With three titles since 2009 and four trips to the Stanley Cup Final since 2008, the Penguins deserve that distinction as a dynasty, especially when you factor in their repeat.
It capped off back to back Stanley Cup victories for Pittsburgh, the first team to do so in the salary cap era.
The city of Pittsburgh has planned a ticker tape parade to honor their back-to-back Stanley Cup champs today starting at 11 a.m. Not bad for a city that, officially, has only 305,000 residents.
We know they won it all for the second year in a row, but what did their odds look like throughout the year? They arrived at 2:30 a.m. but were greeted by other fans who arrived Tuesday night.
Those decisions become harder when your roster just won a Stanley Cup.
As the players took the stage to PPG Paints Arena announcer Ryan Mill's introductions, fans also learned that Ian Cole, another defenseman and former Blues player, played through a broken hand and broken ribs.
Fleury may have played his final game for the Penguins after being drafted first overall by the franchise in 2003.
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But now that the Penguins have repeated as Stanley Cup champions and cemented their legacy as an historic team, it's time to have fun.
General manager Pierre Dorion says Karlsson's recovery from surgery to fix torn tendons in the foot would take approximately four months.
We have no idea who this kid is, or even if he is in fact nine-years-old, but it's a precious moment any true sports fan can appreciate it.
To once again illustrate how dominant they really were, we can turn to their chances of taking home the Stanley Cup at the time of the Conference Final, which had stood at a whopping 43.98%, according to our metrics. He agreed to waive his no-movement clause that will make him eligible for the expansion draft June 21 when the Vegas Golden Knights build their roster, per Jimmy Murphy of Murphy's Hockey Law.
Girardi was the second-longest tenured player on the Rangers after goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.
Also on Thursday, Penguins forward Carl Hagelin confirmed Thursday that he broke his fibula late in the regular season and it never fully healed throughout the team's run to a second consecutive Stanley Cup championship.
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