{"id":308642,"date":"2026-10-17T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308642\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:08:07","slug":"vegas-hosts-pittsburgh-following-stones-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308642\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas hosts Pittsburgh following Stone’s hat trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> (3-4-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> (7-2, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Paradise, Nevada; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Golden Knights -248, Penguins +198; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Vegas Golden Knights host the Pittsburgh Penguins after Mark Stone’s<\/a> hat trick against the Calgary Flames<\/a> in the Golden Knights’ 6-2 win.<\/p>\n

Vegas is 7-2 overall and 4-1-0 in home games. The Golden Knights have a 5-2-0 record in games their opponents commit more penalties.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 1-3-1 on the road and 3-4-1 overall. The Penguins have scored and given up 26 goals this season for an even scoring differential.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Golden Knights: Parker Wotherspoon: out (upper body), Lukas Cormier: out (undisclosed), Victor Olofsson<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Kai Uchacz: out (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

Penguins: Justin Brazeau<\/a>: out (lower-body), Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/a>: out (lower body), Ryan Graves<\/a>: out (lower-body), Egor Chinakhov<\/a>: out (lower body).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (3-4-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (7-2, in the Pacific Division) Paradise, Nevada;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41972,56878,9479,89154,33946,73,75,74,1067,13221,73899,31748,46818],"class_list":["post-308642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-egor-chinakhov","tag-event_preview","tag-justin-brazeau","tag-mark-stone","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ryan-graves","tag-trevor-van-riemsdyk","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-victor-olofsson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308642","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=308642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}