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Fedotenko Joins Guerin, Takes Less Money to Stay With Penguins

I don't know how Penguins general manager Ray Shero pulled it off, but he managed to not only retain the services of Ruslan Fedotenko and Bill Guerin, two of the teams top-six forwards from their Stanley Cup winning team, but he did so while getting them to take paycuts. After signing Guerin to a one-year deal on Monday,...

Constructing the Stanley Cup Champs

The Pittsburgh Penguins ended a 17-year Stanley Cup drought on Friday night with a 2-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings, giving the franchise its third championship. While current general manager Ray Shero will get his name on the cup for overseeing the hockey operations the past three seasons, former general manager Craig...

The Key to Winning in Hockey Is, Obviously, Coaching Changes

It's not exactly a national secret that hockey teams tend to go through coaching changes about as often as a high school kid goes through a change of clothes (speaking on personal experience, that's about once per year). As we begin the conference finals, it's probably worth pointing out that three of the four teams taking...

Dan Bylsma Agrees to Multi-Year Extension With Penguins

When Dan Bylsma took over behind the bench as the Penguins interim head coach, the season was looking bleak. They were sputtering along at a 27-25-5 pace, sitting outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Some people (including yours truly) were so down on the current squad that it appeared as if a coaching change...

At Long Last, Guerin Watch Is Over

After days of speculation and holding their captain out of two games, the Islanders have finally parted ways with Bill Guerin, sending him to the Pittsburgh Penguins.In return, they get a fifth round draft pick which turns into a third rounder if the Penguins win a first round playoff series. Long Island, your long...

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05/16/12 #NHL Penguins GM Ray Shero wants Jordan Staal in... Source: LetsGoKings.com Jordan Staal could be a No. 1 center in over a dozen NHL cities right now.
05/16/12 To-do list for Penguins' Shero long, all decisions... Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Penguins' season ended more than three weeks ago, but general manager Ray Shero hasn't struggled to stay busy.
05/13/12 #Penguins Staal sweepstakes could heat up Source: LetsGoKings.com Myriad reasons exist for Jordan Staals name continuing to surface in trade speculation, and postseason comments by himself and the organization did nothing to squash such rumors.
05/01/12 TSN's Dreger: Penguins Should Consider Trading Malkin... Source: CBS - KDKA 2 - Pittsburgh PA TSN NHL insider Darren Dreger checks in with Sportsradio 93-7 The Fan's Vinnie & Cook and weighs in on a wide range of thoughts around the league.
04/28/12 Loser's Lament Source: Kukla's Korner As the conference semi-finals get underway, the post-mortem analysis has begun on the eight teams that failed to advance past the opening round.