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The Rest Of Your Days 06/26/26 Here we go! Jeff Taylor and Jordan DeFigio are back with yinz - for another exciting Pittsburgh Penguins off-season. Thanks to ALL our listeners, both new-and-returning, for listening in as we gear up for one of the more exciting times of the pro hockey calendar year. On tap over the next week you’ve got: The NHL Draft! Free Agency! July 4th fireworks! Check out the...

Tee Time For Pittsburgh 05/06/26 The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2025-26 campaign has come to an end. Eliminated in an overtime, Game 6 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, the Pens overachieved and bowed out early. No harm, no foul. We all got extra hockey, the organization generated some playoff revenue from tickets, concessions, and merch, and after a slow start, we were all treated to some thrilling hock...

Game Six: Balboa Penguins Force Philly Return 04/29/26 No one saw any of this coming, so each shift we behold - with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang together in the Stanley Cup Playoffs - is a gift to Penguins fans around the world. And yet we find ourselves riveted by the drama, as number eighty-seven and his scrappy, resilient team pushes through the reedy swamp of the most unlikel...

“X” Men 04/12/26 The Pittsburgh Penguins are going back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs!! Needless to say, Jordan and Jeff are beside themselves with unadulterated joy, personified by the sign-offs you’ll hear at the conclusion of today’s episode. Sidney, Kris, Evgeni, Erik, Bryan, and Ben all sat and rested their weary bones for yesterday’s 6-3 loss to Ovechkin and the visiting Washington Capitals, b...

Florida Men 04/02/26 Nothing says ice hockey like FLORIDA, as for the past two NHL seasons no hockey club has been more successful than the FLORIDA Panthers. And if it’s Florida hockey yinz want, then you’re in luck - the Penguins tonight kick off a three-game stint versus the Lightning and Panthers. Tonight’s game versus the Bolts will be played in Tampa, with the Cats curling up in Pittsburgh fo...

Lords Of The Shootout 03/27/26 As we’ve been saying for YEARS, the Pittsburgh Penguins are the Lords Of The Shootout, striking fear into the hearts of any opposing team’s goaltender.. etc, etc. We kid, we kid. Back-to-back shootout victories for your Pittsburgh Penguins are of course unheard of and downright unexpected - but the Steel City’s flagship hockey club managed the feat nonetheless, besti...

You Don’t Say Shutout 03/03/26 Almost anything goes in ice hockey - but you never, EVER, under any circumstances …say the word ‘shutout’ if your goalie hasn’t let up a goal and there’s still hockey left to play in the game. The Pittsburgh Penguins are on a roll coming out of the Olympic break, garnering points in the Eastern Conference standings in all of their three games since. With the Boston B...

Olympic Hangover 02/23/26 Sidney Crosby played well in the Milan Cortina Olympic prelims, then sustained a serious lower body injury in Team Canada’s quarterfinal game against Czechia. Team USA ultimately won gold in dramatic OT fashion, with NJD’s Jack Hughes netting the deciding tally. The Penguins are back in action on home ice, this Thursday against Hughes’s NHL squad, followed by a Saturday v...

Joe Brand: Radio Voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins 11/21/25 Now fully settled into a chair once occupied by Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange, radio announcer Joe Brand has also been winning over the ears and hearts of the Penguins faithful. From his time as an intern with a minor league baseball team, to calling Sidney Crosby’s equalizing goal in a chippy NHL rivalry game, Brand has blazed his o...

It’s A Casino: Golden Knights Beat Reporter, Hannah Kirkell 11/17/25 VegasHockeyNow.com beat writeHannah Kirkell joins Fly Penguins Fly Podcast for a look inside the Knights’ locker room. Hannah and Jeff talk through the outlook for Mark Stone’s return from injury, how natural it was for Reilly Smith to slot back in with his VGK family, and the Penguins’ prospects of holding onto a playoff spot ov...

Pingvinerna är i Sverige 11/13/25 The Penguins are indeed In Sweden, even when said in English. Jeff Taylor and Jordan DeFigio talk through the Pittsburgh Penguins’ recent, inevitable “cooling-off,” following one of the hottest starts the NHL has seen this season. Most recently, the team has gone on a tepid 1-3-1 run, during which time they generally continued to play well. Results matter, though...

Cody Hodgson and The RYR-1 Foundation 11/11/25 Diagnosed in 2016 with RYR-1-related malignant hyperthermia, Cody Hodgson’s promising NHL playing career was cut short when the effects of his disease made it impossible for him to push his body to the extent necessary in pro hockey. However, what initially looked like a major setback gave way to a very different, equally powerful calling. Now an acti...

Silovs Ignores Murashov Noise: Penguins Beat Capitals 11/06/25 Jeff Taylor shares his reflections and experiences after attending last night’s big Penguins win over the Washington Capitals at PPG Paints Arena. Very special thanks to Espresso A Mano, Pittsburgh’s finest coffee roasters and cafe, for partnering with Fly Penguins Fly podcast. Visit an Espresso A Mano location near you: https://espres...

On The Verge Of Slumping: Previously Hot Penguins Collapse In 4-3 Loss to Toronto Maple Leafs 11/03/25 First up: Jeff’s post-game reaction immediately following a soul-crushing 3rd period collapse - and regulation loss - by the Pittsburgh Penguins to an otherwise struggling Maple Leafs team. Hint: Jeff isn’t happy. As for the bulk of today’s episode - Ashley Taylor (Jeff’s wife) stops by to join h...

Trevor Zegras Turtles For Sucker-Punch Flyers, Goldfish Brain Pens Collect A Point And Fly To Land Of 10,000 Lakes 10/30/25 Jeff Taylor and Jordan DeFigio are back to a 2-episodes-per-week schedule, much to the chagrin of Flyers fans everywhere. The Penguins salvaged a point on a Philadelphia night that got downright nasty on our burros, the backsliding Minnesota Wild look to punch up at ‘Grand Ca...

Pittsburgh Penguins: Tragedy In The Stands, Buzzing On The Ice 10/28/25 With Jordan DeFigio beaming in via Zoom from her morning commute, Jeff Taylor produces this quick morning episode from the studio. A tragedy occurred at PPG Paints Arena last night, as a fan fell a great distance from the upper suites down into the lower bowl. The Penguins defeated the St. Louis Blues as they prepare for a roa...

Pittsburgh Penguins at Florida Panthers: 1st Period Listen-Along 10/23/25 Grab a beer and relive the first period of Thursday’s Pens @ Cats NHL tilt, including their live-recorded reactions to a beauty of a goal scored by a certain future Hall of Fame Captain. Very special thanks to Espresso A Mano, Pittsburgh’s finest coffee roasters and cafe, for partnering with Fly Penguins Fly podcast. Visit a...

Crosby And Letang: It's A Milestone Night In Pittsburgh 10/21/25 Flying solo for a late night dispatch from the studio, it’s FPF co-host Jeff Taylor talking PIT 5 - VAN 1 as the Penguins continue to roll out a hot start to their NHL regular season. Very special thanks to Espresso A Mano, Pittsburgh’s finest coffee roasters and cafe, for partnering with Fly Penguins Fly podcast. Visit an Espresso A...

Thighs Penguins Thighs 10/16/25 On the eve of their planned field trip to Erie, PA - where they’ll be game-night guests of the OHL’s Erie Otters - Jeff and Jordan meet up to bang out a quick podcast about all things Pittsburgh Penguins. Partway through this episode, Ashley Taylor - Jeff’s wife - drops by to give notes on Prime Video’s “FACEOFF: Inside The NHL” (2025). She and Jeff share a few laug...

The Athletic’s Josh Yohe: Undefeated Pittsburgh Penguins Host Matthew Shaefer and the Isles 10/09/25 Joined today by The Athletic’s Josh Yohe, Jordan DeFigio and Jeff Taylor are back for a Thursday afternoon, Penguins-Home-Opener edition of Fly Penguins Fly Podcast. Will the Penguins build on Tuesday night’s defensive clinic of a victory over the Rangers, or will they revert to what Pens fans have...

Pittsburgh Penguins Opener: 7th Avenue Freeze-Out 10/03/25 Today’s episode kicks off with a special appearance by one of our favorite baristas at our partner, Espresso a Mano’s Dormont café. After some armchair Penguins Hockey quarterback’ing by co-hosts - Jeff Taylor and Jordan DeFigio, opining is conducted as to which NHL hockey club various Marvel / DC superheroes and supervillains might suppor...

Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Is Back: Fidge Flies Solo 09/20/25 Flying solo for the first time in a while, Jordan DeFigio has it all covered: Kyle Dubas continues along in his unenviable quest to both rebuild and appease a confoundingly-still-elite Sidney Crosby …and his super-agent, Pat Brisson The Steelers are Steeler-ing ...and there’s no end in sight Fly Penguins Fly Podcast looks ahead to an ex...

The Unthinkable: Pittsburgh Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby Has Requested A Trade 09/13/25 Sell the team to whomever you want, we don’t care. Put whoever you want in goal on September 27th when the Pens play meaningless hockey against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Yeah, even Marc-André Fleury. For the record, we’ve done the Farewell-to-Flower thing at PPG Paints Arena THREE times already. cough-cough...

Pittsburgh Penguins For Sale 09/04/25 Rumors inspired journalistic deep-dives, with the resulting articles giving way to a fanbase-wide assumption that the Fenway Sports Group’s tenure as owners of 1967’s most successful expansion NHL franchise may come to an end - sooner than most anyone would have thought. On today’s episode, FPF co-hosts Jeff Taylor and Jordan DeFigio take you through two writt...

Golden G.O.A.T.S. 08/26/25 As the summer winds down and we head into Labor Day weekend, Fly Penguins Fly Podcast takes you out onto the ice, into the locker room, and into the scorekeeper’s box with G.O.A.T. League 4v4 hockey. Today’s episode features chats with some of the league’s most exciting players including Pittsburgh-based OHL’ers, NCAA college hockey commits, and longtime members of the P...