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Mitch Marner is going to the Cup Final, the Presidents’ Trophy winner just got swept, and Toronto is drafting first overall. This year felt different though. Colorado looked just as mighty in the post season as they did in the regular season. I didn’t think any of the remaining teams in the playoffs could beat...

The Pittsburgh Penguins offseason 2026 started to take shape a couple days ago when GM and POHO Kyle Dubas gave his season-ending presser to local media. For the TLDR people here is quick summary: The biggest talking point to come out of the Dubas presser was that he would love to have Evgeni Malkin back...

The Kyle Dubas press conference everyone’s been waiting for finally happened. Outside of signing Connor Dewar and Ilya Solovyov, all has been quiet on the Penguins front since losing game 6 in overtime. Wilkes Barre and Wheeling have both been blazing through their respective playoff series which has generated some buzz for potential prospects eventually...

The NHL playoffs 2026 are starting to show who actually belongs and who was just along for the ride. The following all took place in the year 1975. Gerald Ford was President of the United States. Jaws was the top movie in the world. Gas was only 53 cents a gallon and the Thrilla in...

On Friday, the Penguins locker room cleanout in Cranberry took place, and outside of Edmonton, I think this was the most interesting cleanout day across the league. Several storylines came out of the player sessions with the media, and we’re going to get into the ones that matter. Ben Kindel’s first season came to a...

It’s been roughly 7 hours since Cam York floated a puck from the blue line and brought the Penguins big three era to what might be its quiet end. That puck floated through the air as if it had eyes. It found its way to Silovs, kissed the post, and went into the net. The...

The Penguins Flyers series is 0-2 Pittsburgh, and there isn’t time for despair. There isn’t time to dwell. There isn’t time for Letang to find the fountain of youth. There is only time to win two games in Philadelphia. The Penguins are down 2-0. Game two, last night, showed a much better version of the...

The Penguins benched nearly their entire lineup last night and lost to the Blues 7-5. Who cares, though? The playoffs are officially here, and the Penguins will have home ice in round 1. After the weekend, it was revealed that it would indeed be the team from that heroin riddled part of Eastern Pennsylvania, matching...

The Crosby Ovechkin rivalry might be at an end. With the Penguins locked into their playoff spot, they played back-to-back games against Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals, who are fighting for their playoff livelihood. The Penguins played neither game with their full complement of players, each game saw at least five players “out” with injury...

What an absolutely perfect video from the Penguins PR staff last night. Moments after the Penguins defeated the New Jersey Devils by a score of 5-2 the Penguins put out this video: All year the team has been asked about the script that was seemingly pre-written about them. Every period of sustained success early in...

Win and secure your spot. That is what is in front of the Pittsburgh Penguins today. They have put themselves in a spot where they completely control their destiny. From a season that began with expectations of Gavin McKenna to scoring at a franchise historical rate and having home ice in the first round. It...

What a weekend. Holy shit. A combined 14 goals were scored by the Pittsburgh Penguins against the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions. Those 14 goals put the Penguins in 2nd for goals scored in the entire league. That seems shocking to most, but I called this after watching training camp in person. I said on...

Six months ago, every single fan of the flightless birds would have been jumping up and down to have an extremely meaningful game on March 30th. Fast forward to that very date and Penguins fans are more puckered up than a child trying their first warhead. Huge is not nearly meaningful enough to describe the...

Every single game feel like must-wins right now. Doubly so if the teams around you in the standings are winning. Even more so when you’re playing a team that’s in the race with you. The Penguins were given the opportunity to kick a team down a peg last night when they traveled to Ottawa. It...

Evgeni Malkin is back, but his team never wavered without him. His addition only helped ignite an already potent offense. During Geno’s five game suspension the Penguins went 2-1-2. Goals weren’t hard to come by during that stretch either. Three of those games were during the team’s most brutal road-trip. Before the season, people looked...

The Penguins have shown a lot of heart since Crosby went down in the Olympics. They have produced two amazing comebacks against Boston and Carolina. They have managed to get points, but the team needs its captain back. Geno’s suspension came at a horrible time too. The Blue Jackets seemingly get at least a point...

Sidney Crosby is injured and might not return until next week. Evgeni Malkin definitely won’t return until next week due to an incredibly stupid suspension. Hope for making the playoffs was dwindling. Everything seemed relatively bleak, with the exception of Crosby taking practice on Friday. Dubas acquired a large man but didn’t acquire any big...

Angry Geno is typically the best version of Geno. Think the slapshot breakaway goal against the Flyers all those years ago. Dubas might have been trying to unlock this version of Geno when he stalled, maybe balked, contract extension talks. What Dubas may have forgot to factor in is that Angry Geno is also prone...