Florida Panthers (37-36-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (39-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Sunday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Penguins -242, Panthers +198; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Florida Panthers after Evgeni Malkin recorded a hat trick in the Penguins\u2019 9-4 win against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has a 19-12-8 record at home and a 39-22-16 record overall. The Penguins rank third in league play with 272 total goals (averaging 3.5 per game).<\/p>\n Florida has a 16-21-0 record on the road and a 37-36-3 record overall. The Panthers rank third in NHL play serving 11.2 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n The teams square off Sunday for the third time this season. The Penguins won the previous matchup 9-4. Malkin scored three goals in the win.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Sidney Crosby has scored 28 goals with 41 assists for the Penguins. Erik Karlsson has seven goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Sam Reinhart has 29 goals and 32 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has scored five goals and added seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 5-4-1, averaging 4.3 goals, 7.5 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n Panthers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.2 assists, 3.3 penalties and 10.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Penguins: Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte: out (upper-body), Caleb Jones: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n Panthers: Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov: day to day (nose), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out for season (knee), Anton Lundell: out for season (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out for season (foot), Aaron Ekblad: out for season (finger), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (37-36-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (39-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Sunday, 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71210,71214,70821,39156,70818,11246,3840,70819,27188,71227,15355,6059,17218,5918,11098,71407,70816,4843,1484,71230,40,28,73,75,74,1067,70820,8664,726,71218],"class_list":{"0":"post-157671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aaron-ekblad","9":"tag-aleksander-barkov","10":"tag-anton-lundell","11":"tag-blake-lizotte","12":"tag-brad-marchand","13":"tag-caleb-jones","14":"tag-data-skrive","15":"tag-dmitry-kulikov","16":"tag-erik-karlsson","17":"tag-evan-rodrigues","18":"tag-evgeni-malkin","19":"tag-filip-hallander","20":"tag-fl-state-wire","21":"tag-florida","22":"tag-florida-panthers","23":"tag-jonah-gadjovich","24":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","25":"tag-nhl","26":"tag-nhl-hockey","27":"tag-niko-mikkola","28":"tag-pa-state-wire","29":"tag-pennsylvania","30":"tag-pittsburgh","31":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","32":"tag-pittsburgh-news","33":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","34":"tag-sam-reinhart","35":"tag-sidney-crosby","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-uvis-balinskis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157671","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=157671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157671\/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=157671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}