FINAL - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1. Puljujarvi (3), Rust (23), O'Connor (11) & Crosby (35) scored for the Pens.

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Penguins’ power-play percentage this season: 33/230
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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

7th in Metro Division – 13th in Eastern Conference – 23rd in NHL

(31-30-10 = 72 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on March 28th...

1926 - Pittsburgh Hornets center Harry Taylor was born.
1946 - The Hornets lost a second straight 6-5 game against the Cleveland Barons to even their Semifinal series.
1951 - The Hornets swept their opening round series against the Springfield Indians with a 7-2 win. In the series, the Hornets outscored Springfield, 22-2, to set an AHL record for most goals scored by one team in a three game series.
1953 - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Dennis Owchar was born.
1965 - Penguins defenseman Dave Goertz was born.
1976 - Penguins goalie Michel Plasse earned his second shutout with the Pens by stopping 29 shots from the Detroit Red Wings.
1979 - Greg Malone netted his first and only hat trick with the Pens after scoring three times on New York Rangers goalie Doug Soetaert.
1987 - The Hartford Whalers Sylvain Turgeon scored twice on Pens goalie Pat Riggin in a six-second span at Hartford in a 5-4 Whalers win. Turgeon's goals were the fastest two goals scored on the Pens by one player.
1992 - Penguins won their second consecutive Patrick Division title with a 4-1 victory against the Washington Capitals.
2013 - Pens acquired Jarome Iginla from the Calgary Flames for a first round draft pick in 2013, Kenneth Agostino and Ben Hanowski. Tomas Vokoun gets second shutout with Pens and 50th of his career by stopping 20 shots from Winnipeg.
2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 71 35 41 76 34
71 Evgeni Malkin C 71 19 34 53 58
59 Jake Guentzel LW 50 22 30 52 14
65 Erik Karlsson D 71 8 38 46 32
17 Bryan Rust RW 51 23 20 43 18
58 Kris Letang D 71 8 33 41 60
19 Reilly Smith RW 65 12 22 34 10
67 Rickard Rakell RW 59 11 19 30 20
20 Lars Eller C 72 14 13 27 32
10 Drew O'Connor LW 68 11 15 26 20
28 Marcus Pettersson D 71 4 22 26 34
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 41 4 14 18 6
27 Ryan Graves D 69 3 11 14 30
77 Jeff Carter C 61 9 3 12 12
55 Noel Acciari C 55 4 3 7 10
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 41 1 6 7 6
63 Radim Zohorna C 31 4 3 7 16
8 Michael Bunting LW 10 3 3 6 2
7 John Ludvig D 32 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
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 14 3 0 3 4
52 Emil Bemstrom C 16 1 2 3 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 13 1 1 0 5
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 3 0 0 0 0
22 Sam Poulin RW 1 0 0 0 0
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 50 19 24 5 0 2714 131 6 2.90 1 0 1 4
39 Alex Nedeljkovic 26 11 6 5 0 1424 69 1 2.91 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