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Penguins Muscle Up, Acquire Ryan Reaves

Say this about Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford. He ain’t afraid to be bold. A fortnight after hinting at reinforcing his quicksilver…

Penguins History: So Why Do We Hate the Flyers So Much?

As our Penguins prepare to square off with the Philadelphia Flyers tonight in the latest installment of “The Battle of…

Penguins History: My Favorite Team

Over the course of their storied 50-year-history, the Penguins have iced all sorts of hockey teams. From the sublime to…

Penguins Pay a Steep Price for Victory

September 29, 1973. Brantford (Ontario) Civic Centre. The Pittsburgh Penguins squared off against their arch-nemesis—the truculent St. Louis Blues—in an…

Penguins History: Bob Paradise

It might come as a surprise for Penguins fans to learn that a Hall-of-Fame defenseman skated for the team in…

Penguins History: Eddie “The Entertainer” Shack

He wasn’t the best player to don a Penguins jersey. Not by a long shot. But few players in the…

Penguins History: Battleship Kelly

In the annals of Penguins history, perhaps no player cultivated a more fearsome reputation—or earned a more colorful nickname—than left…

Penguins-Flyers Rivalry Part 3: Rise of the Broad Street Bullies (1972-1984)

The Pens-Flyers rivalry heated up during the early ‘70s, due in no small part to the emergence of “the Broad…