Pittsburgh Penguins (8-3-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (6-5-1, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Pittsburgh Penguins take the ice in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
Toronto has a 5-2-1 record in home games and a 6-5-1 record overall. The Maple Leafs have a -1 scoring differential, with 43 total goals scored and 44 conceded.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has an 8-3-2 record overall and a 5-2-1 record in road games. The Penguins have a 2-0-1 record when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Monday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: John Tavares has scored six goals with 10 assists for the Maple Leafs. Matthew Knies has four goals and 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby has nine goals and seven assists for the Penguins. Evgeni Malkin has three goals and 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 5-4-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 6-2-2, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.9 assists, four penalties and 11.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Maple Leafs: 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 (8-3-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (6-5-1, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15025,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-22413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-15025","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413","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=22413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}