{"id":564868,"date":"2026-04-04T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:49:07","slug":"penguins-2-panthers-2-first-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564868\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins 2, Panthers 2, first period"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (38-22-16) vs. Panthers (37-35-3)
\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 77
\u2022\u00a0When: 5:08 p.m.
\u2022\u00a0Where: PPG Paints Arena
\u2022 Goaltenders: Arturs Silovs (17-10-8, .891 SV%) vs.\u00a0Sergei Bobrovsky (27-21-1, .881 SV%)
\u2022\u00a0TV:\u00a0SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/a>
\u2022 Stream:\u00a0SNP360<\/a> (local),\u00a0ESPN+<\/a> (out-of-market)
\u2022 Radio: Penguins Radio Network<\/a>
\u2022 Boxscore: NHL.com
<\/a>\u2022 Media notes: Penguins<\/a> | Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25ba FOLLOW ALONG<\/p>\n

\u2022 End of the first, it’s 2-2. Penguins goals from Noel Acciari\u00a0and Erik Karlsson.\u00a0Shots are 9-7 Penguins.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Connor Clifton, Ryan Shea, Evgeni Malkin\u00a0each just had a 2+ minute shift. They all looked gassed after. Finally got a chance to get off.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kris Letang\u00a0blocked a shot, he was shaking out his left foot afterward and went to the bench. Talking with an athletic trainer now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Seth Jones\u00a0scores to tie it. The puck hit Rickard Rakell\u00a0and deflected in. Penguins 2, Panthers 2<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bryan Rust\u00a0missed that power play after he got boarded but has been taking regular shifts since. Seems fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL:\u00a0Panthers answer. A.J. Greer\u00a0gets to a rebound and puts it five-hole. Penguins 2, Panthers 1<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL:\u00a0Penguins capitalize on the power play. Erik Karlsson\u00a0rips a shot from the top of the right circle. Sidney Crosby\u00a0set it up and ties Steve Yzerman\u00a0for the seventh-most points in NHL history. Penguins 2, Panthers 0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bryan Rust is hurt. He got boarded by Mike Benning. He’s just sitting on the bench for now, hobbled off after awkwardly falling. Penguins to the power play.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Noel Acciari\u00a0just almost got another one from right in front of the crease. The fourth line has been great.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Noel Acciari\u00a0gets his 12th of the year just 20 seconds into the game. He took the initial shot, then got a crack at his own rebound and backhanded it in an arc over Sergei Bobrovsky’s head. That was wild. Penguins 1, Panthers 0<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is underway<\/p>\n

\u2022 Panthers’ lines and pairings:<\/p>\n

Carter Verhaeghe – Sam Bennett – Matthew Tkachuk
Mackie Samoskevich – Eetu Luostarinen – A.J. Greer
Noah Gregor – Tomas Nosek – Jesper Boqvist
Cole Reinhardt – Luke Kunin – Cole Schwindt<\/p>\n

Gustav Forsling – Mike Benning
Donovan Sebrango – Seth Jones
Tobias Bjornfot – Mikulas Hovorka<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lines and pairings for the Penguins today:<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust
Tommy Novak – Rickard Rakell – Evgeni Malkin
Anthony Mantha – Ben Kindel – Justin Brazeau
Elmer Soderblom – Connor Dewar – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon – Erik Karlsson
Sam Girard – Kris Letang
Ryan Shea – Connor Clifton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (38-22-16) vs. Panthers (37-35-3)\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 77\u2022\u00a0When: 5:08 p.m.\u2022\u00a0Where: PPG Paints Arena\u2022 Goaltenders: Arturs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[201663,4820,385,211789,15550,91698,99],"class_list":["post-564868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-feed-article","tag-florida-panthers","tag-nhl","tag-on-location","tag-penguins","tag-penguins-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564868","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=564868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}