Philadelphia Flyers (28-22-11, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (31-17-13, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 5:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Metropolitan Division opponents meet when the Pittsburgh Penguins take on the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has an 11-1-6 record in Metropolitan Division games and a 31-17-13 record overall. The Penguins have a +32 scoring differential, with 204 total goals scored and 172 conceded.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia is 28-22-11 overall with a 7-6-4 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Flyers have given up 188 goals while scoring 171 for a -17 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Penguins won 6-3 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Justin Brazeau has scored 16 goals with 13 assists for the Penguins. Benjamin Kindel has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Travis Konecny has 23 goals and 34 assists for the Flyers. Matvei Michkov has scored three goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 5-3-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.9 assists, 4.1 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flyers: 4-4-2, averaging 2.2 goals, 3.8 assists, 2.5 penalties and 5.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Flyers: 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":"Philadelphia Flyers (28-22-11, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (31-17-13, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 5:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60895,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-131152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-60895","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\/131152","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=131152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131152\/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=131152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}