2019-20_Pittsburgh_Penguins_season

2019–20 Pittsburgh Penguins
2019–20 Pittsburgh Penguins
Division	3rd Metropolitan
Conference	5th Eastern
2019–20 record	40–23–6
Home record	23–8–4
Road record	17–15–2
Goals for	224
Goals against	196
Team information
General manager	Jim Rutherford
Coach	Mike Sullivan
Captain	Sidney Crosby
Alternate captains	Kris Letang; Evgeni Malkin
Arena	PPG Paints Arena
Average attendance	18,537
Minor league affiliate(s)	Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL); Wheeling Nailers (ECHL)
Team leaders
Goals	Bryan Rust (27)
Assists	Evgeni Malkin (49)
Points	Evgeni Malkin (74)
Penalty minutes	Evgeni Malkin (58)
Plus/minus	Brian Dumoulin; John Marino (+17)
Wins	Tristan Jarry; Matt Murray (20)
Goals against average	Tristan Jarry (2.43)
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2019–20 Pittsburgh Penguins season

NHL team season

The 2019–20 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the fifty-third season for the National Hockey League team that was established on June 5, 1967.^[2] This season saw the team try to extend its playoff streak to fourteen seasons.

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Schedule and results

Regular season

The regular season schedule was published on June 25, 2019.^[11]

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2019–20 game log

October: 8–5–0 (Home: 5–3–0 ; Road: 3–2–0)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
1	October 3	Buffalo	3–1	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,616	0–1–0	0
2	October 5	Columbus	2–7	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,595	1–1–0	2
3	October 8	Winnipeg	4–1	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,420	1–2–0	2
4	October 10	Anaheim	1–2	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,414	2–2–0	4
5	October 12	Pittsburgh	7–4	Minnesota	Xcel Energy Center	19,157	3–2–0	6
6	October 13	Pittsburgh	7–2	Winnipeg	Bell MTS Place	15,325	4–2–0	8
7	October 16	Colorado	2–3 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,458	5–2–0	10
8	October 18	Dallas	2–4	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,482	6–2–0	12
9	October 19	Vegas	3–0	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	19,610	6–3–0	12
10	October 22	Pittsburgh	2–4	Florida	BB&T Center	12,738	6–4–0	12
11	October 23	Pittsburgh	2–3	Tampa Bay	Amalie Arena	19,092	6–5–0	12
12	October 26	Pittsburgh	3–0	Dallas	American Airlines Center	18,532	7–5–0	14
13	October 29	Philadelphia	1–7	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,560	8–5–0	16

November: 6–4–4 (Home: 5–0–2 ; Road: 1–4–2)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
14	November 2	Edmonton	2–1 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,618	8–5–1	17
15	November 4	Pittsburgh	4–6	Boston	TD Garden	17,193	8–6–1	17
16	November 7	Pittsburgh	4–3 OT	NY Islanders	Barclays Center	12,613	9–6–1	19
17	November 9	Chicago	2–3 SO	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,653	10–6–1	21
18	November 12	Pittsburgh	2–3 OT	NY Rangers	Madison Square Garden	16,904	10–6–2	22
19	November 15	Pittsburgh	1–2	New Jersey	Prudential Center	16,514	10–7–2	22
20	November 16	Toronto	1–6	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,587	11–7–2	24
21	November 19	NY Islanders	5–4 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,411	11–7–3	25
22	November 21	Pittsburgh	3–4 OT	NY Islanders	Barclays Center	13,212	11–7–4	26
23	November 22	New Jersey	1–4	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,420	12–7–4	28
24	November 25	Calgary	2–3 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,437	13–7–4	30
25	November 27	Vancouver	6–8	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,465	14–7–4	32
26	November 29	Pittsburgh	2–5	Columbus	Nationwide Arena	17,402	14–8–4	32
27	November 30	Pittsburgh	2–5	St. Louis	Enterprise Center	18,096	14–9–4	32

December: 10–2–0 (Home: 6–1–0 ; Road: 4–1–0)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
28	December 4	St. Louis	0–3	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,411	15–9–4	34
29	December 6	Arizona	0–2	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,432	16–9–4	36
30	December 7	Pittsburgh	5–3	Detroit	Little Caesars Arena	19,515	17–9–4	38
31	December 10	Montreal	4–1	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,422	17–10–4	38
32	December 12	Columbus	0–1 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,415	18–10–4	40
33	December 14	Los Angeles	4–5 SO	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,581	19–10–4	42
34	December 17	Pittsburgh	4–1	Calgary	Scotiabank Saddledome	18,412	20–10–4	44
35	December 20	Pittsburgh	5–2	Edmonton	Rogers Place	18,347	21–10–4	46
36	December 21	Pittsburgh	1–4	Vancouver	Rogers Arena	18,285	21–11–4	46
37	December 27	Pittsburgh	5–2	Nashville	Bridgestone Arena	17,849	22–11–4	48
38	December 28	Nashville	4–6	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,628	23–11–4	50
39	December 30	Ottawa	2–5	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,653	24–11–4	52

January: 8–3–1 (Home: 3–1–1 ; Road: 5–2–0)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
40	January 2	San Jose	3–2 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,620	24–11–5	53
41	January 4	Pittsburgh	3–2 OT	Montreal	Bell Centre	21,302	25–11–5	55
42	January 5	Florida	4–1	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,564	25–12–5	55
43	January 7	Pittsburgh	4–3	Vegas	T-Mobile Arena	18,298	26–12–5	57
44	January 10	Pittsburgh	4–3 OT	Colorado	Pepsi Center	18,132	27–12–5	59
45	January 12	Pittsburgh	4–3 SO	Arizona	Gila River Arena	13,755	28–12–5	61
46	January 14	Minnesota	3–7	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,545	29–12–5	63
47	January 16	Pittsburgh	1–4	Boston	TD Garden	17,850	29–13–5	63
48	January 17	Pittsburgh	2–1 OT	Detroit	Little Caesars Arena	19,515	30–13–5	65
49	January 19	Boston	3–4	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,655	31–13–5	67
50	January 21	Pittsburgh	0–3	Philadelphia	Wells Fargo Center	19,120	31–14–5	67
51	January 31	Philadelphia	3–4 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,647	32–14–5	69

February: 5–7–1 (Home: 3–1–1 ; Road: 2–6–0)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
52	February 2	Pittsburgh	4–3	Washington	Capital One Arena	18,573	33–14–5	71
53	February 6	Pittsburgh	2–4	Tampa Bay	Amalie Arena	19,092	33–15–5	71
54	February 8	Pittsburgh	3–2	Florida	BB&T Center	17,773	34–15–5	73
55	February 11	Tampa Bay	2–1 OT	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,445	34–15–6	74
56	February 14	Montreal	1–4	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,650	35–15–6	76
57	February 16	Detroit	1–5	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,654	36–15–6	78
58	February 18	Toronto	2–5	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,466	37–15–6	80
59	February 20	Pittsburgh	0–4	Toronto	Scotiabank Arena	19,386	37–16–6	80
60	February 22	Buffalo	5–2	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,620	37–17–6	80
61	February 23	Pittsburgh	3–5	Washington	Capital One Arena	18,573	37–18–6	80
62	February 26	Pittsburgh	1–2	Los Angeles	Staples Center	16,898	37–19–6	80
63	February 28	Pittsburgh	2–3	Anaheim	Honda Center	16,588	37–20–6	80
64	February 29	Pittsburgh	0–5	San Jose	SAP Center	17,562	37–21–6	80

March: 3–2–0 (Home: 1–2–0 ; Road: 2–0–0)

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Location	Attendance	Record	Points
65	March 3	Ottawa	3–7	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,455	38–21–6	82
66	March 5	Pittsburgh	4–2	Buffalo	KeyBank Center	18,236	39–21–6	84
67	March 7	Washington	5–2	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,656	39–22–6	84
68	March 8	Carolina	6–2	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena	18,548	39–23–6	84
69	March 10	Pittsburgh	5–2	New Jersey	Prudential Center	13,473	40–23–6	86

Cancelled games

#	Date	Visitor	Home	Location
70	March 12	Pittsburgh	Columbus	Nationwide Arena
71	March 14	Pittsburgh	Carolina	PNC Arena
72	March 15	NY Islanders	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
73	March 18	Pittsburgh	NY Rangers	Madison Square Garden
74	March 20	NY Rangers	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
75	March 22	Washington	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
76	March 24	Carolina	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
77	March 25	Pittsburgh	Chicago	United Center
78	March 28	Pittsburgh	Carolina	PNC Arena
79	March 29	Pittsburgh	Philadelphia	Wells Fargo Center
80	March 31	New Jersey	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
81	April 2	NY Rangers	Pittsburgh	PPG Paints Arena
82	April 4	Pittsburgh	Ottawa	Canadian Tire Centre

Legend: = Win = Loss = OT/SO Loss

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Pos	Team v t e	GP	W	L	OTL	RW	GF	GA	GD	PCT	Qualification
1	Boston Bruins	70	44	14	12	38	227	174	+53	.714	Advance to Seeding round-robin tournament^[8]
2	Tampa Bay Lightning	70	43	21	6	35	245	195	+50	.657
3	Washington Capitals	69	41	20	8	31	240	215	+25	.652
4	Philadelphia Flyers	69	41	21	7	31	232	196	+36	.645
5	Pittsburgh Penguins	69	40	23	6	29	224	196	+28	.623	Advance to 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs qualifying round^[8]
6	Carolina Hurricanes	68	38	25	5	27	222	193	+29	.596
7	New York Islanders	68	35	23	10	24	192	193	−1	.588
8	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	36	25	9	28	238	227	+11	.579
9	Columbus Blue Jackets	70	33	22	15	25	180	187	−7	.579
10	Florida Panthers	69	35	26	8	30	231	228	+3	.565
11	New York Rangers	70	37	28	5	31	234	222	+12	.564
12	Montreal Canadiens	71	31	31	9	19	212	221	−9	.500
13	Buffalo Sabres	69	30	31	8	22	195	217	−22	.493
14	New Jersey Devils	69	28	29	12	22	189	230	−41	.493
15	Ottawa Senators	71	25	34	12	18	191	243	−52	.437
16	Detroit Red Wings	71	17	49	5	13	145	267	−122	.275

Player	GP	GS	TOI	W	L	OT	GA	GAA	SA	SV%	SO	A	PIM
Tristan Jarry	33	31	1926:29	20	12	1	78	2.43	985	0.921	3	0	0
Matt Murray	38	38	2237:30	20	11	5	107	2.87	1055	0.899	1	1	2
Total		69	4163:59	40	23	6	185	2.67	2040	0.909	4	1	2

Player	GP	GS	TOI	W	L	GA	GAA	SA	SV%
Matt Murray	3	3	192:07	1	2	8	2.5	93	0.914
Tristan Jarry	1	1	58:46	0	1	1	1.02	21	0.952
Total		4	250:53	1	3	9	2.16	114	0.921

Date	Details
June 29, 2019 (2019-06-29)^[17]	To Arizona Coyotes Phil Kessel Dane Birks 4th-round pick in 2021	To Pittsburgh Penguins Alex Galchenyuk Pierre-Olivier Joseph
October 25, 2019 (2019-10-25)^[18]	To Anaheim Ducks Erik Gudbranson	To Pittsburgh Penguins Andreas Martinsen 7th-round pick in 2021
February 10, 2020 (2020-02-10)^[19]	To Minnesota Wild Alex Galchenyuk Calen Addison Conditional 1st-round pick in 2020	To Pittsburgh Penguins Jason Zucker
February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24)^[20]	To San Jose Sharks Conditional 3rd-round pick in 2020.^[a]	To Pittsburgh Penguins Patrick Marleau
February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24)^[21]	To Buffalo Sabres Dominik Kahun	To Pittsburgh Penguins Conor Sheary Evan Rodrigues
August 25, 2020 (2020-08-25)	To Pittsburgh Penguins Kasperi Kapanen Pontus Åberg Jesper Lindgren	To Toronto Maple Leafs David Warsofsky Evan Rodrigues Filip Hållander 1st-round pick in 2020
September 11, 2020 (2020-09-11)	To Minnesota Wild Nick Bjugstad*	To Pittsburgh Penguins Conditional 7th-round pick in 2021
September 24, 2020 (2020-09-24)	To Florida Panthers Patric Hörnqvist	To Pittsburgh Penguins Mike Matheson Colton Sceviour

Player	Acquired from	Date	Contract terms
Brandon Tanev^[22]	Winnipeg Jets	July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)	6-years for $21 million
Andrew Agozzino^[23]	Colorado Avalanche	July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)	2-years for $1.4 million
David Warsofsky^[24]	Colorado Avalanche	July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)	2-years for $1.4 million

2019-20_Pittsburgh_Penguins_season

2019–20 Pittsburgh Penguins season

Background

Standings

Divisional standings

Eastern Conference

Schedule and results

Preseason

Regular season

Playoffs

Player statistics

Awards and honours

Transactions

Trades

Free agents

Waivers

Contract terminations

Retirement

Signings

Draft picks

References

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Player	Date	Contract terms
Kevin Czuczman^[26]	June 26, 2019	2-years for $700,000^[ext]
Zach Trotman^[26]	June 26, 2019	2-years for $700,000^[ext]
Joseph Blandisi^[27]	July 3, 2019	1-year for $700,000
Adam Johnson^[28]	July 3, 2019	1-year for $700,000
Teddy Blueger^[29]	July 16, 2019	2-years for $1.5 million
Zach Aston-Reese^[30]	July 22, 2019	2-years for $2 million
John Marino^[31]	August 8, 2019	Entry-level contract
Marcus Pettersson^[32]	January 28, 2020	5-years for $20,125,875^[ext]

Round	#	Player	Pos	Nationality	College/Junior/Club team (League)
1	21	Samuel Poulin	RW	Canada	Sherbrooke Phoenix (QMJHL)
3	74^[1]	Nathan Legare	RW	Canada	Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)
5	145	Judd Caulfield	RW	United States	U.S. NTDP (USHL)
7	203^[2]	Valtteri Puustinen	RW	Finland	HPK (Liiga)
7	211^[3]	Santeri Airola	D	Finland	SaiPa U20 (Nuorten SM-liiga)