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Former Penguins forward Dominik Simon returns to CzechiaVideo
Former Penguins forward Dominik Simon has signed a two-year contract with HC Sparta Praha in his native Czechia. The signing was announced by the team on Saturday with a release as well as a video presentation. According to the team’s release, Simon indicated the Penguins offered him an opportunity to...
Former Penguins defenseman Nathan Beaulieu joins Ducks on tryout
With NHL training camps approaching, former Penguins defenseman Nathan Beaulieu has joined the Anaheim Ducks on a professional tryout contract (PTO). Cap Friendly, a website that tracks any and all contractual information throughout the NHL, reported the transaction. Beaulieu joined the Penguins via a trade with the Winnipeg Jets on...
Penguins to have 15 games on national television in 2022-23
The Penguins will appear on national television 15 times during the 2022-23 season. On Wednesday, the NHL announced its national television schedule in the United States with ABC, TNT and ESPN. Most notably, the Winter Classic, which pits the Penguins against the Boston Bruins at Boston’s Fenway Park on Jan....
Penguins invite 57 players to training camp
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced the roster for their upcoming training camp, which will begin Sept. 22 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. In total, 30 forwards, 21 defensemen and six goaltenders are scheduled to attend. Forwards — Corey Andonovski, Raivis Ansons, Josh Archibald, Teddy Blueger, Drake Caggiula, Jeff Carter, Sidney...
Penguins commit to coach Mike Sullivan with 3-year contract extension
It was the middle of July, and the Pittsburgh Penguins were staging their prospect camp for players in the embryonic stages of their professional existences. As usual, the organization’s minor-league coaches and development staffers were tasked with running the drills and the individual instruction. Mike Sullivan was present, but was...
Penguins to hold rookie camp in September
The Penguins will stage a rookie camp for the organization’s prospects Sept. 15-20 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. A full roster has yet to be announced. As part of the camp, the Penguins will play one game in the Buffalo Sabres’ prospect tournament against the Boston Bruins. The game...
Penguins re-sign forward Danton Heinen for one year, $1 millionVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins wanted to keep Danton Heinen, even if they took steps that were, in theory, antithetical to him returning this offseason. Ultimately, all parties decided it was in the best interest of all involved to maintain a mostly fruitful union. On Thursday, the Penguins re-signed Heinen to a...
3ICE enjoys best turnout yet at PPG Paints Arena
Parker Milner has a job. As the food editor of the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., he covers the dining scene in a tourist destination. Good work if you can get it. But his weekend gig differs from what he does on the weekdays. He’s a goaltender in 3ICE,...
Inspired by his brother, Penguins prospect Luke Devlin’s hockey journey is just beginningVideo
Things were a bit chaotic during the second day of the NHL Draft on July 8 at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Rogers Communications, a giant conglomerate that handles a major portion of any and all electronic communications in Canada, had a major outage that morning. The disruption was so significant that...
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres signs in Austria
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres has signed with Villacher SV, an Austrian team that plays in that country’s ICE Hockey League. A first-round pick (No. 30 overall) in 2009, Despres spent parts of four seasons at the NHL level with the Penguins. In 140 games with the Penguins, Despres scored...
Penguins re-sign forward Kasperi Kapanen, avoid arbitration
The Penguins have re-signed restricted free agent forward Kasperi Kapanen to a two-year contract that carries a salary cap hit of $3.2 million. Reaching an agreement avoids a salary arbitration hearing that was scheduled for July 30. Kapanen, who turns 26 on Saturday, appeared in 79 games last season and...
Goaltending prospect Taylor Gauthier wants to prove the Penguins ‘made the right choice’Video
Penguins prospect Taylor Gauthier had two idols as a goaltender while growing up in Calgary. One was former Montreal Canadiens All-Star Jose Theodore. The other was Logan Thompson, currently of the Vegas Golden Knights. And the reasons he looked up to Theodore and Thompson were right. Literally. Like Gauthier, Theodore...
Penguins forward prospect Raivis Ansons offers assets that ‘are essential to winning’Video
Tom Kostopoulos knows a thing or two about grit. After all, he carved out a 20-year playing career as a hard-scrabble checking forward, including 12 seasons in the NHL. That’s a lot of forechecking, plenty of bruises from blocking pucks or absorbing hits on the boards and more than a...
New 3ICE hockey league rolls into Pittsburgh on SaturdayVideo
At 42, Ryan Malone is still a hockey player. He’s just not an NHL player anymore. The power forward’s final games in the NHL came early in the 2014 season with the New York Rangers. But he never fully got the game out of his system. That’s what led the...
Former Penguins forward Dustin Jeffrey signs in Germany
Former Penguins forward Dustin Jeffrey has signed with Grizzlys Wolfsburg of Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The team announced Jeffrey’s contract via a release on Monday. A sixth-round pick (No. 171 overall) of the Penguins in 2007, Jeffrey spent parts of six seasons with the Penguins in the late 2000s...
Ty Smith’s journey brings him to the PenguinsVideo
Ty Smith has already had a long offseason. At least the first 30-plus hours of it. After finishing the 2021-22 season as a member of the New Jersey Devils, he drove home. Across the expanse of an entire continent. The left-handed defenseman hopped in his car with his father, Wayne...
New Penguins defenseman Jeff Petry is closer to home and ready to winVideo
Jeff Petry has a unique place in NHL history. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., he has played the most games in NHL history of any American-born player for Canadian teams with 803. And he’s going to lose that distinction almost as soon as the 2022-23 season begins by virtue...
Penguins forward Kasperi Kapanen files for salary arbitration
Penguins forward Kasperi Kapanen has filed for salary arbitration according to a release from the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA). He was one of 24 players around the league who opted to file. Kapanen labored through an underwhelming 2021-22 season in which he appeared in 79 games and scored...
Penguins reassemble their blue line by adding Jeff Petry, Ty Smith
Ron Hextall knows he can’t keep nine defensemen on his NHL roster. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ general manager said as much Wednesday. “We’re certainly not going to have nine on the opening roster,” Hextall said. “I don’t know where that’s all going. Sometimes, you sit around and wait until something moves...
Penguins acquire defenseman Jeff Petry, forward Ryan Poehling from CanadiensVideo
The Penguins made their second trade Saturday aimed at rearranging their blue line, acquiring defenseman Jeff Petry and forward Ryan Poehling from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenseman Mike Matheson and a fourth-round pick in 2023. A right-handed shot, Petry, 34, played in 68 games last season and scored...
Penguins trade defenseman John Marino to DevilsVideo
On Wednesday, Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ron Hextall acknowledged he would have to jettison one of the nine NHL-caliber defensemen he had under contract. On Saturday, he did so. Right-handed John Marino, who never quite lived up to the promise he showed as a rookie in 2019-20, was traded to...
Penguins sign 1st-rounder Owen Pickering to entry-level contract
The Pittsburgh Penguins signed defenseman Owen Pickering to a three-year entry-level contract Saturday. According Cap Friendly, the contract will carry a salary cap hit of $950,000. Pickering was the team’s first-round pick (No. 21 overall) at the NHL Draft earlier this month. The contract will begin when Pickering commences his...
Penguins prospect Tristan Broz moves past a rough freshman seasonVideo
Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect Tristan Broz is as Minnesota as a Minnesotan can get. First, as a high schooler, he suited up for the Blake School and played for Rob McClanahan, a member of the 1980 United States Olympic team and a vaunted son of the self-titled State of Hockey....
Penguins forward prospect Lukas Svejkovsky can be ‘pretty special’ with the puck
Lukas Svejkovsky finished as the leading scorer of the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers last season. And he didn’t play a game for them beyond Dec. 27. That’s when he was traded to the Seattle Thunderbirds. In a testament to how prolific Svejkovsky was and how putrid the Tigers...
Former Penguins forward Anthony Angello signs with Blues
Former Penguins forward Anthony Angello has signed with the St. Louis Blues. According to a release from the Blues, Angello agreed to a one-year, two-way contract. According to capfriendly.com, it pays $750,000 at the NHL level with a $300,000 guarantee. A fifth-round pick (No. 145 overall) in 2014, Angello, 26,...
