PITTSBURGH – Phil Kessel speaks in a polite whisper, as if he’s worried talking too loudly might inadvertently attract the spotlight and well, he doesn’t want that.The Pittsburgh Penguins forward dealt with it plenty during six bumpy seasons in Toronto, where he served as the flashpoint ...
PITTSBURGH – Sidney Crosby danced through the neutral zone, slipped across the New York Rangers’ blue line and waited for help. It arrived in the form of a blurring No. 43 black-and-gold jersey, the one worn by a player whose speed and relentlessness propelled him from prospect to unlikely ...
PITTSBURGH – The end of two springs’ worth of playoff angst for the Pittsburgh Penguins came suddenly, crammed into 14 minutes of pure exhilaration, one highlight-reel sequence piled atop another.And perhaps it’s fitting that Pittsburgh’s relentless five-game demolition of the New York ...
PITTSBURGH – Matt Murray watched the Pittsburgh Penguins’ second-round collapse against the New York Rangers from afar two years ago, the wispy goaltender still a teenage prospect in the spring of 2014 as a 3-1 series lead morphed into a franchise-altering meltdown.The view is far different ...
NEW YORK – The Pittsburgh Penguins might have been the NHL’s hottest team at the end of the regular season, playing the last month with Evgeni Malkin out of the lineup with an arm injury.Well he’s back for the playoffs, and flashing his old brilliance.Malkin scored two goals and set up ...
Home ice hasn’t been an advantage in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs this year.Road teams have posted a 14-12 record through the first week of the postseason.Think about it. The Kings and Ducks both lost their first two games at home. The defending champion Chicago Blackhawks ...
