Chicago Blackhawks (21-23-9, in the Central Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (26-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Blackhawks are looking to end a three-game skid with a win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 26-14-11 overall and 11-7-7 in home games. The Penguins have a +23 scoring differential, with 168 total goals scored and 145 given up.<\/p>\n
Chicago is 21-23-9 overall and 10-10-4 on the road. The Blackhawks have a 6-7-4 record in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Penguins won the previous matchup 7-3. Justin Brazeau scored three goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sidney Crosby has 27 goals and 30 assists for the Penguins. Evgeni Malkin has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tyler Bertuzzi has 25 goals and 14 assists for the Blackhawks. Connor Bedard has one goal and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 6-2-2, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: 3-5-2, averaging 1.8 goals, 2.9 assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks (21-23-9, in the Central Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (26-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Thursday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[53306,301,521,37,96,5263,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-432381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-53306","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","13":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115972457613450805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432381","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=432381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}