{"id":354526,"date":"2025-12-17T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:32:09","slug":"game-preview-12-18-25-at-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354526\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: 12.18.25 at Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>Quick Hits<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Rust (465) is one point shy of tying Jake Guentzel (466) for the 11th most points in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins enter tomorrow&#8217;s game ranked third in the NHL in power-play percentage (31.1%).<\/p>\n<p>Justin Brazeau has four points (2G-2A) in three games against Ottawa and he\u2019s a plus-3. Both of his goals were scored on the power play, which is tied for his highest against any one opponent, and one was a game winner.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Crosby\u2019s next even-strength goal will surpass Phil Esposito (448) for sole possession of the ninth-most even-strength goals in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Mantha has picked up eight points (2G-6A) over his last eight games dating back to Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes Quick Hits Bryan Rust (465) is one point shy of tying Jake Guentzel (466) for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-354526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}