Calgary Flames (18-22-4, in the Pacific Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (21-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Calgary Flames as winners of six games in a row.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 21-12-9 record overall and a 10-6-5 record in home games. The Penguins are 21-4-4 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Calgary has an 18-22-4 record overall and a 6-15-2 record in road games. The Flames have a 7-9-2 record in games their opponents commit fewer penalties.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Rust has 16 goals and 20 assists for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby has five goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nazem Kadri has eight goals and 24 assists for the Flames. Mikael Backlund has scored five goals with five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 7-3-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.2 assists, 2.5 penalties and 5.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flames: 5-5-0, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.5 assists, 4.1 penalties and 15.8 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Flames: 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":"Calgary Flames (18-22-4, in the Pacific Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (21-12-9, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 3:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41521,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-82396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-41521","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\/82396","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=82396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}