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Posted at 8:00AM ET. Odds are subject to change

Pittsburgh +165 over Los Angeles

Crypto.com Arena – Los Angeles, CA

10:30 PM ET. OT included. The Kings are -190 chalk tonight because… why exactly? They’ve won once in four tries, they’re taking bad penalties, and they can’t get a save. Yet here they are, priced like a contender hosting a bottom feeder. That’s market perception over market reality.

Pittsburgh has dropped two straight, yes, but both games were coin flips that turned on special teams. They led 2-0 in Anaheim before a few soft penalties flipped momentum. Tristan Jarry wasn’t great, yet the Penguins still outplayed the Ducks at five-on-five. This team is far from broken — they’re creating chances, controlling play early, and still have elite top-end skill that can break open a game at any time.

The Kings, meanwhile, are the opposite. They’ve been out of sync, taking dumb penalties, and living off late pushes to make their box scores look respectable. They erased a three-goal deficit in Minnesota only to lose anyway, their fourth game in a row allowing three or more. Jim Hiller’s trying to talk about “positives” — but positives don’t cash tickets. When your goalie (Darcy Kuemper) has an .868 save percentage and your penalty kill is getting shredded, you’re a team to fade until further notice.

The Penguins aren’t world-beaters, but they’re competent, and at this inflated price, we don’t need them to be much more than that. They’ve already beaten this team twice last season, including in this very building. They have the more dangerous top six, a Hall-of-Fame core that still cares, and the motivation to stop the bleeding before this road trip goes sideways.

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