Montreal Canadiens (15-11-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Montreal Canadiens face off in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 14-7-7 record overall and a 6-4-3 record on its home ice. The Penguins have a +12 scoring differential, with 88 total goals scored and 76 conceded.<\/p>\n
Montreal has a 15-11-3 record overall and an 8-3-2 record on the road. The Canadiens have given up 103 goals while scoring 91 for a -12 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Evgeni Malkin has nine goals and 20 assists for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby has seven goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nicholas Suzuki has eight goals and 25 assists for the Canadiens. Cole Caufield has scored three goals with eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 5-2-3, averaging three goals, 4.4 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 5-5-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.4 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 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":"Montreal Canadiens (15-11-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Thursday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31517,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-57263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-31517","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\/57263","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=57263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263\/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=57263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}