{"id":542300,"date":"2026-04-05T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:01:14","slug":"penguins-prove-they-have-great-team-with-blowout-win-over-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542300\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Prove They Have &#8216;Great Team&#8217; With Blowout Win Over Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> picked up a lopsided home win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh routed the Panthers 9-4, and although Florida won\u2019t be making the playoffs this season, the Panthers are the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup champions. It was a stellar win for Pittsburgh, and star forward Evgeni Malkin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/penguins\/video\/post-game-malkin-04-04-26-6392587135112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">believes it proves<\/a> they have a great team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a great team right now, you know? We played hard,\u201d\u00a0Malkin said postgame on Saturday. \u201cPoints (are) important, and two points for the team is important, because it&#8217;s huge for us. We&#8217;re fighting for playoffs, and I think it&#8217;s important to fight for maybe second place, to start at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh is holding onto the second spot in the Metro division, and the Penguins are playing great hockey ahead of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins were led by Malkin who scored three goals and an assist, while Erik Karlsson had a goal and three assists. It was a stellar performance from Pittsburgh who will face Florida again on Sunday and Malkin expects the Panthers to have a chip on their shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge game tomorrow, because we know this team win two Cups in two years, and they fight tomorrow, for sure,\u201d Malkin said.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins enter play with a record of 39-22-16.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-penguins\/news\/whats-stake-penguins-vs-panthers-saturday\/eae363e17355de6201ca0b28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s at Stake For The Penguins Against The Panthers on Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins picked up a lopsided home win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday. Pittsburgh routed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-542300","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\/116352941077952553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542300","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=542300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}