The Boston Bruins come into this game on the second half of a back-to-back. Yesterday, they played and dominated the New York Rangers, winning the game 10-2, with two different players recording hat tricks in the contest. With the victory, the Bruins are 4-4-2 in their last 10. Their record of 24-19-2 places them just around the Wild Card spots along with the Penguins. The Bruins offence is tied for the third-most goals in the NHL. However, they also have a bottom-10-ranked goals against figure in the league. Something that the Pittsburgh Penguins may take advantage of.<\/p>\n
Boston is led in scoring by superstar forward David Pastrnak. Pastrnak has scored 19 goals and 55 points in just 40 games this season. He recorded six assists in the game against the Rangers yesterday. Former second-round pick\u00a0Marat Khusnutdinov<\/a>\u00a0was the star of the game. He recorded four goals and an assist for five points on the night. With this, he has a total of nine goals and 20 points through 40 games this season. Centre\u00a0Pavel Zacha<\/a> had himself a game against New York as well, scoring a hat trick during the win. With the hat trick, he has 13 goals and 31 points through 44 games this season. From the blueline,\u00a0Charlie McAvoy<\/a>\u00a0continues to be a star. But with just two goals and 25 points through 33 games this season, McAvoy hasn\u2019t been quite the defenceman he\u2019s capable of being.<\/p>\n The Goaltending Matchup<\/p>\n With\u00a0Jeremy Swayman<\/a>\u00a0starting yesterday against the Rangers, it is fair to assume that\u00a0Joonas Korpisalo<\/a> will start against the Penguins today. Korpisalo has a record of 7-8-0 with an .888 save percentage this season. The Bruins will need to isolate their goaltender in order to ensure the Penguins high-octane offence isn\u2019t able to turn this into a drubbing.<\/p>\n In net, expect\u00a0Stuart Skinner<\/a>\u00a0to get the start after\u00a0Arturs Silovs<\/a>\u00a0saw his four-game win streak snapped by the Flames yesterday. Skinner himself is on a three-game win streak, in which he has a save percentage of .949 over this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is a great time for our disclaimer. Please check social media before locking in your daily fantasy lineups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins come into this game on the second half of a back-to-back. Yesterday, they played and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[39271,5,4,118,1469,100,30787,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-401775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-boston-bruins-predictions","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-predictions","15":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115876842935160056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401775","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=401775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}