2nd PERIOD - The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight at PPG Paints Arena.

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5th in Metro Division – 11th in Eastern Conference – 16th in NHL

(21-14-9 = 51 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on January 13th...

1910 - Pittsburgh Hornets left wing Jim "Dede" Klein was born.
1913 - Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets and Hornets defenseman Pete Bessone was born.
1921 - Hornets center Ted Quackenbush was born.
1973 - Ken Schinkel became the third Penguins head coach, one day after retiring as a player.
1974 - Jack Button was named general manager of the Penguins, ending Jack Riley's second stint as general manager.
1980 - Penguins center Michael Rupp was born.
1991 - With his powerplay goal at 9:25 of the second period against the Philadelphia Flyers, Paul Coffey became the highest scoring defenseman in team history with 344 points.
2009 - Pens goalie Marc-Andre Fleury played in his 200th NHL game.
2012 - The Pens defeated the Florida Panthers, 4-1. The win was coach Dan Bylsma's 136th for the team and moved him to second place for the franchise, behind Eddie Johnston (232).
2021 - The Pittsburgh Penguins lost to the Philadelphia Flyers, 6-3, in the opening game of the COVID-19 shortened 2020-21 season.

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Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 45 24 25 49 30
17 Bryan Rust RW 41 16 20 36 16
65 Erik Karlsson D 44 4 29 33 14
71 Evgeni Malkin C 30 9 22 31 26
39 Anthony Mantha RW 45 14 15 29 15
58 Kris Letang D 45 3 19 22 20
18 Thomas Novak C 45 8 13 21 16
16 Justin Brazeau RW 31 12 8 20 10
81 Ben Kindel C 42 8 11 19 10
67 Rickard Rakell RW 25 6 11 17 2
5 Ryan Shea D 45 2 14 16 18
19 Connor Dewar C 45 8 8 16 10
28 Parker Wotherspoon D 45 2 13 15 32
46 Blake Lizotte C 36 5 5 10 10
55 Noel Acciari C 32 4 6 10 17
41 Ville Koivunen RW 27 2 3 5 8
13 Kevin Hayes RW 23 3 2 5 6
11 Filip Hallander C 13 1 3 4 2
59 Egor Chinakhov RW 7 2 1 3 0
24 Matthew Dumba D 11 1 2 3 11
3 Jack St. Ivany D 12 0 3 3 4
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 16 2 1 3 0
43 Danton Heinen LW 13 1 1 2 8
77 Brett Kulak D 14 0 2 2 12
45 Harrison Brunicke D 9 1 0 1 6
82 Caleb Jones D 7 0 1 1 0
27 Ryan Graves D 17 1 0 1 8
15 Joona Koppanen C 10 0 1 1 2
53 Philip Tomasino RW 9 0 1 1 0
75 Connor Clifton D 17 0 0 0 10
38 Owen Pickering D 4 0 0 0 2
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
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 21 8 6 6 -- 1151 61 1 3.18 0 2 2 2
1 Sergei Murashov 5 1 1 2 -- 281 12 1 2.56 0 0 0
74 Stuart Skinner 7 3 4 0 -- 410 16 0 2.34 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