Philadelphia's Jakub Voracek scored from in close in overtime to give the Flyers a 4-3 comeback win over the Pittsburgh Penguins Wednesday in the opening game of their NHL Eastern Confererence quarterfinal series.
Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (...)
The Pittsburgh Penguins received a welcome return from Evgeni Malkin and a shutout performance from goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury as they posted a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders Tuesday.
Malkin, who missed much of the second half of last (...)
Jordan Staal scored two goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins overcame their divisional rival New Jersey Devils 4-1 Saturday to record their third consecutive win.
“I felt good tonight,” Staal told reporters. “My legs felt good. My hands felt good. I (...)
Humberto Quintero got a close look at Brett Myers' career-long losing streak.
So Quintero did as much as he could to end it.
Quintero had three RBIs, threw out a runner attempting to steal immediately prior to a home run and called Myers' first (...)
Ryan Doumit had three hits, James McDonald pitched into the eighth inning for the first time this season and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Houston Astros 3-1 Monday.
Josh Harrison added two hits and Derrek Lee hit his 16th homer as the Pirates (...)
Xavier Paul was running. No matter what.
Paul, a Pittsburgh Pirates reserve, watched from third base as his teammate Chase d'Arnaud sliced a ball into the outfield with one out in the 10th inning against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday and decided (...)
Rookie Alex Presley had three of Pittsburgh's 14 hits and the Pirates moved three games over .500 this late in the season for the first time in 12 years with a 5-3 win over the Houston Astros Monday.
A day after matching a season high for hits with (...)
A judge has denied a man's petition to legally change his name to Boomer the Dog.
Forty-four-year-old Gary Guy Mathews says he filed for the name change in June because he's a fan of a short-lived 1980-1982 NBC television series called “Here's (...)
Sidney Crosby scored a goal, prevented one and his deft stickhandling led to Kris Letang's winner late in the third period as the Pittsburgh Penguins rebounded to beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1 Friday night to level the Eastern Conference first-round (...)
Erik Karlsson and Chris Kelly scored on power plays in the second period as the Ottawa Senators surprised the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins with a 5-4 victory in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference first-round series Wednesday.
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Alex Ovechkin scored twice to tie Sidney Crosby for the NHL lead with 48 goals as the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 Tuesday.
The Presidents' Trophy-winning Capitals swept the season series from Pittsburgh.
Crosby had a goal (...)
Sidney Crosby set up three goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 Saturday, the final regular season game in Mellon Arena between the longtime rivals.
Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz, Ruslan Fedotenko and Matt Cooke scored (...)
Ruslan Fedotenko had a goal and an assist and Sidney Crosby – in his first game since winning the Olympics for Canada – set up Sergei Gonchar's 200th career goal to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 Tuesday.
Kings 5, Stars 1: (...)
Cal O'Reilly and Martin Erat scored in the shootout as the Nashville Predators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Sunday – a game in which Penguins and Team Canada star Sidney Crosby was seen wincing shortly after blocking a shot.
Crosby, who tied (...)
Sidney Crosby scored three goals in slightly more than eight minutes of the second period as the Pittsburgh Penguins held on to beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 in the NHL Monday.
Crosby tied San Jose's Patrick Marleau for the NHL goals lead with 37. (...)
form Washington Capitals scored the final four goals to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 on Thursday in the first game this season between two of the NHL's elite teams.
Alex Ovechkin scored twice, Tomas Fleischmann scored the go-ahead goal early in (...)
Martin Brodeur broke the NHL record with his 104th career shutout, and maybe the only surprise was how easily it came in the New Jersey Devils 4-0 win over the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins Monday night.
Brodeur needed to make only a few (...)
Sidney Crosby had two goals and an assist for Pittsburgh in a 4-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche Thursday, as the Penguins retained a share of the NHL Eastern Conference lead.
Crosby scored in the first period, added an empty-net goal, and (...)
Niclas Bergfors had a goal and two assists as the New Jersey Devils beat the slumping Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 Thursday to close within a victory of tying the NHL record of 10 consecutive road wins to start a season.
Zach Parise added a goal and an (...)
Sidney Crosby's third career hat trick helped the Pittsburgh Penguins became the first NHL team to 10 victories this season, and ended the Montreal Canadiens' four-game winning streak by 6-1 Wednesday.
Crosby had his third multiple-goal game in 12 (...)
The New Jersey Devils snapped the Pittsburgh Penguins' winning streak at seven with a 4-1 victory in the NHL Saturday.
New Jersey's Nicklas Bergfors, Travis Zajac and Zach Parise each had a goal and an assist.
Mark Fraser added his first career (...)
The Pittsburgh Penguins overcame a two-goal deficit to beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 Friday, extending their winning streak to seven and retaining their early-season lead in the NHL.
Playing his 300th career game, Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby had a (...)
The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins earned their sixth straight win by beating the St. Louis Blues 5-1 in the NHL Tuesday.
Matt Cooke, Tyler Kennedy, Evgeni Malkin, Ruslan Fedotenko and Alex Goligoski scored, while Kris Letang had two (...)
The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Tuesday to extend the Stanley Cup finals to the weekend.
The Penguins won at home after losing twice in Detroit against the defending champions just as they did last year in the NHL (...)
Pittsburgh star Evgeni Malkin notched his first playoff hat trick as the Penguins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 7-4 on Thursday to open a 2-0 lead in the NHL's Eastern Conference finals series.
Pittsburgh's other big-name player Sidney Crosby scored (...)