Pittsburgh Penguins Milestones

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Order these Pittsburgh Penguins franchise moments by the year they happened. Drag or tap it onto the line

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How to play the Pittsburgh Penguins history timeline

Sort the Penguins' biggest moments by the year they happened. Each card carries a short description under its title, covering drafts, Cups, retirements, records and a few off-ice turns. One moment starts on the timeline with its year showing, and you place each new card in a gap before, between or after it. A right call uncovers the year; wrong ones still land in the correct spot but take one of your three lives.

Two generations of superstars dominate this deck, and that's what makes it tricky: one player's career alone accounts for a run of cards, including comebacks and retirements that are easy to put out of order. The other cluster comes later, when a new core was drafted in quick succession and started winning. Read the descriptions closely whenever two cards involve the same name.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Joined the NHL One of six expansion teams, playing in the domed Civic Arena nicknamed the Igloo
Won their first playoff series Advanced past the Oakland Seals for a postseason breakthrough
Blew a 3-0 series lead Collapsed against the Islanders in one of hockey's great meltdowns
Drafted Mario Lemieux first overall Landed the generational center with the top pick
Lemieux wins his first scoring title and MVP Dethroned Gretzky as the league's leading scorer
Drafted Jaromir Jagr Selected the young Czech star fifth overall
Won their first Stanley Cup Beat Minnesota in the Final under coach Bob Johnson
Won a second straight Stanley Cup Scotty Bowman guided a sweep of Chicago for back-to-back titles
Record 17-game win streak Lemieux returned from cancer treatment to key a historic run and a Presidents' Trophy
Lemieux wins a final scoring title Captured another Hart and Art Ross before stepping away
Lemieux's first retirement The Hall of Fame waived its waiting period to induct him immediately
Lemieux buys the team The star saved the franchise from bankruptcy, becoming owner
Lemieux's comeback Returned to the ice as a player-owner
Michel Briere's #21 retired Raised to honor a promising rookie lost decades earlier
Drafted Marc-Andre Fleury first overall Selected the young goaltender with the top pick
Drafted Evgeni Malkin Landed the Russian star second overall
Drafted Sidney Crosby first overall Won the lottery to select the can't-miss prospect
Lemieux's second retirement Hung up the skates for good early in the season
Crosby and Malkin sweep the awards Crosby became the youngest scoring champ and MVP as Malkin won rookie honors
Reached the Final against Detroit Fell to the Red Wings in their first Final of the Crosby era
Won the Stanley Cup over Detroit Beat Detroit in Game 7; Crosby became the youngest captain to lift the Cup
Opened a new downtown arena Left the Igloo for the Consol Energy Center
Reached the Conference Final Traded for Jarome Iginla during a deep playoff run
Won the Stanley Cup over San Jose Beat San Jose behind an up-tempo new style
Won back-to-back Stanley Cups Repeated as champions over Nashville