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Kris Letang is entering the final season of his contract, and the Penguins will have to commit to big money to keep him. So what's the play? Craig Custance explores the situation.

Blog | Conversation | June 14, 2013

For Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero, it was never about whether he should trade Evgeni Malkin but about whether Malkin wanted to be in Pittsburgh. Playing alongside a superstar like Sidney Crosby, and thus being in the considerable shadow cast by...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are keeping hockey's best one-two punch together through their primes and beyond.

As the Pittsburgh Penguins embark on an offseason that figures to include significant changes, coach Dan Bylsma insists the goalie position won't be one of them.

Instead of gearing up for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final Sunday, the Penguins were cleaning out their lockers and wondering who will be back, and who wouldn't, Scott Burnside writes.

Penguins GM Ray Shero has decisions to make, and, after the Pens got swept by the Bruins, the first one might involve the future of Dan Bylsma at the helm, Scott Burnside writes.

Craig Custance writes that, after the Pittsburgh Penguins' playoff exit, GM Ray Shero has some big decisions to make -- starting with what to do with star center Evgeni Malkin.

Blog | Conversation | June 08, 2013

The gritty B's are back in the Cup finals after a sweep of the superstar Pens.

There's always a lot of hocus-pocus when a team is down 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, and while Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma acknowledged "it's not a very encouraging picture," it was still interesting to hear Bylsma liken the situation...

The Bruins and Penguins are three games into their conference finals matchup, and the series has already produced its share of bad blood. We've seen Matt Cooke ejected for hitting Andrew Adam McQuaid from behind, a fight between Evgeni Malkin and Pat...

The Bruins-Penguins series is unfolding much like the 1997 Stanley Cup finals, in which an underrated Detroit team swept Philadelphia, writes Scott Burnside.

BOSTON -- Boston Bruins forward Gregory Campbell suffered a broken right leg and is done for the season, according to a team source. Campbell suffered the injury when he blocked a slap shot by the Penguins' Evgeni Malkin during a Pittsburgh power ...

The Bruins took a 3-0 lead despite the presumed favorite Penguins' best shot.

BOSTON -- From Dan Bylsma on down through starting netminder Tomas Vokoun to Jarome Iginla, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, Wednesday night looms as a seminal moment for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It might seem a bit hyperbolic to suggest that for ...

The Penguins have stumbled badly so far against the Bruins, and Scott Burnside offers up five ways Pittsburgh can get back into the series.

PITTSBURGH -- It was probably the moment when Evgeni Malkin and Patrice Bergeron, he of the one career NHL fight, decided to drop the gloves and start whaling on each other at center ice that illustrated how very quickly this Eastern Conference final...