The Pittsburgh Penguins drafted Mario Lemieux on June 9, 1984. Five seasons later, Lemieux made his first appearance in a Stanley Cup playoff game. Not a Stanley Cup final game. A first-round playoff ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are plunging into hockey’s version of a dystopian hellscape, a nether world in which there is little but despair until the merciful release granted by the expiration of the ...