>The Pens defeated Jokerit in the final pre-season game and are set to face the Ottawa Senators for the season opener in Stockholm.By our count it was the 29th time in franchise history that the Pens played a non-NHL team in an exhibition game.Click here to see a list of the non-league exhibition games.
>The National Hockey League is going green, and team media guides are going, too.In an effort to "reduce paper waste" the NHL has mandated that all teams stop the annual publication of media guides. The league will also end it's publication of the yearly record book.The media guides will still be produced, but will only [...]
>August 14, 2008Finally! The Penguins have announced a date for a groundbreaking to replace Mellon Arena, the oldest arena in the NHL.Check out the history of all five major arenas that have been home to competitive hockey in Pittsburgh.Here's the story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Here's what the Penguin's nation is saying on Let's Go Pens.com
>The groundbreaking for the new arena should happen in the first week of August.To place everyone at ease over the cash flow of Don Barden's (he won the casino license for the Majestic Star and promised new arena funding of $7.5 million for the next 20 years) - the state has an emergency funding to [...]
>Petr Sykora scored with 10:03 remaining in the third overtime to help the Penguins stave-off elimination to a victory to force a Game 6 back at the Mellon Arena.Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 55 shots - several "hockey card saves" - to earn the number one star of the game.All of it was made possible by [...]