{"id":461475,"date":"2025-01-25T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=461475"},"modified":"2025-01-25T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:06:12","slug":"nhl-predictions-penguins-vs-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/25\/nhl-predictions-penguins-vs-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Predictions: January 25 Pittsburgh Penguins vs Seattle Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> travel to Seattle<\/a> to face the Kraken in an East versus West matchup at Climate Pledge Arena. Welcome back to NHL Predictions<\/a> here on Last Word on Hockey! Each day, we provide in-depth analysis, insights, and predictions for all the NHL\u2019s games. In this afternoon’s game, the Penguins aim to gain ground in the Metropolitan Division, while the Kraken look to turn around another bad stretch.<\/p>\n

NHL Predictions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Seattle Kraken<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Head-to-Head:<\/strong> Penguins 0-1 Kraken<\/h4>\n

Time:<\/strong> 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)<\/p>\n

TV:<\/strong> SportsNet Pittsburgh; KHN; KONG; ESPN+<\/p>\n

This will be the second contest between the Penguins and Kraken this season. Seattle won the first meeting by a 4-2 score on January 11. Pittsburgh is coming off an embarrassing loss to the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. Meanwhile, Seattle sits at the sixth in the Pacific Division, and the club is just hoping to establish some momentum.<\/p>\n

The Penguins\u2019 Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Penguins are 20-22-8 heading into this matchup. Following a stretch where Pittsburgh looked good, they\u2019ve gone 3-5-2, struggling to gain ground in the wildcard race. Captain Sidney Crosby<\/a> continues to stay above a point per game, with 51 points in 50 games. Rickard Rakell<\/a> and Bryan have also been racking up points for the Penguins. Rakell has 41 points in 49 games and could be a good trading piece ahead of the deadline.<\/p>\n

In net, Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> is likely to get the start. The goalie is coming off a huge win against the Kings<\/a> where he was able to shut the door and get Pittsburgh a much-needed victory. While Joel Blomqvist<\/a> has struggled in the win column since coming back up to Pittsburgh, he has maintained a .904 save percentage, showing he\u2019s capable of being a quality netminder going forward.<\/p>\n

The Kraken Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For Seattle, Joey Daccord<\/a> is the expected starter in this one. However, always check social media before locking in a daily fantasy starter.The Kraken have a -13 scoring differential coming into this game. The have 142 total goals scored, but have allowed 155 goals against so far.<\/p>\n

Jaden Schwartz<\/a> has tallied 16 goals and 17 assists for the Kraken. Chandler Stephenson<\/a> may be scoring the goals like he has at previous stops in his career. However, he\u00a0has four goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Seattle is 21-25-3 overall entering Saturday’s game and 11-11-3 at home in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n

Prediction<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pittsburgh will be looking to come out swinging following their loss to Anaheim. Meanwhile, the season seems to be in trouble for Seattle. With a team not looking like they have much fight, Pittsburgh should be able to get the win.<\/p>\n

NHL Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguins win 5-3.<\/p>\n

Prop Bet for the Night<\/strong><\/h2>\n

FanDuel\u2019s<\/a> Total Goals Over 5.5 (+104)<\/strong> \u2013 Both teams accounted for six goals in the first meeting of the season. Expect the final meeting of the season to be similar.<\/p>\n

Main photo by: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Penguins travel to Seattle to face the Kraken in an East versus West matchup at Climate Pledge Arena. Welcome back to NHL Predictions here on Last Word on Hockey! Each day, we provide in-depth analysis, insights, and predictions for all the NHL\u2019s games. In this afternoon’s game, the Penguins aim to gain ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5231,"featured_media":461492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,4548,12,4524,5369],"tags":[6254,6123,724,140,80],"class_list":["post-461475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-penguins","category-nhl-predictions","category-seattle-kraken","tag-buffalo-sabres-predictions","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-predictions","tag-rickard-rakell","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-tage-thompson"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461493,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461475\/revisions\/461493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}