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After a devastating Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers in the 2014 playoffs, the Pittsburgh Penguins took little time to make what they believed was a necessary change to their front office. That decision was the firing of general manager Ray Shero. According to Pens’ president David Morehouse, the team is not going through a complete overhaul. We noticed he wasn’t lying when we found out head coach Dan Bylsma was still a part of the organization. With the exception of star forwards such as Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and James Neal, it is uncertain who stays and who goes this ...

On Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins dismissed longtime general manager Ray Shero: In a press conference streamed live on the team’s official website, CEO David Morehouse further announced that the search for a new general manager had already begun and that the new GM would be charged with “overseeing and revamping” hockey operations, “with the goal of returning the team to championship form.” The question is how far from championship form the Penguins are. As Morehouse noted, the Penguins have had their struggles, but there is also a lot for new management to build on: It’s not just about this season. We’ve had five consecutive ...

After yet another postseason disappointment that saw the Pittsburgh Penguins fail to reach the Eastern Conference Final, head coach general manager Ray Shero has been fired. The Penguins confirmed the news on their official website while announcing the interim general manager: Ray Shero has been relieved of his duties as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was announced today by co-owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle.The search for a new general manager is already underway. ... ... Assistant general manager Jason Botterill will take over as interim general manager until a new GM is hired. Botterill, who will be a candidate for ...

After watching their team blow a 3-1 series lead to end yet another disappointing postseason, PittsburghPenguins fans are an angry group of people, and they are utilizing everything short of full-page advertisements to show it. With demands ranging from "fire Dan Bylsma" to "trade Evgeni Malkin," there seems to be a wide variety of proposed solutions, but there is one point on which all Pens fans seem to agree; something has to change. Since, as Albert Einstein once said, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result," to simply come back next season with the same management, coaching staff, roster and ...

Kris Letang may walk away from the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs with a bitter taste in his mouth, but he also exits the tournament as the co-leader in career postseason goals by a Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman, per the team's official website. Letang scored his 14th career playoff goal in a first-round Game 5 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, finding an empty net to give the Penguins a 3-1 lead with just over one minute remaining.  His second goal of the Stanley Cup playoffs required a bit more effort, though it was hardly a thing of beauty. In the second period of a Game ...

Jeremy Roenick on Tuesday night said Sidney Crosby is no longer the best player in the world, that the designation now belongs to Jonathan Toews. His colleague at NBC Sports, Keith Jones, essentially said that Crosby whined too much in the Pittsburgh Penguins' second-round series loss to the Rangers and that his stock as the best in the world has taken a major hit. Was this just an appraisal made too easily after a tough 2-1 Game 7 loss for the Penguins, a game which it can be argued Henrik Lundqvist simply stole for New York? A day later, it depended on ...

A half-decade ago, the Pittsburgh Penguins seemed to be on the brink of becoming a dynasty. They had just won the Stanley Cup for the first time in the Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin era and had been to the Stanley Cup Final two consecutive seasons. With a young, talented core group of players that was only going to get better, more Cup parades in Pittsburgh seemed like a given. A presumed result from landing top-end players like Malkin, Crosby and Kris Letang. None of that has come to fruition though. The Chicago Blackhawks have become the NHL's most consistent franchise, while the Penguins ...

Probably no team in the NHL this offseason will face the same type of upheaval as the Pittsburgh Penguins will. For the fifth consecutive season, the Penguins were bounced from the Stanley Cup playoffs by a lower-seeded team. They squandered a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series for the second time in four years, losing Game 7 on home ice each time. It's also the third time in five years that the Penguins lost Game 7 on home ice. Changes are coming. Some are obvious, and some are speculative, but they are coming.  How will this perennial 100-point team go about its business now ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins thought that this semifinal series was over after Game 4. So did Ken Campbell of The Hockey News, Craig Morgan of FoxSports.com and Colin Horgan of The Guardian. Jeff Z. Klein of The New York Times struggled to find positives for the New York Rangers before the series even began. Yet the Blueshirts saluted the fans at Madison Square Garden following Game 6, not as a final farewell, but as a way of implying "we'll be back." This after winning two straight games to pull to a 3-3 tie with the Penguins, forcing a pivotal Game 7. The Rangers are now ...

Game 5 didn't go according to plan for the Pittsburgh Penguins. They tried to take an unfamiliar route home and got shaken down by a hungrier and more determined New York Rangers team. They were outshot 17-9 in the first period and trailed 2-0 after the first 20 minutes. Not exactly the kind of start the Penguins wanted on home ice. The game ended and the Blueshirts celebrated a well-deserved victory. They were just more emotionally charged and desperate than Pittsburgh, and not without reason. There are a few things the Penguins need to do and can do in Game 6 to ...