{"id":386506,"date":"2026-01-02T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386506\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:56:11","slug":"pens-points-entering-2026-with-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386506\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens Points: Entering 2026 with a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kris Letang scored 58 seconds into overtime (how apropos) in his 1,200th game as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Thursday. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pensburgh.com\/game-recaps\/71081\/penguins-red-wings-recap-new-year-same-sid-crosby-pens-win-in-ot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recap<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking of Letang, he recently opened up about what drives him as a Penguin in his age-38 season, saying he wants \u201canother taste of the playoffs,\u201d knowing he is closing in on the end of his career. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/kris-letang-eager-to-reach-playoffs-again-with-pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New Penguins forward Yegor Chinakhov is ready for a \u201cnew page, a new year\u201d with his new team. [<a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/penguins-forward-yegor-chinakhov-ready-for-a-new-page-a-new-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 Winter Olympics could be the final Olympic outing for Penguins captain Sidney Crosby. Now that Team Canada\u2019s full roster has been announced, Crosby said he\u2019s excited for the \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d that comes with representing his home country. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/penguins\/news\/topic\/olympics\/penguins-sidney-crosby-pumped-for-great-opportunity-with-canada-at-2026-winter-olympics-x9040\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>News and notes from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">St. Louis Blues forward Zach Dean has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program, the team announced on Thursday. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/blues-dean-cleared-by-nhlnhlpa-player-assistance-program\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matthew Schaefer, the 18-year-old defensive phenom for the New York Islanders, revealed on Thursday that he\u2019s one of the players on Canada\u2019s injury-replacement list for the 2026 Winter Olympics. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/islanders-schaefer-says-hes-on-canadas-injury-replacement-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning&#8230; Kris Letang scored 58 seconds into overtime (how apropos)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,40,4,118,33852,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-386506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pens-points","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115825618784040428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386506","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=386506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}