Sidney Crosby scored twice and Bryan Rust delivered the go-ahead goal midway through the third period as the Pittsburgh Penguins edged Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals 5-3 on Thursday night.

For the first 20 minutes of their Thursday matchup - and first of the season - against the Washington Capitals, the way the Pittsburgh Penguins were dominating was quite similar to what they did to ...

Bryan Rust saved the game. The other star players saved the storyline. As of Wednesday afternoon, Thursday night’s Pittsburgh Penguins versus Capitals matchup had all the makings of a showdown ...

For the most part, the Penguins were completely locked in for this one, especially through the first 40 minutes. They still felt the sting from the 6-1 loss to their rival in this very building just ...

Is Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals still the NHL's biggest rivalry? Greg Wyshynski, senior writer: The NHL's current playoff format does a great job of fanning the flames of existing rivalries ...

The Isles (65 points) enter the game third in the Metro, two points back of the second-place Pens (67 points), though ...

The Buffalo Sabres finished out their pre-Olympic schedule with a 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.

The Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins open the 2016-17 NHL season at home on Thursday, Oct. 13, against the Washington Capitals. They'll raise their fourth Cup banner to the rafters of Consol ...

WASHINGTON -- Evan Rodigues was injured after he was hit by a shot midway through the first period in the Penguins' 5-4 overtime win over the Capitals. Rodrigues was hit somewhere in the lower leg by ...

HBO Sports’ 24/7 is all about narrative. It’s about finding the story within the spectacle or sometimes letting the spectacle become the story. When I wrote about the debut of Penguins/Capitals: Road ...

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby scored twice and Bryan Rust delivered the go-ahead goal midway through the third period as the Pittsburgh Penguins edged Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals 5-3 on ...