Penguins D John Marino continued a career-best six-game point streak. Malkin has five goals and 18 points in his last 11 games. He has points in 12 of 15 home games this season. NOTES: Guentzel has at least one point in seven career games against the Canucks for eight goals and 14 points. Pettersson tied the game for Vancouver at 7:17 of the second, and Virtanen and Gaudette scored goals 41 seconds apart in the final 2 minutes of the period. The Canucks scored the next four goals, including three in the second period. Rust made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 12:53 of the first. He has goals in seven of his last eight home games, which includes a career-best six-game home goal-scoring streak. Penguins: Welcome Tampa Bay on Saturday night.Guentzel opened the scoring for Pittsburgh at 2:29 of the first period. The Coyotes were 2 for 5 with the man advantage.Ĭoyotes: Continue a season-opening six-game trip in Boston on Saturday. … Pittsburgh went 2 for 6 on the power play.
NOTES: Arizona rookie F Dylan Guenther, the club’s 2021 first-round pick, was a healthy scratch after making the team as a 19-year-old.
“We fought pretty hard the last two periods,” Ritchie said. Maybe, but the Coyotes are likely facing another difficult year that includes playing 20 of their first 24 games on the road.Īrizona didn’t win a game during the preseason and looked overmatched for the first 25 minutes or so before Ritchie’s two power-play goals briefly gave the Penguins a scare. Tourigny believes his team is in a better place than it was a year ago, when the Coyotes finished with the NHL’s worst record. Guentzel pushed the lead to three 5:12 into the first by flipping a shot into an empty net on the power play. Zucker, who dealt with various injuries last season, made it 2-0 less than 3 minutes later with by firing a one-timer from just above the right circle. It’s nice to get a start like that and obviously get a win.” “Took me a while (to do that),” Crosby said. It marked the first time in Crosby’s career he’s scored Pittsburgh’s first goal of the season. It will take months if not years to know whether it was the right move, but the very early returns were promising.Ĭrosby needed all of 82 seconds to give the Penguins the lead, taking a pretty cross-ice backhand feed from Guentzel then ripping a shot over Vejmelka’s glove. The signings sent a very clear message that new owners Fenway Sports Group - which purchased the club from Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle last fall - believes Pittsburgh remains a legitimate Stanley Cup threat. Letang ultimately opted to stick around on a six-year deal and Malkin followed suit shortly thereafter by agreeing to a four-year pact just hours before hitting the open market.
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Pittsburgh’s pregame ceremony was cathartic for the sellout crowd following a few tense days in early summer in which Letang and Malkin’s futures with the club were both unclear as free agency loomed. But (we) need to find a way to get out of the gate with more urgency mentally.” We got better during the game, never quit, came back and worked hard. “The start we had, that’s what hurt us,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. Karel Vejmelka improved as the game wore on to stop 47 shots. Nick Ritchie scored twice for the rebuilding Coyotes. Tristan Jarry, who was limited to just one appearance during the Penguins’ first-round playoff loss to the New York Rangers last spring, made 26 saves. Jake Guentzel, Jason Zucker, Bryan Rust and Kasperi Kapanen also scored for Pittsburgh. “Geno had Geno’s best game tonight, I thought,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said of Malkin. Letang also had two assists while Malkin looked dominant at times now well over a year removed from knee surgery that limited his effectiveness at times last spring.
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The longtime franchise cornerstones combined for two goals and four assists as they joined former New York Yankee stars Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada as the longest-tenured trio of teammates in major North American professional sports history.Ĭrosby began his 18th season by scoring his 518th career goal 1:22 into the first period, part of an early three-goal deluge in which the Penguins quickly seized control.
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