Dave Molinari

1 week ago | pittsburghhockeynow.com | Dave Molinari

CRANBERRY — Filip Kral and Ville Koivunen were playoff opponents in Finland last spring. They were teammates with the Penguins’ farm team in Wilkes-Barre for most of this season. Tuesday, they had adjacent stalls in the locker room at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. And later this week, they might appear together in an NHL game for the first time.

1 week ago | pittsburghhockeynow.com | Dave Molinari

There are a lot of things to do on a nice Sunday afternoon in the spring. Playing hockey apparently was one of the possibilities that the Pittsburgh Penguins did not seriously consider. Not for most of it, anyway. And while they weren’t exactly no-shows at PPG Paints Arena — after all, 20 guys sporting full Penguins regalia were in the building — they managed to be outclassed for most of the first two periods by the team marooned at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.

1 week ago | pittsburghhockeynow.com | Dave Molinari

CRANBERRY — Sidney Crosby will be 38 years old when the Penguins convene for training camp in September. He has appeared in 78 of their first 80 games this season, and is averaging 20 minutes, 23 seconds of ice time, the most of any Penguins forward. And, oh yeah, when most of the league was taking a little time off in February, Crosby was captaining Canada to the championship of the Four Nations tournament.

1 week ago | pittsburghhockeynow.com | Dave Molinari

CRANBERRY — The Pittsburgh Penguins have a chance to make some history — or, at least, earn a footnote in it — by the end of this regular season. They’ll be trying hard to avoid it, even if that’s not a major source of motivation. If they lose either of their final two games, both of which will be at PPG Paints Arena — against Boston Sunday at 3:38 p.m. and against Washington Thursday at 7:08 p.m. — the Penguins will finish with a losing record for the first time since 2005-06.

1 week ago | pittsburghhockeynow.com | Dave Molinari

CRANBERRY — Melvin Fernstrom, who was acquired from Vancouver in the trade that sent Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor to the Canucks Feb. 1, has turned up at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. He went through an on-ice workout before the full-team practice, which is scheduled for noon. Fernstrom, 19, was Vancouver’s third-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.