{"id":369069,"date":"2025-12-24T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369069\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:18:04","slug":"pens-points-a-not-so-merry-christmas-eve-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369069\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens Points: A not-so-merry Christmas Eve Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a festively fun, Christmas Eve edition of Pens Points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Max Domi proved to be an indestructible force for the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday afternoon, as he scored the game-winner to snap a 23-game goalless streak while helping end the Maple Leafs\u2019 three-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pensburgh.com\/game-recaps\/70751\/penguins-maple-leafs-highlights-tripped-up-before-the-break\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s still No. 1 in my book. I don\u2019t think you can put a stat line or a number on what he means to this team and to hockey,\u201d Sidney Crosby said of Mario Lemieux after passing his friend and mentor to become the Penguins\u2019 all-time points leader. And in passing Lemieux for the franchise scoring title, Crosby, once again, chose to do so with class, paying tribute to arguably the greatest Penguin and NHL player of all time. [<a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/the-kid-is-now-the-king-while-passing-mario-lemieux-sidney-crosby-paid-an-ultimate-tribute\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trib Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>News and notes from around the NHL\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before the game against the Penguins, Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said on Tuesday that he fully supports head coach Craig Berube despite the team\u2019s recent losing streak and the firing of assistant coach Mark Savard on Monday. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-gm-treliving-says-he-supports-coach-berube-fully-amid-struggles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I may be biased, but Marc-Andre Fleury\u2019s preseason sendoff was the perfect way to wrap up the career of the future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender. However, teams are \u201ckicking the tires\u201d on Fleury, who is open to returning for the right opportunity, according to multiple reports. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-goalie-marc-andre-fleury-open-to-comeback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Members of the Professional Hockey Players\u2019 Association are on the verge of staging a strike in the ECHL if the union and the league cannot agree to a new collective bargaining agreement. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/article\/phpa-echl-rejects-latest-proposal-to-avoid-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press via Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a festively fun, Christmas Eve edition of Pens Points&#8230; Max Domi proved to be an indestructible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,44,575,184446,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369069","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-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-pens-points","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069","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=369069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}