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…
Penguins History: Dave Schultz – If I Had A Hammer
During the summer of 1977, popular enforcer Bob “Battleship” Kelly signed a free-agent deal with Chicago, leaving the Penguins without…