Play preview: 01.23.25 at Anaheim Ducks

The penguins continue their season with a road trip of seven games with a total of 15 days and are so far 2-1-0. It has been the longest road trip for Pittsburgh since its eight gaming road swing almost 30 years ago from October 14 to 28, 1997 (NYR-MTL-TBL-SJS-SJS-EDM-Van-Cgy).

The penguins are 13-9-4 from November 27th and in this period only Tampa Bay have scored more goals than Pittsburgh.

Sidney Crosby’s balance sheet on Monday evening in Los Angeles doubled as a gaming goal. Crosby, who is connected to the team leader with four gaming goals, is now connected to Steve Yzerman with the 13th place on the list of games ever. Only four players in the history of NHL history have more gaming goals than Crosbys 94 with a team.

The Penguins captain is also just a point that is for the sole possession of the 10th road points in the history of the NHL.

Bryan Rust, who took second place with 19 goals on Pittsburgh, is only a Tally shy of his sixth season with 20 goals. He only wants to become the ninth player in franchise history to have six or more 20-goal games with the team.

Kevin Hayes scored a goal and a template in Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Monday and gave him in 10 games (4G-1A) since he returned to the line-up regularly on Pittsburgh.

Evgeni Malkin enters this game with several points in five of his last eight games compared to Anaheim (5G-8a). In 24 career games against the Ducks, Malkin has 29 points (11g-18a), and its average of 1.21 points per game against them is the third among the active players and is located in NHL history in NHL history (min . 20 GP).

Defender Erik Karlsson collected 26 points (9g-17a) in 33 career games against Anaheim. Karlsson’s nine goals against the Ducks are the second most active among all active defenders behind Brent Burns (15), and the ducks are the only team against which he recorded a hat trick (November 1, 2022: 3G-1).

Karlsson has an active seven-game point strip against the ducks, which is bound to the active defenders for the second longest points.

Quick hits

1) Sidney Crosby has several points in six of his last 17 games against the ducks and a total of 23 points during this route (9G-14A). Here in Anaheim he was only held three times from the goal in 13 games and collected 13 points (4G-9a).

2) Kevin Hayes scored 14 points (8g-6a) in 20 career games against the ducks. He has seven points (4G-3A) against her in his last six games, including his only career trick that came on January 17, 2023 (3G).

3) Matt Grzelcyk enters this game with 25 points (1g-24a) and is only a point shy to connect his career high of 26 in 75 games with Boston in 22-23 to Boston.

4) The Penguins took fourth place in the NHL in the Power Play percentage (27.1%) and played 4-to-7 (57.1%) in the first three games of their seven-game road trip.

5) The Penguins have an overall record of 399-90-49 when both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin take a point in a game.