{"id":346133,"date":"2025-12-09T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/346133\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:39:10","slug":"nhl-game-preview-anaheim-ducks-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-12-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/346133\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Anaheim Ducks at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 12\/9\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-26.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Anaheim Ducks at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 12\/9\/2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Etienne Laurent<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks (18-10-1, 37 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-6, 34 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: PPG Paints Arena<br \/>Date: Tuesday, December 9<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/KCOP\/Victory+\/Sportsnet PT<br \/>Radio:\u00a0830 AM KLAA\/105.9 The X<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks picked up their second straight win on Sunday with a 7-1 victory over the Blackhawks. They\u2019ve won three of their last four games, averaging 3.8 goals per game while allowing three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u00a0suffered a 3-2 shootout loss to the Stars on Sunday. They\u2019ve recorded points in six of their last seven games, averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Kreider-Carlsson-Terry<br \/>Gauthier-McTavish-Sennecke<br \/>Vatrano-Strome-Killorn<br \/>Johnston-Poehling-Granlund<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe-Trouba<br \/>Zellweger-Gudas<br \/>Mintyukov-Helleson<\/p>\n<p>Husso<br \/>Buteyets<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/anaheim-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=anaheim&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Anaheim Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Novak-Crosby-Rust<br \/>Mantha-Hayes-Brazeau<br \/>McGroarty-Kindel-Koivunen<br \/>Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari<\/p>\n<p>Shea-Letang<br \/>Wotherspoon-Karlsson<br \/>Graves-Dumba<\/p>\n<p>Jarry<br \/>Silovs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/pittsburgh-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=pittsburgh&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Pittsburgh Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>Chris Kreider had two goals and an assist in the Ducks\u2019 4-3 win over Pittsburgh back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Crosby had two assists in the Penguins\u2019 loss to the Ducks back on October 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>G Petr Mrazek \u2013 IR<br \/>G Lukas Dostal\u00a0\u2013 Out<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0Filip Hallander\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D\u00a0Jack St. Ivany\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Evgeni Malkin \u00a0\u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Etienne Laurent Anaheim Ducks (18-10-1, 37 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-6, 34 pts) Venue: PPG Paints ArenaDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[233,1542,1495,2522,5,1610,3041,2218,4,5573,2219,118,489,1469,100,5216,5782,768],"class_list":{"0":"post-346133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-chris-kreider","10":"tag-evgeni-malkin","11":"tag-filip-hallander","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jack-st-ivany","14":"tag-lukas-dostal","15":"tag-metropolitan-division","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-game-preview","18":"tag-pacific-division","19":"tag-penguins","20":"tag-petr-mrazek","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","23":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","24":"tag-rickard-rakell","25":"tag-sidney-crosby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115689420594831905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346133","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=346133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}