General manager Ray Shero wasn’t afraid Tuesday to pony up for a scoring line winger the night before the NHL trade deadline expired.

Ponikarovsky is likely to join longtime friend Ruslan Fedotenko on a line with Malkin, the leading scorer during the regular season and playoffs last year. Ponikarovsky, 29, and Fedotenko were born a year apart in Kiev, Ukraine.

He’s a good, hard-working winger,” said Fedotenko. “He drives to the net hard. He’s a good player. I think it’s a good addition.

“We’re ready for the last 19 games now, and the playoffs.”

Shero agreed, and acknowledged he was surprised the Penguins could land a scoring winger after dealing a second-round pick to Florida on Monday for defenseman Jordan Leopold.

“It pushes some guys down in the lineup,” Shero said of this acquisition, adding that the Penguins are “capped out” on making another move related to the NHL roster before the today’s 3 p.m. trade deadline.

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To paraphrase a famous orator and the architect of the greatest sports moment of the 20th Century, Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik was born to be a hockey player.

Anybody named after Herb Brooks just had to gravitate to hockey sooner or later. Brooks coached the United States team to a staggering upset of Russia at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., after delivering one of the great motivational speeches of all time. Seven months after that amazing club secured the most unlikely gold medal in history, Orpik was born.

“My dad is from Boston and he liked hockey,” Orpik said. “I don’t know how he ever talked my mother into that name.”

Here’s guessing she didn’t like Herb.

How proud Brooks would be of the way Orpik has turned out. As the Penguins’ most physical defenseman and a key member of the 2009 Stanley Cup champions, to be sure. But especially as a proud U.S. Olympian.

Today, Orpik is in Vancouver, getting ready to pull on a red, white and blue sweater for Team USA’s first game against Switzerland at the 2010 Games.

Too bad Brooks isn’t alive to see it.

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Getting to Mellon Arena was an adventure for many Penguins fans Wednesday because of the recent barrage of inclement weather. The Penguins felt the effects, as well.

“The roads aren’t the best, but I’m sure the city isn’t used to this,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said.

Penguins forward Mike Rupp is from Cleveland and currently resides in Erie. In other words, he wasn’t exactly rattled by the recent onslaught of weather.

“It wasn’t that bad,” he said. “Just drive a little slower than usual and you’ll be fine.”

» The Penguins once again recalled center Mark Letestu and inserted him into the lineup. He has a goal in seven games and has generally looked poised.

Letestu endured perhaps the worst game of his NHL career Sunday in Washington when he was a minus-2 in less than five minutes of ice time. Still, he feels good about his game.

“I’m really happy for the opportunity I’m having,” he said. “I might look calm, but I’m not on the inside.”

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His first 50-goal NHL season isn’t quite in the bag, but center Sidney Crosby skated several strides toward that elusive plateau on Monday night.

As was this victory for the Penguins, who improved to 2-6-0 against the Eastern Conference’s elite – Washington, New Jersey and Buffalo, the lone three clubs ahead of them in the standings.

The Penguins overcame a 3-1 deficit against a top defensive team and goalie Ryan Miller, a Vezina Trophy candidate and the likely starter for Team USA at the Vancouver Olympics later this month.

Center Jordan Staal’s 14th goal and two by Crosby within a minute and 25 seconds turned that deficit into a two-goal advantage late in the second period.

“We were concerned,” Staal said after snapping a 12-game goal drought. “We haven’t had one of those comeback wins in a while.”

The Penguins (35-21-1, 71 points) have won a bunch lately. They are on a 9-5-0 stretch – not an elite measure of excellence, as defenseman Brooks Orpik suggested, but good enough to climb within a point of New Jersey for the Atlantic Division lead.

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Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis sustained an undisclosed facial injury while being rammed face-first into the boards by the Islanders defenseman Andy Sutton with 2:55 remaining in Pittsburgh’s 6-4 victory on Tuesday night.


Dupuis was down on the ice for several minutes, blood dripping off his face, before he got up and walked with assistance to a tunnel leading to the Penguins’ dressing room. He used a towel to cover up an apparent nose injury. Blood stains remained visible on the ice after the game ended.

Sutton drew a boarding penalty and a game misconduct.


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Ruslan Fedotenko does not understand why New York Rangers forward Sean Avery attacked him from behind in the Penguins’ 8-3 victory Saturday at Mellon Arena.

He just wishes he had gotten an opportunity to defend himself against Avery, who picked up 17 minutes of penalties.

“I didn’t even have a chance to bump him, or anything like that, during the game, so whatever happened, I have no clue,” Fedotenko said.

“He kind of jumped me from behind. … I wish he’d given me a heads-up, but that’s his kind of game.”

He added that the league should take steps to prevent that from happening more often.

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General manager Ray Shero expressed a considerable degree of satisfaction Saturday night that the Penguins went 5-3 over a stretch when at least two AHL defensemen were in the lineup, and they split two games over that span when three had to play.

Stability was all the Penguins realistically could hope for during a stretch from Oct. 20-Nov. 16 when five regular defensemen were lost because of injuries. Four have returned to the lineup, and Jay McKee could play tonight at the New York Rangers after missing six straight games.

An infected finger on his right hand that required at overnight stay at the hospital Nov. 17 for treatment with antibiotics and draining of fluid has healed sufficiently for McKee to play, he said Saturday.

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Alex Goligoski will be sidelined for at least two weeks with an unspecified lower body injury, leaving the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins with two healthy defensemen among their top six.

The Penguins already are playing without Sergei Gonchar (wrist), Kris Letang (shoulder) and Brooks Orpik (undisclosed injury). Also out are forwards Max Talbot (shoulder), Tyler Kennedy (groin) and Chris Kunitz (undisclosed injury).

Goligoski plays the point on the power play. He left Saturday’s 6-5 overtime victory against Boston with an apparent left leg injury.


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Ex-Penguin Mark Recchi knows Sidney Crosby too well to think that his current slump might be a long-term condition.

“It’s just one of those things where he’s in a rut right now,” Recchi said after tallying his 900th career assist in the Boston Bruins’ 3-0 victory over Pittsburgh. “It won’t be very long he’ll be in it, I know that. He’s a great player and when they break out, they can go the opposite way, and everything they touch turns to goals.”

Crosby recorded only two shots and was held without a point for the fifth straight game — four was already a career worst — and the Penguins were shut out for the second game in a row. Pittsburgh has not scored in 149 minutes, 9 seconds and has lost three straight games — all away from home — after opening the season 7-0 on the road.

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Penguins forward Ruslan Fedotenko did not participate in practice at Mellon Arena on Monday, two days after receiving a crunching hit from Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt. Fedotenko missed a portion of Saturday’s game on Long Island but returned in time to score the game-tying goal. He is not expected to miss any playing time.

Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said Fedotenko was having a “maintenance day,” and that he is expected to return to practice today. With Fedotenko sitting out practice, newly acquired winger Chris Bourque filled in on the second line with Evgeni Malkin and Pascal Dupuis.

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