FINAL - The Vegas Golden Knights defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-2. Rakell (13) & Kindel (16) scored for the Pens.

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Number of shootout losses for the Pens this season in 11 chances
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Goal differential for the Penguins this season (219 GF- 199 GA). 8th in NHL.
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Number of consecutive games played by Connor Dewar, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of points recorded by Kris Letang in his NHL career (178G-621A)

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

(32-18-15 = 79 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on March 14th...

1918 - Pittsburgh Hornets left wing Hector Pozzo was born.
1919 - Hornets center Leo Richard was born.
1937 - The Hornets won, 1-0, at New Haven, bringing their record back up to .500 (21-21-3).
1943 - Pittsburgh Hornets Tony Hemmerling scored his 100th AHL goal.
1978 - The Penguins signed Derek Sanderson as a free agent.
1997 - Joe Mullen scored his 500th career goal in a game against Colorado, becoming the first U.S.-born player to score 500.
2000 - Penguins obtained Ron Tugnutt and Janne Laukkanen from Ottawa for Tom Barrasso; obtained Rene Corbet and Tyler Moss from Calagry for Brad Werenka; and obtained Josef Beranek from Edmonton for German Titov.
2001 - The Pens traded Sven Butenschon to the Edmonton Oilers for Dan Lacouture.
2006 - Hornets defenseman Art Michaluk died.
2007 - Penguins goalie Jocelyn Thibault earned his first shutout in a Penguins uniform with a 3-0 win at New Jersey. He stopped all 24 shots he faced. It was the Penguins' first-ever shutout in New Jersey.
2014 - Pittsburgh native Vincent Trocheck playing his fifth game with the Florida Panthers, scored his first NHL goal in a game against the New Jersey Devils.
2015 - Boston's Tuukka Rask made 30 saves to earn his first regular season shutout against the Penguins.

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Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 56 27 32 59 38
17 Bryan Rust RW 58 23 27 50 18
39 Anthony Mantha RW 65 24 25 49 23
71 Evgeni Malkin C 46 13 34 47 51
65 Erik Karlsson D 60 6 38 44 18
18 Thomas Novak C 65 14 22 36 24
81 Ben Kindel C 62 16 15 31 18
16 Justin Brazeau RW 48 16 14 30 12
67 Rickard Rakell RW 44 13 17 30 6
5 Ryan Shea D 65 4 23 27 22
58 Kris Letang D 59 3 24 27 34
19 Connor Dewar C 65 14 11 25 10
28 Parker Wotherspoon D 65 3 17 20 42
59 Egor Chinakhov RW 27 11 8 19 4
46 Blake Lizotte C 54 7 12 19 25
55 Noel Acciari C 51 7 9 16 19
77 Brett Kulak D 25 1 6 7 18
41 Ville Koivunen RW 31 2 5 7 8
3 Jack St. Ivany D 17 0 7 7 6
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 20 2 3 5 2
75 Connor Clifton D 34 2 3 5 37
13 Kevin Hayes RW 25 3 2 5 6
11 Filip Hallander C 13 1 3 4 2
7 Ilya Solovyv D 8 0 4 4 6
24 Matthew Dumba D 11 1 2 3 11
43 Danton Heinen LW 13 1 1 2 8
85 Avery Hayes RW 10 2 0 2 12
45 Harrison Brunicke D 9 1 0 1 6
82 Caleb Jones D 7 0 1 1 0
27 Ryan Graves D 19 1 0 1 8
15 Joona Koppanen C 10 0 1 1 2
53 Philip Tomasino RW 9 0 1 1 0
26 Tristan Broz C 1 0 0 0 0
25 Elmer Soderblom LW 3 0 0 0 0
49 Samuel Girard D 7 0 0 0 0
14 Bokondji Imama LW 2 0 0 0 5
22 Sam Poulin C 2 0 0 0 0
38 Owen Pickering D 4 0 0 0 2
56 Alexander Alexeyev D
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 31 14 9 8 -- 1805 88 2 2.93 0 2 2 2
1 Sergei Murashov 5 1 1 2 -- 281 12 1 2.56 0 0 0
74 Stuart Skinner 17 8 5 4 -- 1021 46 0 2.70 0 1 1 0

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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.

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