Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning…<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Penguins wrapped up another back-to-back set on Sunday, returning home to host the Vegas Golden Knights. The day before, they let the game get away from them in New York, escaping with a loser point, but the team, led by Bryan Rust, Ben Kindel, and others, shutout Vegas to earn two big points. [Recap<\/a>]<\/p>\n The big off-ice news over the weekend centers around Evgeni Malkin and his seemingly never-ending quest to get a contract extension with the only team he has ever played with. Malkin made it known that his agent, J.P. Barry, will discuss a potential contract extension with the team following the season. [Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n News and updates from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n The Los Angeles Kings fired coach Jim Hiller on Sunday after losing five of their past six games and falling out of playoff position. [Associated Press via TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Edmonton Oilers placed forward Andrew Mangiapane and defenseman Alec Regula on waivers. [TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n Vancouver Canucks star Elias Pettersson was benched late in the team\u2019s 5-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Saturday, with head coach Adam Foote saying the forward \u201chas to be better.\u201d [Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Toronto Maple Leafs are on life support, and the plug may soon be pulled on this season. Captain Auston Matthews called his team\u2019s 5-2 weekend loss to the Ottawa Senators \u201cembarrassing,\u201d after a tough stretch has left their playoff hopes quickly fading. [Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins wrapped up another back-to-back set on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,40,4,33852,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-480764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-pens-points","14":"tag-vegas","15":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","16":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116159620531280425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480764","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=480764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}