FINAL - Sidney Crosby scored 1:16 into a scoreless OT as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Ottawa Senators, 1-0.

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The number of shutouts registered by Penguins goalies this season
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Percent chance the Penguins will win the first-overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft

7th in Metro Division – 13th in Eastern Conference – 25th in NHL

(30-34-11 = 71 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on April 2nd...

1935 - Pittsburgh Hornets center Cecil Hoekstra was born.
1940 - The Hornets fell to the Providence Reds, 4-3, and lost Game 1 of the Calder Cup Finals.
1955 - The Buffalo Bisons evened the Calder Cup Finals with the Hornets at one game apiece with a 3-1 win in Pittsburgh.
1970 - Pittsburgh Phantoms defenseman Kevin Meisner was born.
1988 - Mario Lemieux scored three times on Washington Capitals goalie Clint Malarchuk for his 12th hat trick.
2008 - The Penguins defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2, and claimed their first Atlantic Division Championship. The Pens' 41st sellout of the season marked the first time in franchise history that the team sold out every game of the season.
2013 - Brooks Orpik appeared in his 622nd game in a Penguins uniform, the most ever by a Penguins defenseman, to pass Ron Stackhouse. Pens lost to Buffalo, 4-1, to snap a 15-game winning streak, second longest in team and NHL history.
2016 - Penguins' Oskar Sundqvist scored his first NHL, unassisted and short-handed, against New York Islanders' Jean-Francois Berube.

Matt Murray made 24 saves for his first NHL shutout and Sidney Crosby notched his 600th career assist.
2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 73 27 54 81 29
67 Rickard Rakell RW 74 32 31 63 12
65 Erik Karlsson D 75 10 40 59 18
17 Bryan Rust RW 64 26 29 55 18
71 Evgeni Malkin C 62 15 31 46 40
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 75 1 34 35 12
8 Michael Bunting LW 58 14 15 29 48
58 Kris Letang D 68 8 20 28 42
13 Kevin Hayes RW 58 11 10 21 6
53 Philip Tomasino RW 46 10 10 20 8
72 Anthony Beauvillier LW 63 13 7 20 14
46 Blake Lizotte C 56 10 9 19 26
28 Marcus Pettersson D 47 3 15 18 25
10 Drew O'Connor LW 53 6 10 16 16
19 Cody Glass C 51 4 11 15 12
55 Noel Acciari C 75 5 6 11 16
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 26 3 6 9 10
43 Danton Heinen LW 21 2 5 7 0
20 Lars Eller C 17 4 3 7 10
20 Conor Timmins D 10 1 4 5 4
5 Ryan Shea D 32 2 3 5 8
19 Connor Dewar C 10 3 1 4 9
27 Ryan Graves D 54 1 3 4 27
83 Matt Nieto LW 31 1 2 3 2
38 Owen Pickering D 25 1 2 3 6
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 10 1 1 2 4
23 Vladislav Kolyachonok D 11 0 1 2 8
22 Sam Poulin RW 6 0 1 1 2
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 24 0 1 1 22
14 Bokondji Imama RW 16 1 0 1 30
52 Emil Bemstrom C 13 0 1 1 0
3 Jack St. Ivany D 19 0 1 1 17
15 Joona Koppanen LW 5 0 0 1 0
11 Vasily Ponomarev C 4 0 0 0 2
4 Nathan Clurman D 1 0 0 0 2
7 Vincent Desharnais D 10 0 0 0 4
18 Thomas Novak C 2 0 0 0 0
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 4 0 0 0 0
41 Ville Koivunen 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 31 13 11 5 0 1719 92 1 3.21 0 1 1 2
39 Alex Nedeljkovic 36 13 14 5 -- 2032 108 1 3.19 1 2 3 2
30 Joel Blomqvist 15 4 9 1 0 772 49 0 3.81 0 0 0 0

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Other Pittsburgh hockey teams:

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Yellow Jackets

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Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)

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Pittsburgh Shamrocks

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Pittsburgh Hornets

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Pittsburgh Knights

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Pittsburgh Phantoms 

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College & High School

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