Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (9-7-1, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
LINE: Ducks -123, Penguins +101; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Anaheim Ducks after Thomas Novak scored two goals in the Penguins’ 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has a 2-4-1 record in home games and a 9-7-1 record overall. The Ducks are 5-2-1 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 6-9-2 record overall and a 1-6-1 record in road games. The Penguins are 2-4-1 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Sunday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Leo Carlsson has scored six goals with 20 assists for the Ducks. Cutter Gauthier has 10 goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nicholas Robertson has seven goals for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell has scored five goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-4-1, averaging 4.2 goals, 7.2 assists, six penalties and 16.8 penalty minutes while giving up 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 3-6-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.7 assists, 2.8 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Ducks: A.J. Greer: out (upper-body), Troy Terry: out (hip), Ryan Poehling: out (lower-body), Ian Moore: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Penguins: Bryan Rust: out (lower-body), Trevor van Riemsdyk: out (lower body), Ryan Graves: out (lower-body), Elmer Soderblom: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (9-7-1, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-323627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323627","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=323627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}