{"id":544621,"date":"2026-04-07T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:28:12","slug":"nhl-tabs-rakell-for-top-weekly-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544621\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Tabs Rakell for Top Weekly Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following his continued offensive output including two more goals Sunday, the NHL named Pittsburgh Penguins center <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/rickard-rakell\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2085\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> the first star of the week for March 30. <\/p>\n<p>Rakell scored seven goals and notched eight points in five games last week. The Penguins won four of five games and are now just two points shy of clinching the club\u2019s first playoff berth since 2022. Teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/sidney-crosby\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"156\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> also had eight points, and they trailed only New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes, who had nine. <\/p>\n<p>Rakell scored seven of the Penguins\u2019 30 goals over the past five games, which is the most any Penguins team has scored in a five-game span since 1995-96 (30G from March 16-26, 1996).\u00a0In the last 10 games, Rakell has 11 goals, including three multi-goal games. <\/p>\n<p>Since March 1, Rakell has scored 14 goals with 24 points in 20 games, which leads all NHL players in goals in that span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his continued offensive output including two more goals Sunday, the NHL named Pittsburgh Penguins center Rickard Rakell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-544621","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544621","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=544621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}