Detroit Red Wings @ Pens 1-4 - Saturday, January 13, 2018
Evgeni Malkin had two goals and four points to help the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 at PPG Paints Arena. Malkin, who scored once in the first period and once in the second, had secondary assists on power-play goals from Phil Kessel in the first period and Sidney Crosby in the third. Malkin had three points (two goals, one assist), including the game-winning goal, when Pittsburgh won its last game before a five-day break, 6-5 in overtime against the Boston Bruins on Sunday.
Malkin has five goals and eight points in his past three games. Kessel had three points (one goal, two assists), Sidney Crosby had two (one goal, one assist) and Tristan Jarry made 29 saves in his third straight start after allowing five goals on 19 shots before being pulled on Sunday.
The Penguins (23-19-3) have won three straight games after losing nine of their previous 14 (5-9-0). They held the Red Wings (17-18-7), who had won four of their past five games (4-1-0) entering Saturday, to 1-for-7 on the power play.
Malkin scored to extend the lead to 3-1 at 2:08 of the second period and Crosby scored on a power play at 3:31 of the third to make it 4-1. Howard made 32 saves for the Red Wings.
The Penguins (23-19-3) have won three straight games after losing nine of their previous 14 (5-9-0). They held the Red Wings (17-18-7), who had won four of their past five games (4-1-0) entering Saturday, to 1-for-7 on the power play.
Malkin opened the scoring at 3:01 after a shot from Olli Maatta bounced off the end boards and to Carl Hagelin to the left of the net. Hagelin sent a pass past Justin Abdelkader to Malkin between the circles, where he dropped to one knee and shot by Jimmy Howard's glove
Abdelkader tied it 1-1 on a power play at 13:36, when he backhanded a rebound off the inside of Jarry's right pad. Kessel answered with a power-play goal to put Pittsburgh ahead 2-1 at 16:35. Crosby carried the puck down the far wall before passing above the crease to Kessel, who redirected it past Howard.Malkin scored to extend the lead to 3-1 at 2:08 of the second period and Crosby scored on a power play at 3:31 of the third to make it 4-1. Howard made 32 saves for the Red Wings.
"[Malkin's] willingness to shoot the puck, I think, really jumps out at me. He's got such a dangerous shot. He's as dangerous of a shooter as there is in the game. Some of them are going to go in, and they've done that lately." -- Penguins coach Mike Sullivan
"It's always fun when you win and you have more confidence," Malkin said. "Your game is better. The mood is better. Now, we're feeling so much better. It's like we start playing so much better on the power play, the PK and special teams too. Now, just stay the same and stay on the same level. I just play my game. A couple lucky goals and the power play worked tonight too. … I feel so much more confident."
Abdelkader and Detroit forward Darren Helm each sustained a lower-body injury and will not play against the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday. Blashill said the Red Wings could recall a forward from Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League before the game. … Red Wings defenseman Trevor Daley, who won the Stanley Cup in each of the past two seasons with the Penguins, played in Pittsburgh for the first time since signing with Detroit on July 1. He received a video tribute during the first television timeout of the first period. … Howard returned after missing one game with a knee injury and said he felt rusty after a five-day break. … Jarry started in place of Matt Murray, who returned to Ontario on Friday because of a personal matter. Sullivan listed Murray as day to day.
NY Rangers @ Pens 2-5 - Sunday, January 14, 2018
Phil Kessel's go-ahead goal in the second period, his 700th NHL point, helped the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the New York Rangers 5-2 at PPG Paints Arena.After Dominik Simon scored his first NHL goal at 13:15 of the second period to tie the game 2-2, Conor Sheary set up Kessel for a one-timer over Henrik Lundqvist's glove at 14:30 to give the Penguins a 3-2 lead. Kessel has eight points (three goals, five assists) during a four-game point streak. Kessel has not gone consecutive games without a point since Nov. 16-18. It was his 20th goal, the 10th consecutive season he's scored 20 or more. Simon, who had the puck from his first goal in his locker stall following the game, said he was pleased Kessel's and his milestones facilitated Pittsburgh's comeback.
"We're both glad it helped the team to win," Simon said. "That's the first thing you think about now. All the teams are so tight in the standings. So, yeah, I'm really glad for it."
"We just stayed with it," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "We liked our game. The first two periods, we had a significant amount of scoring chances. We couldn't seem to break the game open, but we felt like we were controlling play. … We liked a lot of the way the game was played from our standpoint."
Pens @ Anaheim Sucks 3-5 - Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Ondrej Kase had a goal and an assist for the Anaheim Ducks in a 5-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Honda Center. Rickard Rakell, Adam Henrique and Chris Wagner also scored in a four-goal second period, the highest-scoring period for the Ducks this season. Hampus Lindholm scored an empty-net goal, and John Gibson made 30 saves for Anaheim (21-16-9). Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel and Jake Guentzel scored for Pittsburgh (24-20-3), which had its four-game winning streak end. Sidney Crosby had two assists but was held without a goal and remains at 399 NHL goals. Tristan Jarry made 28 saves.
Casey DeSmith made 28 saves in his first NHL start, and Patric Hornqvist scored two goals to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center. Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist for the Penguins (25-20-3), and Sidney Crosby had an assist to extend his point streak to six games (three goals, 11 assists). Pittsburgh, coming off a 5-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday, has won five in a row in the second game of a back-to-back. Adrian Kempe scored, and Jonathan Quick made 28 saves for the Kings (24-16-5), who have lost a season-high five games in a row. DeSmith, whose first two NHL games came in relief in losses at the Winnipeg Jets on Oct. 29 and against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Dec. 9, made a right-pad save on Dustin Brown from close range on the first shot he faced, with the Kings on the power play 1:57 into the game. Hornqvist beat Quick through the five-hole from above the right face-off circle 43 seconds into the game to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead. Several key saves by DeSmith allowed the Penguins to carry that lead into the second period despite being outshot 11-3 in the first. The Kings trailed at the end of the first for the fourth straight game.
"It's always fun when you win and you have more confidence," Malkin said. "Your game is better. The mood is better. Now, we're feeling so much better. It's like we start playing so much better on the power play, the PK and special teams too. Now, just stay the same and stay on the same level. I just play my game. A couple lucky goals and the power play worked tonight too. … I feel so much more confident."
"I thought we were moving our feet," Crosby said. "I thought the last few games, we've played pretty fast and executed well. So, I thought we did that. … I don't think you can take anything for granted."
NY Rangers @ Pens 2-5 - Sunday, January 14, 2018Phil Kessel's go-ahead goal in the second period, his 700th NHL point, helped the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the New York Rangers 5-2 at PPG Paints Arena.After Dominik Simon scored his first NHL goal at 13:15 of the second period to tie the game 2-2, Conor Sheary set up Kessel for a one-timer over Henrik Lundqvist's glove at 14:30 to give the Penguins a 3-2 lead. Kessel has eight points (three goals, five assists) during a four-game point streak. Kessel has not gone consecutive games without a point since Nov. 16-18. It was his 20th goal, the 10th consecutive season he's scored 20 or more. Simon, who had the puck from his first goal in his locker stall following the game, said he was pleased Kessel's and his milestones facilitated Pittsburgh's comeback.
"We just stayed with it," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "We liked our game. The first two periods, we had a significant amount of scoring chances. We couldn't seem to break the game open, but we felt like we were controlling play. … We liked a lot of the way the game was played from our standpoint."
Pens @ Anaheim Sucks 3-5 - Wednesday, January 17, 2018Ondrej Kase had a goal and an assist for the Anaheim Ducks in a 5-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Honda Center. Rickard Rakell, Adam Henrique and Chris Wagner also scored in a four-goal second period, the highest-scoring period for the Ducks this season. Hampus Lindholm scored an empty-net goal, and John Gibson made 30 saves for Anaheim (21-16-9). Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel and Jake Guentzel scored for Pittsburgh (24-20-3), which had its four-game winning streak end. Sidney Crosby had two assists but was held without a goal and remains at 399 NHL goals. Tristan Jarry made 28 saves.
The Penguins took a 1-0 lead at 18:26 of the first period on the 20th goal of the season for Malkin, but the Ducks slowed the pace and scored four straight goals in the second.
Rakell tied the score at 1-1 at 4:17. Anaheim defenseman Francois Beauchemin took a point shot into traffic that was redirected by Ryan Getzlaf toward Rakell, who deflected the puck downward and through the pads of Jarry for his team-high 16th goal of the season. It was the 600th assist of Getzlaf's NHL career. He's the first Anaheim player to reach that milestone. Henrique made it 2-1 with a wraparound goal at 5:42. Jarry got hung up with Guentzel on the left post and couldn't slide over in time as Henrique came around the opposite side to score his 10th goal. Wagner scored a shorthanded goal at 9:24 to make it 3-1 after teammate Jared Boll went to the penalty box for slashing Matt Hunwick in front of the Anaheim net. Cam Fowler chipped the puck to Jakob Silfverberg in the neutral zone. He gloved it along the wall, dropped it to his feet and passed ahead to Wagner, who beat Jarry on a breakaway for the sixth shorthanded goal of the season for the Ducks.
Kase scored on another breakaway at 18:28. He blocked a shot by defenseman Olli Maatta at the Anaheim blue line and went in alone on Jarry, scoring with a high backhand for a 4-1 lead. Kessel scored a power-play goal at 8:35 of third period to make it 4-2. Guentzel scored on the power play off a feed from Kessel with 5:54 left to make it 4-3. Lindholm scored into an empty net with one second remaining for a 5-3 lead. Pittsburgh rookie Daniel Sprong opened the game on the top line with Crosby, but remained on the bench in the third period.
Malkin joined Mario Lemieux (12), Jaromir Jagr (11) and Crosby (10) as the only Pittsburgh players to score 20 goals or more in at least 10 seasons. ... Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang didn't have a point after coming in with seven points (two goals, five assists) in four career games in Anaheim. ... Penguins forward Carl Hagelin has five points (one goal, four assists) in a season-high four-game point streak. ... The Penguins went 2-for-4 on the power play and are 6-for-15 in their past four games. ... Kessell had two points (goal, assist), but was minus-4. ... The Ducks improved to 3-9-1 when trailing after the first period.
"We did some good things and then we just made big mistakes in the second period. When you give up that many goals and breakaways in a short period of time, you put yourself in a tough spot." -- Pittsburgh forward Sidney Crosby
"It was a little bit up-and-down, back-and-forth," Jarry said. "Those are fun games to play in as a player, when there are lots of chances. You just have to bear down and do the best you can."
"I was just trying to go with the guys I thought were going," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "The guys who are playing hard, the guys who are making something happen are going to get an opportunity to play."
Rakell tied the score at 1-1 at 4:17. Anaheim defenseman Francois Beauchemin took a point shot into traffic that was redirected by Ryan Getzlaf toward Rakell, who deflected the puck downward and through the pads of Jarry for his team-high 16th goal of the season. It was the 600th assist of Getzlaf's NHL career. He's the first Anaheim player to reach that milestone. Henrique made it 2-1 with a wraparound goal at 5:42. Jarry got hung up with Guentzel on the left post and couldn't slide over in time as Henrique came around the opposite side to score his 10th goal. Wagner scored a shorthanded goal at 9:24 to make it 3-1 after teammate Jared Boll went to the penalty box for slashing Matt Hunwick in front of the Anaheim net. Cam Fowler chipped the puck to Jakob Silfverberg in the neutral zone. He gloved it along the wall, dropped it to his feet and passed ahead to Wagner, who beat Jarry on a breakaway for the sixth shorthanded goal of the season for the Ducks.
Kase scored on another breakaway at 18:28. He blocked a shot by defenseman Olli Maatta at the Anaheim blue line and went in alone on Jarry, scoring with a high backhand for a 4-1 lead. Kessel scored a power-play goal at 8:35 of third period to make it 4-2. Guentzel scored on the power play off a feed from Kessel with 5:54 left to make it 4-3. Lindholm scored into an empty net with one second remaining for a 5-3 lead. Pittsburgh rookie Daniel Sprong opened the game on the top line with Crosby, but remained on the bench in the third period.
Malkin joined Mario Lemieux (12), Jaromir Jagr (11) and Crosby (10) as the only Pittsburgh players to score 20 goals or more in at least 10 seasons. ... Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang didn't have a point after coming in with seven points (two goals, five assists) in four career games in Anaheim. ... Penguins forward Carl Hagelin has five points (one goal, four assists) in a season-high four-game point streak. ... The Penguins went 2-for-4 on the power play and are 6-for-15 in their past four games. ... Kessell had two points (goal, assist), but was minus-4. ... The Ducks improved to 3-9-1 when trailing after the first period.
"We did some good things and then we just made big mistakes in the second period. When you give up that many goals and breakaways in a short period of time, you put yourself in a tough spot." -- Pittsburgh forward Sidney Crosby
"It was a little bit up-and-down, back-and-forth," Jarry said. "Those are fun games to play in as a player, when there are lots of chances. You just have to bear down and do the best you can."
"I was just trying to go with the guys I thought were going," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "The guys who are playing hard, the guys who are making something happen are going to get an opportunity to play."
Pens @ Los Angeles Kings 3-1 - Thursday, January 18, 2018
Casey DeSmith made 28 saves in his first NHL start, and Patric Hornqvist scored two goals to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center. Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist for the Penguins (25-20-3), and Sidney Crosby had an assist to extend his point streak to six games (three goals, 11 assists). Pittsburgh, coming off a 5-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday, has won five in a row in the second game of a back-to-back. Adrian Kempe scored, and Jonathan Quick made 28 saves for the Kings (24-16-5), who have lost a season-high five games in a row. DeSmith, whose first two NHL games came in relief in losses at the Winnipeg Jets on Oct. 29 and against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Dec. 9, made a right-pad save on Dustin Brown from close range on the first shot he faced, with the Kings on the power play 1:57 into the game. Hornqvist beat Quick through the five-hole from above the right face-off circle 43 seconds into the game to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead. Several key saves by DeSmith allowed the Penguins to carry that lead into the second period despite being outshot 11-3 in the first. The Kings trailed at the end of the first for the fourth straight game.
Kempe scored on a breakaway to tie it 1-1 at 14:10 of the second period. He waited until he got the angle on DeSmith by cutting to his left through the slot and outflanking the rookie goaltender. It was Kempe's third goal in the past six games. Anze Kopitar had an assist on Kempe's goal for his sixth point in the past six games (one goal, five assists). Defenseman Jake Muzzin had the secondary assist after missing the past three games with an upper-body injury.
Pittsburgh pulled away with two goals in the third period. Los Angeles entered the game with an NHL-best plus-31 goal differential in the third. Malkin scored from the slot to put the Penguins ahead 2-1 26 seconds in, with Quick unable to see the shot through traffic. It was the second straight game with a goal for Malkin, who has seven goals in his past six games. Hornqvist made it 3-1 with a power-play goal at 10:21 after Brown received a major penalty and game misconduct at 6:41 for boarding Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz. He has five points in his past five games (three goals, two assists). Coach Mike Sullivan said Schultz left the game to be examined for a concussion and should be OK.
"He's been showing the whole year in practice how competitive he is and how good he can play, and finally he showed it here, and good for him and good for the whole team." -- Penguins forward Patric Hornqvist on rookie goalie Casey DeSmith
"They had a great look, and he looked pretty poised in there with the save he made and had to get over there quick. They were coming pretty hard. I thought we just stayed patient, found a way not to let it turn against us where we're down after one. We found a way to kind of hold the lead. Kind of weird the way it works sometimes, but I thought we had a really good third given it's back-to-back nights." Crosby said.
"Great move, and kudos to him," DeSmith said. "He out-waited me big time. Getting beat on a breakaway isn't too confidence-killing. It was a good goal and I'd like to have it back, obviously, but people are going to score in this league."
The Penguins are 13-2-1 when leading after the first period. … Pittsburgh's Carl Hagelin has a five-game assist streak, matching the longest of his NHL career (Jan. 18-Feb. 2, 2016), after setting up Hornqvist's first goal. His five-game point streak (one goal, five assists) also ties an NHL career best (Jan. 18-Feb. 2, 2016; Nov. 2-10, 2013; Feb. 10-19, 2013). ... Kempe's 14 goals are the most by a Kings rookie since Kopitar had 20 in 2006-07.
Pittsburgh pulled away with two goals in the third period. Los Angeles entered the game with an NHL-best plus-31 goal differential in the third. Malkin scored from the slot to put the Penguins ahead 2-1 26 seconds in, with Quick unable to see the shot through traffic. It was the second straight game with a goal for Malkin, who has seven goals in his past six games. Hornqvist made it 3-1 with a power-play goal at 10:21 after Brown received a major penalty and game misconduct at 6:41 for boarding Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz. He has five points in his past five games (three goals, two assists). Coach Mike Sullivan said Schultz left the game to be examined for a concussion and should be OK.
"He's been showing the whole year in practice how competitive he is and how good he can play, and finally he showed it here, and good for him and good for the whole team." -- Penguins forward Patric Hornqvist on rookie goalie Casey DeSmith "They had a great look, and he looked pretty poised in there with the save he made and had to get over there quick. They were coming pretty hard. I thought we just stayed patient, found a way not to let it turn against us where we're down after one. We found a way to kind of hold the lead. Kind of weird the way it works sometimes, but I thought we had a really good third given it's back-to-back nights." Crosby said.
"Great move, and kudos to him," DeSmith said. "He out-waited me big time. Getting beat on a breakaway isn't too confidence-killing. It was a good goal and I'd like to have it back, obviously, but people are going to score in this league."
The Penguins are 13-2-1 when leading after the first period. … Pittsburgh's Carl Hagelin has a five-game assist streak, matching the longest of his NHL career (Jan. 18-Feb. 2, 2016), after setting up Hornqvist's first goal. His five-game point streak (one goal, five assists) also ties an NHL career best (Jan. 18-Feb. 2, 2016; Nov. 2-10, 2013; Feb. 10-19, 2013). ... Kempe's 14 goals are the most by a Kings rookie since Kopitar had 20 in 2006-07.
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