Pittsburgh Penguins (19-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (18-16-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Columbus Blue Jackets seeking to build upon a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n
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Columbus has a 3-7-2 record in Metropolitan Division play and an 18-16-6 record overall. The Blue Jackets have a -12 scoring differential, with 119 total goals scored and 131 conceded.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 6-1-3 against the Metropolitan Division and 19-12-9 overall. The Penguins have a +seven scoring differential, with 129 total goals scored and 122 conceded.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Penguins won 4-3 in overtime in the last matchup. Sidney Crosby led the Penguins with two goals.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Marchenko has 14 goals and 17 assists for the Blue Jackets. Mason Marchment has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust has 16 goals and 20 assists for the Penguins. Erik Karlsson has one goal and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 5-5-0, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.7 penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 5-4-1, averaging 3.4 goals, six assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (19-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (18-16-6, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10170,1068,11386,27188,39722,25218,1251,293,73,75,74,1067,8664,12444],"class_list":{"0":"post-77511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-bryan-rust","9":"tag-columbus","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-erik-karlsson","12":"tag-kirill-marchenko","13":"tag-mason-marchment","14":"tag-metropolitan-division","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","18":"tag-pittsburgh-news","19":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","20":"tag-sidney-crosby","21":"tag-the-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511","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=77511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}