Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins are floundering at midseason By: Will Graves, The Associated Press Posted: 10:29 PM CST Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Advertisement

The marquee veteran defenseman has signed with the Edmonton Oilers on Friday per NHL insider Darren Dreger. "John Klingberg heading to the Oilers," Dreger said on X. The details of Klingberg's contract with the Oilers have not yet been released.

We are firmly into the second half with a neck-and-neck-and-neck race for the top of the fantasy podium. Connor Hellebuyck will surely start getting some additional rest later in the season, so the race at the top right now is between Nikita Kucherov and Nathan MacKinnon.

Sitting in a quiet dressing room on Tuesday night after another blown lead turned into another crippling loss in a season increasingly filled with them, Evgeni Malkin spoke quietly. The Pittsburgh Penguins star has long served as the franchise’s emotional core,

Who had a worse day? The New York Rangers, who let a late lead slip away in a 3-2 OT loss? Or Evegni Malkin, who returned from injury for a dismal Pittsburgh Penguins loss, amid reports his three Stanley Cup rings were stolen in a robbery.

After two periods of dominance against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night, the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins crumbled in the third period en route to a costly 4-2 defeat that capped a maddening homestand in which they won just once in five attempts.