{"id":522692,"date":"2026-11-08T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522692\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:30:10","slug":"penguins-play-the-ducks-after-novaks-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522692\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins play the Ducks after Novak&#8217;s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/pittsburgh-penguins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> (6-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/anaheim-ducks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (9-7-1, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Anaheim, California; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Ducks -123, Penguins +101; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Anaheim Ducks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/thomas-novak-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Novak<\/a> scored two goals in the Penguins&#8217; 5-2 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/los-angeles-kings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Anaheim has a 2-4-1 record in home games and a 9-7-1 record overall. The Ducks are 5-2-1 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Pittsburgh has a 6-9-2 record overall and a 1-6-1 record in road games. The Penguins are 2-4-1 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The teams meet Sunday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/leo-carlsson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Carlsson<\/a> has scored six goals with 20 assists for the Ducks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/cutter-gauthier-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has 10 goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/nicholas-robertson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Robertson<\/a> has seven goals for the Penguins. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/rickard-rakell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> has scored five goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-4-1, averaging 4.2 goals, 7.2 assists, six penalties and 16.8 penalty minutes while giving up 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Penguins: 3-6-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.7 assists, 2.8 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Ducks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/anthony-john-greer-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Greer<\/a>: out (upper-body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/troy-terry-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Terry<\/a>: out (hip), Ryan Poehling: out (lower-body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/ian-moore-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Moore<\/a>: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Penguins: Bryan Rust: out (lower-body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/trevor-van-riemsdyk-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/a>: out (lower body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/ryan-graves-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Graves<\/a>: out (lower-body), Elmer Soderblom: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (9-7-1, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[105502,163,824,165,164,1718,80631,10358,1716,896,199826,1603,6269,199293,6488,199292,4862],"class_list":["post-522692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-a-j-greer","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-event_preview","tag-ian-moore","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nick-robertson","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-rickard-rakell","tag-ryan-graves","tag-tommy-novak","tag-trevor-van-riemsdyk","tag-troy-terry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}