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With the win, the Penguins sit in second place in the division and according to MoneyPuck<\/a>, the Penguins now have an 83.3% chance of making the postseason for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n The Penguins can get another boost tonight with their game against the Detroit Red Wings, who currently sit two points<\/a> outside of the Eastern Conference\u2019s second wild card spot.<\/p>\n If the Penguins win tonight in regulation, their chance of making the playoffs moves up to 91.6%, according to MoneyPuck. <\/a><\/p>\n The modeling at Hockeystats.com<\/a> is even more favorable, their numbers already have the Penguins with 91% odds of qualifying for the playoffs entering today\u2019s game. It has the opportunity to rise even higher with a win tonight. The Red Wings should be a desperate team, their season is slipping away and a loss tonight narrows their odds even further.<\/p>\n The Penguins have eight games remaining this season, only one of which is against a current playoff team when Pittsburgh will travel to Tampa Bay to face the Lightning on Thursday night.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n While the Penguins have their own business to handle, scoreboard watching can be helpful too.<\/p>\n If the Islanders lose to the Sabres tonight in regulation, their playoff chance drops from 70.3% down to 43.9%, according to MoneyPuck<\/a>. If the Blue Jackets lose to the Hurricanes in regulation, their playoff chance drops from 63.6% to 35.8%, according to MoneyPuck<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins got a big boost last night towards earning a playoff spot with a massive win against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[10448,3644,93,38732,5,122,189,3328,159,5190,5189,4,100,1108,2171],"class_list":{"0":"post-532783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-anthony-mantha","9":"tag-blue-jackets","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-elmont","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-islanders","14":"tag-lightning","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-islanders","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkislanders","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","21":"tag-sabres","22":"tag-the-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116323859542036358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532783","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=532783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c83821773662b5451bf9d19bcca7382e.jpeg\"\/)
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