{"id":461769,"date":"2026-10-10T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461769\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:16:07","slug":"3-things-to-know-about-dallas-stars-pittsburgh-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461769\/","title":{"rendered":"3 things to know about Dallas Stars-Pittsburgh Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> will look to keep their early-season bounce-back rolling on Saturday when they take on Sidney\u00a0Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars have won eight of their last 10 games played against the Penguins dating back to 2021. Will they add another W on Saturday?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>When: Saturday, Oct. 10, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>TV\/streaming: Prime Video, ESPN+<\/p>\n<p>Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Stars captain Jamie Benn enters Saturday&#8217;s contest riding a six-game point streak against the Penguins, earning eight points (4 goals, 4 assists) during that span. In all, Benn has registered 20 points (9, 11) in 27 career games played vs. Pittsburgh. His six-game point streak against them is his longest active point streak against a single opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Stars forward Mikko Rantanen recorded a point on all four Dallas goals on Thursday night against the Sabres (1 goal, 3 assists) and has factored on five consecutive team goals dating back to Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>His stellar performance on Thursday included perhaps one of the nicest goals you&#8217;ll see the Stars score all season.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars will see 39-year-old future Hall of Famer Sidney Crosby on their trip to Pittsburgh, currently in his 22nd NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby is off to a modest start in the 2026-27 season, yet to score a goal through four games and tallying a pair of assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars will look to keep their early-season bounce-back rolling on Saturday when they take on Sidney\u00a0Crosby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,6079,87994,90779],"class_list":["post-461769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-how-to-watch","tag-tp-dallas-stars","tag-tp-mikko-rantanen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}