SHOOTOUT - Dallas' Mikko Rantanen scored the decisive goal in the shootout to lift the Stars over the Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2. Dewar (6) & Novak (4) scored for the Pens.

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4th in Metro Division – 4th in Eastern Conference – 8th in NHL

(14-7-6 =34 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on December 8th...

1936 - Pittsburgh Hornets right wing Kenny Girard was born.
1970 - Al Smith stopped all 29 shots from the Toronto Maple Leafs and earned his third shutout with the Penguins.
1986 - The Penguins set a team record for power play goals in one game (6), against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1987 - Penguins goaltender Pat Riggin stopped the Quebec Nordiques' Michel Goulet on a penalty shot.
1988 - The Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers combined for 64 penalties - and a total of 141 penalty minutes.
2000 - The Penguins announced that Mario Lemieux will attempt to make a comeback after three-and-a-half years of retirement.
2002 - Hornets left wing Eric Prentice died.
2007 - Sidney Crosby was stopped on a penalty shot in overtime by Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo.

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Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 27 18 12 30 28
71 Evgeni Malkin C 26 8 21 29 20
17 Bryan Rust RW 25 8 13 21 8
65 Erik Karlsson D 27 1 17 18 10
39 Anthony Mantha RW 27 8 8 16 9
58 Kris Letang D 27 2 11 13 12
18 Thomas Novak C 27 4 9 13 6
16 Justin Brazeau RW 13 6 6 12 0
5 Ryan Shea D 27 2 8 10 16
28 Parker Wotherspoon D 27 2 8 10 26
81 Ben Kindel C 24 7 3 10 6
19 Connor Dewar C 27 6 3 9 6
67 Rickard Rakell RW 9 3 5 8 2
46 Blake Lizotte C 27 3 2 5 8
11 Filip Hallander C 13 1 3 4 2
13 Kevin Hayes RW 12 2 2 4 2
55 Noel Acciari C 14 0 4 4 12
41 Ville Koivunen RW 17 1 2 3 4
24 Matthew Dumba D 11 1 2 3 11
53 Philip Tomasino RW 9 0 1 1 0
45 Harrison Brunicke D 9 1 0 1 6
82 Caleb Jones D 7 0 1 1 0
15 Joona Koppanen C 10 0 1 1 2
27 Ryan Graves D 13 1 0 1 6
43 Danton Heinen LW 10 0 1 1 2
14 Bokondji Imama LW 2 0 0 0 5
26 Tristan Broz C 1 0 0 0 0
22 Sam Poulin C 2 0 0 0 0
38 Owen Pickering D 4 0 0 0 2
75 Connor Clifton D 10 0 0 0 6
3 Jack St. Ivany D 0 0 0 0 0
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 3 0 0 0 0
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 13 9 2 2 755 32 1 2.54 0
37 Arturs Silovs 12 4 4 4 -- 660 33 1 3.00 0 1 1
1 Sergei Murashov 4 1 1 1 -- 221 7 1 1.90 0 0 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