The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, November 7, 2026, with puck drop set for 9:00\u202fPM EST.<\/p>\n
Matchup: Pittsburgh Penguins (5-9-2, 12 points in 2026-27) at Los Angeles Kings (5-7-2, 12 points in 2026-27)<\/p>\n
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2026<\/p>\n
Puck drop: 9:00\u202fPM EST (6:00\u202fPM PST local)<\/p>\n
Venue: Crypto.com Arena<\/p>\n
How to watch: LAK: ABTV \u00b7 PIT: SN-PIT<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes<\/p>\n
Trade speculation has built around the roster since mid-October, when Elliotte Friedman said on Sportsnet\u2019s Saturday Headlines segment that Pittsburgh was interested in opening up spots for youth and would move a veteran forward for draft picks or prospects. Rickard Rakell, 33, carries a $5 million cap hit through 2027-28 and a modified no-trade clause covering eight teams. Bryan Rust, 34, has a year remaining at $5.125 million and no trade protection. Kris Letang, 39, holds a no-movement clause and an extra season at $6.1 million. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings News & Notes<\/p>\n
Martin Chromiak made his NHL debut on Oct. 31 against Buffalo after 276 AHL games with the Ontario Reign, skating on the first line with Artemi Panarin and Alex Laferriere and logging 17:31, including 4:27 on the power play, in a 3-2 loss. The 2020 fifth-round pick led Ontario with 28 goals and 56 points last season and had six goals in nine games before his Oct. 29 recall, which sent Jared Wright to the Reign. <\/p>\n
Chromiak\u2019s promotion came with Adrian Kempe sidelined by an undisclosed injury that left him listed day-to-day. Kempe has since returned and recorded a hat trick in a win over Pittsburgh, setting up Saturday\u2019s rematch with the Penguins at Crypto.com Arena, a 6 p.m. start. A five-game road trip follows, taking Los Angeles through Boston, Canada and Anaheim. The Kings were 2-5-2 after an Oct. 24 loss in New Jersey, where Kempe assisted on their lone goal. <\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Tommy Novak \u2013 Sidney Crosby \u2013 Rickard Rakell<\/p>\n
Line 2: Egor Chinakhov \u2013 Ben Kindel \u2013 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Line 3: Ville Koivunen \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Line 4: Connor Dewar \u2013 Blake Lizotte \u2013 Nicholas Robertson<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Samuel Girard \u2013 Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Spencer Stastney \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Declan Carlile \u2013 Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Arturs Silovs \u2013 Sergei Murashov<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Ben Kindel \u2013 Tommy Novak \u2013 Rickard Rakell \u2013 Erik Karlsson \u2013 Sidney Crosby<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Ville Koivunen \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Egor Chinakhov \u2013 Kris Letang \u2013 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Blake Lizotte \u2013 Connor Dewar \u2013 Declan Carlile \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Rickard Rakell \u2013 Nicholas Robertson \u2013 Spencer Stastney \u2013 Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Artemi Panarin \u2013 Alex Laferriere \u2013 Adrian Kempe<\/p>\n
Line 2: Trevor Moore \u2013 Quinton Byfield \u2013 Corey Perry<\/p>\n
Line 3: Andre Lee \u2013 Scott Laughton \u2013 Martin Chromiak<\/p>\n
Line 4: Erik Haula \u2013 Kenny Connors \u2013 Joel Armia<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Erik Gustafsson \u2013 Brandt Clarke<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Joel Edmundson \u2013 Drew Doughty<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Mikey Anderson \u2013 Brian Dumoulin<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Darcy Kuemper \u2013 Anton Forsberg<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Adrian Kempe \u2013 Quinton Byfield \u2013 Alex Laferriere \u2013 Artemi Panarin \u2013 Erik Gustafsson<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Corey Perry \u2013 Erik Haula \u2013 Martin Chromiak \u2013 Drew Doughty \u2013 Brandt Clarke<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Andre Lee \u2013 Quinton Byfield \u2013 Mikey Anderson \u2013 Drew Doughty<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Erik Haula \u2013 Trevor Moore \u2013 Joel Edmundson \u2013 Brian Dumoulin<\/p>\n
Players To Watch<\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin \u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n
Box Score Junkie has Malkin at a team-best 59.4% Corsi-for this season, with 67.1 shot attempts for per 60 and a 57.6% Fenwick across 238 minutes. He\u2019s also buried six goals on 3.5 expected, a plus-2.5 finishing edge. Play drives one way with him out there, which makes his shot and point props live.<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin \u2014 Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n
Panarin piled up four assists on three shots in 18:02 last time out, and the underlying work backs it. Box Score Junkie\u2019s 2026-27 numbers have him at 63.5% Corsi-for, 79.5 shot attempts for per 60 and 62.8% Fenwick over 304 minutes, with eight goals on 4.3 expected. An obvious assist-prop target.<\/p>\n
Injury Report<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Saturday, November 14<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Saturday, December 5<\/p>\n
Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Sunday, November 8<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Knee, expected back Saturday, November 28<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n
Alex Turcotte (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Saturday, November 7<\/p>\n
Mats Zuccarello (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Tuesday, November 10<\/p>\n
Kevin Fiala (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Leg, expected back Saturday, November 7<\/p>\n
Jakub Dvorak (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Saturday, November 28<\/p>\n
Jan Jenik (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Saturday, November 7<\/p>\n
Betting Odds<\/p>\n
Moneyline (DraftKings, as of November 7 at 4:22\u202fAM ET): Pittsburgh Penguins +110, Los Angeles Kings -130.<\/p>\n
Odds change through the day; check the sportsbook before betting. 21+. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n
Next Up<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins: visit the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, November 8.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Kings: host the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, November 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, November 7, 2026, with puck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130985,130676,130986,44410,10170,130987,15355,5158,2509,15643,130988,1249,130989,4843,44334,73,75,74,1067,10175],"class_list":["post-323205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2026-27-nhl-regular-season","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-alex-laferriere","tag-artemi-panarin","tag-bryan-rust","tag-crypto-com-arena","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-kris-letang","tag-line-combinations","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-martin-chromiak","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-rickard-rakell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323205","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=323205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}