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3 days ago | pensburgh.com | Hooks Orpik

SetNumber: X74375 TK1 The NHL unveiled the last of their Quarter Century team, 25 players in the 21st century. Marc-Andre Fleury joined Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on the NHL QC team. That led to the natural conclusion, what about a Pittsburgh Penguins quarter century team? To make it a little more challenging and balanced, we’re not going to put Jaromir Jagr or someone like that on the fourth line, since that wasn’t a fourth line player. So we’ll go with role-specific honorees.

4 days ago | pensburgh.com | Hooks Orpik

Photo by Joe Sargent/NHLI via Getty Images One of my favorite little offseason features is looking back at last year and seeing the journey that it took for the first-time players in the NHL for the Penguins during that season. Since Pittsburgh didn’t make a lot of top draft picks in the olden days of trying to make runs in the playoffs, often times it wasn’t the traditional young player stories, but good ones just the same. Well the times, they are a’changin in that regard.

5 days ago | pensburgh.com | Hooks Orpik

Photo by Michael Miller/ISI Photos/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 one here:No 1. Matthew SchaeferNo 2. Michael MisaNo. 3 Porter MartoneFor the rankings, we have turned to the venerable Bob McKenzie from TSN for his listing of players. McKenzie’s list is typically in-tune with the NHL, because his rankings are an average that comes from surveying 10 active NHL scouts.

6 days ago | pensburgh.com | Hooks Orpik

Photo by Dave Sandford - Pool/Getty Images The NHL is naming 25 players to their “Quarter Century” team, and for once the league finally got it right by including Evgeni Malkin! Oh yeah, and of course Sidney Crosby made the list too, no surprise there as being the greatest player the NHL has seen since the Lemieux/Gretzky days.

6 days ago | pensburgh.com | Hooks Orpik

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images VitalsPlayer: Blake LizotteBorn: Dec. 13, 1997 (27 years old)Height: 5-foot-9Weight: 173 poundsHometown: Lindstrom, MN, U.S.Shoots: LeftDraft: Undrafted2024-25 Statistics: 59 games played; 11 goals; nine assists; 20 pointsContract Status: Entering year two of a two-year, $3.7 million contract; will have a cap hit of $1.85 million for the 2025-26 season.