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The Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated their Stanley Cup triumph over the San Jose Sharks with a parade through the city Wednesday. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Co. defeated the Sharks 3-1 in Game 6 to take the series 4-2, capturing the organization's fourth Stanley Cup title. The city of Pittsburgh came out to offer its thanks for the achievement. Janelle Hall of WTAE-TV shared an image of fans lined up along the route: Tyler Batiste of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offered a different view: The Penguins also took video of fans cheering for the team on the route: The city of Pittsburgh certainly showed up in full ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins brought the Stanley Cup back to the city for the fourth time in the franchise's history on Sunday night, defeating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 at the SAP Center.  The Sharks took the series to a sixth game after Pittsburgh missed the chance to win the Cup at home in five, but Conn Smythe Trophy winner Sidney Crosby and the Penguins made sure that San Jose wouldn't see a Game 7 with a decisive win on Sunday. After all, the Penguins are no strangers to winning big on the road, as ESPN Stats & Info pointed out: Crosby had 19 postseason ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup title Sunday with a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks in Game 6, but it was revealed in the aftermath that defender Kris Letang underwent foot surgery before the series started. Continue for updates. Letang Had Infection Under Foot Sunday, June 12 Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports reported the defender “had to go under the knife” because of an infection underneath one of his feet after the Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference Final. The Stanley Cup Final may have turned out differently if Letang wasn’t able to play, especially since he was brilliant for ...

Pittsburgh is the hockey capital of the world for the fourth time. The Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup on Sunday night with a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks in Game 6. Sidney Crosby earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs, and the Penguins took to Twitter to announce the news: Sportsnet shared a GIF of the team's celebration after the final horn sounded: The Penguins have won each of their four Stanley Cups in the same way, per ESPN Stats & Info: The NHL captured the Penguins' celebration at the SAP Center: After Crosby took the Stanley Cup, ...

Just when bettors counted out the San Jose Sharks, they bit the Pittsburgh Penguins with their best effort of the Stanley Cup Final, winning Game 5 on the road, 4-2, in an upset to stave off elimination. The Sharks return home to the SAP Center for Game 6 on Sunday, and they are listed as -120 home betting favorites (bet $120 to win $100) at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark to force a Game 7 next Wednesday. For the first time in the series, San Jose jumped out to an early lead against Pittsburgh, scoring the first two goals of Game 5 ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins continued their domination of the San Jose Sharks with a 3-1 victory in Game 4 on the road Monday and can hoist their fourth Stanley Cup by winning Game 5 at home Thursday. In fact, the only time the Penguins have trailed in the series came when they lost Game 3 at San Jose in overtime, and they bring that confidence back to the Consol Energy Center as -145 betting favorites (bet $145 to win $100) over the offensively challenged Sharks at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. San Jose has struggled mightily to score in this series, wasting an outstanding ...

The San Jose Sharks have not lost three straight games since the end of March, and they are 7-1 in their past eight at home heading into Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. That would help explain why the Sharks are solid -140 favorites (bet $140 to win $100) versus the Penguins at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark to win their first game of the series at the SAP Center. San Jose nearly evened the series in Game 2 on Wednesday, forcing overtime on a tying goal by Justin Braun with just less than five ...

Seven years later, Sidney Crosby seems to have it all again. His Pittsburgh Penguins are back in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2009, and they have a 1-0 lead entering Wednesday's Game 2 against the San Jose Sharks. Everything looks so easy for him again, including the brilliant, shaved-ice, turnaround back pass to teammate Conor Sheary that resulted in the Penguins' second goal in their 3-2 Game 1 victory Monday. The fact that it took so long for him to get this far again would have been hard to believe back in the winter of 2010. Just five ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are set as the betting favorites for both Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final and the championship series overall as they get set to battle the San Jose Sharks starting on Monday night in Game 1 at the Consol Energy Center. The Penguins are listed as the -149 favorites (bet $149 to win $100) at home for Game 1 at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark, with the total set at 5.5 goals. Pittsburgh is also a -120 favorite on the overall Stanley Cup series prices at the sportsbooks, with San Jose listed at even money. Sidney Crosby and Co. are ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins have won three games in the third round of the playoffs. Sidney Crosby has the game-winner in each of those contests, including in the Game 6 matchup that kept the Pens alive in the series. In that context, it may seem silly to critique Crosby’s playoff performance. However, Pittsburgh’s captain has shown time and again that he has even more to offer, especially in five-on-five situations. So far the Penguins have managed to win without their best player being the dominant force he can be in every single shift of the game. Crosby, who in 11 NHL seasons has ...