{"id":616914,"date":"2026-04-19T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:33:10","slug":"nhl-teams-watching-for-what-anthony-mantha-does-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616914\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL teams watching for what Anthony Mantha does in the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">There was a fun nugget in Elliotte Friedman\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/32-thoughts-can-hellebuyck-and-the-jets-get-back-on-track\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:32 Thoughts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;32 Thoughts&quot;}\" class=\"link \">32 Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Penguins are one of the league\u2019s great stories and they are fun to watch. One scout said Anthony Mantha may be the most-watched player by other teams in Round 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mantha had a career-best season, exploding for 33 goals and 64 points, while appearing in 81 games. That\u2019s the legwork to get a big contract this summer but now teams will be watching to see what happens when the spotlight gets the brightest. That\u2019s been a problem for Mantha traditionally, he hasn\u2019t scored a goal in 14 NHL playoff games while adding six assists. Mantha also got relegated to being a healthy scratch the previous time he was in the playoffs with Vegas in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So even for a guy who has proved a lot this year, there\u2019s always more work to do and people to impress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That started in Game 1, Mantha was credited with five hits and amped up the physicality in a major way. However, he also took two offensive zone stick penalties and came up empty in a last second chance near the net that ended up as his only shot on goal for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s a long series and teams out there will have a close eye on what impact Mantha is able to have for the Penguins during this playoff stretch. It might just determine how aggressive his market will be on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a fun nugget in Elliotte Friedman\u2019s recent 32 Thoughts The Penguins are one of the league\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[79619,64,63,528,575,3065,4785,85,2137,146138],"class_list":{"0":"post-616914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anthony-mantha","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-getty-images","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","17":"tag-the-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616914","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=616914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}