Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers: game preview
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10that
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30thTwenty-one points apart last season
Pittsburgh finished last season 10th in the league on 98 points. NY Rangers finished 30th on 77, and the 2025-26 season series went PIT 2-1-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 358
Across 357 completed games, Pittsburgh lead the head-to-head 179-148-30.
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 7 Oct 2025, Pittsburgh were 2nd in the league and NY Rangers 32nd. By 28 Feb 2026 it was 8th and 28th.
Pittsburgh out-attempted NY Rangers 236 to 232
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Pittsburgh Penguins
New York Rangers
Pittsburgh and NY Rangers 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 Pittsburgh, 5 for NY Rangers. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Pittsburgh, 10 for NY Rangers.
2025-26: 82 games for Pittsburgh, 82 for NY Rangers.
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.
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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 18 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 18 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Pittsburgh crease
PIT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
No appearances against NY Rangers in the last meetings.
NY Rangers crease
NYR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
No appearances against Pittsburgh in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27
NY Rangers3.201.602.903.05Goals 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
Pittsburgh · injuries
NY Rangers · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Recalled C Gabriel Beaudoin from Hartford (AHL). Placed C Joe Veleno on injured reserve.
Placed D Matthew Robertson on waivers.
Placed G Joonas Korpisalo on injured reserve. Recalled G Dylan Garand from Hartford (AHL).
Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
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