Hidden Stat II: The Penguins haven\u2019t won on the road against the Golden Knights since<\/a> January 2022, when Jason Zucker, Teddy Blueger and Jake Guentzel led the Pens to a comeback victory.<\/p>\n Getting to know the Golden Knights<\/p>\n Ivan Barbashev – Jack Eichel – Mark Stone<\/p>\n Brett Howden – William Karlsson – Mitch Marner<\/p>\n Trevor Connelly – Tomas Hertl – Raphael Lavoie<\/p>\n Braeden Bowman – Nic Dowd – Marc Gatcomb<\/p>\n Brayden McNabb \/ Shea Theodore<\/p>\n Jeremy Lauzon \/ Rasmus Andersson<\/p>\n Noah Hanifin \/ Dylan Coghlan<\/p>\n Goalies: Carter Hart, Adin Hill<\/p>\n Potential scratches: Ville Heinola, Parker Wotherspoon (week-to-week, upper body)<\/p>\n Injured Reserve: Victor Olofsson<\/p>\n Season-ending LTIR: Alex Pietrangelo<\/p>\n Parker Wotherspoon won\u2019t be reuniting with his former teammates tonight. The Golden Knights announced<\/a> Monday the defenseman is week-to-week with an upper body injury after starting the season on the team\u2019s second pairing alongside Rasmus Andersson.The Golden Knights\u2019 top power play unit of Mark Stone, Jack Eichel, Mitch Marner, Tomas Herl and Shea Theodore has been dangerous so far this season. Vegas is one of seven NHL teams that has converted on more than 25 percent of their power play opportunities so far this season.Carter Hart has made the bulk of starts for the Golden Knights so far this season. After a rocky 18-game campaign last season he has a .911 save percentage and 2.35 GAA through six appearances in net. Rickard Rakell – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust<\/p>\n Ville Koivunen – Tommy Novak – Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n Andrei Kuzmenko – Ben Kindel – Nick Robertson<\/p>\n Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Elmer Soderblom<\/p>\n Declan Carlile \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n Sam Girard \/ Kaeden Korczak<\/p>\n Spencer Stastney \/ Kris Letang<\/p>\n Goalies: Sergei Murashov (Arturs Silovs started Friday)<\/p>\n Potential Scratches: Hendrix Lapierre, Ryan Johnson, Egor Chinakhov (?)<\/p>\n IR: Ryan Graves, Justin Brazeau, Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n Sidney Crosby made NHL history in Friday night\u2019s loss with his 1,110th career assist.Egor Chinakhov was a late scratch ahead of Friday\u2019s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Penguins said he\u2019s being evaluated for a lower-body injury. If he can\u2019t skate tonight, Ville Koivunen could slot into the lineup again in his place.Sergei Murashov is likely slated for the start tonight after Arturs Silovs made 27 saves on 32 shots from the Avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (3-4-1, 7 points, 6th place Metropolitan Division) @ Vegas Golden Knights (7-2-0, 14 points, 1st…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3264,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-309192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-game-preview","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309192","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=309192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-16-at-5.45.43-PM.png\"\/)
<\/a>Mark Stone is heading into tonight fresh off a natural hat trick in the third period of the Golden Knights\u2019 win over the Flames. He has 11 points (six goals, five assists) in his first nine games of the season.Jack Eichel is second only to Connor McDavid for the NHL production lead with 16 points (five goals, 11 assists) through nine games. His latest tally was a shorthanded strike against the Flames.The Penguins will need to be alert early. Brett Howden scored the eighth-fastest goal in Golden Knights history<\/a> when he opened scoring just 25 seconds into Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n