Penguins’ Playoff Special Teams Undo Another 100-Plus Point Season James Conley | April 27, 2012 Pittsburgh’s run is over. For the third straight postseason, that’s due largely to poor special teams play. It’s an old refrain. By talking much more about it, we risk beating…
Penguins’ Only Chance to Extend Series: Force Even-Strength Play James Conley | April 20, 2012 The playoff series featuring the most goals through four games in NHL history might also feature the most special teams goals through any four games in NHL history. The Pittsburgh…
Penguins Power Play: Too Late for a Change? James Conley | April 13, 2012 If complacency and a loss of focus are primarily to blame for Pittsburgh’s three-goal meltdown at the hands of the Flyers Wednesday, their inability to positively convert on any of…
Penguins-Flyers: How the Pens Trend Heading into Quarterfinals Match James Conley | April 8, 2012 The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will meet in a playoff series for just the sixth time in their 45-year histories, but for the third time since 2008. The Flyers…
Twine Dented: Penguins’ Fleet of 20-Goal Scorers Enjoying Career Seasons James Conley | March 27, 2012 There are NHL offenses that make hay with an exceptional first line. There are those which collect modest scoring from a committee of players. Also, there is Pittsburgh. The Penguins…
Pens’ Crosby Must Adapt to Survive James Conley | March 15, 2012 It’s fitting that Sidney Crosby will share time with Matt Cooke, the NHL’s most reformed player this season, in his Thursday return to hockey. Cooke, having been suspended for 21…
Penguins’ Marc-Andre Fleury Unbeatable in March James Conley | March 6, 2012 Pittsburgh has won six straight games and is well on its way to a sixth consecutive postseason berth after beating Phoenix 2-1 in a sluggish Monday evening contest. The Pens…
Pens’ Shero: Slim Market, Looming CBA Dictated Pace of 2012 Deadline James Conley | February 27, 2012 Pittsburgh wasn’t expected to make a splash at the 2012 NHL Trade Deadline. As it turned out, they didn’t even make a ripple. “It was pretty quiet,” Penguins GM Ray…
NHL Stats: Penguins Records Without Crosby & Other Stars James Conley | February 23, 2012 The Penguins have had plenty of experience playing without their stars over the last two years. Among the team’s core players, only Marc-Andre Fleury and James Neal, whose new six-year…
Pens Weekend Wrap: Staal & Letang Impress, Malkin Line Dominating James Conley | February 13, 2012 You can’t stop Evgeni Malkin. The Penguins’ top center has been the league’s best player or something quite like it for most of the season, and he put another notch…
Penguins’ Marc-Andre Fleury Stalking Barrasso’s Franchise Records James Conley | February 6, 2012 By the time his current contract expires in 2015, Marc-Andre Fleury will have the second-longest goalie tenure in Penguins’ franchise history with 11 seasons—Tom Barrasso’s 12 are the most. Fleury…
Crosby Concussed: Cozy Up to That Headline, World James Conley | December 12, 2011 Crosby’s out. Indefinitely. Concussion-like symptoms. Swish that around in your mouth and get used to the taste, because it’s an ongoing scenario that’s going to punctuate his career and follow…
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