{"id":323807,"date":"2026-11-08T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323807\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:26:30","slug":"penguins-game-18-deep-breath-lines-notes-how-to-watch-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323807\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Game 18, Deep Breath: Lines, Notes, & How to Watch vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"PittsburghPittsburgh Penguins game, Anaheim Ducks. Predictions, Lines, How to Watch\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 There were smiles and relaxed shoulders in the Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-2) Saturday after they accelerated to a 5-2 win over the LA Kings. Just 20 hours after the end of that game, the Penguins hit the ice to face the other SoCal team, the Anaheim Ducks, Sunday at the Honda Center. <\/p>\n

The puck drops just after 8 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n

Penguins lines tonight: projected lineup and starting goalie \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

The Penguins took an early 2-0 lead over LA with some exceptional play from their second line, especially Tommy Novak<\/a>, who finished a rebound chance on his first shift, then created a counterattack goal for his second tally at 5:10 of the first period. <\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby<\/a> scored a pair of goals, including the empty-netter. Evgeni Malkin<\/a> had three assists, and Egor Chinakhov<\/a> sniped a power-play goal in the win. The game also marked rookie goalie Sergei Murashov<\/a>\u2019s first win of the season and second of his brief 11-game career. He stopped 26 of 28 in the win. <\/p>\n

Given the back-to-back games, Arturs Silovs<\/a> will almost assuredly start Sunday. <\/p>\n

Anaheim has won four straight and rallied from a 3-1 first-period deficit to beat the Calgary Flames 5-3 Friday. Jeff Malott and Tristan Luneau scored before the $18 million man Leo Carlsson<\/a> tied the game with a power-play goal early in the third period. Cutter Gauthier<\/a> scored the go-ahead goal with 1:34 remaining, and Nikita Nesterenko added an empty-net goal. <\/p>\n

Lukas Dostal started in goal but was pulled after allowing three goals on 11 shots in the first period. Ville Husso stopped all 10 shots he faced in relief to earn the win.<\/p>\n

How to Watch<\/p>\n

TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Radio: 105.9 The X<\/p>\n

Penguins Lines<\/p>\n

Rickard Rakell<\/a>\u2013Sidney Crosby\u2013Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n

Tommy Novak\u2013Ben Kindel\u2013Egor Chinakhov<\/p>\n

Ville Koivunen\u2013Hendrix Lapierre\u2013Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n

Connor Dewar\u2013Blake Lizotte\u2013Nick Robertson<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Spencer Stastney\u2013Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n

Samuel Girard\u2013Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n

Declan Carlile\u2013Kris Letang<\/p>\n

Goalie: Arturs Silovs, expected.<\/p>\n

Ducks Lines<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn\u2013Leo Carlsson\u2013Judd Caulfield<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier\u2013Mikael Granlund\u2013Beckett Sennecke<\/p>\n

Nico Myatovic\u2013Tim Washe\u2013Sam Colangelo<\/p>\n

Jeff Malott\u2013Roger McQueen\u2013Nikita Nesterenko<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Jackson LaCombe\u2013Drew Helleson<\/p>\n

Travis Mitchell\u2013Tristan Luneau<\/p>\n

Pavel Mintyukov\u2013Noah Warren<\/p>\n

Goalie: Ville Husso, expected.<\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/p>\n

Penguins power play: 18.8% (23rd). Penguins penalty kill: 81.4% (10th).<\/p>\n

Ducks power play: 36.1% (2nd). Ducks penalty kill: 73.5% (24th).<\/p>\n

Penguins Game Notes<\/p>\n

The Penguins have won eight of their last 13 games against Anaheim (8-4-1). The Penguins have lost two straight at the Honda Center, but have won seven of their last 12 trips to Anaheim (7-5-0).<\/p>\n

The Penguins conclude their third set of back-to-back games. Thus far, the team is 2-2-1 in back-to-backs (1-1-1 on the first night and 1-1-0 on the second night).<\/p>\n

Crosby has multiple points in seven of his last 21 games against Anaheim and 26 points overall during that stretch (9-17-26). <\/p>\n

Head Coach Dan Muse, as well as Assistant Coach Nick Bonino and Assistant Video Coach Troy Paquette, are all appearing in their 100th NHL game as coaches. Through 99 games, Muse has compiled a record of 47-34-18, good for a .566 points percentage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins game, Anaheim Ducks. Predictions, Lines, How to Watch ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 There were smiles and relaxed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11260,24346,131144,41972,15355,101426,6617,5979,18595,73,75,74,1067,5160,8664,31362],"class_list":["post-323807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-arturs-silovs","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-egor-chinakhov","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-penguins-game","tag-penguins-lines","tag-penguins-starting-goalie","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sergei-murashov","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-tommy-novak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323807","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=323807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}