A few new or recently missing faces were on the ice Tuesday for a full Pittsburgh Penguins morning skate at PPG Paints Arena. Forward Jeff Carter and defenseman Ryan Graves skated, as did Sam Poulin.
PITTSBURGH – Prior to taking their three-game road trip out West, the Pittsburgh Penguins have made a couple of adjustments to their lines. An injury to Jeff Carter has prompted the moves for the forwards, and a young defenseman might finally be his break on the blue line.
Injured Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jeff Carter skated before practice Thursday on the secondary ice surface at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. Carter missed Tuesday’s game at New Jersey because of what coach Mike Sullivan called an upper-body injury.
The Devils jersey was ugly, the Pens’ game was worse. 5-2 loss for Pittsburgh Jeff Carter (upper body injury) is out tonight, which draws Jonathan Gruden back from the AHL to replace the spot Carter opens up on the fourth line.
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jeff Carter has perhaps played the best hockey of his season in the past week of the season as the Penguins fight to get back into the Stanley Cup playoff race.
PITTSBURGH – With 17 games remaining in the 2023-24 campaign and the playoffs likely well out of reach, it’s almost time to start looking forward to the offseason.
PITTSBURGH –The Pittsburgh Penguins saw their winning streak end against the Seattle Kraken, but there was still room to celebrate beforehand. The match between the Penguins and Kraken was forward Jeff Carter’s 1,300th career game, making him just the 70th player ever to hit that mark.
With the All-Star break in the rearview, the trade deadline looms large and is now less than two weeks away. Where does each team stand, and what moves should they be looking to make?
The Pittsburgh Penguins had a chance to tie the game in the third period by drawing a penalty during an Arizona Coyotes power play. Instead, the unfolding events were more a microcosm of an increasingly frustrating season.
Finding consistent forward depth has been a challenge for the Pittsburgh Penguins the past few seasons. Jeff Carter is the only bottom-six forward on the Penguins that has been with the organization at the NHL level since 2021-22.
Heading into the 2023-24 NHL season, the expectations weren’t high for Jeff Carter as he entered the final year of his deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and likely his career.
Big Jeff Carter is now Big Goal Jeff Carter; he doesn’t score much but when he does it’s a game winner. The Pens keep up their winning ways by tripping up the Blues The Penguins are trotting out what has been working lately with their familiar looking recent lineup.
After a full month of missed opportunities and failing to score on the man advantage, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally found the back of the net for a power play goal.
It’s been well documented that after singing a three-year extension, Jeff Carter hasn’t had the greatest tenure with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Many fans turned Carter into a whipping boy as he mostly struggled in the Penguins lineup.
Jeff Carter's second goal broke a tie early in the third period Tuesday and proved to be the game winner as the Pittsburgh Penguins snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the visiting Arizona Coyotes.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Jeff Carter has done a lot in his 19 NHL seasons. The 38-year-old forward has played in 1,258 games for four teams, amassing 431 goals and 405 assists.
The Penguins have a litany of options in their bottom six and have whittled that number down to just a few players.
CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Jeff Carter doesn't want to dwell too much on last season. Heck, he doesn't even want to talk about it. "We're past last season, aren't we?" he quipped with a smile when I asked him about last season following Day 1 of the Penguins' training camp at the Lemieux Complex on Thursday.
According to Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan, Jeff Carter is a pretty smart player. But the bench boss still isn’t sure if the veteran forward-turned-defenseman can skate backwards.
The Penguins have four games left on their regular-season schedule and will play at the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday afternoon.
At the time, about 10 months ago to be exact, Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ron Hextall didn’t feel like the deal would come together at all. Jeff Carter was a Los Angeles King, pure and simple. Now he's a staple in the lineup.
Carter's new deal shows the Penguins aren't yet embracing a rebuild and also suggests the club may be close to putting pen to paper on a new deal with future Hall of Famer Evgeni Malkin.
The Pittsburgh Penguins originally acquired veteran forward Jeff Carter from the Los Angeles Kings before the trade deadline last April, and that experiment has gone well for player and club. So much so that they are extending the agreement.
Pittsburgh Penguins star center Evgeni Malkin couldn't have asked for a much better regular-season debut coming off the June knee surgery that cost him roughly three months of the campaign than what he enjoyed in Tuesday's dominant 4-1 victory at the Anaheim Ducks.
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