FINAL - The St. Louis Blues defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 7-5. McGroarty (3), Hayes (4,5), Mantha (33) & Soderblom (7) scored for the Pens.

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Number of players to dress for the Pens during the 2025-26 season

2nd in Metro Division – 5th in Eastern Conference – 8th in NHL

(41-25-16 = 98 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on April 18th...

1914 - Pittsburgh Hornets right wing Ronnie Hudson was born.
1922 - Hornets right wing Ron Wilson was born.
1970 - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Francois Leroux was born.
1977 - Penguins left wing Dan Lacouture was born.
1993 - The Penguins beat the New Jersey Devils, 6-3, in the opening game of the Patrick Division Semifinals. The Penguins eventually won the series in five games.
1998 - Martin Straka earned his second hat trick with the Pens, in a game against the Boston Bruins.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky played in his 1,487th, and final, regular season NHL game. The Penguins won the game in overtime, 2-1, on a goal scored by Jaromir Jagr. Gretzky assisted on the Rangers' only goal to bring the NHL leading scorer's career point total to 2857 (894G + 1963A).
2012 - Jordan Staal scored his first career playoff hat trick the Penguins defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 10-3. Ten goals equalled a team record for goals in a playoff game set on April 25, 1989 against the Flyers.

Penguins All-Time Scoring

Penguins Hat Tricks

Opponent Hat Tricks

Penguins Shutouts

Opponent Shutouts

Penguins Penalty Shots

Penguins First NHL goals

PPG Paints Arena Records

Civic/Mellon Arena Records

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2025-26 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 68 29 45 74 44
65 Erik Karlsson D 75 15 51 66 22
17 Bryan Rust RW 72 29 36 65 26
39 Anthony Mantha RW 81 33 31 64 43
71 Evgeni Malkin C 56 19 42 61 61
67 Rickard Rakell RW 61 24 24 48 8
18 Thomas Novak C 82 16 26 42 24
59 Egor Chinakhov RW 43 18 18 36 4
81 Ben Kindel C 77 17 18 35 18
16 Justin Brazeau RW 64 17 17 34 14
5 Ryan Shea D 80 6 28 34 22
58 Kris Letang D 74 3 31 34 38
19 Connor Dewar C 78 14 16 30 19
28 Parker Wotherspoon D 80 3 27 30 55
55 Noel Acciari C 67 13 12 25 25
46 Blake Lizotte C 56 7 12 19 25
25 Elmer Soderblom LW 20 5 5 10 11
13 Kevin Hayes RW 29 4 4 8 8
49 Samuel Girard D 20 0 7 7 8
77 Brett Kulak D 25 1 6 7 18
41 Ville Koivunen RW 39 2 5 7 10
3 Jack St. Ivany D 20 0 7 7 6
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 24 3 3 6 4
75 Connor Clifton D 50 2 4 6 53
85 Avery Hayes RW 16 5 0 5 12
7 Ilya Solovyv D 14 0 5 5 10
11 Filip Hallander C 13 1 3 4 2
24 Matthew Dumba D 11 1 2 3 11
43 Danton Heinen LW 13 1 1 2 8
15 Joona Koppanen C 13 0 1 1 2
27 Ryan Graves D 22 1 0 1 10
82 Caleb Jones D 7 0 1 1 0
45 Harrison Brunicke D 9 1 0 1 6
53 Philip Tomasino RW 9 0 1 1 0
22 Sam Poulin C 2 0 0 0 0
26 Tristan Broz C 1 0 0 0 0
14 Bokondji Imama LW 2 0 0 0 5
38 Owen Pickering D 4 0 0 0 2
57 Jake Livanavage D 1 0 0 0 0
48 Rafael Harvey-Pinard 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 14 9 3 1 0 810 36 1 2.66 0 0 0 0
37 Arturs Silovs 39 19 12 8 -- 2246 115 2 3.07 0 3 3 4
1 Sergei Murashov 5 1 1 2 -- 281 12 1 2.56 0 0 0
74 Stuart Skinner 27 12 9 5 -- 1605 80 0 2.99 0 1 1 0
33 Taylor Gauthier -- 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