Mario Lemieux News

The Pittsburgh Pirates are wearing Penguins hockey jerseys on their road trip to Milwaukee and Detroit that begins with a flight tonight, but infielder Brandon Inge might have trouble getting through airport security.

Stephen Walkom, one of the referees in the Ottawa-Pittsburgh game 3 debacle, used to coach minor hockey in the Pittsburgh area.

If you have ever been in my office, both in my home district or in the State Capitol, the collection of photos, bobble heads and memorabilia has probably tipped you off to my love for the Pittsburgh Penguins .

The Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby celebrates with Pascal Dupuis as Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson reacts to Crosby's second goal of the first period in Pittsburgh Friday night.

Pittsburgh is the largest city within Allegheny County, Pa., a larger area with an estimated population of 1.2 million according to the 2011 census in America.

Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby, Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding and Boston Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid have been named the finalists for the Bill Masterton Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.

The Stanley Cup playoffs, it is said, are all about adjustments, and Sidney Crosby made a pretty significant one in Game 5 of the Penguins' first-round playoff series.

Penguins goaltender Tomas Vokoun is 2-0 with a .957 save percentage through the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The first round of TSN.ca's 2013 Play of the Year Showdown keeps cooking with two fantastic entries from some very talented, passionate players.

Other than that, he's got this Al Davis bit down. He's brash, braggadocios and appears to enjoy saying ridiculous things that - whether calculated or not - shift a portion of the focus from the players to him.

Some players in the NHL just have that special leadership trait. You'll hear scouts talk about young skaters having "intangibles" leading up to drafts.

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

As the only game on the NHL schedule for the night, the Pittsburgh Penguins are looking to end the season of the New York Islanders tonight on Long Island in game six.

Or am I just someone who is excited; someone caught up in the crowd going crazy and a goal scorer scoring a goal.

Hockey's two biggest names have been nominated for the Hart Trophy, awarded to the NHL's most valuable player in the regular season.

A northern California region marked by towering redwood trees and mountains rising out of the Pacific is the focus of an intensive search for a suspect in the shooting deaths of his wife and two young daughters.

Tomas Vokoun had forgotten what it was like to start in the playoffs. Tyler Kennedy wondered if he'd ever get the chance again.

A gray, and potentially rainy Thursday in our fine 'Burgh, and what pressure the Penguins face this evening for Game 5 of a Round 1 Stanley Cup playoff series that is tied, 2-2. = EARLY, EARLY word is that Game 6, Saturday at Nassau Coliseum, is likely to be played late in the afternoon, perhaps during the 4 p.m. hour.

The previously unknown center rose from the shadows to become an unsung hero for Pittsburgh's back-to-back Stanley Cup winners in the early 1990s.

As the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins fumed and fussed in their dressing room after losing 6-4 to the eighth-seeded New York Islanders Tuesday night at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Penguins co-owner Mario Lemieux and other team executives stood grim-faced with their backs to the wall in the cinderblock corridor outside the room.