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POSTED: 12:02 AM April 23, 2015

Jim Rutherford isn't getting fired. Nor is he quitting. I've been told that definitively, right from the Penguins' brass. Mike Johnston isn't getting fired, either. Heard that tonight.

Kovacevic: Stripes have Penguins seeing stars

POSTED: 11:40 PM April 20, 2015

The Rangers are just so sound, so stout defensively. I feel compelled, in all candor, to start right there in describing the Penguins' 2-1 defeat in Game 3.

Kovacevic: With a little help from friends

POSTED: 1:20 AM April 19, 2015

in New York

The puck struck Maxim Lapierre with maximum velocity right in the ... um ... "Honestly, I have no idea," the Penguins' fiery fourth-line center told me.

Kovacevic: Crush Crosby? Sure, but it’s missing point

POSTED: 12:02 AM April 17, 2015

in New York

It's never enough that the Penguins lose in the Stanley Cup playoffs. No, it's always got to come with the standard set of narratives attached, too.

Friday Insider: Penguins eyeing buyouts

POSTED: 12:01 AM April 17, 2015

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC NEW YORK — Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Barring some unforeseen reversal in the performance of...

Kovacevic: All about that Hornqvist

POSTED: 12:02 AM April 16, 2015

in New York

The Penguins will lose in four. Let's start with that as the default outlook for this first-round Stanley Cup playoff series that gets going tonight at Madison Square Garden.

Kovacevic: Penguins push through … to what end?

POSTED: 12:04 AM April 12, 2015

in Buffalo, N.Y.

Marc-Andre Fleury gulped a giant chug of water, exhaled loudly, then slumped back in his stall late Saturday night inside First Niagara Center's visiting locker room.

Kovacevic: Digging deep into Penguins’ abyss

POSTED: 12:40 AM April 11, 2015

There's backing into the Stanley Cup playoffs, and then there's backing up over Niagara Falls.

Exclusive: Letang done for the season

POSTED: 9:55 PM April 10, 2015

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Kris Letang will not play again for the Penguins this season, “even if we make a deep run in the playoffs,” general manager Jim Rutherford told DKonPittsburghSports.com...

Friday Insider: Penguins’ core won’t be touched

POSTED: 12:01 AM April 10, 2015

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Should the Penguins miss the Stanley Cup playoffs, or even if...

Kovacevic: ‘Fragile’ Penguins closing on collapse

POSTED: 1:09 AM April 8, 2015

in Ottawa

These Penguins could have come away with so much from this sensational setting with the Senators, in essence a single-game cauldron.

Kovacevic: Do these Penguins even care?

POSTED: 7:02 PM April 4, 2015

in Columbus, Ohio

There is so much that can be so easily explained, even excused about the Penguins' current crunch or collapse or whatever you'd choose to call it.

Friday Insider: Ref giving silent treatment?

POSTED: 12:01 AM April 3, 2015

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Wes McCauley is, by every measurable account, a rising star in...

Kovacevic: Penguins tiring out D … why exactly?

POSTED: 12:40 AM April 2, 2015

No doubt, there was a whole lot to hate about the Penguins' flat-lined 4-1 loss to the are-they-really-rivals-if-they-always-win Flyers last night at Consol Energy Center.

Kovacevic: These Penguins are worth it, no?

POSTED: 2:40 AM March 30, 2015

For four excruciating minutes of overtime Sunday night, the Penguins' most skilled forwards were relegated to the same status as the standing, roaring 18,620 citizens.

Kovacevic: Savor Exhibit A of power play