Carolina Hurricanes at Pittsburgh Penguins: game preview
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndat
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10thFifteen points apart last season
Carolina finished last season 2nd in the league on 113 points. Pittsburgh finished 10th on 98, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 114
Across 113 completed games, Pittsburgh lead the head-to-head 58-40-15.
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 30 Dec 2025, Carolina were 4th in the league and Pittsburgh 16th. By 22 Mar 2026 it was 3rd and 9th.
Carolina out-attempted Pittsburgh 298 to 229
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Carolina Hurricanes
Pittsburgh Penguins
Carolina 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 Carolina, 3 for Pittsburgh. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Carolina, 10 for Pittsburgh.
2025-26: 86 games for Carolina, 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
Carolina
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 25 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 25 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Mar
No appearances against Pittsburgh in the last meetings.
Pittsburgh crease
PIT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Mar
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.7 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
Carolina2.753.003.612.93
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.
5 on the injury lists
Carolina · injuries
Pittsburgh · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki 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.
Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
See all: Pittsburgh · 2026 draft →Saturday 27 March · the full slate
See all: Saturday 27 March · the full slate →
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