The Penguins return home for the first time this season as they take on the Montreal Canadiens at PPG Paints Arena. Puck drop is 7:00 PM. Doors open at 5:30 PM.<\/p>\n
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Forwards David Gustafsson and Andrei Kuzmenko are looking to make their Penguins debuts tonight.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 31-17-10 all-time in home openers (first home game of the season), including a 8-4-1 mark in its last 13 games.<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang earned their 494th career win together on Wednesday in Philadelphia, passing San Jose\u2019s Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski and Marc-Edouard Vlasic (493) for the most regular-season wins by a trio in NHL history.<\/p>\n
Erik Karlsson has 44 points (11G-33A) in 55 career games versus the Canadiens. His 11 goals versus them are tied with his teammate Kris Letang (11) for the most among all active blueliners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rickard Rakell has 20 points (9G-11A) in 22 career games against the Canadiens, including 13 points (5G-8A) over his last nine games against them. His 0.91 points-per-game average against them is his second highest against any one opponent (NSH, 1.04).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins return home for the first time this season as they take on the Montreal Canadiens at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-919185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919185","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=919185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}