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On This Day In Penguins Playoff History: April 25

The Pittsburgh Penguins just wrapped up their 57th season, missing the Stanley Cup playoffs for the third consecutive season. Despite their recent lack of success, the franchise has appeared in the playoffs 37 times and won five championships.read more »

Dan’s Daily: Toronto Euphoria; Trade Rumors; Questioning Penguins Coach

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — We ran the gamut of Pittsburgh Penguins coverage, from a troubling polarity in the Penguins organization to one prospect getting terrible news, while we asked deep questions of a future Penguins cornerstone in an interesting article for our subscribers. Elsewhere in the Daily, Toronto fans are delirious after another Maple Leafs win.…read more »

Penguins Intriguing Prospect Howe Out After ACL Surgery

Next season could mark the arrival of several Pittsburgh Penguins prospects in the NHL, but at least one will be delayed. Forward Tanner Howe will spend months recovering from reconstructive ACL surgery on his right knee, the team announced Thursday. The surgery, performed by team head physician Dharmesh Vyas on Wednesday, will require an expected…read more »

Penguins Blog: Troubling Disparity; Is Dubas Reaching?

Over the past few weeks, an observation has pinged around this scribe’s noggin. After trying to make sense of so much incomprehensible Pittsburgh Penguins hockey over the better part of six months, there came a stark counterexample. Why were two rookies the most structured, predictable, fundamentally sound players on the roster? After months of watching…read more »

Can Rich Rodriguez Finish What He Started at WVU?

Can Rich Rodriguez Finish What He Started at WVU?

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images for ONIT Good morning! This is the Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup. Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed,…read more »

Dan’s Daily: Russia Threatens Hasek; Chasing Boeser; Sullivan Heat

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — If Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas is correct and the team is in danger of or suffering from stagnation and complacency, should not coach Mike Sullivan feel some heat? We skipped social media canon and got to the heart of the matter. Dave Molinari and I went head-to-head on defenseman Matt…read more »