Pittsburgh Penguins (33-18-15, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (44-12-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Denver; Monday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the Pittsburgh Penguins in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
Colorado is 44-12-9 overall and 23-5-4 at home. The Avalanche have a 23-5-6 record when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 33-18-15 overall and 17-9-7 in road games. The Penguins have a 33-4-8 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Martin Necas has 31 goals and 48 assists for the Avalanche. Cale Makar has four goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Erik Karlsson has six goals and 40 assists for the Penguins. Bryan Rust has five goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 7-3-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.9 assists, 3.8 penalties and nine penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 4-3-3, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.2 assists, 4.1 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Avalanche: 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 (33-18-15, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (44-12-9, in the Central Division) Denver; Monday, 9:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10170,46821,20332,1676,30402,3840,27188,46819,4843,1484,40,28,73,75,74,1067,726],"class_list":["post-138783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bryan-rust","tag-cale-makar","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-data-skrive","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-martin-necas","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138783","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=138783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}