By Vince Comunale Forbes Magazine recently released its annual listing of the values of all 30 NHL teams. This year there was a change at the top, with the New York Rangers and their $1.2B value supplanting the Toronto Maple Leafs who slipped to third place on the list with their mere $1.15B value. The…
I joined Gord Stellick and Rob Simpson for some Pens talk earlier today. We didn’t yet have an update on Olli Maatta, but we ran through the victory over the Wild, the state of the team, Sidney Crosby and much more. Listen in here if you missed it!
By Vince Comunale The saying is that records are made to be broken. Well, that may be the case with most records, but the NHL records profiled below are so outrageous that they just might stand forever. The first one that comes to mind is Mario Lemieux scoring five goals in five unique ways. Scoring…
I joined Justin Bradford and Big Ben on Penalty Box Radio on 102.5 the Game in Nashville Wednesday night to preview the Penguins game with the Predators on Saturday night. Here is the description of our chat compliments of the Penalty Box Radio site — (you can hear my segment at the 10:30 mark) Brian…
By Dan Scifo From the Point contributor PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Penguins, loaded with offense and Stanley Cup expectations, certainly felt the pressure of an 0-3 start to the season. Evgeni Malkin decided to do something about it. Malkin scored his first of the season, rookie Daniel Sprong netted the first of his career and…
By Dan Scifo From the Point Contributor PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Penguins are searching for confidence, momentum and anything else they can find that will help them crawl out of a messy 0-3 hole to start the season. The Penguins doubled their scoring output from a disappointing two-game road trip to start the season, but…
Metz joined Joe Lodanosky on ESPN 1120 this afternoon to talk Pens, Pucks and the team’s opening night loss to the Dallas Stars on Thursday night. Check it out below and don’t forget to follow Metz and Joe on Twitter!
By Brian Metzer It doesn’t seem like it’s been 18 days since the Penguins’ selected Daniel Sprong with their second round draft pick, but that is indeed the case. That fact dawned on me while talking with the player selected number 46th overall in Sunrise, Florida back on June 27 at the team’s Prospect Development…
It is sometimes fun to look back over your body of work. So I decided to do so on a Thursday, could it be a Throwback Thursday? Maybe. In doing so it dawned on me that I once penned a column talking about the ‘WHAT IF’ possibility of the Penguins drafting Phil Kessel instead of…
The Penguins have already lost two of their unrestricted free agents to division rivals. Defenseman Taylor Chorney and goaltender Thomas Greiss have signed with the Washington Capitals and New York Islanders respectively. Chorney, who helped quite a bit down the stretch while the Penguins dealt with injuries to Kris Letang and Christian Ehrhoff, was held…
