Carolina Hurricanes (24-11-3, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (16-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes visit the Pittsburgh Penguins after the Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n
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Pittsburgh has a 16-12-9 record overall and a 5-1-3 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Penguins have a -1 scoring differential, with 116 total goals scored and 117 allowed.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 24-11-3 overall with a 9-2-0 record in Metropolitan Division play. The Hurricanes have a +17 scoring differential, with 125 total goals scored and 108 conceded.<\/p>\n
The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sidney Crosby has 20 goals and 19 assists for the Penguins. Bryan Rust has seven goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Shayne Gostisbehere has four goals and 25 assists for the Hurricanes. Sebastian Aho has scored five goals with four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 2-5-3, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up four goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 7-2-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes (24-11-3, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (16-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[2215,194,29,5176,5,195,2218,35,4,100,1174,2823,768,2171],"class_list":{"0":"post-380940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-bryan-rust","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","11":"tag-carolinahurricanes","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-hurricanes","14":"tag-metropolitan-division","15":"tag-new-york-rangers","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","18":"tag-sebastian-aho","19":"tag-shayne-gostisbehere","20":"tag-sidney-crosby","21":"tag-the-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115808018558826768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380940","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=380940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}