The Pittsburgh Penguins have experienced ups and downs throughout the 2013 NHL Playoffs. The Pens have juggled around their top two scoring lines in an attempt to satisfy the needs of their top-six forwards. The Pens started the Stanley Cup Playoffs with Sidney Crosby centering the first line between Pascal Dupuis and Chris Kunitz. Evgeni ...
Staying out of the penalty box will be paramount in Ottawa coach Paul Maclean’s game plan for Game Two on Friday night in Pittsburgh. The Penguins were 2-4 with the man advantage, which helped them inch, ever so slowly, to another series victory. Oh yeah, something else Paul Maclean might want to address is how ...
In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a win is a win. It gets you one step closer to your ultimate goal. And now the Pittsburgh Penguins need just two more wins to reach the Eastern Conference Semifinals for the first time in three years thanks to a 5-4 overtime victory over the New York Islanders in ...
The hit Chris Kunitz dished out to New York Islanders’ forward Josh Bailey looked to be illegal. After receiving a pass from Pascal Dupuis and throwing a one-timed shot on net, Kunitz launched Bailey flying into the end zone boards. Kunitz’s shoulder seemed to make contact square between the “1″ and the “2″ on the ...
Most of the players who wear a Pens’ sweater deserve to make the honor roll when grading the Pittsburgh Penguins’ forwards. There are a number of forwards having career years. The Pens have four forwards ranked in the top-15 of the league in goal-scoring, and this does not include Evgeni Malkin. Injuries or not, goals ...
It happens every season in professional sports: the “experts” weigh in with their predictions on how the coming season will unfold. They forecast standings, statistics, playoff outcomes and award winners. And, invariably, they typically have the success rate of your local weatherman. Sure, sometimes the hunches come true but, just as often, there are those ...
Chris Kunitz didn’t see this one coming. Neither did anyone else. And yet, here we are: an undrafted player from Ferris State University is lighting the lamp as a winger playing on the same line as the world’s most talented hockey player.
In a similar fashion, Pascal Dupuis has quietly emerged as a reliable part of the National Hockey League’s best offense.
The best line in the NHL plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second straight season. Not only do their stats jump off the page, but the Penguins top-scoring line is clutch. It’s not surprising that Sidney Crosby is centering the top-scoring forward line in the NHL. The enigma of it all is no one ...
At the start of this shortened NHL season, most pundits considered the Pittsburgh Penguins among the favorites to bring home the Stanley Cup.
Should Kris Letang be inserted as a top-six forward on the Pittsburgh Penguins? Letang leads all NHL defenseman in scoring with 21 points. That mark is tied with the Sedin twins in Vancouver for tenth highest total in the league. Letang’s point total leaves him one point shy of James Neal, two shy of Evgeni ...
