{"id":217229,"date":"2026-04-03T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:53:07","slug":"pittsburgh-plays-florida-after-chinakhovs-2-goal-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217229\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh plays Florida after Chinakhov’s 2-goal showing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Panthers<\/a> (37-35-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> (38-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Florida Panthers after Yegor Chinakhov’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Penguins’ 6-3 loss.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 18-12-8 at home and 38-22-16 overall. The Penguins have a 38-6-9 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n

Florida has a 16-20-0 record on the road and a 37-35-3 record overall. The Panthers have a 15-6-2 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Penguins won 5-3 in the previous matchup. Sidney Crosby<\/a> led the Penguins with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Rust<\/a> has scored 27 goals with 35 assists for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell<\/a> has eight goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> has 23 goals and 30 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 5-4-1, averaging 4.1 goals, 7.4 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Panthers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.6 goals, four assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Penguins: Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte<\/a>: out (upper-body), Caleb Jones: out for season (lower-body).<\/p>\n

Panthers: Cole Schwindt<\/a>: out (lower body), Brad Marchand<\/a>: out (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov<\/a>: out (nose), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart<\/a>: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out for season (knee), Anton Lundell<\/a>: out for season (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out for season (foot), Aaron Ekblad: out for season (finger), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (37-35-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (38-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25443,98433,6502,98420,98861,98862,98863,98435,70652,28,30,29,16995,53656,53658,15952,98424,54023,98421],"class_list":{"0":"post-217229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-anton-lundell","9":"tag-blake-lizotte","10":"tag-brad-marchand","11":"tag-bryan-rust","12":"tag-carter-verhaeghe","13":"tag-cole-schwindt","14":"tag-dmitry-kulikov","15":"tag-egor-chinakhov","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-florida-headlines","19":"tag-florida-news","20":"tag-florida-panthers","21":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","22":"tag-national-hockey-league","23":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","24":"tag-rickard-rakell","25":"tag-sam-reinhart","26":"tag-sidney-crosby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}