The Penguins’ three-man core of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang has played together for 19 seasons, a record for North American sports. It’s a nice story. The unbreakable bond of eternal brotherhood.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are digging themselves into a deeper hole game after game. Even with franchise pieces Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin playing out of their minds, the team can’t find a way out of the league’s basement.

Even if the Penguins go on an outrageous hot streak, I still fully anticipate Dubas to sell at the deadline. He knows what he has to do. He’s not in this to grab the second wild card and lose in the first round. Dubas’ vision is much more grand than that. The problem is that fans might need to find some patience.

San Jose stabilizes for the rest of the period, get Hayes to go to the box for a power play of their own but don’t get a goal. Shots are 10-9 Pens, Natural Stat Trick has 5v5 scoring chances at 12-5 Pittsburgh which feels more indicative of the play on the ice.

Not just pending free agents, but all big name players in play.

In fact, as Friedman also pointed out, in August the St. Louis Blues were able to satisfy the offer-sheet compensation for defenseman Philip Broberg by reacquiring their own second-round draft pick from the Pittsburgh Penguins. That went to the Edmonton Oilers when they declined to match the two-year offer sheet Broberg signed with the Blues.

You mean the Biz stuff? Yeah, Sid’s not going anywhere.” Over the past week, outlets in Montreal lobbied for the Montreal Canadiens to take a run at acquiring Sidney Crosby, and one of the most influential hockey personalities in the game,

SAN JOSE -- Macklin Celebrini scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period, and the San Jose Sharks ended a six-game losing streak with a 2-1 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at SAP Center on Monday.

What started out as a promising road trip ended up devolving into a 2-4 swing with three straight losses to non-playoff teams

Fenway Sports Group, the multinational holdings corporation behind the Pittsburgh Penguins, is exploring a sale of a minority stake in the NHL franchise, reports Emily Kaplan and Kevin Weekes of ESPN.

The lifeless loss against a team they should have beaten, and everyone else has, was the window into a team losing its belief in the mission.

On Monday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost another game on their road trip, falling to the San Jose Sharks 2-1.