{"id":169749,"date":"2026-04-19T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:02:08","slug":"how-to-watch-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169749\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated April 18, 2026, 7:58 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Battle of Pennsylvania is back.<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> are back in the NHL playoffs after a three-year absence and the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> have ended a five-year drought.<\/p>\n

They are meeting in the postseason for the first time since 2018, a series that the Penguins won in six games.<\/p>\n

Both teams reached the playoffs after making coaching changes. Dan Muse replaced Mike Sullivan in Pittsburgh in the offseason, and Rick Tocchet, a former Flyers player, was hired in Philadelphia. John Tortorella and Brad Shaw coached the Flyers last season.<\/p>\n

USA will be providing live coverage of Game 1 of the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Philadelphia Flyers first-round series. Follow along:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When is Penguins vs. Flyers Game 1?<\/p>\n

Game 1 of the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Philadelphia Flyers first round series will be played at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 18 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Watch NHL playoff hockey on Fubo<\/a>Penguins vs. Flyers: How to watch, streamDate: Saturday, April 18Time: 8 p.m. ETTV: ESPNStreaming: ESPN+, Fubo<\/a>\u00a0 Penguins lineup Penguins vs. Flyers season series<\/p>\n

Each team had two wins in the season series. The Flyers’ wins were in shootouts.<\/p>\n

Stuart Skinner starting in Penguins net<\/p>\n

Coach Dan Muse announced<\/a> that Stuart Skinner would start Game 1 against the Flyers. He was acquired in the Tristan Jarry trade and had taken the Oilers to back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals. Arturs Silovs will back up.<\/p>\n

Hurricanes beat Senators in Game 1<\/p>\n

Frederik Andersen got the start and made 22 saves in a 2-0 victory. Logan Stankoven and Taylor Hall each had a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n

Senators captain Brady Tkachuk and Hurricanes counterpart Jordan Staal dropped the gloves<\/a> off the opening faceoff.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Philadelphia Flyers playoff scheduleGame 1: April 18. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 8, ESPNGame 2: April 20, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7, ESPNGame 3: April 22. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7, ESPNGame 4: April 25. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 8, TBS, truTVx-Game 5: April 27. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBDx-Game 6: April 29. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, TBDx-Game 7: May 2. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 18, 2026, 7:58 p.m. ET The Battle of Pennsylvania is back. The Pittsburgh Penguins are back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[596,539,69,71,70,12527,12528,4319,11767,5230,5700,4321,1854,2180,5212,76323,11023,952,542,2531,2514,544,17239,535],"class_list":["post-169749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-accessmetered","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sstssportsnhl","tag-sstsnnhl","tag-tagcontains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-taghockey","tag-taglive-coverage","tag-taglive-sporting-events","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnhl","tag-tagnhl-playoffs","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagphiladelphia","tag-tagpittsburgh","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagttp-live-blog","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169749","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=169749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}