NHL - Pittsburgh Penguins @ Washington Capitals 3-1 - Wed, Oct 28, 2015

It's usually the offense that dazzles when the Penguins play the Capitals. But it was the goaltending that stole the show. Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury made 33 saves in a 3-1 win at Verizon Center that ended the Capitals' five-game winning streak. Fleury has allowed two goals on 73 shots in his past two games.
Pittsburgh started the season with three consecutive losses but has won five of its past six games. Kessel has the winning goal in back-to-back games. Evgeny Kuznetsov scored for Washington, and Holtby made 22 saves. The Penguins outshot the Capitals 14-13 in a scoreless first period. Pittsburgh failed to score despite having three power-play opportunities, including a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:45. Fleury came up with several big saves on the Capitals' two power plays in the scoreless second period, when Washington outshot Pittsburgh 14-4.
Penguins defenseman Ian Cole and Capitals forward Tom Wilson took matching roughing penalties with 21 seconds remaining in the second period, and with the teams still playing 4-on-4, Kuznetsov put Washington ahead, the Russian has four goals and 10 points in his past four games. But Bennett, returning after missing five games with an undisclosed injury and playing in his 100th NHL game, got the Penguins level. Trotz thought Bennett's goal was the turning point of the game and thought the Capitals could have responded more effectively. Neither Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby nor Washington's Alex Ovechkin had a point in their 34th regular-season game against the other. Fleury has played every minute of Pittsburgh's first nine games.

Goals

* With the teams still playing 4-on-4, Kuznetsov beat Fleury with a wrist shot 1:28 into the third to put Washington ahead. Kuznetsov has four goals and 10 points in his past four games.
* Bennett got the Penguins even 24 seconds later with his second of the season when he picked up his own rebound and beat Holtby to the glove side.
* Phil Kessel scored the go-ahead goal 3:49 into the third period when he tucked Evgeni Malkin's pass behind Washington goaltender Braden Holtby for his fourth goal of the season, breaking a 1-1 tie.
* Nick Bonino hit the empty net with 1:43 remaining.

Pens Quotes

Beau Bennett: "I think the more shots [Fleury] sees the better he plays. We can't do that every night, but he was definitely our best player tonight and kept us in it."
Marc-Andre Fleury: "It was definitely a rough start, you know, that's something we expected from [other] teams. Maybe that step back was a little bit of a wakeup. I'm blessed to get better throughout the game and play better hockey lately."
Mike Johnston: "I thought just the way the play developed down low in the corner, he found an opening. The last few games he's found an opening down low and he's missed some of those chances, so you know that they're going to come. Our defense, I thought all night, they were good in the corners, they didn't allow a lot of extra shots around the net and [Fleury] was big when he had to be. He made some big-time saves on those rebounds. We knew coming in here that we wanted to improve our divisional record this year. It was our first game against a divisional team; they're hot, they're coming off a pretty good streak, they're playing in their building in front of a big crowd tonight. I thought our guys responded well after they scored."

Opposition View

Barry Trotz: "I thought both goaltenders were good tonight. We had some really good chances and we didn't capitalize. We were right in the crease a lot. I thought that would have given us a little momentum. We couldn't get one past Fleury. There were times we were in the blue paint and we couldn't whack it by him. That's when you've got to be resilient. There was really a controlled breakout situation. They executed with a little bit of speed and they were able to get the momentum back real quick, and maybe we even gave them some momentum."
Braden Holtby: "I thought we did a pretty good job killing [the 5-on-3], got a little fortunate in some spots with them missing the net. We've played better, the toughest part I think is we wanted to come out physical then took a couple penalties that were us playing physical, it's tough to find where that boundary is when that happens early. I thought the guys still battled through it. Their penalty kill was very good, and I know both teams look at the power play at the end of the night and neither power play scored. But I thought our penalty-killers with the way their power play has been were really solid."