{"id":557490,"date":"2026-04-21T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:03:17","slug":"penguins-home-playoff-woes-continue-with-losses-to-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557490\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins home playoff woes continue with losses to Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Penguins haven\u2019t given the home fans at PPG Paints Arena a lot to cheer about over the last several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With losses to the Flyers in Games and 2 of the team\u2019s playoff series, there\u2019s no guarantee that the fans will get to see another home hockey game in Pittsburgh this season unless the Penguins can earn a split on the road in Philadelphia, at minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since winning the Stanley Cup in 2016 and 2017, when the Penguins boasted an impressive home playoff record of 19-7 across two long playoff runs, the Penguins have won just five home playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Over the past nine seasons, the Penguins have a home record of just 5-11 across six playoff series. A seventh series was played at a neutral location in the COVID-19 pandemic \u201cbubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Only three of the Penguins\u2019 home playoff wins have come since May of 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Penguins have a tall task ahead of themselves now, trailing 2-0 to the Flyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Game 3 is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow night in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins haven\u2019t given the home fans at PPG Paints Arena a lot to cheer about over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,56,1469,100,5216,864,8874,104,2171],"class_list":{"0":"post-557490","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-philadelphia-flyers","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","15":"tag-playoff-series","16":"tag-ppg-paints-arena","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","18":"tag-the-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116444728077726112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557490","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=557490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}