Some familiar names propelled the Pittsburgh Penguins (23-8-5) to their 5-2 win against the New Jersey Devils (13-15-7) on Tuesday night. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin both scored a goal and had at least one assist in Pittsburgh’s solid win. Justin Schultz, who has been one of the Penguins' hottest players this month, scored his seventh goal on the season. His goal gave the Penguins a very late second-period 3-2 lead and, with two more goals – one from Carl Hagelin, the other from Bryan ... Read More
Fans get early Christmas present with Penguins’ win over Devils
Just a night ago the Pittsburgh Penguins (22-8-5) were pummeled by their division foe, the Columbus Blue Jackets, who, with the win, took over the lead in the Metropolitan Division. But just 24 hours later, the Penguins rebounded against the New Jersey Devils (13-14-7), winning 4-1. Sidney Crosby is firing on all cylinders, and he scored his league-leading 24th goal of the season against New Jersey. Friday's game marked the eighth time this season Crosby has scored the first goal of the game, ... Read More
Crosby’s last-second goal helps Penguins topple Devils
Sidney Crosby is the Pittsburgh Penguins' (13-6-3) hero after a stellar performance on the ice. With just 14 seconds left in the game, he scored a goal against the New Jersey Devils (16-6-5) to send the game into overtime. The teams then went into a shootout tied at 3-3. In the shootout, Kris Letang scored the only goal to lift Pittsburgh to the 4-3 win. New Jersey got the first goal of the game off the stick of Michael Cammalleri (his sixth goal of the season.) The Penguins were able to ... Read More
Pens lose assistant GM Tom Fitzgerald to Devils
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ jam-packed front office got one person lighter today, as assistant general manager Tom Fitzgerald left to take the same position with the New Jersey Devils. With the Devils, Fitzgerald will be reunited with his old boss, former Penguins general manager Ray Shero, who is now the GM in New Jersey. “Ray has been a good friend and mentor of mine for a long time now even going back to my Nashville days with him,” Fitzgerald said to Tom Gulitti of the North Jersey Record. ... Read More
New Jersey Devils to tap WBS coach John Hynes
The New Jersey Devils are expected to announce the hiring of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins head coach John Hynes as their next head coach. The Pittsburgh Sporting News has been able to confirm, via to a source close to the situation, an earlier report by Bob McKenzie of TSN that Hynes would “very likely” get the job in New Jersey. Certainly appears as if PIT's AHL coach John Hynes is the likely leading candidate to be next head coach in NJ. Nothing official, mind you. — Bob McKenzie ... Read More
Ray Shero to take over in New Jersey
Ray Shero has a new gig. After taking a season off, the former Penguins general manager will return to the NHL in the same capacity with the New Jersey Devils. Shero was announced as the fourth GM in franchise history in a press conference Monday afternoon. The man making the announcement, Lou Lamoriello, will step down as general manager after 28 years in that position with New Jersey. Lamoriello will remain the team’s president and oversee Shero in a supervisory role, but Shero will ... Read More
Penguins fall in New Jersey; drop third straight
For years, the Penguins have struggled to produce offense against the New Jersey Devils’ trapping scheme. On Tuesday night, they found their way to the net often enough, but despite landing 35 shots on goal, none of them found their way past Devils goaltender Cory Schneider, and the Pens lost, 2-0. It was the eighth time this season that the Penguins were shut out, and the second time in the last three games. The Penguins played a strong defensive game, allowing only 19 shots to get through ... Read More
Penguins come from behind to rout Devils
For the better part of the past two decades, the New Jersey Devils have been one of the premier defensive teams in the NHL. Backstopped by surefire Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur in goal, and led by defensive masterminds like Larry Robinson, the Devils have carved an identity as one of the stingiest teams in the league. In previous years, when the Devils jumped out to an early 3-1 lead, the outcome of the game had already been decided as the Devils’ system would shut down the neutral zone. ... Read More
Penguins host Jagr and red-hot Devils
The New Jersey Devils will take their show on the road when they bring the best road record in the NHL to Consol Energy Center tonight to do battle with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Devils are 4-0-1 away from their home ice this season. It’s an area of improvement for the team after going 20-38-17 on the road for the last two seasons under Head Coach Peter DeBoer. TONIGHT’S OPPONENT: The Devils will be without leading goal scorer Mike Cammalleri. Cammalleri came over from Calgary in the ... Read More
Previewing the Atlantic Division
With the announcement of a tentative agreement between the NHL and the NHLPA, hockey fans will finally get to see their team back on the ice in a little more than a week. For the Penguins, the new season is a chance to erase the bitter, eight month memory of being humiliated in the first round of the playoffs by the hated Philadelphia Flyers. That being said, the Penguins still put together a very successful season in 2011-12. Evgeni Malkin won league MVP and led the league in scoring. James ... Read More