St. Louis Blues at Pittsburgh Penguins: game preview
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndat
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10thTwelve points apart last season
St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Pittsburgh finished 10th on 98.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 175
Across 174 completed games, St. Louis lead the head-to-head 98-69-7.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 27 Oct 2025, St. Louis were 30th in the league and Pittsburgh 3rd. By 14 Apr 2026 it was 24th and 9th.
St. Louis out-attempted Pittsburgh 120 to 97
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
St. Louis Blues
Pittsburgh Penguins
St. Louis and Pittsburgh are level on chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for St. Louis, 3 for Pittsburgh. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for St. Louis, 10 for Pittsburgh.
2025-26: 82 games for St. Louis, 82 for Pittsburgh.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
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Small samplePittsburgh
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 17 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 14 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
St. Louis crease
STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Nov
No appearances against Pittsburgh in the last meetings.
Pittsburgh crease
PIT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 16 Nov
No appearances against St. Louis in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
St. Louis · injuries
Pittsburgh · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.
Activated C/RW Benjamin Kindel from injured reserve. Placed C/LW David Gustafsson on waivers.
Assigned F Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
Reinstated C Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.
St. Louis · 2026 draft
See all: St. Louis · 2026 draft →Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
See all: Pittsburgh · 2026 draft →Thursday 19 November · the full slate
See all: Thursday 19 November · the full slate →
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