The Pittsburgh Penguins exceeded expectations on their road trip to western Canada. The Pens beat the Stanley Cup runner-up Vancouver Canucks to start the 2011-12 season on Thursday. Saturday day night against the Calgary Flames, the Penguins went into the hostile confines of the Saddledome, and held on for a 5-3 victory after nearly giving ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins had the distinction of starting the season with three games in Western Canada, one against a Stanley Cup favorite, two in two nights and each against a team making their season debuts before raucous home crowds. With Sidney Crosby and Brooks Orpik missing all three games and Malkin’s absence in Edmonton Sunday, ...
Every Sunday I will take a look back at the week that was in the NHL, and pick out some specific winners and losers. Of course if you think I missed someone add your own comment on the bottom. The first few games of the NHL season are under our belt, and almost every team ...
In a sport where converting on a single power play can mean winning that game, teams may start to get a bit more creative in who they send out on those man-up opportunities. If the Rangers deploy the five forward power play and find success early in the season, certainly other teams will take notice.
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent Well kids, the NHL season will finally be upon us tomorrow night. The Boston Bruins will battle the Philadelphia Flyers in their first game as defending champions, and it will kick off six months of nearly nonstop action. After a summer that was known more for tragedies off the ice than ...
The first week of the season is becoming an annual tradition of roster complication and chaos for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Front offices around the NHL probably don’t feel bad for the Penguins — a team blessed with young star talent and the financial support from ownership to spend to the salary cap — but preseason ...
While the debate rages on whether or not fighting should be allowed in the NHL, one league-wide fight goes unopposed. I am speaking of course about the NHL’s annual Hockey Fights Cancer initiative that has been held every year since 1998 in October to raise money and awareness for a cause that affects about half ...
With the start of the NHL regular season approaching rapidly, much speculation has been doled out regarding what’s to come in the year ahead. While predicting the future is impossible, that’s exactly what I’ve set out to do in answering many of those questions. Here are 30 predictions that I expect to see fulfilled by ...
Jim Neveau, Senior NHL Columnist When Colin Campbell was in charge of dishing out discipline for the NHL, he was often mocked for seemingly using a random system that didn’t ever satisfy anyone. The term “Wheel of Justice” was used in a condescending swipe at Campbell’s inability to ensure consistent discipline, and even though he ...
After two seasons, the Pittsburgh Penguins are an undefeated 6-0 in preseason play at the Consol Energy Center. Their flawless record will remain intact until at least next fall. Three road exhibition games are all that remain for the Penguins and Tuesday’s trip to Kansas City to face the Los Angeles Kings is a final ...
