Pittsburgh Penguins (30-15-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (22-29-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
New York; Saturday, 12:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers take on the Pittsburgh Penguins as losers of five games in a row.<\/p>\n
New York has gone 22-29-7 overall with a 6-10-2 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Rangers have a 19-6-1 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 30-15-12 overall and 11-1-5 against the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins have scored 195 total goals (3.4 per game) to rank ninth in the league.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Penguins won the last matchup 6-5. Anthony Mantha scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mika Zibanejad has scored 23 goals with 29 assists for the Rangers. Vincent Trocheck has one goal and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mantha has 20 goals and 23 assists for the Penguins. Benjamin Kindel has scored six goals and added one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 2-7-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 5.1 assists, four penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 8-1-1, averaging 4.6 goals, 7.4 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 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":"Pittsburgh Penguins (30-15-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (22-29-7, in the Metropolitan Division) New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58559,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-125098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-58559","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125098","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=125098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125098\/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=125098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}