{"id":277683,"date":"2025-10-31T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/277683\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:24:11","slug":"the-penguins-had-one-of-their-best-october-months-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/277683\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguins had one of their best October months in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Penguins opened their first month of the 2025-26 season with an 8-2-2 record \u2014 one of the best October starts for the team in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With 18 points in the month of October, it was a tie for the second best starting month in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In 2009-10 when the Penguins were trying defend their Stanley Cup title from the previous year, the team went 11-3 in the month of October with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In October of 2013, the Penguins went 9-4 with 18 points for the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Through the Penguins\u2019 12 games, Evgeni Malkin sits tied for third in the NHL with 17 points. Sidney Crosby sits tied for fifth in the NHL with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Malkin\u2019s 14 assists are tied for most in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Up next, the Penguins head to Winnipeg tomorrow afternoon to face the Jets. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins opened their first month of the 2025-26 season with an 8-2-2 record \u2014 one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[3625,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-277683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115470654968865975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}