Sidney Crosby addressed the Pittsburgh Penguins' recent struggles following their 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.

Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan confirmed negative news for star Sidney Crosby and the rest of the team as one of the best players on the roster will be out of the lineup.

Jake Guentzel, who won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2017, had two assists to become the second player in Lightning history with at least 20 goals and 40 points in his first 40 games with the franchise. Guentzel signed a seven-year deal with the Lightning in the offseason.

PITTSBURGH, Penn. - The Tampa Bay Lightning face off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday in the second game of a weekend back-to-back. The Bolts are looking to bounce back after a tough overtime loss to the New Jersey Devils and ignite a winning streak.

After a lackluster game against Ottawa on Saturday, the Penguins responded with a strong performance on Sunday versus Tampa Bay, but ended up on the wrong side of the score for the second time this weekend.

Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin says his struggling team needs to start playing harder if it wants to return to the playoffs.

PITTSBURGH -- Nikita Kucherov scored twice, including a go-ahead goal at 16:57 of the third period, and had an assist for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 5-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Sunday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh ... his third goal in five games. Sidney Crosby recorded his 1,040th career assist ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning's acquisition of star winger Jake Guentzel is paying off in spades, and the Bolts look like a team no one should want to face off against in the playoffs.

Sidney Crosby is one of them. McDavid, after being held to the ice by Vancouver’s Conor Garland for a handful of seconds in the final moments of the Canucks’ 3-2 win on Saturday, lost his temper and cross-checked the Canucks forward in the face.

In the hockey world, this is the roadmap of Jon Cooper’s career, a meandering journey that started in his western Canadian hometown and featured stops in places like Green Bay, Wisconsin and Texarkana, Arkansas before culminating in helping to bring a pair of Stanley Cup titles to the Sunshine State (2021, 2022) as coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Lightning right wing scores a highlight-reel goal and becomes the second player in team history to claim 600 assists.