Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning…
The Pittsburgh Penguins traveled to South Florida on Thursday to fight the back-to-back Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. Pittsburgh, led largely by its captain, Sidney Crosby, and Tristan Jarry,
had an answer for everything the Panthers did on Thursday night, leading to an impressive 5-3 win. [Recap]
Sidney Crosby has tied Mario Lemieux’s franchise record for the most multi-point games. [The Hockey News]
The Penguins have boasted an impressive, if somewhat unforeseen, record in the early stages of the 2025-26 season. But, as Gretz pens, we’re about to see what this team is really made of, as they prepare to play what’s expected to be a much more difficult slate of games over the next few weeks. [PensBurgh]
Some notable off-ice news concerning the Penguins: the team no longer owns the development rights to the Lower Hill District site where the Civic Arena once sat. The Penguins, along with Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority and the Sports and Exhibition Authority, reached an agreement in 2007 to give those rights to the team as part of a deal that helped keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh. But that deal expired at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Development rights have reverted to the URA and SEA. [Trib Live]
News and notes from around the NHL…
Is Gavin McKenna in any real danger of being unseated as the No. 1 overall prospect in the 2026 NHL Draft? [Sportsnet]
Former Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan will be joining the National Hockey League’s hockey operations department, TSN’s Darren Dreger reports. [TSN]
Thursday’s game between the San Jose Sharks and New York Rangers was monumental in many respects. San Jose notched its first win of the season, a 6-5 OT thriller, but what led to the Sharks earning two points was something else entirely: a five-point night from teenager Macklin Celebrini, including three goals and two assists. Celebrini is the fourth teenager in NHL history with multiple five-point games in his career, joining Dale Hawerchuk, Bryan Trottier, and Wayne Gretzky. Elite company. [The Sporting News via Yahoo!]
