Pittsburgh Penguins

The Penguins don’t have to defend their White House visit

Opinion: Outspoken athletes should be applauded for entering public debate, but they shouldn’t be punished for staying in their lane

Donald Trump and hockey’s new politics

One photo, less than 1,000 words: How hockey’s association with politics changed around the same time Trump’s did

The day the Penguins stood with Trump

Allen Abel reports from the White House on Trump hosting Henry Kissinger, a sheepish Sidney Crosby and the man who called the president a moron

Why there’s no faking a playoff beard

It’s one of the last symbols of male solidarity

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How to put an end to headhunting in the NHL

The league remains dangerously ambiguous about the role of violence in hockey

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Harper on hockey

Postmedia publishes the Prime Minister’s foreword to Paul Henderson’s new book.

Sidney Crosby and the NHL’s biggest headache

The Penguins superstar says the league isn’t doing enough to take head shots out of the game

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Newsmaker of the Year: Sidney Crosby

He had a country on its feet

The Habs: Giant-Killers

PHOTOS from the Montreal Canadiens’ stunning Game 7 defeat of the Pittsburgh Penguins

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Canada’s Olympians: Sidney Crosby, Ice hockey

Can Crosby handle having the hopes of a nation on his shoulders?

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VIDEO: Top 10 cheap shots during the 2009 NHL Playoffs

Think we’ve missed any? Then add a link to what you deem the dirtiest hit this post-season.

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Hockey: are the Pens doomed in ’08-09?

Latest dispatch from Pittsburgh, where last year’s run to the Stanley Cup final is fading into memory: defenceman Ryan Whitney is gone for up to five months after surgery to correct a bone fault in his foot.