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Pittsburgh Penguins

Club · United States · NHL

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519 Matches
260 wins
259 losses
1679–1622 Goals
+57 Difference
3.2 Scored per game
Form W 4 Oct · Home Montreal Canadiens · 6:5 L 6 Oct · Home Winnipeg Jets · 2:3 L 8 Oct · Away Washington Capitals · 3:5 L 10 Oct · Away Columbus Blue Jackets · 2:3 W 11 Oct · Home Dallas Stars · 2:1 L 14 Oct · Away Chicago Blackhawks · 3:5

Pittsburgh built its identity on steel, and when the NHL expanded from the Original Six to twelve teams in 1967, the city took the black and gold of the Steelers and the Pirates and gave them to a hockey club. The Penguins nearly didn't survive their own founding decade: by 1975 the franchise was bankrupt, its offices padlocked by the Internal Revenue Service, and it took a group of local investors, among them Edward J. DeBartolo Sr., to keep it alive.

The team that eventually saved itself from irrelevance was built around Mario Lemieux, taken first overall in 1984, who led Pittsburgh to its first two Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992 alongside Jaromír Jágr, Paul Coffey and Kevin Stevens. Lemieux's connection to the club went further than the ice: in 1999, with the franchise back in bankruptcy, he bought it himself.

A second rebuild followed a lean stretch in the early 2000s, drawing on draft picks Sidney Crosby, taken first overall in 2005, and Evgeni Malkin, who arrived a year earlier. That core, with Marc-Andre Fleury in goal and Kris Letang on the blue line, delivered the Stanley Cup in 2009. After the move to PPG Paints Arena in 2010, the same group went back-to-back in 2016 and 2017, the first team to manage it since the salary cap era began.

Against the Philadelphia Flyers, the games still carry their own name, the Battle of Pennsylvania, sharpened by decades of playoff meetings. One number retired by the club, 21, belongs to Michel Brière, paralysed in a car accident in 1970 and dead the following year before he had the chance to build on his rookie season.

No one is tied to Pittsburgh hockey the way Crosby is.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
14 Oct NHL Chicago Blackhawks A 3:5 L
11 Oct NHL Dallas Stars H 2:1 W
10 Oct NHL Columbus Blue Jackets A 2:3 L
8 Oct NHL Washington Capitals A 3:5 L
6 Oct NHL Winnipeg Jets H 2:3 L
4 Oct NHL Montreal Canadiens H 6:5 W

Standing

NHL

Group stage · Eastern Conference

# Team M W L Goals Pts
8 Toronto Maple Leafs 7 3 4 24:23 0
9 Buffalo Sabres 7 3 4 19:26 0
10 Pittsburgh Penguins 7 3 4 25:22 0
11 New York Islanders 6 3 3 19:15 0
12 Washington Capitals 6 3 3 19:18 0
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 519
519 Matches
260 wins
259 losses
1679–1622 Goals
+57 Difference
3.2 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 519
260wins: 260 · 50% 259losses: 259 · 49%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
4 Oct · Home Montreal Canadiens · 6:5
6 Oct · Home Winnipeg Jets · 2:3
8 Oct · Away Washington Capitals · 3:5
10 Oct · Away Columbus Blue Jackets · 2:3
11 Oct · Home Dallas Stars · 2:1
14 Oct · Away Chicago Blackhawks · 3:5
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 519 259 260
Scored 1679 889 790
Conceded 1622 790 832
Scored per game 3.2 3.4 3.0
Conceded per game 3.1 3.1 3.2
Difference +57 +99 −42

Fixtures of Pittsburgh Penguins

Honours of Pittsburgh Penguins

  • Stanley Cup 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, 2017 5

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