Pittsburgh Review

The Pittsburgh Penguins are set to play against the Florida Panthers for the first time this season. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM at PPG Paints Arena, following a pregame ceremony honoring the 2024 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, including former Penguins players Kevin Stevens and Matt Cullen. Doors will open an hour earlier.

Fans can watch the game on SportsNet Pittsburgh and ESPN+, or listen via 105.9 the X and the Penguins app.

Currently, the Penguins hold a record of 10-12-4, while the Panthers stand at 15-9-1. Historically, Pittsburgh has secured points in 20 out of their last 27 encounters with Florida since December 2014. At home, they have achieved a record of 10-3-1 against Florida during this period.

Penguins' Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin rank third and fifth among active skaters in points against the Panthers. Erik Karlsson is tied for third in points among defensemen facing Florida all-time, while Kris Letang ranks sixth.

Sidney Crosby shares a notable goal-scoring average against Florida with Kirill Kaprizov and Yegor Sharangovich since the 2015-16 season. Matt Nieto has scored his highest number of goals against any team when playing Florida.

Blake Lizotte's presence in games often leads to positive outcomes for Pittsburgh, with points earned in eight out of ten games he's played this season.

Michael Bunting has improved his performance recently, scoring nine points over his last thirteen games after initially struggling early in the season.

Philip Tomasino has been making an impact since joining Pittsburgh, achieving two consecutive game-winning goals recently—a feat only matched by Chuck Kobasew previously in franchise history.

Rickard Rakell extended his goal streak to three games on Saturday night and became the first Penguin this season to reach ten goals.

Crosby is close to several career milestones as he enters tonight’s game with a four-game point streak. He is nearing Gordie Howe's assist record within a single franchise and Steve Yzerman's multi-point game tally in NHL history.

Evgeni Malkin aims to tie Jaromir Jagr for third place on Pittsburgh’s all-time even-strength goals list with another goal tonight.

Bryan Rust seeks to match Mark Recchi for sixteenth place on Pittsburgh’s all-time points list; most of Rust's contributions have occurred at home games this season.

Pittsburgh demonstrated strong power-play performance recently by scoring three power-play goals against Calgary Flames on Saturday night—maintaining momentum from recent successful power-play efforts across several matches since mid-November.

In partnership with National Aviary as part of their pledge initiative supporting conservation efforts globally focused particularly around endangered African penguins—live penguin ambassadors will visit PPG Paints Arena tonight along with permanent displays featuring footage from National Aviary’s Penguin Point habitat available during non-game days too providing educational opportunities alongside entertainment aspects associated within such sporting events held locally throughout each year annually now onwards hereafter indefinitely assuredly so indeed thereby promoting awareness raising funds simultaneously altogether comprehensively ultimately toward preserving natural wildlife habitats worldwide sustainably moving forward collectively togetherness shared responsibility equally amongst everyone involved concerned directly indirectly universally speaking broadly contextually pragmatically realistically sensibly practically logically reasonably conclusively accordingly fittingly 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