{"id":252909,"date":"2025-10-31T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252909\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:07:07","slug":"is-the-penguins-early-season-performance-a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252909\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Penguins\u2019 early season performance a trick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> just keep winning. On Thursday night, they hit the road to play Minnesota and took advantage of a struggling Wild team, taking a 4-1 victory to move to 8-2-2 on the young season under first-year head coach Dan Muse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">With some help on the scoreboard, the Penguins assumed full control of first place in the Metropolitan Division, though New Jersey and Carolina are right on their heels, and Philadelphia, Washington and Columbus are not far behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Penguins were tabbed as one of the contenders to finish at the bottom of the NHL standings before the year, but Evgeni Malkin (17 points in 12 games) and Sidney Crosby (15 points in 12 games) have turned back the clock  while Justin Brazeau and Anthony Mantha have provided excellent secondary scoring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Friday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rDaDGamX34w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, host Tyler Yaremchuk and co-host and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed whether or not Pittsburgh can be counted upon to sustain this hot start and turn it into a surprising playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: A little Halloween themed segment, it is Trick or Treat? You\u2019re going to give me one trick from the first month, something that\u2019s not sustainable, and then we\u2019ll wrap it up with a treat as well. Who is your Halloween trick?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: My trick, I hate to do it, but I\u2019m going to go with the Pittsburgh Penguins. I just think they\u2019re off to a good start, but these are the old boys getting it done. Malkin leading the team with 17 points. Karlsson leading with 22 minutes a game; Letang\u2019s playing over 21. Crosby\u2019s going to be good, but we know that. I just don\u2019t think this is sustainable for the Pittsburgh Penguins. They\u2019re off to a great start\u2026 I just can\u2019t see this being consistent throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode below\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins just keep winning. On Thursday night, they hit the road to play Minnesota and took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-252909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}