TUNE-IN<\/p>\n
Watch: SportsNet Pittsburgh
\nListen: 105.9 The X and the Penguins app<\/p>\n
THE MATCHUP<\/p>\n
-The Penguins have points in 10 of their last 16 games against the Stars (7-6-3) dating back to Feb. 9, 2018.<\/p>\n
-Pittsburgh is 5-3-1 in its last nine home games versus the Stars dating back to Dec. 1, 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
-Tonight\u2019s game is the first of 11 instances where the Penguins will wear their gold third jerseys. Last season the Penguins went 8-3-1 in their thirds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
QUICK HITS<\/p>\n
1) Tonight\u2019s game concludes the Penguins first set of back-to-back games this season (0-0-1). Last year, Pittsburgh went 14-10-8 in back-to-backs (7-5-4 in the first half and 7-5-4 in the second half).<\/p>\n
2) Erik Karlsson has scored 23 points (6G-17A) in 27 career games against Dallas. His 0.85 points-per-game currently ranks sixth among all active defensemen with a minimum of 15 games played against Dallas.<\/p>\n
3) Bryan Rust has goals in back-to-back games (2G). A goal tonight would give him the 14th goal streak of three or more games in his career and first since Mar. 14-18, 2026 (3 game goal streak).\u00a0<\/p>\n
4) Kris Letang has nine points (2G-7A) and is plus-8 in his last 17 games against the Dallas Stars dating back to December 1, 2016.<\/p>\n
5)\u00a0Kaedan Korczak\u2019s 12 blocked shots lead all Pittsburgh players and is tied for ninth in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUNE-IN Watch: SportsNet Pittsburgh Listen: 105.9 The X and the Penguins app THE MATCHUP -The Penguins have points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-303770","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\/303770","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=303770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}