FINAL - The Pittsburgh Penguins notched their 30th win and defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 6-3, at PPG Paints Arena.

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Penguins’ power-play percentage this season: 33/220
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Number of consecutive games played by Sidney Crosby, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of goals scored by Evgeni Malkin in his NHL career
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The number of points the Pens are behind for the last playoff position in Eastern Conference

6th in Metro Division – 11th in Eastern Conference – 25th in NHL

(30-28-9 = 69 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on March 19th...

1940 - Springfield Indians won at home, 5-1, taking a 1-0 lead in their opening round series vs. the Pittsburgh Hornets.
1941 - The Hornets established a 1-0 series lead vs. Springfield with a 2-1 win at Duquesne Gardens.
1946 - The Hornets dropped a 3-0 decision in Hershey, and trailed the opening round series 1-0.
1970 - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Janne Laukkanen was born.
1972 - Pittsburgh Hornets right wing Rene Trudell died.
1986 - Penguins goaltender Brad Thiessen was born.
1988 - Penguins goalie Steve Guenette stopped 38 shots from the Philadelphia Flyers to earn his first shutout with the Pens.
1994 - The Penguins obtained Greg Hawgood from the Florida Panthers for Jeff Daniels.
2002 - Pittsburgh obtained Ville Nieminen and Rick Berry from Colorado for Darius Kasparaitis.
2006 - Two separate power outages put the Mellon Arena in the dark during the Penguins game with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

- Chad Kilger beat Marc-Andre Fleury on a penalty shot for the only goal of the game. The first time in 70 years a game was won, 1-0, on a penalty shot.
2009 - Longtime Civic (Mellon) Arena organist Vince Laschied died. Laschied, a member of the Penguins Hall of Fame, played from 1970 through 2003.
2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 67 33 35 68 32
59 Jake Guentzel LW 50 22 30 52 14
71 Evgeni Malkin C 67 19 32 51 54
65 Erik Karlsson D 67 8 38 46 32
17 Bryan Rust RW 47 20 20 40 18
58 Kris Letang D 67 8 32 40 60
19 Reilly Smith RW 61 12 21 33 8
67 Rickard Rakell RW 55 10 18 28 18
20 Lars Eller C 67 14 12 26 32
10 Drew O'Connor LW 64 10 15 25 18
28 Marcus Pettersson D 67 3 22 25 32
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 37 4 12 16 4
27 Ryan Graves D 67 3 11 14 30
77 Jeff Carter C 61 9 3 12 12
55 Noel Acciari C 52 4 3 7 10
63 Radim Zohorna C 31 4 3 7 16
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 37 0 5 5 6
7 John Ludvig D 29 3 2 5 47
43 Jansen Harkins C 43 0 4 4 21
83 Matt Nieto LW 22 1 3 4 4
2 Chad Ruhwedel D 47 1 3 4 2
13 Vinnie Hinostroza C 14 1 2 3 4
52 Emil Bemstrom C 13 1 2 3 2
8 Michael Bunting LW 6 2 1 3 2
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 11 1 0 1 2
5 Ryan Shea D 22 0 0 0 6
11 Alex Nylander C 5 0 0 0 0
15 Joona Koppanen LW 4 0 0 0 0
44 Jonathan Gruden C 11 1 1 0 0
9 Marc Johnstone RW 1 0 0 0 0
36 Colin White C 11 0 0 0 2
16 Matthew Philips RW 3 0 0 0 0
3 Jack St. Ivany D
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 47 19 22 5 0 2601 121 6 2.79 1 0 1 4
39 Alex Nedeljkovic 24 10 6 4 0 1300 64 1 2.95 0 0 0 0
45 Magnus Hellberg 3 1 0 -- 120 5 0 2.50 0
30 Joel Blomqvist -- 0

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Other Pittsburgh hockey teams:

Pro hockey started here

Pittsburgh deserves some of the credit for being the birthplace of pro hockey. Harry Peel admitted that he was paid $35 a week to play in a local amateur league in 1901.     READ MORE

Yellow Jackets

Pittsburgh’s Yellow Jackets dominated the amateur ranks of North America and won championships in 1924 and 1925, then morphed into Pittsburgh’s first NHL team.     READ MORE

Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)

Steel Town’s first entry in the National Hockey League. The franchise barely survived five years of sub-par hockey, but were doomed by the Great Depression.     READ MORE

Pittsburgh Shamrocks

The Shamrocks lasted only one year. A scrappy team, beset with money problems, ironically had their fate sealed when the 1936 St. Patrick’s Day flood crippled the city.     READ MORE

Pittsburgh Hornets

“The Wasps” gave the city 26 years of professional hockey excitement at Duquesne Gardens and Civic Arena, before giving way to the Penguins.     READ MORE

Pittsburgh Knights

Pittsburgh’s entry into the Mid Atlantic Hockey League, where the Rizzo brothers played with football star Johnny Unitas.     READ MORE

Pittsburgh Phantoms 

They played in the Roller Hockey International League in 1994 and featured Hall of Famers and the first woman to play professional hockey in Pittsburgh.     READ MORE

College & High School

Here’s where you’ll find links to all of the youth, high school and college teams that call Western Pennsylvania home. Don’t see your team listed? Let us know!     READ MORE