{"id":540826,"date":"2026-04-04T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:56:15","slug":"penguins-goaltender-arturs-silovs-scheduled-to-start-against-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540826\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start against Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Saturday\u2019s game against the Florida Panthers at PPG Paints Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs\u2019 status approximately two hours before the opening faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>In 35 games this season, Silovs has a 17-10-8 record, a 2.99 goals against average, an .890 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Silovs has never faced the Panthers in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This will be the first game in a rare two-game \u201cseries\u201d between the Penguins and Panthers at PPG Paints Arena. The teams are scheduled to rematch on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Neither team held a morning skate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Penguins forward Rickard Rakell has a six-game scoring streak (seven goals, two assists).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin has 1,399 career points.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Penguins forward Bryan Rust has 499 career points.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to the team\u2019s website, the Panthers are scheduled to start goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. In 50 games this season, Bobrovsky has a 27-21-1 record, a 2.96 goals against average, an .881 save percentage and four shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky was in net for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/boxscores\/202510230FLA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 5-3 home loss to the Penguins on Oct. 23<\/a>. In that contest, he made 12 saves on 17 shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Former Penguins defenseman Dmitry Kulikov is scheduled to be scratched by the Panthers in Saturday\u2019s contest due to a broken nose.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Former Penguins forward Evan Rodrigues is designated to injured reserve for the Florida Panthers due to a finger injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The scheduled referees are Jim Brenk (No. 26) and Mitch Dunning (No. 20), while the linespersons are Mark Shewchyk (No. 92) and Dylan Blujus (No. 57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Saturday\u2019s game against the Florida Panthers at PPG&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540827,"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-540826","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\/116348203014275297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540826","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=540826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}