PENGUINS\u00a0NOTES<\/p>\n
The Penguins have dropped four of their last six games and\u00a0haven’t\u00a0won in regulation since Mar. 16. They most recently fell 6-3 to the Dallas Stars on Saturday night.\u00a0Erik Karlsson (1G, 2A),\u00a0Anthony\u00a0Mantha\u00a0and Noel Acciari scored the Pens’ goals in the loss. Stuart Skinner denied 20 of the 24 shots directed his way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh (88 points) sits in third place in the Metropolitan Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With a three-point outing on Saturday, Karlsson eclipsed 60 points (13G, 47A) for the first time since his 101-point,\u00a0Norris\u00a0Trophy-winning year\u00a0with the San Jose Sharks in the 2022-23 season.\u00a0The 35-year-old\u00a0has six points (2G, 4A) in his last two outings.\u00a0Karlsson leads the team with 47 assists and is second in scoring.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rickard Rakell enters Monday\u2019s game on a three-game point streak, with five points (3G, 2A) in that stretch.\u00a0Rakell notched an eight-game point streak earlier this month. He sits sixth on the team with 40 points (17G, 23A) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Dec. 29, the Penguins\u00a0acquired\u00a0Egor\u00a0Chinakhov\u00a0from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Danton Heinen, a\u00a02026 second-round pick (via. STL) and a 2027 third-round pick (via. WSH).\u00a0Chinakhov\u00a0has 26 points (14G, 12A) since joining the Pens and tallied a goal in the Feb. 3 matchup against the Isles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby (lower-body, day-to-day) exited Pittsburgh 4-3 shootout win over the Ottawa Senators in the second period and didn\u2019t return, and while he didn\u2019t suit up against the Stars on Saturday, the Penguins’ captain practiced on Sunday. Crosby leads the team with 64 points (28G, 36A) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin (upper-body, day-to-day)\u00a0missed his third straight game on Saturday. Malkin ranks fifth on the Pens with 52 points (15G, 37A)\u00a0in his 20th\u00a0NHL season. Malkin also practiced on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh owns the seventh-best power-play (24.4%) in the league this season, but they have stumbled to 20th (19.6%) this month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Penguins also own the third-best penalty kill (82.1%) in the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENGUINS\u00a0NOTES The Penguins have dropped four of their last six games and\u00a0haven’t\u00a0won in regulation since Mar. 16. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-530558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116316316993484613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530558","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=530558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}