Pittsburgh Penguins

The Pittsburgh Penguins are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Notable players

Current roster

This is the current roster as of September 9, 2005:

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September 9 - 2005

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Goaltenders:

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• 31 - Sebastien Caron
• 29 - Marc-André Fleury
• 41 - Jocelyn Thibault

Defensemen:

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• 55 - Sergei Gonchar
• 22 - Ric Jackman
• 2 - Josef Melichar
• 24 - Lyle Odelein
• 44 - Brooks Orpik
• 3 - Steve Poapst
• 32 - Dick Tärnström

Forwards:

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• 87 - Sidney Crosby
• 9 - Rico Fata
• 71 - Konstantin Koltsov
• 10 - John LeClair
• 66 - Mario Lemieux
• 12 - Ryan Malone
• 33 - Zigmund Pálffy
• 11 - Lasse Pirjeta
• 8 - Mark Recchi
• 36 - Andre Roy
• 37 - Ryan VandenBussche

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
• Mike Bullard & Terry Ruskowski 1986-87
• Dan Frawley & Mario Lemieux 1987-88
• Mario Lemieux 1988-97
• Ron Francis 1997-98
• Jaromir Jagr 1998-01
• Mario Lemieux 2001-present

Hall of Famers

• Scotty Bowman (coach 1991-1993, inducted 1991)
• Paul Coffey (inducted 2004)
• Bob Johnson (inducted 1992)
• Mario Lemieux (inducted 1997)
• Mike Lange (announcer 1975-Present, inducted 2001)
• Joe Mullen (inducted 2000)
• Larry Murphy (inducted 2004)
• Craig Patrick (general manager 1990-Present, coach 1989-1990 and 1996-1997, inducted 2001)

Not to be forgotten

• Syl Apps
• Tom Barrasso
• Doug Bodger
• Dave Burrows
• Bob Errey
• Denis Herron
• Darius Kasparaitis
• Rick Kehoe
• Troy Loney
• Lowell MacDonald
• Greg Malone
• Ulf Samuelsson
• Ken Schinkel
• Ron Stackhouse
• Martin Straka
• Kevin Stevens

Retired numbers

• 21 Michel Brière (retired January 5, 2001)
• 66 Mario Lemieux (retired November 19, 1997 until December 27, 2000)
• 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL 1999)