\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pittsburgh Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in four years.The Penguins clinched a playoff spot with a 5-2 win over the Devils on Thursday night in Newark, New Jersey. Evgeni Malkin, Bryan Rust, Egor Chinakhov, Tommy Novak and Erik Karlsson scored for the Pens.Pittsburgh is currently the No. 2 seed in the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins have 98 points, six ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers, with three games left in the regular season.Penguins Playoff TicketsTickets for Pittsburgh’s first two home playoff games at PPG Paints Arena will go on sale to the general public Friday at noon. Click here for ticket information.The NHL will announce the playoff schedule once all teams and dates have been finalized.Recent Postseason HistoryPostseason success has eluded the Penguins for quite some time.Pittsburgh’s last playoff appearance came in 2022, and the Pens have not won a series since 2018.The last time the Penguins advanced past the second round was 2017, when they won the Stanley Cup for the fifth time in franchise history.Four players from the 2016-17 championship season are still with the Penguins: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and Bryan Rust.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign uor our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n
The Penguins clinched a playoff spot with a 5-2 win over the Devils<\/a> on Thursday night in Newark, New Jersey. Evgeni Malkin, Bryan Rust, Egor Chinakhov, Tommy Novak and Erik Karlsson scored for the Pens.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh is currently the No. 2 seed in the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins have 98 points, six ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers, with three games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n Penguins Playoff Tickets\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Tickets for Pittsburgh’s first two home playoff games at PPG Paints Arena will go on sale to the general public Friday at noon. Click here for ticket information<\/a>.<\/p>\n The NHL will announce the playoff schedule once all teams and dates have been finalized.<\/p>\n Recent Postseason History<\/p>\n Postseason success has eluded the Penguins for quite some time.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh’s last playoff appearance came in 2022, and the Pens have not won a series since 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n The last time the Penguins advanced past the second round was 2017, when they won the Stanley Cup for the fifth time<\/a> in franchise history.<\/p>\n Four players from the 2016-17 championship season are still with the Penguins: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and Bryan Rust.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign uor our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in four years.The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,39001,19928,201662,3689,56347,40691,451,1997,3,12324,1790,89083,13544,5265,50306,167457,452,453,4200],"class_list":{"0":"post-575393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-bryan-rust","11":"tag-devils","12":"tag-egor-chinakhov","13":"tag-erik-karlsson","14":"tag-evgeni-malkin","15":"tag-first-time","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-new-jersey","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-pens","20":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","21":"tag-playoff-spot","22":"tag-point","23":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","24":"tag-thursday-night","25":"tag-tommy-novak","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575393","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=575393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}