Seth Rorabaugh stories, Page 94

There are worse places to spend a birthday than Las Vegas. Or you also could celebrate the day at home. For Jason Zucker, he got to do both. Having grown up in Sin City, Zucker turned 30 on Sunday in familiar and jubilant surroundings through a coincidence in the Pittsburgh...

There’s a silly way to describe Louis Domingue. Literally. To use the parlance of his vocation, he’s known as a “silly sider.” By no means is it a derisive term. Nor is it a sentiment of respect. It merely is a way of pointing out that he catches the puck...

The Penguins wanted to see staunch improvements in their defensive play on Saturday. And sure enough, they did. Battling the San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., they saw a drop in the total amount of shots allowed from their previous game. Two nights after yielding...

Defenseman Taylor Fedun and forward Felix Robert each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-2 road win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (10-15-1-3), which snapped an eight-game...

It wasn’t quite as dramatic as that time the Ewing brothers were trapped in an elevator, but Brock McGinn had the misfortune of being stuck in a confined space within Dallas over the past week. After the team had traveled to Dallas for the second leg of its ongoing six-game...

If things had ended for Jeff Carter in Los Angeles, he was more than comfortable with that. Having helped the Kings win the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 — he scored the Cup-clinching goal in 2012 — Carter carved out an enduring legacy with that franchise. And there are...

For as much as the Penguins are routinely celebrated as an offensive force – goals are as much their brand as the skating member of the taxonomic family Spheniscidae on the crest of their black and yellow jerseys – it’s been their defense that has largely buoyed whatever success they’ve...

Jeff Carter is back in a familiar place where he has enjoyed a lot of success. Los Angeles. A vital component of the Kings’ only two Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and ‘14, Carter has a lot of warm memories of life on the West Coast. He likely will add...

The Penguins have recalled forwards Drew O’Connor and Filip Hallander from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). O’Connor was assigned to the NHL roster while Hallander was assigned to the taxi squad. Shuffled between the NHL and AHL rosters sporadically throughout the season, O’Connor, a second-year professional who is...

One of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ biggest players made a long-awaited return to the lineup. It had been multiple months since the last time he played in a game of consequence for the team. And with so many players out of the lineup due to various medical maladies, he was desperately...

Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin is expected to make his season debut in Tuesday’s road game against the Anaheim Ducks. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Malkin “is going to play” to media in Anaheim following the team’s optional morning skate at the Honda Center. Having recovered from offseason surgery to his right...

Evgeni Malkin didn’t go to California with an aching heart. But he did trek there with a surgically repaired right knee and hopes of playing his first games in more than seven months. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ franchise center — one of two they are blessed to have — appears to...

The Penguins recalled forwards Anthony Angello and Radim Zahorna from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) and assigned them to the taxi squad Monday. This marks the second time this season each player has been recalled to the NHL club. Additionally, forward Drew O’Connor has been removed from the...

Penguins goaltender Casey DeSmith was placed into the NHL’s protocols for covid-19. The team announced his status Monday afternoon. He is the third member of the roster in protocols, joining forwards Brock McGinn and Bryan Rust who tested positive for the virus on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Neither played in...

The Pittsburgh Penguins keep losing players. And they finally lost a game. With forwards Brock McGinn and Bryan Rust the latest members of the roster sidelined after testing positive for covid-19, the Penguins dressed an irregular lineup of 11 forwards and seven defensemen Saturday and suffered a come-from-ahead 3-2 loss...

Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Brock McGinn and Bryan Rust did not play in Saturday’s road game against the Dallas Stars after each tested positive for covid-19. Both players have been placed into the NHL’s protocols for the virus. Coach Mike Sullivan announced their statuses to media Saturday in Dallas. McGinn was...

At 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds, Brian Boyle is not one of the NHL’s fastest players. Quite the opposite, actually. But as a father, he was quick enough. On New Year’s Day, Boyle welcomed a new son, Callum, into the world. And with only a few minutes to spare. “I got...