Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 140

The Penguins have relinquished the rights to prospects Ryan Jones and Nikita Pavlychev and allowed both players to become unrestricted free agents. Jones and Pavlychev were each drafted by the Penguins and played at the NCAA level the past four seasons. The NHL’s deadline to sign drafted college players was...

Longtime NHL defenseman Dan Hamhuis announced his retirement through the Nashville Predators on Thursday. Over 16 seasons, Hamhuis appeared in 1,148 regular season games and scored 356 points (59 goals, 297 assists). A stout defensive defenseman throughout his career, Hamhuis, 37, primarily played for the Predators throughout his career but...

The Pittsburgh Penguins have opted to retain their first-round draft pick for this year’s draft, according to Pierre Lebrun of TSN. They will instead send their first-round pick in 2021 to the Minnesota Wild to complete a trade they made in February for forward Jason Zucker. A condition of a...

A day after general manager Jim Rutherford said change was needed for his team, the Penguins did just that with their coaching staff. On Wednesday, the team announced assistant coaches Sergei Gonchar, Jacques Martin and Mark Recchi will not have their contracts renewed. A search for new assistants to work...

Jim Rutherford didn’t have many answers on Tuesday. In all reality, he’s probably still asking lots of his own questions of his team that was meekly dispatched from the playoffs by the Montreal Canadiens last week. But he still had plenty to say when he spoke with reporters via teleconference...

Penguins forward prospect Radim Zohorna will remain his native Czech Republic and train with his previous team, BK Mlada Boleslav of the ELH, to open the 2020-21 season according to a release from the team. The release did not specify if Zohorna will play with BK Mlada Boleslav. That team’s...

Mike Sullivan was relieved. On March 10, in the aftermath of a tidy 5-2 road win against the New Jersey Devils, the Penguins coach stood outside the visiting dressing room of the Prudential Center in downtown Newark, N.J., and offered body language that suggested he finally resolved a great conundrum....

Observations from the Penguins’ 2-0 loss to the Canadiens: There will be plenty of time to dissect this franchise’s malfunctions over the past 28 months and how they’ve fallen from the league’s upper tier of true Stanley Cup contenders. In fact, there will be three months to do that before...

The Penguins’ season-ending 2-0 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of their qualifying round series in Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena brought clarity to one of the conditional transactions they made prior to February’s trade deadline. And it introduced plenty of intrigue to another. The conditional draft pick they dealt...

As stunning as the Penguins’ loss to the Montreal Canadiens was in the qualifying round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, it wasn’t surprising that Canadiens franchise goaltender Carey Price was one of the primary reasons for the result. It might be a stretch to say Price was tested in Game...

When crafting his lineup on a game-by-game basis, Mike Sullivan has a basic principle he professes to abide by. What players will give his team the best chance to win? On Friday, he deemed goaltender Tristan Jarry the most worthy candidate of his options in net in achieving that overlying...

With their season on the line, the Penguins will start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Friday’s Game 4 of their qualifying round series against the Montreal Canadiens in Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry as his starter via video conference from Toronto but declined to get into specifics as...

While the NHL’s entire postseason tournament is being orchestrated in what are essentially neutral sites between Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena and Edmonton’s Rogers Place, there are designated home and road teams for each contest. The Penguins, as the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference, have home ice advantage, so to speak,...

Observations from the Penguins’ 4-3 loss to the Canadiens: Penguins coach Mike Sullivan has a pretty standard answer when he’s asked about playing or not playing certain players. That answer was established in the early portions of 2016 when he regularly scratched forward Sergei Plotnikov. When asked why Plotnikov was...

Game 4 of the Penguins’ best-of-five qualifying round series with the Montreal Canadiens on Friday has been scheduled for 4 p.m. The Penguins are scheduled face the Canadiens in Game 3 on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. Game 5, if necessary, is scheduled for Saturday, but a...

The Penguins don’t number their lines. But they have lines that play the most minutes, the second-most, the third-most and the fourth-most. Right now, the trio of Patrick Marleau, Jared McCann and Patric Hornqvist, colloquially referred to as the third line, is bringing up the rear in terms of ice...

After his team largely struggled with its power play — going 1 for 7 with 10 shots — during Game 1 of their qualifying round series against the Montreal Canadiens at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, there was a pretty simple edict issued by Penguins coach Mike Sullivan. “We’ve got to try...

Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin’s statistics offer a pretty stark dichotomy through two games of his team’s qualifying round series with the Montreal Canadiens. Prior to Tuesday’s games, he led the postseason with 15 shots. Yet, he has yet to record a single point. Coach Mike Sullivan appears to put far...

Observations from the Penguins’ 3-1 win against the Canadiens: After his team struggled with the power play in Game 1, going 1 for 7 and putting only 10 shots on net, coach Mike Sullivan had a pretty basic edict for his players. “We’ve got to try to get some shots,”...