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10 Greatest Pittsburgh Penguins in Franchise History
January 2nd, 2020 The Penguins have been supremely fortunate to offer their fans two of the game's all-time legends in Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby. But it takes more than a single superstar to win Cups, they need other greats to support them. These players as well as some of the legends in the team's storied past fill out the THW list of Pittsburgh...
Pittsburgh Penguins' 50-Goal Scorers
December 30th, 2019 Players who score 50 goals in a season are considered elite scorers. Throughout the league's 101-year history, 91 unique players have combined to reach the 50-goal plateau 194 different times. The Pittsburgh Penguins, while not joining the NHL until the expansion wave of 1967, have nine players who've combined to reach this plateau...
Oldest Players With 100-Point Seasons
November 19th, 2019 It is difficult to score in the NHL. Not exactly breaking news. That's why only six players -- Connor McDavid, Nikita Kucherov, Brad Marchand, Patrick Kane, Leon Draisaitl, and Sidney Crosby -- reached the 100-point mark last season. That doesn't seem like many players, and it's not compared to the 1981-82 season when 13 reached...
NHL Awards History: Oldest & Youngest Winners
October 28th, 2019 We updated this list from the THW Archives of the oldest and youngest winners in NHL history, originally published Jan. 19, 2015. And, before you say anything, I didn't do the math to figure out who was older or younger by months if there was a tie, except for the Calder Trophy's youngest winner. (All stats and records courtesy of...
Top 10 All-Time European-Born NHL Forwards
October 13th, 2019 Europeans are having a bigger impact in the NHL now than ever before. Of the 985 players to play in at least one game this season, 268, or 27 percent, were born in Europe. Europeans have been at the pinnacle of success in recent seasons, winning five of the past 10 Hart, Art Ross, and Norris Trophy winners. But European success in the...
The NHL's Exclusive 13 x 30 Club
October 6th, 2019 The 2017-18 season was an incredible season for Russian sniper Alex Ovechkin as he joined not one, but two exclusive clubs. On Mar. 12, he became the 20th member of the 600-goal club and on Jan. 25, the 10th player to join the 13 x 30 club, a group of players who scored 30 goals in at least 13 seasons. Ovechkin also became only the...
