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3 days ago | 
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Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman wrote on Wednesday afternoon there is growing momentum for Dan Muse to be named the next head coach of the Penguins. There is word today that momentum is growing for Dan Muse to become the next head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. — Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) June 4, 2025Muse, 42, has been an assistant with the New York Rangers for the last two seasons.
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3 days ago | 
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Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Pittsburgh Penguins impending free agent Vasily Ponomarev may have made a career choice to head back to the KHL. Twitter reports have him signing with Avangard, although definitive and a formal filing of the completed contract has not happened as of yet. It’s not stopping the excitement from Avangard’s perspective, who traded for Ponomarev’s KHL rights earlier today.
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3 days ago | 
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Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Well after a 2-0 Conference Final prediction (finally!), we’re up to a 9-5 series record in the 2025 playoffs. Not the best, but let’s try to close out the season and finish strong. It might seem like forever in between series (but what if I told you that this break between Conference Final and Stanley Cup Final happens similarly almost every year due to unpredictable CF end dates and kowtowing to rightsholders’ wishes*) but we have made it.
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4 days ago | 
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Photo by Ryan Yorgen/NHLI via Getty Images Public perception is very slow to change when it comes to NHL broadcasting teams. The Penguins’ local team on SportsNet Pittsburgh did not fare very well in Awful Announcing’s recent rankings, which is nothing new since they never have done well in any type of widespread polling across the sport.
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4 days ago | 
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Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Sidney Crosby has won just about everything there is in hockey to win, but there’s one item that is becoming more elusive for him (even if he’s not necessarily going out of his way intending to win it). Crosby once finished in the top-10 in voting for the Selke trophy four straight years from 2016-19. He ended up only getting one fourth place vote in the award for the best defensive forward this season.
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5 days ago | 
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Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images It’s an important week for NHL teams, even though it’s mostly unmonitored. The NHL’s draft combine kicks off today in Buffalo and lasts through June 7th. From the league:“The NHL Combine is a rite of passage on a player’s path to the NHL and is an event that NHL clubs and prospects look forward to participating in,” NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr said.
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6 days ago | 
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Photo by Justin Berl/NHLI via Getty Images Today’s June 1st date is relevant in the NHL calendar for signing certain draft picks, specifically those selected in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft who are playing in North American leagues (e.g., OHL, WHL, QMJHL, NCAA, or USHL). Cooper Foster, a 2023 sixth round draft pick out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and one of Kyle Dubas’s first draft picks with the Penguins is set to have his rights expire today if he’s not signed by the Penguins by 5:00pm.
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6 days ago | 
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Photo by Kevin Sousa/Getty Images Welcome back to our feature on draft profiles for projected top picks in the upcoming 2025 NHL draft. Catch up with the previous ones here:No 1: Matthew SchaeferNo 2: Michael MisaNo. 3: Porter MartoneNo. 4: Anton FrondellNo. 5: James HagensNo. 6: Caleb DesnoyersNo. 7: Jake O’BrienNo. 8: Roger McQueenNo. 9: Victor Eklund No. 10: Jackson SmithNo. 11: Radim MrtkaFor the rankings, we have turned to the venerable Bob McKenzie from TSN for his listing of players.
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1 week ago | 
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There were some whispers that Russian forward Mikhail Ilyin had chose to re-sign in Russia instead of going with the Penguins at this time. Turns out that was incorrect, the Pens were able to sign Ilyin today. The Penguins have signed forward Mikhail Ilyin to a three-year entry-level contract. His contract will begin in the 2025.26 campaign and will run through the 2027.28 season.
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1 week ago | 
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Photo by Chris Tanouye/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images Earlier this week, the NHL and Amazon announced a second season renewal of their ‘FACEOFF: Inside the NHL’ program. The popular first season had intense action and lockerroom looks at Connor McDavid and the Oilers up through Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, including capturing the dejection afterwards when McDavid was named the Conn Smythe winner literally as he was processing the dejection.
