The Pittsburgh Penguins will finish their four-game road trip with a matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena. The game is scheduled for 7:30 PM and will be broadcast on SportsNet Pittsburgh. Fans can also listen to the coverage on 105.9 The X and through the Penguins app.
Heading into this contest, the Penguins hold an 8-3-2 record, while the Maple Leafs are at 6-5-1. In recent meetings, Pittsburgh has had some success against Toronto, recording a 21-14-4 mark in their last 39 games versus the Maple Leafs. The team has collected points in four of its last six games against Toronto.
Pittsburgh’s offense has been productive early in the season, scoring 46 goals—the second-highest total in the NHL—and maintaining a power play that ranks second league-wide with a 32.3% success rate. The Penguins have converted on 10 of their 31 power-play opportunities this season, tying them with the New Jersey Devils for second-best in the league.
Sidney Crosby leads the team’s power-play goal tally with four, trailing only Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl and Vegas’ Pavel Dorofeyev who each have five. Evgeni Malkin’s seven power-play points place him tied for tenth in the NHL. Seven different players have scored on the man advantage for Pittsburgh, showing depth across their lineup.
Evgeni Malkin continues to lead offensively for Pittsburgh with 18 points (three goals and fifteen assists), which ties him for fourth in the NHL. He has recorded points in all but two games this season and achieved multiple-point performances in nearly half of his appearances so far. Against Toronto, Malkin has been especially effective over his career, posting 24 goals and 47 assists for a total of 71 points in 49 games.
Six rookies—Harrison Brunicke, Filip Hallander, Ben Kindel, Ville Koivunen, Owen Pickering, and Arturs Silovs—have contributed to Pittsburgh’s strong start this season. Hallander leads these first-year players with four points (one goal and three assists), while Kindel tops rookie goal scorers on the team with three.
Erik Karlsson has registered ten assists over his last eight games since October 16, more than any other player during that stretch. Among defensemen league-wide, he is second in assists.
Kris Letang is one point away from tying Hall-of-Famer Doug Wilson for ninth-most points by a defenseman with one franchise in NHL history.
Both Karlsson and Letang have produced well historically against Toronto; Karlsson leads active defensemen with eleven goals and thirty-five assists versus the Maple Leafs across forty-nine games played.
Goaltender Tristan Jarry is set to reach his three-hundredth career game if he plays against Toronto. He would become just the third goaltender to reach that milestone with Pittsburgh alongside Marc-Andre Fleury and Tom Barrasso.
Additional notes include Kris Letang having fourteen points over his last twenty games facing Toronto; Sidney Crosby currently riding a four-game point streak against them; Bryan Rust accumulating five points over his previous two matchups versus Toronto; and Pittsburgh’s penalty kill allowing just one power-play goal over its last five games (15-for-16).
The Penguins will return home after this matchup to play five of their next eight games at PPG Paints Arena.
