The Pittsburgh Penguins begin a seven-game road trip when the visit the Buffalo Sabres tonight at KeyBank Center.

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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 Sidney Crosby, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of points for Erik Karlsson in his last 14 games

7th in Metro Division – 14th in Eastern Conference – 24th in NHL

(18-20-8 = 44 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on January 17th...

1914 - Pittsburgh Hornets right wing Regis "Pep" Kelly was born.
1970 - Pittsburgh Phantoms defenseman Eric Brule was born.
1974 - The Penguins acquired J. Bob Kelly, Ab DeMarco and Steve Durbano from the St. Louis Blues for Greg Polis, Bryan Watson and a second round choice in the 1974 Amateur Draft. Obtained Ron Stackhouse from Detroit for Jim Rutherford and Jack Lynch.
1976 - Ken Schinkel replaced Marc Boileau as the Penguins head coach.
1980 - Penguins center Milan Kraft was born.
1981 - Penguins center Mike Zigomanis was born.
1991 - John Cullen recorded his second hat trick with the Pens in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1996 - Tom Barrasso stopped 31 shots from the Buffalo Sabres for his ninth shutout with the Pens.
2002 - In a game against the Calgary Flames, Aleksey Morozov scored his second hat trick with the Pens.
2009 - The Penguins obtained goaltender Mathieu Garon from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for goaltender Dany Sabourin, forward Ryan Stone and a fourth round draft pick in the 2011 Entry Draft.
2016 - Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 22 shots from the Carolina Hurricanes to earn his 41st career shutout and second against Carolina.
2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 46 12 36 48 19
67 Rickard Rakell RW 46 22 16 38 8
17 Bryan Rust RW 39 17 17 34 12
71 Evgeni Malkin C 42 8 25 33 18
65 Erik Karlsson D 46 4 28 32 18
8 Michael Bunting LW 44 13 12 25 42
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 46 1 21 22 6
58 Kris Letang D 40 7 10 17 18
28 Marcus Pettersson D 40 2 14 16 23
10 Drew O'Connor LW 46 6 10 16 16
46 Blake Lizotte C 30 8 4 12 18
72 Anthony Beauvillier LW 45 9 3 12 8
13 Kevin Hayes RW 29 7 3 10 2
19 Cody Glass C 33 1 8 9 6
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 25 3 6 9 10
53 Philip Tomasino RW 18 5 3 8 2
55 Noel Acciari C 46 4 4 8 12
20 Lars Eller C 17 4 3 7 10
83 Matt Nieto LW 24 1 2 3 2
5 Ryan Shea D 20 0 2 2 6
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 10 1 1 2 4
38 Owen Pickering D 21 1 1 2 2
3 Jack St. Ivany D 19 0 1 1 17
22 Sam Poulin RW 6 0 1 1 2
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 3 0 0 0 0
27 Ryan Graves D 31 0 0 0 13
11 Vasily Ponomarev C 3 0 0 0 2
4 Nathan Clurman D 1 0 0 0 2
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 12 0 0 0 8
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 19 7 7 4 -- 1112 63 0 3.40 0 0 0 2
30 Joel Blomqvist 8 3 5 0 0 416 25 0 3.60 0 0 0 0

PittsburghHockey.net, by the numbers:

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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