Pittsburgh Penguins (21-13-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Boston Bruins (24-19-2, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Penguins -119, Bruins -101; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins host the Pittsburgh Penguins after Marat Khusnutdinov’s four-goal game against the New York Rangers in the Bruins’ 10-2 win.<\/p>\n Boston is 24-19-2 overall and 14-8-1 at home. The Bruins serve 14.2 penalty minutes per game to rank first in NHL play.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has an 11-6-4 record on the road and a 21-13-9 record overall. The Penguins have a 21-4-4 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n The matchup Sunday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Pavel Zacha has 13 goals and 18 assists for the Bruins. David Pastrnak has six goals and 11 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Sidney Crosby has 24 goals and 25 assists for the Penguins. Bryan Rust has scored four goals with four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 4-4-2, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.8 assists, 6.1 penalties and 20.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n Penguins: 7-3-0, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.4 assists, 2.7 penalties and 5.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n Penguins: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (21-13-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Boston Bruins (24-19-2, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Sunday, 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42037,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-83853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-42037","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\/83853","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=83853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853\/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=83853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}