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The number of different players to play for the Pens during this season, 2nd most behind COL
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Number of team-leading, power-play goals scored by Michael Bunting
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Number of consecutive games played by Erik Karlsson, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of wins Mike Sullivan needs to reach 400 victories behind the Pens bench

7th in Metro Division – 14th in Eastern Conference – 25th in NHL

(23-25-9 = 55 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on February 21st...

1937 - Pittsburgh Hornets won on the road, 3-1, over New Haven. Ken Doraty scored the game-winner.
1968 - "Penguin Pete" the first Penguins' mascot - an Ecuadorian-born bird on loan from the Pittsburgh Zoo - made his first appearance during the second intermission of the game.
1974 - Former Hornets star defenseman Tim Horton died at the age of 44 as a result of an automobile accident. Horton briefly played for the Penguins near the end of his NHL career.
1976 - It was the second time in team history that two Penguins scored hat tricks in the same game. Chicago Blackhawks' Gilles Villemure surrendered them to Pierre Larouche, his third, and Lowell MacDonald, his fourth. The Pens won, 10-1.
1982 - Pittsburgh beat the New York Islanders, 4-3, ending an NHL-record, 15-game winning streak.
1986 - Mike Bullard scored his sixth hat trick, in a game against the Detroit Red Wings.
1991 - Toronto led 3-0 in the second period before Pittsburgh netted six in a row on the way to an 11-4 win.
1998 - Czcech Republic wins gold medal game in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Jaromir Jagr, Martin Straka, Robert Lang and Jan Hrdina become first active Penguins players to win gold. Alexey Morozov and Darius Kasparaitis won silver medals.
1999 - At Philadelphia, Tom Barrasso appeared in his 700th career game.
2009 - Marc-Andre Fleury's win over the Flyers game him seven wins in Philadelphia, the most for a Pittsburgh netminder.
2011 - The Pens traded Alex Goligoski to the Dallas Stars for forward James Neal and defenseman Matt Niskanen.
2012 - Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves for his 22nd shutout to tie Tom Barrasso in all-time shutouts. Pittsburgh had goals from Evgeni Malkin and Steve Sullivan. It was the first time the Penguins defeated the Rangers at the CONSOL Energy Center.
2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 55 17 41 58 21
67 Rickard Rakell RW 56 25 23 48 10
17 Bryan Rust RW 48 20 22 42 14
65 Erik Karlsson D 57 6 32 38 18
71 Evgeni Malkin C 47 9 25 34 24
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 57 1 27 28 8
8 Michael Bunting LW 55 14 14 28 48
58 Kris Letang D 50 7 13 20 28
72 Anthony Beauvillier LW 56 12 6 18 10
28 Marcus Pettersson D 47 3 15 18 25
10 Drew O'Connor LW 53 6 10 16 16
13 Kevin Hayes RW 40 9 5 14 6
19 Cody Glass C 44 3 10 13 12
46 Blake Lizotte C 38 9 4 13 22
53 Philip Tomasino RW 28 7 5 12 2
55 Noel Acciari C 57 4 5 9 12
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 26 3 6 9 10
20 Lars Eller C 17 4 3 7 10
83 Matt Nieto LW 29 1 2 3 2
38 Owen Pickering D 25 1 2 3 6
5 Ryan Shea D 22 0 2 2 6
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 10 1 1 2 4
3 Jack St. Ivany D 19 0 1 1 17
43 Danton Heinen LW 4 0 1 1 0
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 20 0 1 1 31
22 Sam Poulin RW 6 0 1 1 2
11 Vasily Ponomarev C 3 0 0 0 2
4 Nathan Clurman D 1 0 0 0 2
27 Ryan Graves D 40 0 0 0 25
14 Bokondji Imama RW 6 0 0 0 7
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 3 0 0 0 0
7 Vincent Desharnais D 4 0 0 0 0
52 Emil Bemstrom C 2 0 0 0 0
11 Vasily Ponomarev C 4 0 0 0 2
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 22 8 7 4 0 1251 69 0 3.31 0 0 0 2
39 Alex Nedeljkovic 27 12 9 5 -- 1595 78 1 2.93 1 1 2 2
30 Joel Blomqvist 11 3 8 0 0 593 35 0 3.54 0 0 0 0

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Number, in years, since Pittsburghhockey.net went online.
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Listing, in “100 Things Penguins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.”
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Google ranking, out of 53,600,000 when “Pittsburgh hockey” is searched.

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