BROADCAST INFORMATION<\/p>\n
Watch: SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/p>\n
Listen: 105.9 The X and the Penguins app<\/p>\n
THE MATCHUP<\/p>\n
The Penguins are 18-8-0 in their last 26 meetings with the Jets.
\nThe Penguins have scored three or more goals in seven of their last 11 games against the Jets overall.
\nHere at\u00a0PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh is 21-3-0 in their last 24 matchups against Winnipeg dating back to Mar. 24, 2007.\u00a0
\nFollowing tomorrow’s game, the Penguins will head out on a two-game road trip and play five of the next six games on the road.<\/p>\n
QUICK HITS<\/p>\n
1) Erik Karlsson has 31 points (5G-26A) in 36 career games against the Jets. His 0.86 points-per-game average versus Winnipeg ranks second among all active defensemen (min. 10 GP) behind Moritz Seider (1.30).<\/p>\n
2) Kris Letang (6G-24A) is tied with Alex Pietrangelo (6G-24A) for the third-most points against the Jets among active defensemen behind Roman Josi (8G-30A) and teammate Erik Karlsson (5G-26A).<\/p>\n
3) Evgeni Malkin is just the second 40-year-old in NHL history to score in each of his team\u2019s first two games of a season, alongside Gordie Howe (2 GP in 1968-69).<\/p>\n
4) Egor Chinakhov\u2019s 98.89 MPH shot on Sept. 30 versus Philadelphia is the hardest recorded shot by any player in the 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
5) Sam Girard has notched three points (1G-2A) in two games with Pittsburgh this season after accumulating seven assists in 20 games last year following a mid-season trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROADCAST INFORMATION Watch: SportsNet Pittsburgh Listen: 105.9 The X and the Penguins app THE MATCHUP The Penguins are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-300060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300060","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=300060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}