{"id":441321,"date":"2026-02-02T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/441321\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:52:20","slug":"pens-points-familiar-trends-emerging-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/441321\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens Points: Familiar trends emerging again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed old running mates to remember and honor the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Stanley Cup-winning team before Saturday\u2019s game against the New York Rangers, including that team\u2019s fourth line of Eric Fehr, Matt Cullen and Tom Kuhnhackl. Those players (among the rest of the bottom-six) made key contributions on the scoresheet, which helped round out that championship side. Fast forward 10 years, and we\u2019re seeing that trend emerge again. [<a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/penguins-bottom-6-forwards-driving-offense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Penguins defenseman Kris Letang is expected to miss a minimum of four weeks and was placed on injured reserve due to a fracture in an unspecified foot. [<a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/penguins-defenseman-kris-letang-placed-on-injured-reserve-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Updates from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The International Olympic Committee is \u201cabsolutely certain\u201d that the Olympic ice rink is good to go. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/ioc-exec-absolutely-certain-hockey-rink-will-be-ready-for-olympics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Edmonton Oilers have placed veteran goaltender Calvin Pickard on waivers, the team announced on Sunday. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/oilers-place-veteran-g-pickard-on-waivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gavin McKenna, the projected No. 1 overall pick in this summer\u2019s draft, had a day to remember in front of 74,000-plus people inside Penn State\u2019s Beaver Stadium over the weekend, recording a goal and two assists for the Nittany Lions in their 5-4 overtime loss against Michigan State. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/gavin-mckenna-shows-off-skills-in-penn-state-game-at-beaver-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in a shootout at Raymond James Stadium during the latest Stadium Series game on Sunday night. [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bruins-lightning-score-bf0140aeceec8e05feb3ee5a89dc4892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning&#8230; The Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed old running mates to remember&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,40,4,118,33852,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-441321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pens-points","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116000898806873618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441321","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=441321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}