BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators aim to break a four-game skid with a victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh is 18-17-8 overall and 12-7-3 at home. The Penguins have a -23 scoring differential, with 132 total goals scored and 155 allowed.
Forward Michael Bunting became part of history Sunday when he scored ... The primary assist was recorded by forward Sidney Crosby, allowing him to become the Pittsburgh Penguins’ all-time leader in assists, surpassing Mario Lemieux’s figure of 1,033.
The Pittsburgh Penguins had lost seven consecutive games to Edmonton before Thursday evening. They had been outscored in those games, 37-9, and might have been outplayed even more than those numbers suggest.
The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Edmonton Oilers after Rickard Rakell's two-goal game against the Columbus Blue Jackets in the Penguins' 4-3 shootout loss.
Leon Draisaitl scores twice to reach 31 goals this season, but Alex Nedeljkovic makes 40 saves for Pittsburgh in a 5-3 defeat for the Oilers on Thursday that snapped their four-game win streak
Up 3-1 in the third period, at home, against a Columbus Blue Jackets team that has been making a move in the standings, the Penguins collapsed and ultimately fell in a shootout, 4-3.
The Pittsburgh Penguins picked up their first win of 2025 by defeating Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers Thursday night at PPG Paints Arena.
The Pittsburgh Penguins witnessed history in ... Crosby was the primary assist on Michael Bunting’s team-leading seventh power play goal. Bunting signed the stick he used to score the goal ...
Forward Michael Bunting - acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes as part of the Jake Guentzel trade last spring - is on a tear after starting the season off slow. After registering just one point in his first 12 games, he was even a healthy scratch at one point.
It’s fitting that the Pittsburgh Penguins’ “Star Wars Night” promotion Thursday evening followed Tuesday’s 4-3 shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. That defeat created a great disturbance in the force at PPG Paints Arena.
The Penguins came into Thursday’s matchup with Edmonton at PPG Paints Arena especially motivated. First and foremost, they wanted to ensure they grabbed two points after picking up just one in three of their last four games (0-1-3),