Tick toc, Clarice. The NHL trade deadline is in eight days, which means the pressure cooker of trade rumors, blockbusters, and plugging holes is reaching its zenith as teams eye a chance at the Stanley Cup.

Erik Karlsson still likes it in Pittsburgh. And he still sees his station as a defenseman with the Pittsburgh Penguins as providing a viable route to a Stanley Cup championship. But certainly not this season.

DENVER — Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was encouraged by much of the Pittsburgh Penguins game Tuesday. So, too, was coach Mike Sullivan who had little to criticize as his team outplayed Stanley Cup contender Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena.

Jarry stopped 29 of 30 shots and looked positionally perfect, far better than he has all season, in silencing the Wild most of the afternoon. Ryan Hartman’s goal on a power-play odd-man rush with 5:06 remaining in the third period was the only offering to beat Jarry.

Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan earned his 400th win with the franchise after the Penguins topped the Minnesota Wild 3-1 on Sunday. According to the Penguins' public relations department, Sullivan is the 14th head coach in NHL history, the ninth fastest, and the first American-born head coach to win 400 games with a single franchise.

If a Stanley Cup contender wants a proven goal scorer ahead of the NHL's trade deadline, they need not look any further than the Pittsburgh Penguins. Richard Rakell is on the block, and the latest feeling is that he will be moved,

That’s what you want. I mean, ultimately, we chase the Stanley Cup. You want a chance at playing for that every single year. To be able to be part of a team that has that opportunity again this year,

I feel like I’m going to hear about this for a long time. He still talks about his goal in Juniors against me,” Marc-Andre Fleury said.

Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas has made another trade, bringing aboard a pair of players from his former team, the Maple Leafs.

Even with two straight absences from the playoffs and a third on the way, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been hesitant to say they are in a rebuilding phase as an