By Neil Rudel nrudel@altoonamirror.com Stan Savran, a Pittsburgh broadcasting icon who emceed the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet since its inception, has died. He was 76. Savran’s death Monday evening follows a series of health issues that included lung cancer in 2022 ...
The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Kyle Dubas wanted to take a breath and take a break after being fired as the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Then the Pittsburgh Penguins called. The break ended shortly thereafter. Dubas joined the Penguins as the team’s president of hockey operations on Thursday, less than two weeks after a somewhat ugly exit from Toronto following a second-round playoff loss to Florida. The 37-year-old Dubas goes from one type of hockey crucible to another. In Toronto, he was tasked with helping the Maple Leafs emerge from two decades of ...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins asked Ron Hextall and Brian Burke to thread an impossibly thin needle when they were hired in February 2021. Hextall, the general manager, and Burke, the director of hockey operations, were asked to find a way to prop open the championship window for stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang without sacrificing the club’s long-term future. After a little over two sometimes turbulent years that produced a significant lack of progress on either front, Hextall and Burke are out of a job. The team fired Hextall, Burke and assistant ...
By Peter Smith The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — More than 60 years ago, a historic Black church was forced to give up its sanctuary, compensated for what it says was a fraction of its value, to an urban renewal project that wiped out the heart of an African American neighborhood known ...
By Nicole Kraft The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Johnny Gaudreau scored a minute into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Thursday night, snapping a four-game losing streak. Gaudreau scored his 14th overtime goal and the Blue Jackets moved ahead of Chicago and Anaheim for the worst record in the NHL. Columbus has one game remaining. Andrew Peeke and Emil Bemstrom also scored for Columbus. Michael Hutchinson stopped 34 shots. “I think everyone played great, and we did a good job, team-wise, of winning their chances,” ...
From Mirror, wire reports NEW YORK — Brock Nelson scored twice as the New York Islanders beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 Wednesday night and clinched a playoff berth. The win eliminates the Pittsburgh Penguins from the playoffs for the first time in 16 seasons. Pittsburgh needed a Montreal win in regulation to make its game at Columbus tonight mean something. All it is now is a regular-season finale between two clubs not going to the postseason. Pittsburgh hurt itself by losing Tuesday night at home to the Chicago Blackhawks, 5-2. Chicago came into the game losers of 11 of its past ...
