<Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> nhl.com/penguins </Td> </Tr> <P> The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). </P> <P> The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original expansion from six to twelve teams . The Penguins played in the Civic Arena, also known as The Igloo, from the time of their inception through the end of the 2009--10 season, when they moved to the PPG Paints Arena . The 1992--93 Penguins won the franchise's first - ever Presidents' Trophy for being the team with the most points at the end of the regular season . In addition to their eight division titles, they have qualified for six Stanley Cup Finals, winning the Stanley Cup five times--in 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, and 2017 . Along with the Edmonton Oilers, the Penguins are tied for the most Cup championships among non-Original Six teams and sixth overall . With their Stanley Cup wins in 2016 and 2017, the Penguins became the first back - to - back champions in 19 years (since the 1997--98 Detroit Red Wings) and the first team to do so since the introduction of the NHL salary cap . </P> <P> Before the Penguins, Pittsburgh had been the home of the NHL's Pirates from 1925 to 1930 and of the American Hockey League Hornets franchise from 1936 to 1967 (with a short break from 1956 to 1961). In the spring of 1965, Jack McGregor, a state senator from Kittanning, began lobbying campaign contributors and community leaders to bring an NHL franchise back to Pittsburgh . The group focused on leveraging the NHL as an urban renewal tool for Pittsburgh . The senator formed a group of local investors that included H.J. Heinz Company heir H.J. Heinz III, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney, and the Mellon family's Richard Mellon Scaife . The projected league expansion depended on securing votes from the then - current NHL owners; to ensure that Pittsburgh would be selected as one of the expansion cities, McGregor enlisted Rooney to petition votes from James D. Norris, owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, and his brother Bruce Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings . </P>

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