by Angie Carducci | Mar 26, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The shift in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ identity started almost immediately after head coach Mike Sullivan was hired. “When you’re handed a group of players, I try to look at it and say, what are our strengths as a group, and how do we play to those strengths so we have...
by Matthew Dibiase | Dec 17, 2015 | NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh’s firing of Mike Johnston as head coach of the Penguins is the latest half-measure taken by the epitome of managerial mediocrity general manager Jim Rutherford. The blow was not surprising. Rutherford and Johnston had been in conflict since the Penguins had...
by Angie Carducci | Dec 13, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
In yet another game where the Pittsburgh Penguins’ power play could’ve made a difference, but instead went 0-for-3 in a 3-2 shootout loss to the L.A. Kings, Mike Johnston lamented the offense that could’ve been. “You just have to convert on the back-door chance [Phil]...
by Angie Carducci | Dec 6, 2015 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Twenty-five games into the 2015-16 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins are a puzzling study in contrasts. Often on the same night. Are they the team that steamrolled to their first win in San Jose in 18 years Tuesday, setting a season high for goals in a 5-1 victory that...
by Angie Carducci | Nov 22, 2015 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
For the Pittsburgh Penguins’ struggling defensive corps, as the saying goes, sometimes when a door closes, a window opens. Tuesday, 21-year-old blueliner Olli Maatta added to the bad-luck streak that’s hampered his highly promising career so far when Minnesota’s Nino...