Penguins
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Kovacevic: Penguins must get real on Kunitz
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:40 AM March 25, 2015It's not as if Jim Rutherford, a hockey man for more than a half-century, doesn't see it from the press box. Or Mike Johnston, a career coach, doesn't see it...
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Kovacevic: Petulant Penguins show ugliest face
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 4:37 PM March 15, 2015The NHL's officiating is an abomination. Wes McCauley, amazingly, is even worse. There. We done with that topic now? No?
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Friday Insider: Lemieux, Gretzky to the rescue?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM March 13, 2015BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Rick Tocchet, the coach responsible for the Penguins’ maddeningly unproductive power...
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Kovacevic: Penguins build on strength, not size
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 5:56 PM March 2, 2015Let's start with the most cynical summation for Jim Rutherford's performance at the NHL trade deadline: The Penguins, a below-average physical team, traded away their top two hitters.
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Kovacevic: Rutherford’s Penguins built ego-free
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 9:55 PM March 1, 2015If we're all being honest, there isn't much to cull from the Penguins' 5-3 clubbing of Columbus tonight at Consol Energy Center. Hardly anything, really.
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Kovacevic: ‘As good a chance as any team’
in WashingtonPOSTED: 1:01 AM February 26, 2015"I feel the team we have now has as good a chance as any team in the NHL." I double-checked the audio, and those were, to the syllable, Jim Rutherford's...
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Kovacevic: Bigger issue than idiot-run league
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:01 AM February 18, 2015I could, conceivably, complain about the weather. I could decry the bitter cold, the endless snow and sleet, the ice that caused me to slam hard on my back a...
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Kovacevic: Penguins find healthy perspective
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:19 AM February 12, 2015In fact, if surveying the Penguins' problems spanning this starcrossed 2014-15 season, it can pretty much be condensed to these 15 words, spoken by Patric Hornqvist.
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Kovacevic: Packing up Penguins’ plus-minus
in Vancouver, British ColumbiaPOSTED: 2:12 AM February 8, 2015"Ugh," Brandon Sutter was saying, or something that sounded suspiciously like that. "Nothing there. Just nothing. Maybe the first 10 minutes."
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Kovacevic: Kunitz must be more than mirage
in Calgary, AlbertaPOSTED: 12:50 AM February 7, 2015Marc-Andre Fleury carved another slice of franchise history with his eighth shutout, this on 21 saves in the Penguins' 4-0 snuffing of the Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome.
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Friday Insider: ‘Time running low’ for trade plan
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM February 6, 2015BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC CALGARY, Alberta — Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • The NHL trade deadline is March 2, which...
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Kovacevic: No tale touches that of Letang
in Edmonton, AlbertaPOSTED: 12:35 AM February 5, 2015Kris Letang had a choice. Check that: He used to have a choice. Now, it's been decided in advance.
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Kovacevic: Penguins, Oilers contrasts in ‘luck’
in Edmonton, AlbertaPOSTED: 6:00 AM February 4, 2015Stay away, Connor McDavid. Because this is the place, young man, where fine young hockey players such as yourself come not to thrive but, rather, to throw away all their...
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Kovacevic: Penguins reclaim the center lane
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:32 AM January 28, 2015"They came right at us. No, actually, they went right through us." Those were the words of Bryan Little, the Jets' No. 1 center, in an otherwise vacated Winnipeg locker...
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Kovacevic: Bury the blocked shot, NHL
in Columbus, OhioPOSTED: 10:23 PM January 25, 2015It's genuinely impossible to tell when Jonathan Toews, the Blackhawks' superlative two-way center they call Captain Serious, is joking.
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2.7KKovacevic: NHL best not bow out of Olympics
in Columbus, OhioPOSTED: 10:06 PM January 24, 2015It's immensely ironic that Gary Bettman orders a news-free moratorium to all 30 NHL teams over the All-Star Weekend, then each year takes to a podium to generate all kinds...
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Kovacevic: Five ideas to propel Penguins
at Consol Energy CenterPOSTED: 12:49 AM January 22, 2015The big idea, ever since Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle turned the Penguins upside down and shook out all remnants of playoffs past, has been to change the season's final...