Ottawa Senators at Pittsburgh Penguins

Feb 23, 2008 | By Adam McLean | Matchups Articles Archive

GAME: Ottawa Senators (35-20-2-4) at Pittsburgh Penguins (35-21-2-3)
DATE/TIME: Saturday, February 23 - 3:00 PM EST

The Pittsburgh Penguins can move ahead of the first place Ottawa Senators tonight when they battle it out in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has gone on a 27-10-3 tear in the East, while the Sens are 1-2-2 in their last five games, and the NHL's highest-scoring team (206 goals) has all of a sudden gone cold.

The Sens are 16-9-1-2 on the road and they’ve lost their last three road games in a row. Overall their offense should be producing 3.20 GAG but in their last five games they’ve just averaged 2 GAG. They’ve scored one power play goal in their last eighteen tries. Their defense however has only allowed one goal in their last eighteen tries.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are red hot and will continue to be so. Malkin is the NHL's leading scorer with 82 points (35 goals, 47 assists), and he's kept the Penguins playing at a high level since they lost captain Sidney Crosby to a high ankle sprain on Jan. 18. They're 9-4-2 since Crosby went down, and Malkin has 12 goals and 18 assists in those 15 games, including a current 10-game point streak where he's amassed eight goals and 16 assists.

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