Seattle Kraken (10-5-5, in the Pacific Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (10-6-4, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Penguins -118, Kraken -102; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins play the Seattle Kraken in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has a 5-3-1 record at home and a 10-6-4 record overall. The Penguins have a +10 scoring differential, with 62 total goals scored and 52 allowed.<\/p>\n Seattle has a 4-4-2 record on the road and a 10-5-5 record overall. The Kraken have a 9-0-3 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Evgeni Malkin has six goals and 17 assists for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby has five goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jaden Schwartz has eight goals and seven assists for the Kraken. Jordan Eberle has scored four goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 3-4-3, averaging 2.4 goals, four assists, 3.4 penalties and 10.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n Kraken: 5-3-2, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n Kraken: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken (10-5-5, in the Pacific Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (10-6-4, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24985,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-41546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-24985","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546","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=41546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}