The Penguins are set to face off against the Tampa Bay Lightning at home tonight starting at 5PM EST. Unfortunately, they will be without one of their key forwards as Michael Bunting got into a car wreck on his way to the arena.

The Pittsburgh Penguins and perhaps Rickard Rakell got some good news since Sunday. Rakell left the team sometime after the loss on Saturday to the Washington Capitals to return to Pittsburgh and tend to a family matter.

The Penguins will be sellers at the upcoming trade deadline but don't assume Rickard Rakell is on the move, per an insider.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were dealt another blow on Sunday as forward Michael Bunting was ruled out of their 5–2 home loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning following a car accident outside PPG Paints Arena.

It’s been about a month since the first iteration of when we checked in on some individual ups and downs, and now is a good time to look back at it. Rickard Rakell — In a way, you might say that Rickard Rakell won the Jake Guentzel trade.

Pittsburgh will be without their top goal-scoring forward when they take on Los Angeles, who will play their first home game since the onset of the wildfires

The Pittsburgh Penguins players and coaches honored the LA firefighters Monday. The coaches donned the hats on the ice while the players wore the LAFD hats in the locker room Monday after the team’s morning skate.

The Edmonton Oilers would be wise to call the Pittsburgh Penguins for a trade over the next two months. Oilers GM Stan Bowman will be busy working the phones as the NHL trade deadline approaches. The team sits third in the Western Conference and is once again expected to make a healthy run at the Stanley Cup.

According to Preston Hodgkinson of Daily Hive, “If the Oilers want a “Mattias Ekholm-type addition” this season, their best bet will be 28-year-old Marcus Pettersson.” Hodgkinson wrote this on Wednesday when he looked at the Pittsburgh Penguins as a strong fit for a trade partner ahead of this season’s trade deadline.

Dubas however has other trade chips available in pending unrestricted free agents like Anthony Beauvillier and Marcus Pettersson, but there is a sense that all players except for Crosby and Geno are being considered.

Even though the Pittsburgh Penguins are still on the fringes of playoff contention it still seems to be a foregone conclusion on what they are going to do in advance of the March 7 NHL trade deadline.

Not just pending free agents, but all big name players in play.