Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning…<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Penguins closed out the rare home-home back-to-back on Sunday against the Florida Panthers. Pittsburgh once again took care of business after dispatching the Cats 9-4 on Saturday with a controlled, 5-2 win on Sunday, led by Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell. [Recap<\/a>]<\/p>\n Egor Chinakhov has made an impact few could have imagined when he arrived with the Penguins after being acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets, thriving on a \u201cfresh start\u201d that\u2019s boosted his confidence and production. [Penguins<\/a>]<\/p>\n Evgeni Malkin reached his 1,400th career point during the Penguins\u2019 dominant win on Saturday, capping it with a hat trick and becoming the oldest player in franchise history to do so. [Penguins<\/a>]<\/p>\n It seems like every time the Penguins take the ice these days, one of the players reaches a career milestone. Combine franchise greats like Crosby, Malkin, Kris Letang, and Bryan Rust leaving their marks in the history books with a resurgent team on the brink of a playoff berth, and coaches are reminding these players and fans not to take these special moments for granted. [Penguins<\/a>]<\/p>\n News and notes from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n Patrick Roy was fired as coach of the New York Islanders on Sunday. Peter DeBoer was named his replacement with four games left in the season. [ESPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Buffalo Sabres are going dancing for the first time in a long time. The Sabres clinched a playoff berth, ending their NHL-record 14-season drought\u2014the longest in league history\u2014after the New York Rangers defeated the Detroit Red Wings in regulation on Saturday. [TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Toronto Maple Leafs have begun their search for a new general manager and are expected to target Florida Panthers assistant GM Sunny Mehta, known for his strong analytics background and role in the Panthers\u2019 recent success. [Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins closed out the rare home-home back-to-back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,40,4,118,33852,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-543634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pens-points","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116357466698070416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543634","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=543634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}