Ottawa Senators (26-21-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (28-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins come into a matchup against the Ottawa Senators as winners of six games in a row.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 28-14-11 record overall and a 13-7-7 record on its home ice. The Penguins have gone 28-4-5 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Ottawa is 26-21-7 overall and 12-11-3 in road games. The Senators are 6-10-3 in games they serve more penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n
Monday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Senators won 4-0 in the previous meeting. Brady Tkachuk led the Senators with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sidney Crosby has 27 goals and 31 assists for the Penguins. Anthony Mantha has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tim Stutzle has 25 goals and 31 assists for the Senators. Dylan Cozens has scored seven goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 7-1-2, averaging 4.1 goals, 6.7 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Senators: 6-2-2, averaging 4.2 goals, 7.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Senators: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (26-21-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (28-14-11, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Monday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49612,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-102165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-49612","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}