{"id":58581,"date":"2025-12-12T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:41:08","slug":"penguins-delay-game-against-canadiens-due-to-traffic-accident-in-pittsburgh-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58581\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins delay game against Canadiens due to traffic accident in Pittsburgh area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"A general view of the logo displayed on center ice during the Pittsburgh Penguins vs Edmonton Oilers game at PPG Paints Arena.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2193502944-scaled-e1765499423952-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Many players arrived around an hour later than usual, but they were able to make it in time for the 7:30 p.m. ET start. David E. Klutho \/ Sports Illustrated via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacob Fowler\u2019s highly anticipated NHL debut had to wait 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A massive traffic accident on a local Pittsburgh highway forced the Penguins to move the start time of Thursday\u2019s game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens to 7:30 p.m. ET, with the puck expected to drop at 7:38 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop was originally scheduled for 7:08 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight&#8217;s game vs. the Montreal Canadiens has been moved to 7:30 PM ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pTxVHLEsBa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pTxVHLEsBa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/1999251221434237119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An accident on Interstate-279, one of the primary arteries that connects downtown Pittsburgh with the city\u2019s northern suburbs,<\/p>\n<p>While this was an inconvenience for fans attending the game, the bigger issue was getting the hockey players to PPG Paints Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u2019 practice facility is located in Cranberry Township, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. The majority of the Penguins\u2019 players live in that area so that they are close to the practice facility. They typically take Interstate-279 to downtown Pittsburgh for home games, which is why the game was delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Many players arrived around an hour later than usual, but they were able to arrive in time for the 7:30 p.m. ET start.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many players arrived around an hour later than usual, but they were able to make it in time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16601,4843,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":["post-58581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581","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=58581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}