{"id":540249,"date":"2026-04-04T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540249\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:19:13","slug":"game-preview-04-04-26-vs-florida-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540249\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: 04.04.26 vs. Florida Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>QUICK HITS<\/p>\n<p>Forward Bryan Rust\u00a0is on a six-game point streak (4G-5A) against the Panthers which is tied for the longest active point streak in the league versus them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins have the most 30-point scorers (12) and 20-point scorers (15) in the league this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since March 22, no player in the league has more goals than\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0(7).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman\u00a0Kris Letang\u00a0had two assists on Thursday against the Lightning and has now reached the 30-assist mark for the 11th time in his career and first since the 2023-24 season. His 11 seasons rank tied for fourteenth most all-time (Victor Hedman, John Carlson, Ryan Suter\u00a0and\u00a0B\u00f6rje Salming\u00a0&#8211; 11).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egor Chinakhov\u00a0has 16 points (7G-9A) over his last 15 games and has picked up 30 points (17G-13A) in 38 games since joining the Penguins. Since his Penguins debut on Jan. 1, no one has more goals than him on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes QUICK HITS Forward Bryan Rust\u00a0is on a six-game point streak (4G-5A) against the Panthers which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-540249","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\/116346641830484017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540249","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=540249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}