{"id":58899,"date":"2025-12-12T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58899\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:31:10","slug":"penguins-game-delayed-30-minutes-accident-on-i-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58899\/","title":{"rendered":"PENGUINS GAME DELAYED 30 MINUTES; Accident on I-279"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a traffic accident that has closed southbound traffic on I-279, the Pittsburgh Penguins delayed Thursday\u2019s game against the Montreal Canadiens to 7:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The original start time was 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate the accident involved an overturned tractor-trailer. I-279 is currently closed as of publishing (6:10 p.m.) between I-79 and Camp Horn Road. The truck was carrying steel coils. There were no reported injuries. <\/p>\n<p>At least one player was delayed by the gridlocked traffic, arriving well after the 5 p.m. deadline. Others were likely delayed or caught in traffic as well.<\/p>\n<p>The arena still opened the gates at 6 p.m. for fans.  <\/p>\n<p>The Penguins have points in seven of their last eight games, but have lost the last two games in a shootout after losing late leads when their opponents scored with an extra attacker. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/montreal-canadiens\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">Categorized: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to a traffic accident that has closed southbound traffic on I-279, the Pittsburgh Penguins delayed Thursday\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16601,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":["post-58899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-montreal-canadiens","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\/58899","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=58899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}