Buffalo Sabres (9-9-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (10-6-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres take the ice in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 5-3-2 record at home and a 10-6-5 record overall. The Penguins have a +nine scoring differential, with 64 total goals scored and 55 given up.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 1-5-2 on the road and 9-9-4 overall. The Sabres have given up 75 goals while scoring 70 for a -5 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s game is the first time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Rust has five goals and 10 assists for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Alex Tuch has seven goals and 13 assists for the Sabres. Zachary Benson has 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 3-4-3, averaging 2.4 goals, 3.9 assists, 2.9 penalties and 6.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 4-5-1, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.3 assists, 2.8 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sabres: None listed.<\/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":"Buffalo Sabres (9-9-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (10-6-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26219,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-44053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-26219","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\/44053","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=44053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}