Florida Panthers (37-35-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (38-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Florida Panthers after Yegor Chinakhov’s two-goal game against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Penguins’ 6-3 loss.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 18-12-8 at home and 38-22-16 overall. The Penguins have a 38-6-9 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Florida has a 16-20-0 record on the road and a 37-35-3 record overall. The Panthers have a 15-6-2 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Penguins won 5-3 in the previous matchup. Sidney Crosby led the Penguins with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Rust has scored 27 goals with 35 assists for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell has eight goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Carter Verhaeghe has 23 goals and 30 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 5-4-1, averaging 4.1 goals, 7.4 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.6 goals, four assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte: out (upper-body), Caleb Jones: out for season (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Panthers: Cole Schwindt: out (lower body), Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov: out (nose), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out for season (knee), Anton Lundell: out for season (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out for season (foot), Aaron Ekblad: out for season (finger), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Florida Panthers (37-35-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (38-22-16, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-539313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116343291579096339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539313","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=539313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}