Game Notes\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits<\/p>\n
Kris Letang (6G-24A) is tied with\u00a0Alex Pietrangelo\u00a0(6G-24A) for the second-most points against the Jets among active defensemen behind\u00a0Roman Josi\u00a0(8G-30A).<\/p>\n
Egor Chinakhov\u00a0(14G-14A-28PTS) sits two goals and one point shy of tying his respective career highs (16G and 29 PTS) set in the 2023-24 season. His assist on Monday in Colorado helped him establish a new career best.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With his three points (2G-1A) on Wednesday,\u00a0Erik Karlsson\u00a0now has 52 points (9G-43A) and became the fifth player on Pittsburgh to record 50 or more points (Sidney Crosby\u00a0– 61;\u00a0Bryan Rust\u00a0– 54;\u00a0Anthony Mantha\u00a0– 53;\u00a0Evgeni Malkin\u00a0– 51), tying the League lead with Vegas and Montreal.<\/p>\n
With his goal on Monday night,\u00a0Noel Acciari\u00a0has now scored three goals in his last five games and has four points (3G-1A) total.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust\u00a0enters Friday\u2019s game riding a five-game point streak (5G-3A) and has points in 10 of his last 11 games played (7G-7A) dating back to Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes\u00a0 Quick Hits Kris Letang (6G-24A) is tied with\u00a0Alex Pietrangelo\u00a0(6G-24A) for the second-most points against the Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-144773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144773","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=144773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}