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The Penguins are 13-3-3 since acquiring Egor Chinakhov in December, a 19-game stretch over which Chinakhov has recorded 13 points (nine goals, four assists).<\/p>\n
Kris Letang is heading into today\u2019s game just two points shy of 800. He could be the 21st defenseman and fourth active blueliner after Brent Burns, teammate Erik Karlsson and Victor Hedman to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who:\u00a0Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0(30-15-12, 72 points, 2nd place Metropolitan Division) @ New York Rangers (22-29-7, 51 points, 8th place Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62275,540,21088,62289,19692,3523,62285,62279,62282,62281,62299,11935,62296,62274,62304,62300,62286,33405,62294,62302,62283,3518,62305,7186,62303,62277,62301,62287,62288,17203,222,10707,62295,50237,7187,9,24,55,54,541,62280,62308,56,62298,62273,11811,48215,62278,62292,62309,3520,62290,62306,16327,62291,3525,62297,50238,62293,62284,3516,25552,3510,11920,62276,62307,3521],"class_list":{"0":"post-148477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-adam-edstrom","9":"tag-adam-fox","10":"tag-alexis-lafreniere","11":"tag-anthony-mantha","12":"tag-artemi-panarin","13":"tag-arturs-silovs","14":"tag-avery-hayes","15":"tag-ben-kindel","16":"tag-blake-lizotte","17":"tag-braden-schneider","18":"tag-brendan-brisson","19":"tag-brennan-othmann","20":"tag-brent-burns","21":"tag-bryan-rust","22":"tag-chinakhov","23":"tag-connor-clifton","24":"tag-connor-dewar","25":"tag-conor-sheary","26":"tag-erik-karlsson","27":"tag-evgeni-malkin","28":"tag-filip-hallander","29":"tag-igor-shesterkin","30":"tag-ilya-solovyov","31":"tag-j-t-miller","32":"tag-jack-st-ivany","33":"tag-jonny-brodzinski","34":"tag-justin-brazeau","35":"tag-kevin-hayes","36":"tag-kris-letang","37":"tag-los-angeles-kings","38":"tag-madison-square-garden","39":"tag-matt-rempe","40":"tag-matthew-robertson","41":"tag-metropolitan-division","42":"tag-mika-zibanejad","43":"tag-new-york","44":"tag-new-york-city","45":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","46":"tag-new-york-city-news","47":"tag-new-york-rangers","48":"tag-noah-laba","49":"tag-noel-acciari","50":"tag-ny","51":"tag-parker-wotherspoon","52":"tag-pens","53":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","54":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","55":"tag-rickard-rakell","56":"tag-ryan-graves","57":"tag-ryan-shea","58":"tag-sam-carrick","59":"tag-sam-girard","60":"tag-scott-morrow","61":"tag-seattle-kraken","62":"tag-sidney-crosby","63":"tag-stuart-skinner","64":"tag-taylor-raddysh","65":"tag-the-rangers","66":"tag-tommy-novak","67":"tag-tye-kartye","68":"tag-urho-vaakanainen","69":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","70":"tag-victor-hedman","71":"tag-vincent-trocheck","72":"tag-vladislav-gavrikov","73":"tag-will-borgen","74":"tag-will-cuylle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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