{"id":555403,"date":"2026-04-18T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:24:22","slug":"dan-muse-makes-big-goalie-decision-before-penguins-flyers-nhl-playoffs-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555403\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Muse Makes Big Goalie Decision Before Penguins-Flyers NHL Playoffs Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> fans&#8217; biggest questions leading into the team&#8217;s first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers was who would start between the pipes in Game 1 on Saturday night?<\/p>\n<p>Penguins head coach Dan Muse answered that question Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dan Muse said Stuart Skinner will start Game 1 against Philadelphia,&#8221; Penguins team reporter Michelle Crechiolo posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dan Muse said Stuart Skinner will start Game 1 against Philadelphia. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DEzSz2LzU4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DEzSz2LzU4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pens Inside Scoop (@PensInsideScoop) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PensInsideScoop\/status\/2045530728595591596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skinner earned the nod over Arturs Silovs, at least to begin the best-of-seven set.<\/p>\n<p>The former went 2-0-1 in three starts vs. the Flyers this season, recording 64 saves on 71 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner finished the regular season 12-9-5 with 80 goals allowed and 617 saves, good for an .885 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Silovs was 19-12-8 with 115 goals allowed and 905 saves, finishing with an .887 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-penguins\/news\/penguins-get-positive-injury-news-key-forward-ahead-playoffs\/1f47a528a45ac8341a4771e6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins Get Positive Injury News On Key Forward Ahead Of Playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Pittsburgh Penguins fans&#8217; biggest questions leading into the team&#8217;s first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia Flyers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-555403","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\/116426877389159706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555403","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=555403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}