will be used<\/a> has been answered, for now it appears the Penguins will not reunite him with the successful line he had with Mantha and Brazeau. The good thing is that the coaches can always go back to that by the second or third period if circumstances dictate needing it.<\/p>\nIf the familiar goalie rotation continues it would be Skinner\u2019s turn starting tonight for the Pens. That would line Skinner up to play two of the upcoming three games, just as Silovs last week played that portion of the games.<\/p>\n
Pens look to stay hot<\/p>\n
While the wheels came off the Devils on Tuesday in their blowout loss, the Penguins are red hot.<\/p>\n
From the team (and prior to last night\u2019s games):<\/p>\n
The Penguins are red hot with a 5-0-0 record since Christmas (December 25). They rank near the top in multiple statistical categories around the League:<\/p>\n
NHL Stat Leaders Since Dec. 25<\/p>\n
Category\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rank
Wins (5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0T2nd
Points (10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0T3rd
Goals For (25)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0T3rd
Goals Against (12)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0T1st
Power Play (33.3%)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06th<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh had an off day on Monday and many a veteran like Crosby, Karlsson, Letang and Rust were able to rest an extra day during Tuesday\u2019s optional practice. Whether the Pens are energized by the break or have lost the momentum with some inactivity will be worth watching.<\/p>\n
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Another day, another potential move up the ranks for Crosby<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a fun and niche trivia note that Ray Bourque (21 seasons 1,516 games with the Bruins) has more assists for one franchise than anyone else. More than Yzerman or Howe for the Red Wings, or Lemieux with the Penguins or even Gretzky with the Oilers. Then again, Gretzky only had nine seasons in the NHL with the Oilers. Crosby, who is on a five-game point streak (5G+7A) is knocking on The Great One\u2019s Edmonton total and as of today is only 26 back of Bourque, so that little trivia note is approaching extinction quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: New Jersey Devils\u00a0(22-19-2, 46 points, 7th place Metropolitan Division) @\u00a0Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0(20-12-9, 43 points, 5th place Metropolitan Division)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[10448,8659,710,8194,154,1770,3592,2866,2215,3282,895,1774,6891,957,11081,6770,1175,2051,201,1294,198,642,1495,4219,2522,5,1272,1610,512,3724,3170,1534,4158,3712,5365,1499,1333,1769,2218,576,151,5185,5184,4,1602,15467,1768,12934,8177,136,1467,1469,100,3358,5782,101,9748,768,1178,6733,854,157,2171,1773,7951,4429,8523],"class_list":["post-397508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-anthony-mantha","tag-arturs-silovs","tag-ben-kindel","tag-blake-lizotte","tag-boston","tag-brenden-dillon","tag-brett-kulak","tag-brett-pesce","tag-bryan-rust","tag-caleb-jones","tag-calgary","tag-cody-glass","tag-colton-white","tag-connor-brown","tag-connor-clifton","tag-connor-dewar","tag-dawson-mercer","tag-dennis-cholowski","tag-devils","tag-dougie-hamilton","tag-edmonton","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-evgenii-dadonov","tag-filip-hallander","tag-hockey","tag-jack-hughes","tag-jack-st-ivany","tag-jacob-markstrom","tag-jake-allen","tag-jesper-bratt","tag-jonas-siegenthaler","tag-juho-lammikko","tag-justin-brazeau","tag-kevin-hayes","tag-kris-letang","tag-luke-glendening","tag-luke-hughes","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl","tag-nico-hischier","tag-noel-acciari","tag-ondrej-palat","tag-parker-wotherspoon","tag-paul-cotter","tag-pens","tag-philadelphia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-red-wings","tag-rickard-rakell","tag-rutger-mcgroarty","tag-ryan-shea","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-simon-nemec","tag-sportsnet-pittsburgh","tag-stefan-noesen","tag-stuart-skinner","tag-the-penguins","tag-timo-meier","tag-tommy-novak","tag-ville-koivunen","tag-yegor-chinakhov"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397508","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=397508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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