{"id":83126,"date":"2026-01-10T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:08:08","slug":"penguins-insider-looking-bigger-kindel-on-malkin-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83126\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Insider: Looking Bigger, Kindel on Malkin Swap (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six in a row. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a bad stat line, regardless of how it has been achieved. However, the manner in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> have won their six in a row has been enormously important and, quite frankly, impressive. <\/p>\n<p>The streak began with a couple of teams on the second of back-to-backs, Chicago and Carolina, but the Penguins gained momentum and swept their back-to-back last weekend by beating Detroit Saturday and earning an emotional comeback win over Columbus Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Given this compressed and at times quite unfair NHL schedule, every team has to go through it, and those that show up for the second game or the third in four nights will be the ones in the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a momentous week that may have saved the Penguins\u2019 season, set the team on a new trajectory, and maybe altered general manager Kyle Dubas\u2019s thinking just a bit. <\/p>\n<p>For PHN+ subscribers, we\u2019ve got a few inside conversations. Why <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/stuart-skinner\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Skinner<\/a> chose his white pads, why the Penguins gained a lot of confidence against Carolina, and one player who probably hasn\u2019t enjoyed the last few games as much as everyone else, but still seemed in good spirits. <\/p>\n<p>Penguins Locker Room<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/ben-kindel\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">ben kindel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/evgeni-malkin\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/phn\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">phn+<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/stuart-skinner\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">stuart skinner<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">Categorized: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/phn-plus\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">PHN+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six in a row. That\u2019s not a bad stat line, regardless of how it has been achieved. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1064,15355,41802,73,75,74,1067,32556],"class_list":{"0":"post-83126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-ben-kindel","9":"tag-evgeni-malkin","10":"tag-phn","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-stuart-skinner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126","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=83126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}