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  • • How Are the Penguins Gonna Get Their Next Sid?
    It’s fair to say that in his three short seasons at the Penguins’ helm, Kyle Dubas has done a marvelous job of refilling what were largely barren prospect coffers. In the process, he’s transformed Wilkes-Barre/Scranton from a team stocked largely with has-beens and never-weres into one of the youngest and arguably most talented clubs in the AHL. Indeed, the Baby Pens ooze promise, particularly up ...2026
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  • • The Right Guys Are Scoring for the Baby Penguins
    There’s no question the Penguins’ first-round exit at the hands of the hated Flyers put a damper on what was for the most part a resoundingly upbeat season. However, on the plus side of the ledger, there are positive developments aplenty down on the farm. Namely, the guys you want to have producing for the Baby Pens are, in fact, producing. Center Tristan Broz notched three assists in Tuesday nigh...2026
  • • Ex-Penguins Update: Final 2025-26
    With the Penguins’ season concluded and a paucity of fresh ideas in the ol’ brain pan, I thought I’d post a long overdue Ex-Penguins Update for the 2025-26 season. Topping the list of expatriates? To no surprise, Tampa Bay’s Jake Guentzel, the runaway leader in goals (38), assists (50) and points (88). Not to be Cap’n Obvious, but it goes without saying the deal that sent Jake away isn’t agi...2026
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  • • Penguins Update: What Now?
    Now that the dust is settling on one of the most entertaining and rewarding, yet ultimately disappointing seasons in recent memory, all eyes are on Penguins POHO/GM Kyle Dubas. More specifically, how he plans to navigate the upcoming offseason. One rife with roster-altering decisions. Including the likes of Sebastian Aho who toiled exclusively in the minors, no fewer than 14 players currently unde...2026
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  • • Penguins Prospects: What About the Kids?
    In yesterday’s post, I detailed many of the extraordinary things that went right for our Penguins this season. However, there was one important area I didn’t touch on. Namely, how our Pens did when it came to developing the kids. Regarded as a Dan Muse strength. On that count, I’d say the results were mixed at best. Before I go into detail, it should be noted our youngsters certainly didn’t ...2026
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  • • Penguins Update: Who’s Doin’ What
    Curious to see how our Penguins are performing against the expected on an individual basis, I decided to post a quick ‘n’ dirty article comparing actual 5v5 goals for percentage (GF%) and expected goals for percentage (xGF%). I haven’t a clue as to how the expected numbers are calculated, but it sure makes for an interesting read. Among the players who are far outperforming the expected per Natura...2026

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Ville Koivunen injury and suspension

  • • Ex-Penguins Update: Final 2025-26
    2026
  • • Malkin Suspended, Penguins Recall Koivunen
    As expected, the NHL has suspended Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin for his head-high slash on Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin Thursday night. The length of the suspension…five games. Obviously, the ruling couldn’t have come at a worse time, with captain and top scorer Sidney Crosby still on the mend from an injury sustained during the Olympics and the Pens in the thick of a playoff chase. In additi...2026
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  • • Penguins Call Up Poulin, Waive Tomasino
    Out of the blue, the Penguins had a fairly eventful day, personnel-wise, ahead of their return to action on Friday night against the Wild. Rookie forward Ville Koivunen has been placed IR. He’ll be out week-to-week with a lower-body injury. With a pair of assists and no goals in 11 games, the youngster experienced his struggles at the big-league level this season. This on the heels of an impressiv...2025
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  • • Penguins Injury Update: Rakell Out Six-to-Eight Weeks
    Penguins forward Rickard Rakell is expected to be out six-to-eight weeks following surgery to repair an injury to his left hand. Oddly, he hasn’t been officially placed on IR at the time of this post. A tough break for both the team and Rakell, who’d followed up a career season with an equally strong start to the current campaign (eight points in nine games, including three goals). The Pens have s...2025
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Timeline

  • 2026
    "Unless kids like Harrison Brunicke and Ville Koivunen eventually pan out, chalk the Jake trade up in the loss column."

  • 2025
    "And I sure as heck didn’t expect us to summon top forward prospects Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty (pictured) from the Baby Pens at this very late stage of the campaign."

  • 2024
    "The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired forwards Michael Bunting, Ville Koivunen, Vasily Ponomarev, Cruz Lucius and conditional 2024 first-round and fifth-round draft picks from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for Jake Guentzel and Ty Smith."

  • 2021
    "Ville Koivunen poured in two goals Monday night, as Finland improved to 2-0 in its early run at the world junior hockey championship with a 7-1 victory over Austria 7-1 in Canada."

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Ville Koivunen trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • How Are the Penguins Gonna Get Their Next Sid?
    2026
  • • Penguins Update: What Now?
    2026
  • • Malkin Suspended, Penguins Recall Koivunen
    2026
  • • Kings Rally in Third, Slip Past Penguins, 3-2
    Hey all. I just have time for a bare bones recap of yesterday’s 3-2 loss to the Kings at PPG Paints Arena. I’ll try to hit the noteworthy items. First Period (8:48): Tommy Novak staked us to a 1-0 lead, courtesy of a beautiful net-front feed from Evgeni Malkin; First Period (14:58): Anže Kopitar tied the game at 1-apiece with a power-play goal when his sharp-angle pass from the corner deflected o...2025
  • • “Pick” of the Penguins’ Prospects Litter?
    The Penguins’ prospects nudged aside the Bruins’ hopefuls by a 2-1 count yesterday afternoon in a Prospects Challenge matchup at LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo. Ville Koivunen struck for the game-opening tally off a nifty feed from Tristan Broz, who initiated the scoring sequence with a superb play in the defensive zone. Avery Hayes capped the proceedings with a breakaway goal with 26 s...2025
  • • What Happens to the Penguins When Sid Retires?
    I was exchanging texts with PenguinPoop colleague Caleb DiNatale this morning when a dreadful thought occurred to me. One almost too terrible to entertain. What happens to the Penguins when Sidney Crosby retires? To digress for a moment, based on the excellent stretch-run play of rookies Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty, not to mention the energizing effect and impact they’ve had on the team, i...2025
  • • Can the Penguins Improve?
    The other day, my colleague Caleb Di’Natale sent me a text displaying his new and improved black-and-gold lineup for the coming season. It included a veritable Who’s Who of heavyweight free-agents (Sam Reinhart and Nikita Zadorov) and marquee trade acquisitions (Lawson Crouse, Conor Garland and Jakob Chychrun). Departures included Erik Karlsson, Ryan Graves, Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Rickard Rakell a...2024
  • • Penguins Update: Baby Pens Stock Up
    While our Penguins may be headed to the golf course or parts unknown, their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club is preparing to take on Lehigh Valley in the first round of the AHL Calder Cup playoffs. Stocking up for the best-of-three set (and, hopefully, a long and successful playoff run), the Baby Pens have bolstered their roster with five prospects. Defenseman Owen Pickering, the Pens’ first-round ...2024
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  • Penguins, Hurricanes complete multi-player deal
    • Penguins, Hurricanes complete multi-player deal
    2024
  • • 2021 NHL Draft Prospect Profile: Samu Tuomaala is a smooth-skating sniper
    (Finnish Ice Hockey Association) The young Finn is yet another option for scoring help on the wing We are less than two weeks away from the 2021 NHL Entry Draft (July 23-24), so it’s time to start researching the prospects likely to be selected in the first round. The Columbus Blue Jackets currently hold three picks in that round: #5, #24, and #31. Samu Tuomaala Position: Right WingTeam: K...2021

Ville Koivunen stats and results

  • • Ex-Penguins Update: Final 2025-26
    2026
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  • • Penguins Prospects: What About the Kids?
    2026
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  • • Malkin Suspended, Penguins Recall Koivunen
    2026
    Click for news about Evgeni Malkin
  • • Ex-Penguins Update: Olympic Break
    With the NHL on pause for the Olympics, I thought it’d be an ideal time to check on former Penguins throughout the league to see how they’re faring. Stats are updated for games played through February 5 and courtesy of Hockey-Reference.com. There’s no real surprise at the top of the expatriate heap. Jake Guentzel of the Lightning paces the ex-Pens in goals (26), assists (34) and ...2026
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  • • Penguins Summon McGroarty and Imama
    The Penguins have recalled forwards Rutger McGroarty and Boko Imama from their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club ahead of tonight’s Metro clash with the Flyers. A 21-year-old power forward and former first-round pick, McGroarty’s tallied four goals and seven points in five games with the Baby Pens. With three goals and four points in his last 11 games, Imama, a 29-year-old heavyweight, h...2025
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  • • Penguins Call Up Poulin, Waive Tomasino
    2025
  • • Baby Penguins Update: Who’s Doin’ What at Wilkes?
    With our Penguins across the pond and off till Friday and not much stirring in the ol’ brain pan, I thought I’d take a quick glance at the Baby Pens and see what’s cookin’ in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. At the top of the scoring heap are two players no longer with the club. With five goals and 14 points in 10 games, veteran Danton Heinen was tied for the AHL scoring lead at the time of his recall. Like...2025
  • • Penguins Injury Update: Rakell Out Six-to-Eight Weeks
    2025
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  • • Penguins Kids Lance Sabres Prospects, 6-3
    The Penguins’ prospects closed out the 2025 Prospects Challenge on a high note with a 6-3 victory over the Sabres’ hopefuls yesterday afternoon at LECOM Harborcenter. In the process, finishing the tournament with a 2-0-1 record. It was pretty much all hands on deck as coach Kirk MacDonald returned forward Ville Koivunen and defensemen Owen Pickering and Finn Harding to the mx. Pacing t...2025
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  • • What About Tristan Broz? Will He Make the Penguins?
    Now that the Penguins’ youth movement has begun in earnest, several youngsters are expected to earn spots this season, with forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty considered virtual locks. On the far side of the blue line, defenseman Owen Pickering and goalies Arturs Silovs and Joel Blomqvist are solid bets to see action with the black and gold as well. Perhaps even the highly regarded duo o...2025

Ville Koivunen parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Penguins Prospects: What About the Kids?
    2026
    See also Dan Muse
  • • Penguins Update: Who’s Doin’ What
    2026
    See also Egor Chinakhov
  • • Ex-Penguins Update: Olympic Break
    2026
    See also Jake Guentzel
  • • Penguins Update: Does Going With Youth Guarantee Success?
    If you’re like me, you’re happy with the fact that the Penguins at long last seem to be embracing a youth movement. Or at the very least, are on the verge. Eighteen-year-old center Ben Kindel and 19-year-old defenseman Harrison Brunicke are making a serious bid to stick with the team for a full season. While they aren’t exactly kids, 25-year-old forward Filip Hållander and 24-year-old goalie Artur...2025
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  • • What Happens to the Penguins When Sid Retires?
    2025
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  • • Penguins Dim Stars, 5-3, Thanks to Sid’s Hatty
    In an upside down, left-is-right-and-vice-versa type of season where nothing seems to have quite gone according to plan, the Penguins pulled yet another surprise from their bag of tricks yesterday afternoon at American Airlines Arena. Their victims? The Dallas Stars, winners of seven in a row and solid Stanley Cup contenders. In hindsight, they didn’t stand a chance. After spotting the Stars a 2-1...2025
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  • • Penguins’ Kids Shine in 5-4 OT Loss to the Blues
    We got a glimpse into the Penguins’ future last night at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. If the sequence near the end of regulation is any indication, it may be brighter than we think. With the clock ticking down to under 30 seconds remaining and the Pens trailing, 4-3, Ville Koivunen scooped up the remains of an errant Erik Karlsson shot and wheeled off the right sideboards with the puck. Aft...2025
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  • • New-Look Penguins Clip Senators, 1-0, on Sid’s OT Winner
    It’s been a strange (strange) season for our Penguins to say the least. Following back-to-back blowout losses during which we barely displayed a pulse, the last thing I expected was a shutout victory over the playoff-bound Senators last night with rookies Rutger McGroarty and Ville Koivunen filling top-six roles and Tristan Jarry stationed between the pipes. Especially since the latter yielded eig...2025
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  • • Penguins Starch Blue Jackets 3-1
    As the old saying goes, turnabout is fair play. Three days after a Penguins squad loaded with regulars got dumped by the Red Wings rookies, a team largely comprised of black-and-gold irregulars beat the Blue Jackets A-Team by a 3-1 count in Columbus last night. Lending credence to my colleague Other Rick’s insistence that our Pens might would be better served by icing a combination of kids ‘n’ vet...2024
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  • • Penguins Update: It Sure is Nice to Have Some Kids to Talk About
    I was rereading some articles about Saturday’s 7-3 preseason shellacking at the hands of an established Sabres squad when a thought struck me. Isn’t it great…not to mention fun…to have some kids to be excited about? Rutger McGroarty, Tristan Broz, Ville Koivunen, Vasily Ponomarev, Tanner Howe, Harrison Brunicke to name a few. Goalies Sergei Murashov and Joel Blomqvist, too, the latter’s leaky perf...2024
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Top Ville Koivunen news

  • Koivunen, Finland improve to 2-0 at world juniors
    • Koivunen, Finland improve to 2-0 at world juniors
    2021
  • • Shocker: Penguins Summon Koivunen and McGroarty from Baby Pens
    Wow. I mean WOW. During a week where, in my personal life, the last thing I expected to happen was the first thing that wound up happening, in Penguinsland the last thing I expected to happen was the first thing that happened. Following a gritty, competitive 5-1-1 run, I didn’t expect us to get shellacked in back-to-back games by a combined score of 13-4. And I sure as heck didn’t expect us to sum...2025
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  • • Penguins Sign Hållander
    The Penguins made their first player move of what promises to be an active off-season, signing Filip Hållander to a two-year deal with an AAV of $775 K. Regarded as a strong two-way player, the 24-year-old forward blossomed into a top scorer in the Swedish Hockey League this season. In 51 games for Timra IK, he tallied 26 goals and 53 points to go with a plus-16. Dare I say, Ville Koivunen-type pr...2025
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  • • Penguins Dim Stars, 5-3, Thanks to Sid’s Hatty
    2025
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  • • Are Better Days Ahead for our Penguins?
    Not too terribly long ago, all I saw concerning the future of the Penguins when I peered into my crystal ball was gloom and doom. A rusting, corroding former champion with a bankrupt prospect pipeline on the verge of collapse. But now? Maybe I’m letting our 10-5-2 finish unduly influence my thinking and tint my glasses a rosy hue. After all, we finished 8-2-2 last season and look where that got us...2025
  • • Penguins Blank Blackhawks, 5-0, in Return Engagement
    The Penguins overcame a snoozer of a start (by both teams) to down the Blackhawks, 5-0, in the back-end of a home-and-home set last night at PPG Paints Arena. Sidney Crosby broke the scoring ice with 16 seconds left in the first period with a nifty power-play goal from the bumper position. Assists went to Rickard Rakell and Bryan Rust. Erik Karlsson widened the lead for the good guys at 4:45 of th...2025
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  • • New-Look Penguins Clip Senators, 1-0, on Sid’s OT Winner
    2025
    Continue with Rutger McGroarty
  • • What Are the Penguins Going to Look Like? Part I: the Forwards
    Earlier this month, I published an article titled, Penguins Five-Deep Depth Chart, listing our top five players at each position. I thought I’d expand on that a bit and delve into how I think new coach Dan Muse will deploy the troops at his disposal. Purely subjective, of course. With the proviso this could all be blown to smithereens if Kyle Dubas swings a trade or two, especially involving our t...2025
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  • • The Right Guys Are Scoring for the Baby Penguins
    2026
    Check it out Tristan Broz
  • • Penguins Prospects: What About the Kids?
    2026
    See more articles Dan Muse
  • • Malkin Suspended, Penguins Recall Koivunen
    2026
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  • • Should Penguins Youth be Served?
    To say it’s been an unusual season thus far for our Penguins would be putting it mildly. A piping hot 8-2-2 start, as encouraging as it was unexpected, raised expectations that this group might possess playoff pedigree. A limbo bar that has since been ratcheted down closer to the floorboards on the heels of a ghastly 1-5-4 slide. Indeed, the way things are going? It feels like we’ll be hard-presse...2025
    See also Evgeni Malkin
  • • Penguins Summon McGroarty and Imama
    2025
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  • • “Pick” of the Penguins’ Prospects Litter?
    2025
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  • • Who Will Be the Penguins’ Top Rookie?
    If I’m reading the tea leaves correctly (not always a given), this should be the season when the Penguins’ youth movement kicks off in earnest. It begs the question, “Who will be the team’s top rookie?” At first blush, it appears to be a two-horse match race between forwards Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty. Defenseman Owen Pickering, who also figures to log plenty of work with the big boys, sk...2025
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  • • Sink, Swim or Stagnate. How Will Our Individual Penguins Perform?
    I was casting about for subject matter this morning when a rather simple idea occurred to me. Namely, how will this season’s potential batch of Penguins perform on an individual basis? Will they sink, swim or tread water? Strictly an opinion piece and totally subjective. My answers aren’t especially encouraging, at least not if you’re pulling for our Pens to challenge for a playoff spot. Without f...2025
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  • • What Are the Penguins Going to Look Like? Part I: the Forwards
    2025
    See more articles Dan Muse
  • • Penguins This ‘n’ ‘At
    I’ll be the first to confess, finding subject matter at this stage of the offseason for our favorite hockey team can be a bit of a challenge. With that in mind, I’ve stolen…er…borrowed ideas from two popular Penguins sites, Pittsburgh Hockey Now and Pensburgh. Over on PHN, Dan Kingerski put forth some potential options for our bottom six. In particular, he mentioned Swedish left wing Filip Hålland...2025
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