The Minnesota Wild scored three power-play goals in a 6-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Xcel Energy Center. Minnesota (11-7-2) went 3-for-4 on the power play and has scored six power-play goals in the past four games. Devan Dubnyk made 34 saves; he has allowed 15 goals in his past 12 games.
Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 8:09 of the first period. It is the second consecutive game Brodin scored on the power play. Minnesota forward Zach Parise scored a power-play goal at 15:12 of the second period to make it 4-1, and forward Nino Niederreiter tipped in a pass from Mikael Granlund at 11:25 of the third period for a third power-play goal and a 6-2 lead. Wild forward Charlie Coyle scored 40 seconds into the first period to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead. He scored at 19:37 of the first for a 3-1 lead. Granlund made it 5-1 at 18:40 of the second. Penguins forward Phil Kessel made it 2-1 at 13:26 of the first period. With his sixth goal (21st point) of the season, he became the fifth active United States-born player to reach 600 NHL points. Pittsburgh forward Bryan Rust scored at 5:50 of the third period to make it 5-2. Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves for Pittsburgh (12-6-3).
* Parise started the play from the neutral zone and passed to Eric Staal, who passed back to Parise in front for his fourth goal of the season.
"I thought we put him in a tough spot. The goals they got, they're Grade A scoring chances. The types of saves he had to make were high-quality. So I thought we put him in a tough spot in a lot of the circumstances." Marc-Andre Fleury
"Going into the period, a couple goals ahead is a totally different story. You know that team doesn't give up. We keep going the right way like we did, and like I said, doing the little things out there. Winning battles, board play, just getting pucks in the net and guys [creating] traffic, and sometimes we get a few like that." Coyle said.
"It was good. I hope it's something we can improve on and keep working at. That's such a big part of the game for us. Again, when you can get one on the power play -- it's hard to score 5-on-5 -- so when you can get one on the power play, it's amazing what it does for the team and the guys as individuals." Zach Parise said.
* Parise started the play from the neutral zone and passed to Eric Staal, who passed back to Parise in front for his fourth goal of the season.
* Staal intercepted a pass in the Pittsburgh zone and attempted to tuck the puck past Fleury, but was denied when Fleury kept a toe against the post in the first period.
* Brodin scored with a slap shot from inside the blue line, his sixth NHL power-play goal. Brodin has his first point streak after scoring in a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.
* Granlund curled and dragged around Pittsburgh defenseman Ian Cole for his goal. Granlund has six points in the past three games.
* Wild defenseman Christian Folin left the game at 13:14 of the first period after a check from Crosby. The Wild said Folin has a sprained MCL in his left knee and will be out 3-4 weeks. Nate Prosser will replace Folin in the lineup Saturday. … Kessel has eight points in his past six games. … Coyle leads the Wild with seven goals. He has at least one point in three of the past four games.
Pens Quotes
"Early on we made some big mistakes. You give up big scoring chances like that, it's tough to win games." Sidney Crosby said."I thought we put him in a tough spot. The goals they got, they're Grade A scoring chances. The types of saves he had to make were high-quality. So I thought we put him in a tough spot in a lot of the circumstances." Marc-Andre Fleury
Wild Quotes
"We're shooting. Shooting the puck. And [Wild assistant] John [Anderson] works very hard at that. I keep telling him, just keep pounding it in them, pounding it in them to shoot it. And he does, he shows it every day, and when you shoot pucks, good things happen. Nice to score more than two goals or three goals. That's a great win for us." Bruce Boudreau said."Going into the period, a couple goals ahead is a totally different story. You know that team doesn't give up. We keep going the right way like we did, and like I said, doing the little things out there. Winning battles, board play, just getting pucks in the net and guys [creating] traffic, and sometimes we get a few like that." Coyle said.
"It was good. I hope it's something we can improve on and keep working at. That's such a big part of the game for us. Again, when you can get one on the power play -- it's hard to score 5-on-5 -- so when you can get one on the power play, it's amazing what it does for the team and the guys as individuals." Zach Parise said.
New Jersey @ Penguins 3-4 SO - Saturday, November 26, 2016
When the Pittsburgh Penguins needed a late goal, Sidney Crosby rose to the occasion. Crosby scored the tying goal with 14 seconds left, and Kris Letang scored the only goal of the shootout to give the Penguins a 4-3 win against the New Jersey Devils at PPG Paints Arena. Crosby roofed a shot to tie it 3-3 with his NHL-leading 15th goal. Letang went forehand-to-backhand to beat goalie Keith Kinkaid. Penguins goalie Matt Murray stopped PA Parenteau, Michael Cammalleri and Travis Zajac. Letang said he observed Kinkaid's tendencies when Evgeni Malkin and Crosby were denied in the first two rounds. New Jersey lost 5-4 in overtime to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday. Kinkaid made 46 saves. After allowing the Penguins (13-6-3) to take a 2-1 lead with goals early in the second period, the Devils (10-6-5) answered with two. Vernon Fiddler scored his first goal of the season, shorthanded, to tie the score 2-2 4:00 into the second. The goal was Fiddler's first in 21 games with the Devils after spending his previous five seasons with the Dallas Stars. Cammalleri's second goal of the game gave New Jersey its second lead, 3-2, 9:19 into the second. Pavel Zacha set up Cammalleri in the right circle, where he dropped to one knee and put a slap shot under Murray's blocker for a power-play goal.
* Crosby got the puck after a shot from Malkin bounced through skates in the Devils crease. Crosby lifted a shot over Kinkaid to tie the game.
* Nick Lappin went on a breakaway with a chance to extend the Devils' lead midway through the second period. Lappin backhanded a shot, but Murray stretched to make a toe save with 9:48 remaining.
* Fiddler drove down the near wall while holding off Letang. Fiddler forced his way to the net and backhanded a shot through Murray's five-hole for New Jersey's first of two second-period goals.
* Cammalleri had two chances to seal a win for the Devils in the final minute of the third period but missed an empty net each time.
Pens Quotes
"I'm just trying to stay patient there. … There are so many bodies and guys fighting for it. I just tried to wait it out." Sidney Crosby"We were resilient all night. I think we had that belief on our bench." Matt Murray
"I think Sid is probably the best in the League in front of the net because he has such a great stick. He can pull the puck through traffic, out of people's feet, between sticks, and still has the poise and the presence of mind to make the right play to score. I thought it was a great goal all-around." Mike Sullivan said.
"The first two guys that went, he's kind of deep in his net. So you have to try to elevate the puck and make him go down." Letang said.
Penguins @ NY Islanders - Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Anders Lee scored a tiebreaking goal with 27 seconds left to help the New York Islanders defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 at Barclays Center. Lee redirected Thomas Hickey's shot past goalie Matt Murray after New York blew a 3-0 lead in the third period. Nikolay Kulemin scored an empty-net goal with 24 seconds left.
The two goals in three seconds tied the NHL record for fastest by one team (St. Louis Eagles, March 12, 1935; Minnesota Wild, Jan. 21, 2004). Johnny Boychuk, Jason Chimera and Casey Cizikas scored, and Thomas Greiss made 31 saves for New York (8-10-4). Conor Sheary, Justin Schultz and Evgeni Malkin scored in less than 13 minutes for Pittsburgh (13-7-3). Murray made 25 saves. Boychuk made it 1-0 with a one-timer from the top of the right circle with 13 seconds remaining in the first period. Chimera scored 2:10 into the second period when Scott Mayfield's wrist shot from the point went off Chimera's skate and then Murray's before trickling over the goal line to make it 2-0. Cizikas gave the Islanders a 3-0 lead at 17:21. Mayfield's backhand hit Penguins forward Bryan Rust and went to Cizikas at the edge of the crease for an easy tap-in.
Sheary made it 3-1 32 seconds into the third period. Sidney Crosby passed in front to Patric Hornqvist, whose one-timer was stopped by Greiss. Sheary scored on the rebound. Schultz made it 3-2 with 9:20 remaining when he roofed a wrist shot over Greiss for his first goal of the season. Malkin tied it 3-3 2:28 later when he took a pass from Brian Dumoulin and beat Greiss from the slot.
* Lee used his 6-foot-3 frame to his advantage by parking himself in front of the net, where he was in perfect position to deflect Hickey's low shot past Murray.
"You play a little bit more loose, you play a little bit more with confidence, and you're seeing the puck better," said Lee, who has four of his five goals in the past four games. "When you do that, things go in for you."
"We've got to bury our chances. Some nights you're going to have a ton of them. I think tonight, we had a number of really good ones. They didn't come in bunches the first two periods necessarily, but we had to kill six minutes of penalties in the second and sometimes the game dictates that and you've got to be able to capitalize, I think, just putting the puck in the net. But we stuck with it and the pucks eventually went in." Sidney Crosby
Sheary made it 3-1 32 seconds into the third period. Sidney Crosby passed in front to Patric Hornqvist, whose one-timer was stopped by Greiss. Sheary scored on the rebound. Schultz made it 3-2 with 9:20 remaining when he roofed a wrist shot over Greiss for his first goal of the season. Malkin tied it 3-3 2:28 later when he took a pass from Brian Dumoulin and beat Greiss from the slot.
* Lee used his 6-foot-3 frame to his advantage by parking himself in front of the net, where he was in perfect position to deflect Hickey's low shot past Murray.
"You play a little bit more loose, you play a little bit more with confidence, and you're seeing the puck better," said Lee, who has four of his five goals in the past four games. "When you do that, things go in for you."
* Murray dove across his crease and somehow gloved a wrist shot by John Tavares, who was alone at the right post while the Islanders were on a two-man advantage with 11:05 left in the second period.
* Dumoulin drew two defenders toward him in the right circle, allowing Malkin to be left alone for the tying goal.
* In the final moments of the second period, Greiss calmly handled a snap shot by Schultz from the right circle to preserve the 3-0 lead, a save that meant more than anyone anticipated at the time.
* Hornqvist returned after missing six games with a concussion. … It's the first time the Islanders have won two in a row since Oct. 21 and 23. … Mayfield had his first two NHL assists, in his 13th game. … Pittsburgh was two men short for a full two minutes before the midway point of the second period. New York had three shots on goal and did not score. … The NHL record for fastest two goals is two seconds (Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, Jan. 5, 2016; St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Dec. 19, 1987).
"We've got to bury our chances. Some nights you're going to have a ton of them. I think tonight, we had a number of really good ones. They didn't come in bunches the first two periods necessarily, but we had to kill six minutes of penalties in the second and sometimes the game dictates that and you've got to be able to capitalize, I think, just putting the puck in the net. But we stuck with it and the pucks eventually went in." Sidney Crosby
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