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NHL Trade Deadline: Pittsburgh Penguins

When all is said and done with this season the question asked about the Pittsburgh Penguins may turn out to be what if? As in, what if this team wasn't ravaged by a series of mid-season injuries that depleted their collection of forwards? Sidney Crosby, having perhaps the best year of his career, hasn't played a game...

Penguins' Kris Letang Emerging as Norris Trophy Contender

NEW YORK -- Kris Letang must consider all the attention a compliment, painfully rewarding proof of how far he has grown as a defenseman. With every stride he took on the Madison Square Garden ice Monday night during the Penguins' 3-1 victory, the New York Rangers tried to put a body on him. In the first period, relentless...

Brent Johnson Giving Marc-Andre Fleury a Push

Ask anybody associated with the Penguins who their No. 1 goaltender is, and the answer will surely be Marc-Andre Fleury, which isn't a surprise. He is, after all, the most talented goalie on the roster. What is a surprise is that all four of the Penguins wins this season have come with Brent Johnson in net, while all...

2010-11 Pittsburgh Penguins Preview: A Tougher New Image

When general manager Ray Shero was hired by the Pittsburgh Penguins prior to the 2006-07 season, he spoke of his desire to put together a team that would be tough to play against, a sentiment that head coach Dan Bylsma even spoke about as recently as this offseason. Shero's father, of course, was the legendary Fred...

Arron Asham Signs With Penguins

During the 2009-10 season the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers were involved in a pair of games that produced biting allegations. The first of which involved Penguins defenseman Kris Letang and his claim that Scott Hartnell bit him during a late-game scrum. A few months later, the two teams met again, and this...

Zbynek Michalek News From the Web

05/09/12 Penguins' D Michalek undergoes hip surgery Source: The Sports Network The Pittsburgh Penguins announced that defenseman Zbynek Michalek underwent successful hip surgery on Wednesday.
05/05/12 No consensus likely means no suspension for Alex... Source: Sporting News Other than that, there was minimal consensus on the collision, which came in the second period of the Capitals' series-tying Game 4 win on Saturday afternoonâthe players involved disagreed over which parts of their bodies banged together, and repeated replays didn't help.