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Pittsburgh Penguins
File:Pittsburgh Penguins.gif
ConferenceEastern
DivisionAtlantic
Founded1967
HistoryPittsburgh Penguins
1967 - present
Home arenaMellon Arena (17,132)
CityPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Team colorsBlack, Vegas Gold, and White
MediaFSN Pittsburgh
WPCW 19 (Pittsburgh's CW)
WXDX (105.9 FM)
WBGG (970 AM)
Owner(s)Ron Burkle
Mario Lemieux
General managerUnited States Ray Shero
Head coachCanada Michel Therrien
CaptainVacant
Minor league affiliatesWilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL)
Wheeling Nailers (ECHL)
Stanley Cups1990-91, 1991-92
Conference championships1990-91, 1991-92
Division championships1990-91, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1997-98

The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They began play in the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1967.

Franchise history

Expansion years: 1967-69

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The original Penguins logo (1967-68)

The home of the early NHL incarnation of the Pirates during the 1920s and the successful Hornets American Hockey League franchise from the 1930s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh was one of six cities awarded an expansion team when the NHL doubled in size for the start of 1967-68.

After deciding on the "Penguin" nickname, a logo was chosen, that had a penguin in front of a triangle, which is thought to be in tribute to the "Golden Triangle."[1]

The Penguins' first general manager was Jack Riley. His team (along with the other expansion teams) was hampered by restrictive rules that kept most major talent with the "Original Six." Beyond aging sniper Andy Bathgate and tough defenseman Leo Boivin, the first Penguins team was manned by a cast of former minor-leaguers. The club missed the playoffs, but were a mere six points out of 1st place in the close-fought West Division.

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Logo used (1968-71)

Though Bathgate led the team in scoring, both he and Boivin were soon gone. Former player George Sullivan was the head coach for the club's first two seasons, until being replaced by Hockey Hall of Famer Leo Kelly. Despite a handful of decent players such as Ken Schinkel, Keith McCreary, agitator Bryan Watson, and goaltender Les Binkley, talent was thin. The Penguins' missed the playoffs in five of their first seven seasons.

1970s

Tragedy struck the Penguins in 1970 when promising rookie center Michel Briere, who finished third in scoring on the team, was injured in a car crash. After spending a year in the hospital, he died. Pittsburgh managed a playoff berth in 1972, but not much beyond that. With the Penguins battling the California Seals near the division cellar in 1973-74, Jack Riley was fired as general manager and replaced with Jack Button. Button traded for Steve Durbano, Ab Demarco Jr., Bob "Battleship" Kelly, and Bob Paradise. The personnel moves proved successful, as the team's play improved. The Penguins just barely missed the playoffs in 1974.

Beginning in the mid-Seventies, Pittsburgh iced some powerful offensive clubs, led by the likes of the "Century Line" of forwards Syl Apps, Jr., Lowell MacDonald, and Jean Pronovost. They came tantalizingly close to reaching the Stanley Cup semifinals in 1975, but were ousted from the playoffs by the New York Islanders in one of only three best-of-seven game series in professional sports history where a team came back from being down three games to none. As the 70s wore on, they brought in other offensive weapons such as Rick Kehoe, Pierre Larouche, and Ron Schock, along with a couple solid blue-liners such as Ron Stackhouse and Dave Burrows. But the Pens' success beyond the regular season was always neutralized by mediocre team defense and poor goaltending.

In 1975, the Penguins' creditors demanded payment of back debts. Through the intervention of a group that included Wren Blair, the team was prevented from folding. A decline started when Baz Bastien became general manager. The Penguins missed the playoffs in 1977-78 when their offense lagged, and Larouche was traded for Pete Mahovlich and Peter Lee. Bastien traded prime draft choices for several players whose best years were already behind them, such as Orest Kindrachuk, Tom Bladon, and Rick MacLeish, and the team would suffer in the early 1980s as a result.

1980s

The Penguins began the decade by changing their team colors. In January 1980, the team went from blue & white to their present-day black & gold to honor Pittsburgh's other sports teams, the Pirates and the Steelers. Both the Pirates and Steelers had worn black and gold for decades, and both were fresh off world championship seasons at that time. The Boston Bruins protested this color change, claiming a monopoly on black and gold. The Penguins defended their choice stating that an early hockey club in Pittsburgh also used black and gold as their team colors. The NHL agreed, and Pittsburgh was allowed to use black and gold.

On the ice, the Penguins began the 1980s with defenseman Randy Carlyle, and prolific scorers Paul Gardner and Mike Bullard, but little else.

During the 1982 playoffs, the Penguins held a 3-1 lead late in the fifth and final game of their playoff series against the reigning champions, the New York Islanders. However, the Islanders rallied to force overtime and won the series on a goal by John Tonelli. It would be the Pens' final playoff appearance until 1989.

The team had the league's worst record in both the 1983 and 1984 seasons, and with the team suffering financial problems, it again looked as though the Penguins would fold. But the reward for the dismal 83-84 season was the right to draft French Canadian phenomenon Mario Lemieux. Other teams offered substantial trade packages for the draft choice, but the Penguins kept the pick.


Mario Lemieux era: 1984-2006

Mario Lemieux played for the Penguins from 1984-94, 1995-97, 2000-04, 2005-06

With the first overall pick in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft Pittsburgh selected Quebec Major Junior Hockey League superstar Mario Lemieux. He paid dividends right away, scoring on the first shot of his first shift in his first NHL game. Some criticized Lemieux for neglecting his defensive responsibilities, but Pittsburgh was looking for offense.

Pittsburgh spent four more years out of the playoffs. In the late 80s, the Penguins finally gave Lemieux a strong supporting cast, trading for superstar defenseman Paul Coffey from the Edmonton Oilers (after the Oilers' 1987 Stanley Cup win), and bringing in young talent such as scorers Kevin Stevens, Rob Brown, and John Cullen from the minors. And they finally acquired a top-flight goaltender with the acquisition of Tom Barrasso from the Buffalo Sabres. The Pens made the playoffs, but lost in the second round to their trans-Pennsylvania rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. Though amassing 123 points, Lemieux missed 21 games in 1989-90 due to a herniated disk in his back, and the Pens slipped out of the playoff picture.

But in 1990-91, the Penguins reached the top. They drafted Czech right-winger Jaromir Jagr in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, the first player from his country to attend an NHL draft without having to defect, and he paired with Mario Lemieux as probably the league's biggest one-two scoring threat throughout the 1990s. Mark Recchi arrived from the minors, Joe Mullen and Bryan Trottier signed as free agents, and major trades brought Larry Murphy, Ron Francis, and Ulf Samuelsson to Pittsburgh. The Penguins finally became the league's best team, defeating the Minnesota North Stars in the Stanley Cup finals in six games. The following season, the team lost coach Bob Johnson to cancer, and Scotty Bowman took over as coach. Under the legendary Bowman, they swept the Chicago Blackhawks to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions.

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Logo used (1992-2001)

Cancer nearly dealt the Penguins a double whammy in 1993. Not only were they reeling from Johnson's death, but Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Only two months after the diagnosis, his comeback was one of the league's great "feel-good" stories of all time, missing 24 out of 84 games, but winning his fourth Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion with 160 points scored, edging out Pat LaFontaine and Adam Oates for the award. Despite the off-ice difficulties, Pittsburgh finished with a 56-21-7 record, winning the franchise's first (and still only) Presidents' Trophy as the team with the most points in the regular season; the 119 points earned that year is still a franchise record. After Lemieux's return, the team played better than it ever had before, winning an NHL-record 17 consecutive games before tying the New Jersey Devils in the final game of the season. Despite all of this success, they were still eliminated in the second round by the New York Islanders in overtime of Game 7.

The first Penguins Stanley Cup banner.

The Penguins continued to be a formidable team throughout the 1990s. The stars of the Stanley Cup years were followed by the likes of forwards Alexei Kovalev, Martin Straka, Aleksey Morozov, Robert Lang, and Petr Nedved, and defensemen Sergei Zubov, Darius Kasparaitis, and Kevin Hatcher,. Lemieux retired in 1997 and formally passed the torch to Jagr as the league's leading scorer. Because of his legendary status, the Hockey Hall of Fame waived its three-year waiting period and inducted him as an Honored Member in the same year he retired. When Gretzky retired two years later, everyone amongst the list of NHL superstars who was expecting a full-steam-ahead Hall of Fame berth was disappointed.

Despite a strong on-ice product, the Penguins were in the midst of a battle for their survival. Their free-spending ways earlier in the decade came with a price — owners Howard Baldwin, Morris Belzberg and Thomas Ruta had asked the players to defer their salaries. When they finally came due, combined with other financial pressures, the Penguins were forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 1998--the second such filing in franchise history. Just when it appeared that the Pens were about to either move or fold, Lemieux put together an ownership group. He had become one of the team's principal creditors due to years of deferred salary, and was able to convert the money the Penguins owed him into equity with the court's blessing. Just as he saved the franchise in 1984, he did it again.

He later shocked the hockey world by deciding to come back. He returned to the ice on December 27, 2000, becoming the first player-owner in NHL history. Lemieux helped lead the Penguins deep into the 2001 playoffs, highlighted by an overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres in Game 7 of the second round. Kasparaitis scored the series-clinching goal to advance the Penguins to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost in 5 games to the New Jersey Devils.

Still, the Penguins needed to cut costs. They dealt Jagr and Frantisek Kucera to the Washington Capitals for prospects Kris Beech, Michal Sivek, and Ross Lupaschuk, and $4.9 million in the summer of 2001. The absence of Jagr proved devastating to the Penguins, and in 2002 they missed the playoffs for the first time in 12 years. Further financial difficulties saw them trade fan favorite Kovalev to the New York Rangers the next season, quickly followed by the departure of Lang in free agency. Unfortunately for the franchise, none of the prospects acquired for the stars' salary dumps materialized into NHL stars. Thus, the Penguins spent the next several seasons in the NHL's basement.

2003 was expected to be a rebuilding year for the Penguins, with first overall pick Marc-Andre Fleury in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft and new head coach (and former Penguin and commentator) Eddie Olczyk. Cost restrictions made the signing of Fleury rather tense, but he later showed his resolve with excellent goaltending for a last-place club. Lemieux suffered a hip injury early in the season, and he sat out the rest of the season to recover. The Pens then traded Straka away to the Los Angeles Kings and sent Fleury back to his junior team due to further money problems. The Penguins finished with the worst NHL record, but lost the lottery for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft to the Washington Capitals.

The Penguins have suffered small-market syndrome for most of their existence, and cost-cutting prevented another collapse into insolvency. Financially, the team was one of the better-managed NHL franchises between its 1998 bankruptcy and the 2004-05 NHL lockout. Thanks to significant post-season runs, the Penguins broke even in 2000 and turned a small profit in 2001. Failure to make the playoffs in the next three seasons hurt the team's bottom line, but the shedding of contracts kept the team afloat as other franchises, like the Ottawa Senators, faced significant losses or declared bankruptcy.

Lockout season: 2004-05

With the 2004-05 NHL season cancelled due to the NHL lockout, several Penguins signed with the club's American Hockey League affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, while experienced players like Aleksey Morozov and Milan Kraft honed their talents in the elite European leagues.

Post-lockout era

The Penguins won an unprecedented draft lottery in the summer of 2005, in which all thirty teams had weighted chances to win the first overall pick of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. The Penguins chose junior league superstar Sidney Crosby from the Rimouski Oceanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. With a new Collective Bargaining Agreement signed by the owners and players to end the 2004-05 NHL lockout, the Penguins began rebuilding the team under a salary cap. They signed big-name free agents Sergei Gonchar, John LeClair, and Zigmund Palffy, and traded for goaltender Jocelyn Thibault. However, they were unable to resign key clutch forward Aleksey Morozov, as he was still under contract with his Russian club Ak-Bars Kazan.

The team began the season with a long winless skid that resulted in a coaching change from Olczyk to Michel Therrien. Palffy announced his retirement due to a lingering shoulder injury while the team's second-leading scorer. Then on January 24, 2006, Lemieux announced his second retirement, this time for good, after developing an irregular heart beat. He finished as the NHL's seventh all-time scorer (1,723), eighth in goals (690) and tenth in assists (1,033).[2][3][4]

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Pittsburgh's alternate logo; the Penguins logo from 1992-2001 period, now with a vegas gold triangle as opposed to yellow.

It was now, for all intents and purposes, Crosby's team, and on April 17, Crosby became the youngest rookie in history to score 100 points. And on the Penguins' final game of the season, Crosby scored a goal and an assist to break Lemieux's record and became the top scoring rookie in team history with 102 points, despite losing the rookie scoring race to Alexander Ovechkin. Despite a decent finish, the Penguins posted the worst record of the Eastern Conference and the highest goals-against in the league.

The team announced on April 20 that the contract for General Manager Craig Patrick would not be renewed. Patrick had been GM since December 1989, and the Penguins won five division titles and back-to-back Stanley Cups during his tenure. On May 25, Ray Shero signed a five-year contract as General Manager.

On October 18, 2006, young Russian superstar Evgeni Malkin scored a goal in his first NHL game, and went on to set the modern NHL record with a goal in each of his first six games. Also contributing early to the 2006-07 season was Jordan Staal, the third of four Staal brothers in hockey, who was the Penguins' first pick (second overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. On February 27, 2007, the Penguins acquired Gary Roberts from Florida and Georges Laraque from Phoenix.

The Penguins earned points in sixteen straight games (14 wins, 2 overtime losses) in early 2007. The streak ended on February 19 with a last-minute loss to the New York Islanders. It was the second longest point streak in club history. [1]

Possible relocation

The Penguins have had their tradition and success on the ice tempered with a shaky ownership group from time to time. As early as the mid 1970s the ownership group experienced cash flow issues and sought to sell the team, even if it meant relocation. In the mid 1980s, only a decade later, a similar financial situation faced the team. As recently as the 2006 and 2007 seasons the franchise ownership sought alternatives that would provide a return on their investment. Various prospective owners sought to buy the team, before the Lemieux group chose instead to keep ownership but move the team to the highest bidder. As in the mid 70s and 80s, the fanbase and local government officials were successful in persuading the ownership that Pittsburgh and its region were capable of meeting the needs of a modern NHL team.

New arena agreement

On March 13th, 2007, in a joint announcement by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins ownership group, it was made public that an agreement had been reached between the parties. A new state-of-the-art multi-purpose arena will be built. This agreement will keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh for another forty years. Following the announcement of this plan, the Lemieux ownership group announced that they no longer have plans to sell the team.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Records as of March 7th, 2007.[5][6]

Season GP W L T OTL Pts GF GA PIM Finish Playoffs
1967-68 74 27 34 13 — 67 195 216 554 5th, West Did not qualify
1968-69 76 20 45 11 — 51 189 252 677 5th, West Did not qualify
1969-70 76 26 38 12 — 64 182 238 1038 2nd, West Lost in Semifinals, 2-4 (Blues)
1970-71 78 21 37 20 — 62 221 240 1079 6th, West Did not qualify
1971-72 78 26 38 14 — 66 220 258 978 4th, West Lost in Quarterfinals, 0-4 (Black Hawks)
1972-73 78 32 37 9 — 73 257 265 866 5th, West Did not qualify
1973-74 78 28 41 9 — 65 242 273 950 5th, West Did not qualify
1974-75 80 37 28 15 — 89 326 289 1119 3rd, Norris Won in Preliminary Round, 2-0 (Blues)
Lost in Quarterfinals, 3-4 (Islanders)
1975-76 80 35 33 12 — 82 339 303 1004 3rd, Norris Lost in Preliminary Round, 1-2 (Maple Leafs)
1976-77 80 34 33 13 — 81 240 252 669 3rd, Norris Lost in Preliminary Round, 1-2 (Maple Leafs)
1977-78 80 25 37 18 — 68 254 321 1300 4th, Norris Did not qualify
1978-79 80 36 31 13 — 85 281 279 1039 2nd, Norris Won in Preliminary Round, 2-1 (Sabres)
Lost in Quarterfinals, 0-4 (Bruins)
1979-80 80 30 37 13 — 73 251 303 1038 3rd, Norris Lost in Preliminary Round, 2-3 (Bruins)
1980-81 80 30 37 13 — 73 302 345 1807 4th, Norris Lost in Preliminary Round, 2-3 (Blues)
1981-82 80 31 36 13 — 75 310 337 2212 4th, Patrick Lost in Division Semifinals, 2-3 (Islanders)
1982-83 80 18 53 9 — 45 257 394 1859 6th, Patrick Did not qualify
1983-84 80 16 58 6 — 38 254 390 1695 6th, Patrick Did not qualify
1984-85 80 24 51 5 — 53 276 385 1493 6th, Patrick Did not qualify
1985-86 80 34 38 8 — 76 313 305 1538 5th, Patrick Did not qualify
1986-87 80 30 38 12 — 72 297 290 1693 5th, Patrick Did not qualify
1987-88 80 36 35 9 — 81 319 316 2211 6th, Patrick Did not qualify
1988-89 80 40 33 7 — 87 347 349 2670 2nd, Patrick Won in Division Semifinals, 4-0 (Rangers)
Lost in Division Finals, 3-4 (Flyers)
1989-90 80 32 40 8 — 72 318 359 2132 5th, Patrick Did not qualify
1990-91 80 41 33 6 — 88 342 305 1641 1st, Patrick Won in Division Semifinals, 4-3 (Devils)
Won in Division Finals, 4-1 (Capitals)
Won in Conference Finals, 4-2 (Bruins)
Stanley Cup Champions, 4-2 (North Stars)
1991-92 80 39 32 9 — 87 343 308 1907 3rd, Patrick Won in Division Semifinals, 4-3 (Capitals)
Won in Division Finals, 4-2 (Rangers)
Won in Conference Finals, 4-0 (Bruins)
Stanley Cup Champions, 4-0 (Blackhawks)
1992-93 84 56 21 7 — 119 367 268 1776 1st, Patrick Won in Division Semifinals, 4-1 (Devils)
Lost in Division Finals, 3-4 (Islanders)
1993-94 84 44 27 13 — 101 299 285 1624 1st, Northeast Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2-4 (Capitals)
1994-951 48 29 16 3 — 61 181 158 1036 2nd, Northeast Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-3 (Capitals)
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1-4 (Devils)
1995-96 82 49 29 4 — 102 362 284 1623 1st, Northeast Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-2 (Capitals)
Won in Conference Semifinals, 4-1 (Rangers)
Lost in Conference Finals, 3-4 (Panthers)
1996-97 82 38 36 8 — 84 285 280 1498 2nd, Northeast Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1-4 (Flyers)
1997-98 82 40 24 18 — 98 228 188 1225 1st, Northeast Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 2-4 (Canadiens)
1998-99 82 38 30 14 — 90 242 225 977 3rd, Atlantic Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-3 (Devils)
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2-4 (Maple Leafs)
1999-00 82 37 31 8 6 88 241 236 1221 3rd, Atlantic Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-1 (Capitals)
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2-4 (Flyers)
2000-01 82 42 28 9 3 96 281 256 1585 3rd, Atlantic Won in Conference Quarterfinals, 4-2 (Capitals)
Won in Conference Semifinals, 4-3 (Sabres)
Lost in Conference Finals, 1-4 (Devils)
2001-02 82 28 41 8 5 69 198 249 1248 5th, Atlantic Did not qualify
2002-03 82 27 44 6 5 65 189 255 1125 5th, Atlantic Did not qualify
2003-04 82 23 47 8 4 58 190 303 1270 5th, Atlantic Did not qualify
2004-052 — — — — — — — — — — —
2005-063 82 22 46 — 14 58 244 316 1539 5th, Atlantic Did not qualify
2006-07 82 47 24 — 11 105 277 246 2nd, Atlantic Lost in Conference Quarterfinals, 1-4 (Senators)
Totals 3096 1268 1397 383 48 2,967 10,459 11,121 54,155 22 Playoff Appearances
1 Season was shortened due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout.
2 Season was cancelled due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout.
3 As of the 2005-06 NHL season, all games will have a winner; the OTL column includes SOL (Shootout losses).

Notable players

Current roster

As of March 7, 2007.[7]

Goaltenders
# Player Catches Acquired Place of Birth
29 Canada Marc-Andre Fleury L 2003 Sorel, Quebec
41 Canada Jocelyn Thibault L 2005 Montreal, Quebec
Defensemen
# Player Shoots Acquired Place of Birth
2 Czech Republic Josef Melichar L 1997 České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
3 United States Mark Eaton L 2006 Wilmington, Delaware
5 United States Rob Scuderi L 1998 Syosset, New York
6 Canada Joel Kwiatkowski L 2007 Kindersley, Saskatchewan
19 United States Ryan Whitney L 2002 Boston, Massachusetts
32 Canada Alain Nasreddine L 2004 Montreal, Quebec
33 Canada Eric Cairns (IR) L 2006 Oakville, Ontario
44 United States Brooks Orpik L 2002 San Francisco, California
55 Russia Sergei Gonchar - A L 2005 Chelyabinsk, Russia
Forwards
# Player Position Shoots Acquired Place of Birth
7 Canada Michel Ouellet RW R 2000 Rimouski, Quebec
8 Canada Mark Recchi - A RW L 2006 Kamloops, British Columbia
10 Canada Gary Roberts LW L 2007 North York, Ontario
11 Canada Jordan Staal C L 2006 Thunder Bay, Ontario
12 United States Ryan Malone LW L 1999 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
16 Canada Erik Christensen C L 2002 Edmonton, Alberta
20 Canada Colby Armstrong RW R 2001 Lloydminster, Saskatchewan
22 Canada Chris Thorburn C R 2006 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
25 Canada Maxime Talbot C L 2002 LeMoyne, Quebec
26 Slovakia Ronald Petrovicky RW R 2006 Žilina, Slovakia
27 Canada Georges Laraque RW R 2007 Montreal, Quebec
28 Sweden Nils Ekman RW L 2006 Stockholm, Sweden
37 Finland Jarkko Ruutu LW L 2006 Helsinki, Finland
71 Russia Evgeni Malkin LW L 2004 Magnitogorsk, Russia
87 Canada Sidney Crosby - A C L 2005 Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia

Hall of Famers

Players
Builders
  • Scotty Bowman, Director of Player Development & Head Coach, 1990-1993, inducted 1991
  • Bob Johnson, Head Coach, 1990-1991, inducted 1992
  • Craig Patrick, GM & Head Coach, 1989-2006, inducted 2001
Other

Team captains


Retired numbers

First-round draft picks


Franchise scoring leaders

These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed NHL regular season.

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; * = current Penguins player

Player Pos GP G A Pts P/G
Mario Lemieux C 915 690 1033 1723 1.88
Jaromir Jagr RW 806 439 640 1079 1.34
Rick Kehoe RW 722 312 324 636 .88
Ron Francis C 533 144 449 613 1.15
Jean Pronovost RW 753 316 287 603 .80
Kevin Stevens LW 522 260 295 555 1.06
Syl Apps, Jr. C 495 151 349 500 1.01
Martin Straka C 560 165 277 442 .79
Paul Coffey D 331 108 332 440 1.33
Ron Schock C 619 124 280 404 .65

NHL awards and trophies

Stanley Cup

Presidents' Trophy

Prince of Wales Trophy

Art Ross Trophy

Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

Calder Memorial Trophy

Conn Smythe Trophy

Frank J. Selke Trophy

Hart Memorial Trophy

James Norris Memorial Trophy

Lady Byng Memorial Trophy

Lester B. Pearson Award

Lester Patrick Trophy

NHL Plus/Minus Award

NHL Young Stars

NHL All-Rookie Team

First Team All-Star

Second Team All-Star


Franchise individual records

Season

Playoffs

Miscellaneous

Broadcasters

Television
Radio

References

  1. ^ http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/history/history.php
  2. ^ http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/team/press/arts/1621.0.php
  3. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2304087
  4. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/nhl/penguins/2006-01-24-lemieux-retire_x.htm
  5. ^ Hockeydb.com, Pittsburgh Penguins season statistics and records.
  6. ^ ESPN.com, ESPN.com - NHL - NHL Standings
  7. ^ http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/team/players.php
  8. ^ Pittsburgh will leave its captain position vacant for 2006-2007 season. Sager, Joe (2006-09-18). "Therrien says Penguins will not Award Captaincy this Season". Retrieved 2006-09-23.

See also


Preceded by Stanley Cup Champions
1990-91, 1991-92 		Succeeded by

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