Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ utah Hockey Club 1/29/2025 – Pensburgh

Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (20-24-8, 48 points, 8th place Metropolitan Division) @ Hockey club (21-21-7, 49 points, 6th place Central Division)

When: 21:30 et

How to watch: Sportsnet Pittsburgh Localy broadcast, TNT national game and Max streaming

The path of pens forward: Tonight is the end of the trip with seven games (2-4-0 recording). Penins head back to Pittsburgh for a match at 19:00 against Nashville, after which they stay home for a few days to meet with New Jersey next Tuesday night. Then it’s a fast two -game trip to see NY Rangers (next Friday, February 7th) and a trip to Philadelphia the next night (Sat February) and then Pittsburgh received two weeks until his next match on February 22.

Tracking an enemy: Utah sits at even 49 points in 49 games, only five points from the playoff. Recently, they were up and down, three losses were followed by three victories, followed by two more losses in their last two games. Their last action was a 3-1 loss in Ottawa on Sunday.

Seasonal Series: The first meeting in Pittsburgh/Utah was not much for the pens that lost 6-1 on November 23. They will hope for a better result on their first visit to Delta Center tonight.

Hidden statistics: Utah has only 8-11-4 records in her opening season at home (compared to a record of 13-10-3 on the road).

Introduction to Utah

Designed lines

From practice yesterday, on Bel Fraser

Forward

Clayton Keller – Logan Kulie – Nick Shmalz

Alex Kerfut/ Matthias McCheli – Barrett Highton – Josh Doan

MicaHel Carcone – Jack McBain – Lawson Crouse

Liam O’Brien – Kevin Stanlund – Nick Bugstad

Defenders

Mikhail Sergachev / John Marino

Ollie Maata / Nick Desimone

Ian Cole / Michael Kesselring

Goalkeepers: Karel vejmelka and Connor Ingram

Scratches: Juuso Valimaki Vladislav Kolyachonok,

Ir: Dylan Guenter, Robert Borko, Sean Davzi, Shea Weber

– Surgichev is a technical daily and has not played due to a January 16 injury. Being the way he trained in the biggest couple yesterday, his chances look pretty good to return to the squad tonight.

–UTAH has a definitely taste of Pittsburgh with names such as Bjugstad, Marino, Maatta, Cole and Bortuzzo in the list, as well as the native son Logan Kulie.

-This coach Andre Turini says he has no certain rotation of the goalkeeper, although his goalkeepers have been trading games lately and each of them has started four times since Ingram returned from a January 11 injury. Vejmelka started the last game and lost and no official starter was named after the game tonight by the press time.

-Shea Weber: In the Hockey Hall of Fame, while still there is a NHL Active Player contract. What a world! (Still continues until 2025-26).

Player statistics

(Via HOCKEYDB))

– GM Bill Armstrong showed a lot of restraint, not blowing up a tone of money to superstructure on the list after leaving the literal desert in Arizona and a viable owner of the NHL. Utah brought Sergachov and Marino in the trade that coyotes could never do, but the team still sits up to $ 30 million in the caps space next season (if they choose to pass the Ltir Ltir Weber Treaty). It is probably a wise move for a growing club.

-There was no sophomore for the 20-year-old towers. As a rookie, he has made a respectable 44 points (20g+24A), appearing in all 82 games. This year it has already improved the assistant numbers for just over half a season of work and is not far from the best figures of goals and points.

Team match

-Teh is decent for good at almost anything, but they could use a little more bite and power in their composition to make the next step towards a playoff team. It is interesting to see the Tourgin ride on the escalator with this team in what has been gradual, but a stable construction over the last few seasons. Through a hockey reference:

Take a look at these points inch with each passing season. It is nice to see in the world of single use of the NHL team coach, shows some loyalty and in fact allow the coach the opportunity to build a foundation and start seeing it. It will be interesting to continue to follow this team and coach to see where they can take it from here.

And now for pens

Designed lines

Forward

Ricard Raquel – Sydney Crosby – Brian height

Michael Bunting – Cody voice – Anthony Bovilier

Drew O’Connor – Kevin Hayes – Jesse Puldjuja

Matt Nieto – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari

Defenders

Marcus Petroeson / Chris Letang

Matt Grzelsik / Eric Carlson

Ryan Graves / by Joseph

Goalkeepers: Alex Nedelkovic and Joel Blomquoist

Potential scratches: Philip Tomasino, Boko Imama, Ryan Shea

Ir: Evgeni Malkin (knee injury from week to week)

– Three makes losses where the team has achieved only one goal in each game made for some changes in the composition in practice yesterday. The lower six was a mix and rotation of players, but it seems that Tomasino may be out. This caused a slight movement on Twitter, but at this point the team can also shake things and see what they can find. Fortunately, Lizotte seems to return to the return after failing to play due to illness in the last three games.

– Greater Crosby has scored three goals in the last four games, so that’s good. But Crosby is the only penguin player to score a goal in each of the last two games (against SJ and SEA), which is definitely less good for the whole team to dry for games at the end.

– Josh Yohe of Athletic had an interesting look at how the loss of Anaheim last week may have removed all the other winds from the sail of the penguin player. “Effectively ended the season,” as he said it. I think he is something there, the cynic could read the ranking and rightly point out that the team did not target everywhere, but when the player’s faith is distracted, it is quite obvious. And the last two games are certainly indicators that this embodiment of the team has reached its limit (write Epitia now-“2024-25 penguins: hung there to a melody in the 6th place for almost 50 games”).

-So we will see if the team has any energy or ability to end their journey on a high note tonight. The best thing they can do is come back 3-4-0 with victory, and those losses in Anaheim, Seattle and San Jose tell the story of the ordinary as a day. The loss tonight means 2-4-1 or 2-5-0 and the team just counts days until most of them make a tropical vacation in February and then are probably carved for parts (on the basis of each contender wants some of the pieces ) and limp the section for another year.