Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning…<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Penguins completed their Western Canada swing on Sunday evening, facing off against the Vancouver Canucks. It was a homecoming for rookie forward Ben Kindel, who led the way with two goals as the Penguins won 3-2. [Recap<\/a>]<\/p>\n However, in the dying moments of the game, amid a Vancouver push for the tying goal, forward Bryan Rust hit Vancouver\u2019s Brock Boeser on the ice as time expired Sunday. Video shows Rust appearing to hit Boeser up high with an extended elbow, an action deemed \u201cdirty\u201d by Vancouver players. [Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n Big Justin Brazeau has been one of the many positive revelations this season. The winger has career highs in goals (14) and points (25) in 37 games after Sunday. He\u2019s been able to cash in on his offensive opportunities by \u201cplaying the right way.\u201d [Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n Every club in the league would take 13 goals and 40 points in 36 games for a 39-year-old forward who is set to be an unrestricted free agent at year\u2019s end. However, those statistics belong to an NHL and franchise icon in Evgeni Malkin, who has now publicly said he is willing to take a discount to return to the Penguins next season. General manager Kyle Dubas, with his seemingly infinite pool of cap space, should listen and reward Malkin with the extension he has rightfully deserved. [Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n News and notes from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander has apologized after he was seen on camera flipping the middle finger during Sunday\u2019s game against the Colorado Avalanche. [TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Seattle Kraken are open to hearing trade offers for 22-year-old center Shane Wright, according to TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger. [theScore<\/a>]<\/p>\n The NHL may have gained a new fan base as viewers go crazy for the viral HBO streaming hit \u201cHeated Rivalry.\u201d The show, which centers around a romance between two hockey players, has driven a \u201cnoticeable spike\u201d in demand for NHL tickets and revenue for the league, according to ticket website SeatGeek. [CBS News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins completed their Western Canada swing on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,40,4,33852,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-428826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-pens-points","13":"tag-vancouver","14":"tag-vancouver-canucks","15":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115961262445538610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428826","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=428826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}