Pittsburgh Penguins
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The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and are the current Stanley Cup champions. They are members of the National Hockey League. Founded in 1967 as one of the 6 expansion teams of the 1967 NHL Expansion, the team has won three Stanley Cups, in 1991, 1992 and 2009. In 2009 they won against the Detroit Red Wings, the team that they had lost to the previous year.
The team, who was in the past led by superstars Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr, is now led by talented young players like Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
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[edit] Current squad
| Goaltenders | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | Catches | Acquired | Place of Birth | |
| 29 | 
| Marc-André Fleury | L | 2003 | Sorel, Quebec |
| 32 |
| Mathieu Garon | L | 1996 | Chandler, Quebec |
| Defensemen | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | Shoots | Acquired | Place of Birth | |
| 3 | 
| Mark Eaton | L | 2006 | Wilmington, Delaware |
| 2 |
| Hal Gill | L | 2007 | Concord, Massachusetts |
| 5 |
| Rob Scuderi | L | 1998 | Syosset, New York |
| 19 |
| Ryan Whitney | L | 2002 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 44 |
| Brooks Orpik | L | 2002 | San Francisco, California |
| 55 | 
| Sergei Gonchar - A | L | 2005 | Chelyabinsk, U.S.S.R. |
| 58 |
| Kris Letang | R | 2005 | Montreal, Quebec |
| 5 |
| Darryl Sydor - A | L | 2005 | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Forwards | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | Position | Shoots | Acquired | Place of Birth | |
| 24 |
| Kris Beech | C | L | 2007 | Salmon Arm, British Columbia |
| 10 |
| Gary Roberts - A | LW | L | 2006 | North York, Ontario |
| 11 |
| Jordan Staal | C | L | 2006 | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| 12 |
| Ryan Malone - A | RW | L | 1999 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 16 |
| Erik Christensen | C | L | 2002 | Edmonton, Alberta |
| 18 |
| Dominic Moore | C | L | 2006 | Thornhill, Ontario |
| 20 |
| Colby Armstrong | RW | R | 2001 | Lloydminster, Saskatchewan |
| 22 |
| Chris Thorburn | C | R | 2006 | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario |
| 25 |
| Maxime Talbot | C | L | 2002 | LeMoyne, Quebec |
| 26 | 
| Ronald Petrovický | RW | R | 2006 | Žilina, Czechoslovakia |
| 28 | 
| Nils Ekman | LW | L | 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| 37 | 
| Jarkko Ruutu | LW | L | 2006 | Helsinki, Finland |
| 71 |
| Evgeni Malkin | C | L | 2004 | Magnitogorsk, U.S.S.R. |
| 87 |
| Sidney Crosby - A | C | L | 2005 | Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia |
[edit] Team captains
- Ab McDonald, 1967-68
- No captain, 1968-73
- Ron Schock, 1973-77
- Jean Pronovost, 1977-78
- Orest Kindrachuk, 1978-81
- Randy Carlyle, 1981-84
- Mike Bullard, 1984-86
- Terry Ruskowski, 1986-87
- Dan Frawley, 1987
- Mario Lemieux, 1987-94
- Ron Francis, 1995
- Mario Lemieux, 1995-97
- Ron Francis, 1997-98
- Jaromir Jagr, 1998-2001
- Mario Lemieux, 2001-06
- No captain, 2006-07
- Sidney Crosby, 2008- Present
[edit] Retired numbers
- 21 Michel Brière, C, 1969-70, number taken out of circulation following his death (1971) but not officially retired until January 5, 2001
- 66 Mario Lemieux, C, 1984-97 & 2000-06, number retired November 19, 1997; his jersey number was lowered from Mellon Arena rafters and "unretired" when he began his comeback on December 27, 2000; number re-retired October 5, 2006
- 99 Wayne Gretzky, number retired league-wide February 6, 2000
[edit] External links
- Wiki
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