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<\/a>Beckett Sennecke, the No. 3 pick of the 2024 draft, currently leads all rookies in both goals (nine) and points (24) through his first 29 games. He could be an easy player to pick out tonight due to his speed. NHL Edge<\/a> puts him in the 96th percentile of all skaters this season in speed bursts of more than 21 miles per hour.Sennecke isn\u2019t the only young player who\u2019s hitting stride for the Ducks so far this season. Leo Carlsson, the No. 2 pick of the 2023 draft, has 38 points (16 goals, 22 assists) in 29 games.Former New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba has five goals in his first 29 games, a huge uptick for a player who totaled just four goals across his two prior seasons. He was also recently under fire for a controversial hit<\/a> that injured Caps rookie Ryan Leonard last week.The Ducks are heading into the matchup ranked<\/a> second only to the Colorado Avalanche with 3.59 goals per game. The team is also allowing 3.28 goals against per game, the 11th-most in the NHL, but that\u2019s considering that Dostal has been out since Nov. 22. Getting him back will make this team an even more dangerous opponent down the stretch.One area of weakness for Anaheim has been special teams. The Ducks rank 18th in the NHL with an 18.8 power play percentage and 28th with a 75.3 percent success rate on the penalty kill. The Ducks had gone 0-for-17 on the power play prior to Sunday\u2019s win over the Blackhawks, but they\u2019ll hope scoring two power play goals against Chicago will be enough to turn that trend around.For the first time in eight years, the Penguins are facing what seems likely to be a playoff-bound Ducks team. After finishing sixth or lower in the Pacific for the last seven years, Anaheim is heading into this matchup with a division lead.<\/p>\nTommy Novak – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Justin Brazeau – Kevin Hayes – Anthony Mantha<\/p>\n
Rutger McGroarty – Ben Kindel – Ville Koivunen<\/p>\n
Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves \/ Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Goalies: Tristan Jarry and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Potential Scratches: Evgeni Malkin (day to day injury), Matt Dumba, Harrison Brunicke (AHL rehab assignment)<\/p>\n
IR: Filip Hallander, Rickard Rakell, Caleb Jones<\/p>\n
Keep an eye out regarding an injury update on Evgeni Malkin, who missed Sunday\u2019s shootout loss to the Ducks with an upper-body injury the Penguins described as a day-to-day issue. If he remains sidelined, Kevin Hayes could once more draw in as the Pens\u2019 second-line center.Should he be available to play, Malkin has typically been a tough matchup for the Ducks. He\u2019s put up 30 points (11 goals, 19 assists) in 26 career games against Anaheim.Tristan Jarry posted another strong outing against on Sunday against the Stars (notwithstanding the shootout loss). The Penguins are 9-2-1 with him in net so far this season.Speaking of shootouts: The Pens have yet to win one in four tries this season. Should tonight\u2019s matchup go to extra time, head coach Dan Muse might have to consider sending out someone other than Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang and Bryan Rust to try their luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Anaheim Ducks (18-10-1, 37 points, 1st place Pacific Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-6, 34 points, 4th place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[257,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-339401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}