{"id":340937,"date":"2025-12-10T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:59:12","slug":"nhl-report-cards-for-every-team-2-months-into-the-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340937\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Report Cards for Every Team 2 Months Into the 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Penguins are the opposite of their cross-state rivals: they are mostly outstanding in games decided in regulation and pretty hopeless in games that go beyond regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Entering play on Tuesday, they have the seventh-best points percentage in the NHL, the third-best in the Eastern Conference, and the fourth-most regulation wins in the NHL (13), despite being tied for the fewest games played in the league. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">They are 13-7 in games decided in regulation, but only 1-6 in games that go beyond regulation, including 0-4 in shootouts. That is a lot of points left on the table. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Even so, this is a team that everybody in the NHL expected to be in the Gavin McKenna derby this season, and instead, they are starting to look like a playoff team.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The core veterans and future Hall of Famers (Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, and Erik Karlsson) still have some juice to them, and an influx of young talent (Ben Kindel, Ville Koivunen, Rutger McGroarty) and fresh faces (Justin Brazeau, Anthony Mantha, Parker Wotherspoon) have brought new energy to the lineup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Add in some better-than-expected goaltending, and you have one of the league&#8217;s biggest surprises. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins are the opposite of their cross-state rivals: they are mostly outstanding in games decided in regulation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937","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=340937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}