Game Preview: 11.11.22 at TOR

GAME PREVIEW

The Pittsburgh Penguins take on the Toronto Maple Leafs for their first matchup of the season at Scotiabank Arena. The Penguins play the Maple Leafs three times this season with all of them taking place in November over their next nine games. Pittsburgh took the season series, 2-1-0, against Toronto last year, and went 1-1-0 on the road. Last season against the Maple Leafs, Kasperi Kapanen (3A) and Marcus Pettersson (1G-2A) led the Penguins in points (3) in three games. The Penguins enter tonight’s game with points versus the Maple Leafs in four of their last six games (4-2-0). Going back further, the Penguins have gone 18-10-2 in the last 30 games against the Maple Leafs.

QUICK HITS

Kris Letang has 10 points (1G-9A) in his last 11 games against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Tristan Jarry is 4-2-0 with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage in seven career games against the Maple Leafs. Dating back to Apr. 12 of last season, Jake Guentzel has 14 goals and 25 points (14G-11A) over his last 16 games. Sidney Crosby is tied for eighth in the NHL in even-strength goals with (6) and tied for 17th in even-strength points with 11. In his career, he’s had 19 even-strength goals versus Toronto in 47 games played, which ranks third against among them active players. Evgeni Malkin is second in the league for takeaways with 22, trailing only Carolina’s Jacob Slavin (24).

CLIMBING THE RANKS

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is just one point shy of tying Hall-of-Fame forward Bryan Trottier for 17th place on the NHL’s all-time points list. Crosby began the season tied with Dale Hawerchuk (1,409 PTS) for 22nd place on the NHL’s all-time points list and has since accumulated 15 points (6G-9A) in 13 games this season, good for the team lead. Crosby enters tonight’s game with 63 points (28G-35A) in 47 career games against Toronto. Only Alex Ovechkin (41) has more goals against the Maple Leafs among active players.

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