the pittsburgh penguins have won the stanley cup 5 times.
the pittsburgh penguins have won the stanley cup 5 times.
how many times has the pittsburgh penguins won the stanley cup?
5
on february 15, 2009, with the pittsburgh penguins struggling to make the playoffs, the penguins organization announced that it had relieved head coach michel therrien of his duties and had promoted bylsma to serve as interim head coach of the team. at 38, he was the youngest head coach in the nhl at the time. through his first 25 games as penguins' coach, his 18–3–4 record amounted to 40 points—the second most of any coach in nhl history through their first 25 games. on april 28, penguins general manager ray shero announced that bylsma had been named permanent head coach of the team. on june 12, 2009 bylsma led the pittsburgh penguins to a stanley cup championship, becoming the 14th coach and the second mid-season replacement to win the stanley cup in their first season. while the win made him just the fifth ever american-born coach to win the cup, he also became the third american in the last five seasons to do so. bylsma was awarded the jack adams award as the league's most outstanding coach for the 2010–2011 season due to the penguins still being a contender for the stanley cup without his two star players sidney crosby and evgeni malkin.
dan bylsma
more recently, with the drafting and emergence of alexander ovechkin in washington, and sidney crosby in pittsburgh, the rivalry has heated up again, with controversial comments that alexander semin made about crosby in the media and physical altercations taking place between ovechkin and malkin during games. one of the best series to date between the teams was the 2009 eastern conference semifinals, in which the capitals took a 2–0 series lead before letting it go once again to be downed in 7 games, ending with a 6–2 game 7 loss at the verizon center. just like in 1991 and 1992, the penguins defeated the capitals in the playoffs en route to the stanley cup. the two teams faced off at the 2011 nhl winter classic hosted in pittsburgh at heinz field, with the capitals emerging victorious 3–1, and a hit in the game resulting in crosby missing nearly all of two seasons with concussion-related issues. the capitals and penguins completed their second playoff confrontation in the ovechkin-crosby era in the 2016 stanley cup playoffs with the penguins winning in six games, again preceding pittsburgh's fourth stanley cup title. in 2017, the capitals and penguins met again in the second round. pittsburgh gained a 3–1 series lead only to see washington win the next two games. the penguins would shut out the capitals at verizon center in washington to advance to the eastern conference finals and eventually the franchise's fifth stanley cup. the two teams would again face off in the 2018 stanley cup playoffs in the second round for the third consecutive year. the washington capitals would defeat the pittsburgh penguins in six games to advance to the eastern conference final, and eventually win the stanley cup.
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