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The buzz surrounding Thursday night’s 4 Nations Face-Off Championship at TD Garden in Boston has been building for a week.

When the NHL’s regular season resumes Saturday, the Pittsburgh Penguins will be very much alive in the race for a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference playoff field.

And three of the Penguins players — Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang ... but I didn’t want to be jamming in those sayings or the movie quotes and song lyrics that I’ve ...

Fellow generational stars from across the league, like Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who knows all to well what McDavid ... Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery also had some great quotes ...

In today’s links, Evans and Canadiens management aren’t close on a new contract, and that could mean his time in Montreal is coming to an end, Slafkovský’s positive response to ...

In today’s links, Habs one of the teams inquiring about Cozens, Evans’s best trade fit, Carrier says Habs need to simplify their game, Demidov looking like a future superstar, Dobes’s leaps of ...

The drama at the Four Nations Face-Off is reaching a crescendo in advance of Thursday night’s final between the U.S. and ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins showed real moxy Saturday night and dominated the Philadelphia Flyers. The depth players who were ...

Sidney Crosby stood out in Canada’s first game ... Alex Ovechkin scores a buzzer-beater Wednesday’s “First Call” has some quotes from Ben Roethlisberger that the current Pittsburgh ...

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby - also known as 'Captain Canada' - holds a few international records that won't ...

After the win, Jon Cooper discussed Crosby's impact not only on Team Canada, but the entire country as a whole. He used a perfect quote to describe just how important Crosby is to his country. "In our ...