New York Rangers (22-27-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (27-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the New York Rangers after Connor Dewar’s two-goal game against the Chicago Blackhawks in the Penguins’ 6-2 win.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 27-14-11 overall with a 9-1-4 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Penguins are 27-4-5 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
New York has a 22-27-6 record overall and a 6-8-1 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Rangers have gone 19-5-1 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the third time these teams meet this season. The Rangers won 6-1 in the previous meeting. Adam Fox led the Rangers with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Evgeni Malkin has 14 goals and 27 assists for the Penguins. Yegor Chinakhov has five goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has 23 goals and 28 assists for the Rangers. Jonathan Tanner Miller has four goals and eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 6-2-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.9 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 2-8-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.2 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 4.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 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":"New York Rangers (22-27-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (27-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[53558,301,5,4,292,118,1469,100,5216,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-436116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-53558","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-hockey","13":"tag-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115983758475187201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436116","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=436116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436116\/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=436116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}