Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Adam Johnson, a former NHL forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins, has died at the age of 29. Johnson's team, the British ice hockey club Nottingham Panthers ...

The young player had played 13 NHL matches for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 2019 and 2020. In 2022, Adam Johnson decided to join the Augsburger Panther of the DEL, and in 2023, he decided to ...

English Hockey League Will Require Neck Guards Following Adam Johnson's 'Heart-Breaking' Death Johnson, a University of Minnesota Duluth alum. played for the Penguins during both the 2018-19 and ...

That mandate came into being after former Penguins forward Adam Johnson died as a result of being struck in the neck by an opponent’s skate while playing in the United Kingdom’s Elite Ice ...

Johnson made his NHL debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2019, the first of 13 games he played with them before returning to the American Hockey League and then shifting his career to Europe.

Neal Pionk, 29, was given the nod for the Masterton Trophy after the tragic death of his best friend and former college teammate in an on-ice incident last season.