in the park (in fact, it was more like a high-speed chase, with the New York Islanders losing the Pittsburgh Penguins at every turn), but somehow, the boys in black and Vegas gold found a way to prevail, and exorcised last season’s first-round-playoff-exit demons by defeating the more-than-game New York Islanders four ...
Despite being outplayed by the Islanders for long stretches of their first round matchup, the Pittsburgh Penguins managed to persevere and dispatch their up and coming rivals in six games. Indeed, the Isles’ speed and tenacious forecheck almost did Pittsburgh in but, ultimately, the Pens find themselves moving on to the second round for the first time ...
“Penalty kill, power play, guys are doing a lot of different things that lead to success on this team,” Jarome Iginla said of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Tyler Kennedy, despite his $2 million contract, was a healthy scratch for the first four games of the Islanders series.
Marc-Andre Fleury should not be benched by Pittsburgh Penguins’ Head Coach Dan Bylsma for Game 5. I have continuously debated the issue of benching Fleury for Tomas Vokoun as Bylsma has chosen to do in the most pivotal game of the series. I can understand the maneuver by Bylsma to sit Fleury down, but benching ...
Earlier this week, we presented five key elements that the Penguins would need to improve upon if they were to start finding success against the New York Islanders. One of the most important components was consistent goaltending. Specifically, we argued that Marc-Andre Fleury, although not spectacular to this point, hadn’t played all that poorly in the 2013 playoffs and that, ...
There is no question at this point that the Pittsburgh Penguins are severely underachieving in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They are the Eastern Conference’s number one seed, and were the overwhelming favorite to win the Prince of Wales Trophy and represent the East in the Cup Final. Fans, myself included, are lining the bridges ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins will lose to the New York Islanders if they do not make some sort of drastic change in the way that they are playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Since the start of the 2011-12 playoffs, when the Pens faced the Philadelphia Flyers, everyone has expected the Pens to play a hard-nosed ...
If you’d have told me two weeks ago that the Pittsburgh Penguins would be lucky to have a 2-1 series lead over the New York Islanders going into Tuesday’s game, I’d have suggested you need a trip to the quiet room to get your head checked out. But here we are. The problem isn’t that ...
In simply looking at the end results, one might think the 2013 playoffs are going quite well for the Pittsburgh Penguins. After all, they lead the New York Islanders 2-1 in their first round series (as opposed to being down 3-0 to the archrival Flyers at this point last year). What’s more, they have three of the top seven scorers in the ...
