Cracking the Pittsburgh Penguins’ opening night roster represents a massive accomplishment for Rutger McGroarty. General ...

Rutger McGroarty made the Pittsburgh Penguins' roster and now he is trying to prove to them that he deserves to stay in the ...

McGroarty felt as if he got that excited energy out of his system by the third or fourth shift, then he was able to settle in ...

I’m like, shaking right now,” Rutger McGroarty said with a laugh as he put down his phone in the Penguins video room on ...

Kelsey Surmacz is the Pittsburgh Penguins reporter and site editor for The Hockey News and has been sports writing since she ...

Rutger McGroarty found out from the Penguins' PR team on Monday that he had made the season-opening roster. They gave him the ...

Penguins' Rutger McGroarty will be thrown right into the fire when he makes his NHL debut against the Rangers on Wednesday ...

In a recent interview with TribLive, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan adamantly pushed back against the suggestion he ...

As the deadline to submit opening-night rosters approached on Monday, Rutger McGroarty’s family anxiously awaited word about ...

One of the few — very, very few — positives to be taken from the Penguins’ 6-0 opening-night thrashing at the hands of the Rangers on Wednesday was the NHL ...

A hockey player who got his start in Lincoln has made it all the way to the NHL.

McGroarty is believed to be the first Lincoln-born hockey player to reach the NHL. The talented youngster is the son of ...