by Angie Carducci | Mar 25, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
For their past two, Stanley Cup-winning seasons, the March of the Penguins has been more than an Antarctic documentary. It’s marked a time when the NHL’s flightless birds began to, well, take flight. In 2016, from the Feb. 29 trade deadline through the end of the...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 12, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Brian Dumoulin is not an offensive defenseman. The reliable, 26-year-old blueliner averages about 15 points a season and has six goals in his NHL career – four of them this year. Saturday night in Toronto, though, he scored a beauty. With the Maple Leafs up 3-0 late...
by Angie Carducci | Mar 4, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Penguins might’ve been one of the big winners at the NHL trade deadline. But, in three games since bolstering their roster with center Derick Brassard, no winning was happening. The goals were still coming during the three-game skid, which saw the Penguins lose...
by Angie Carducci | Feb 24, 2018 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
Jim Rutherford got his third-line center. And he’s just as surprised as anyone that he made it work. “I’ve been asked by different people are we in on [Derick] Brassard, and the answer’s always been no, because we really didn’t think we...
by Angie Carducci | Feb 4, 2018 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
What do you call a two-headed monster that’s sprouted a third head? A nightmare for opposing goaltenders. The Penguins and their fanbase have been fortunate to have superstar centers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin for well over a decade. This year, winger Phil...
