FINAL - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2. Avery Hayes scored twice in his NHL debut for the Pens.

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Number of games the Pens have won this season by a margin of 3+ goals
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Number of goals scored by Sidney Crosby this season to lead the Pens
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Number of consecutive games played by Sidney Crosby, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of goals scored out of five by rookies vs. Buffalo Avery Hayes (2) Ben Kindel (2)

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

(29-15-12 = 70 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on February 10th...

1920 - Pittsburgh Hornets center Orville Smith was born.
1964 - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Ville Siren was born.
1967 - Emily Roberts of Belle Vernon won a contest to name Pittsburgh's new NHL team: The Penguins.
1968 - Penguins defenseman Peter Popovic was born.
1990 - Rob Brown scored once each on Los Angeles Kings goalies Kelly Hrudey and Mario Gosselin and into an empty net for his sixth hat trick. Tomas Sandstrom scored on a penalty shot against Wendell Young. It was the fourth goal surrendered on a penalty shot for the Pens.
1993 - Tom Barrasso stopped 30 shots from the New York Rangers for his sixth shutout with the Pens.
2001 - Alex Kovalev scored three goals against the New Jersey Devils, for his second consecutive game with a hat trick.
2003 - Pittsburgh obtained Mikael Samuelsson, Rico Fata, Richard Lintner and Joel Bouchard from the New York Rangers for Alex Kovalev, Dan Lacouture, Mike Wilson and Janne Laukkanen.
2007 - Jordan Staal became youngest player (18 years, 153 days) in NHL history to record a hat-trick when he scored three goals, including the overtime winner, against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
2010 - Jordan Staal played in his 329th consecutive game (including playoffs) for the Penguins, the most by any player. Staal's streak broke a team record set by Ron Schock.
2011 - Dan Bylsma became the fifth fastest coach to win 100 games, after the Pens defeated the Los Angeles Kings, 2-1.
2016 - New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves for his fourth career shutout against the Penguins.
2022 - Casey DeSmith made 26 saves against the Ottawa Senators to earn his eighth career shutout.
2023 - The Pittsburgh Penguins established a new team record for shots on goal for a road game as they registered 59 shots on goal against Anaheim's John Gibson for a 6-3 victory. Evgeni Malkin notched two assists to push his career total to 1,200 points, becoming the third Penguins player to reach that mark (Lemieux and Crosby).

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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Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 56 27 32 59 38
71 Evgeni Malkin C 41 13 31 44 32
39 Anthony Mantha RW 56 20 22 42 21
17 Bryan Rust RW 49 19 21 40 18
65 Erik Karlsson D 51 4 31 35 16
18 Thomas Novak C 56 11 20 31 22
81 Ben Kindel C 53 14 13 27 16
16 Justin Brazeau RW 42 15 12 27 10
58 Kris Letang D 50 3 22 25 22
19 Connor Dewar C 56 13 11 24 10
67 Rickard Rakell RW 35 10 14 24 4
5 Ryan Shea D 56 4 19 23 20
28 Parker Wotherspoon D 56 3 16 19 36
46 Blake Lizotte C 46 6 11 17 21
55 Noel Acciari C 42 6 9 15 17
59 Egor Chinakhov RW 18 8 4 12 0
77 Brett Kulak D 25 1 6 7 18
3 Jack St. Ivany D 17 0 7 7 6
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 20 2 3 5 2
41 Ville Koivunen RW 27 2 3 5 8
13 Kevin Hayes RW 24 3 2 5 6
11 Filip Hallander C 13 1 3 4 2
24 Matthew Dumba D 11 1 2 3 11
7 Ilya Solovyv D 5 0 3 3 4
75 Connor Clifton D 26 1 2 3 29
85 Avery Hayes RW 1 2 0 2 0
43 Danton Heinen LW 13 1 1 2 8
27 Ryan Graves D 19 1 0 1 8
15 Joona Koppanen C 10 0 1 1 2
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
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 26 11 7 8 -- 1516 74 1 2.93 0 2 2 2
1 Sergei Murashov 5 1 1 2 -- 281 12 1 2.56 0 0 0
74 Stuart Skinner 13 8 4 1 -- 771 35 0 2.72 0 1 1 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