Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 127

The Pittsburgh Penguins placed defenseman Brian Dumoulin on long-term injured reserve. That designation allowed them to recall defenseman Will Reilly, a first-year professional, from their taxi squad. Dumoulin, one of the team’s top players, has been sidelined the past two games — since a 3-2 overtime road loss to the...

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ upcoming home games Tuesday and Thursday against the New Jersey Devils have been postponed indefinitely. On Monday, the NHL announced four additional Devils players were added to the league’s covid-19 protocol-related absence list. They join the six Devils players already on that list prior to Monday. Those...

A weekly look at how Penguins prospects and minor leaguers have fared over the past week: • In the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), forwards Nathan Legare and Sam Poulin each made their debuts for Val-d’Or Foreurs on Saturday in a 3-2 shootout road win against the Gatineau Olympiques....

Goaltender Emil Larmi made 21 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who opened their preseason with a 5-1 road win against the Binghamton Devils at the RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House in Newark, N.J., on Sunday. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton got goals from forwards Jordy Bellerive, John Gruden, Zach Nastasiuk, Tim Schaller and defenseman Josh...

You can illustrate how dismal of a situation the Pittsburgh Penguins have on defense by simply pointing out they have six defensemen sidelined by injury. But you can paint a much more vivid picture by noting one of their options during a 5-4 overtime road win against the Rangers on...

The Pittsburgh Penguins entered Saturday’s road game against the New York Rangers knowing they had to do something different to combat what plagued them during the early stages of their ongoing road trip. “We’ve just got to play a better team game,” forward Bryan Rust said. “We’ve got to focus...

As a 12-year veteran who has played in Montreal, Vancouver and Nashville, defenseman Yannick Weber is no stranger to travel. But the trek he made to join the Penguins was quite a caper. The native of Switzerland signed with the Penguins on Wednesday but was unable to arrange a flight...

When the Penguins sought a new general manager in the spring of 2014, there were plenty of obvious candidates. The names of Julien BriseBois and Jeff Gorton were some of the most prominent attached to the vacancy. And they made sense. At the time, they were assistant general managers of...

The Penguins had a job to do. Even if their general manager quit his job. On Thursday morning, they were still trying to shake off the stupor from Jim Rutherford abruptly stepping away from a thoroughly successful tenure with the organization. There was still a little bit of shock lingering,...

The Pittsburgh Penguins made a series of roster maneuvers prior to their road game against the Boston Bruins on Thursday. Defenseman Kevin Czuczman and forward Sam Lafferty were recalled from the taxi squad. Czuczman’s recall is under emergency conditions, but Lafferty is a regular recall. With a number of incumbent...

Bill Guerin has seen the world. When you’re one of the best hockey players the U.S. has ever produced, that affords you the chance to play in Olympic or international tournaments staged in exotic locales such as Italy or Japan. But after his playing days concluded and he took the...

Another day. Another Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman injured. Brian Dumoulin, one of the Penguins’ top players, will be sidelined on a week-to-week basis because of an undisclosed injury, according to coach Mike Sullivan. During Tuesday’s 3-2 overtime road loss to the Boston Bruins, Dumoulin fell to the ice awkwardly while defending...

When he was introduced as general manager in 2014, Jim Rutherford had some modest expectations for how long he would remain with the Penguins. He even suggested his tenure would be two or three years and one of the team’s assistant general managers would take over. He eventually walked that...

The Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday signed defenseman Yannick Weber to a one-year deal worth $700,000, the NHL’s minimum salary. He must clear waivers by noon Thursday to formally join the team. Weber joins a team that has been besieged by injuries, particularly on the blue line. The 32-year-old has spent...

Jim Rutherford believed in second chances. He was willing to give castoffs and misfits second chances in the name of making his teams better. After all, he was given a second chance. A few weeks after the Carolina Hurricanes gently pushed him out of the general manager’s office in spring...

Boston has been a harsh environment for the Penguins over the past five decades. From the earliest days of the franchise, the Penguins have had quite a bit of trouble against the Big Bad Bruins, whether it be in the iconic Boston Garden or the unremarkable TD Garden. That notion...

The Pittsburgh Penguins formally recalled forward Drew O’Connor from their taxi squad. One of the organization’s top prospects, O’Connor could make his NHL debut Tuesday with a road game against the Boston Bruins. O’Connor, 22, has been a member of the Penguins for roughly 10 months having signed a two-year...

Drew O’Connor had some pretty modest goals as he headed to college. Almost four years ago, O’Connor was hoping to attend Hobart in New York and walk on to the school’s Division III hockey team. If that didn’t work out, he could play club hockey. But things changed. Like “play...

Evgeni Malkin’s performance in Sunday’s 3-2 win against the New York Rangers was historic. And not for anything resembling a positive footnote. Clocking in at 14 minutes, 23 seconds of ice time on 23 shifts, the Penguins’ star center recorded the third lowest time on ice total of his career,...