Chicago Blackhawks at Pittsburgh Penguins: game preview
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stat
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10thTwenty-six points apart last season
Chicago finished last season 31st in the league on 72 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 158
Across 157 completed games, Chicago lead the head-to-head 92-60-5.
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 28 Dec 2025, Chicago were 31st in the league and Pittsburgh 18th. By 29 Jan 2026 it was 27th and 8th.
Pittsburgh out-attempted Chicago 286 to 257
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Chicago Blackhawks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh have created the better 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: 4 games for Chicago, 3 for Pittsburgh. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Chicago, 10 for Pittsburgh.
2025-26: 82 games for Chicago, 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
Chicago
Small samplePittsburgh
Small sampleBryan Rust has 6 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Bryan Rust vs Chicago · game by game
See all: Bryan Rust vs Chicago · game by game →Arturs Silovs has started most of these meetings
Arturs Silovs played 2 of the last 5 meetings with Chicago, with a .886 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 6 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 6 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Chicago crease
CHI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Dec
Two goalies used against Pittsburgh
Arturs Silovs
See all: Arturs Silovs →PIT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sergei Murashov .912 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.5 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
Chicago2.254.252.603.35
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.
6 on the injury lists
Chicago · injuries
Pittsburgh · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot 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.
Chicago · 2026 draft
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