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Penguins Secure 2nd Straight Victory Against Flyers

  After dropping the first three games to the Philadelphia Flyers, the Pittsburgh Penguins are officially making things interesting. The Penguins secured their second straight victory in Game 5 on Monday at PPG Paints Arena, defeating the Flyers in a nail-biting 3-2 win to keep their season alive. Sidney Crosby fueled the comeback with a pair of assists, while Elmer Soderblom, Connor Dewar, and Kris Letang each found the back of the net. Following a 4-2 win in Game 4, Pittsburgh has now cut the series lead to 3-2 and will look to force a decisive Game 7 when they travel back to Philadelphia on Wednesday. Philadelphia Flyers Lineup: Barkey - Zegras - Tippett Konecny - Dvorak - Martone Foerster - Cates - Bump Glendening - Couturier - Hathaway Sanheim - Ristolainen York - Drysdale Seeler - Andrae Vladar Ersson Pittsburgh Penguins Lineup: Rakell - Crosby - Rust Chinakhov - Novak - Malkin Soderblom - Kindel - Mantha Dewar - Lizotte - Acciari Wotherspoon - Karlsson Girard - Letang Shea -...

Panthers 6-2 win over Arizona, 1/24/24

 




*Sorry for the lack of photos! Hoping to get permission eventually.*


   The Arizona Coyotes played against the Panthers in Florida at the Amerant Bank Arena on Wednesday, January 24th. Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist, extending his point streak to 11 games.


Coyotes lineup against the Panthers:

Keller - Bjugstad - Schmaltz

Maccelli - Kerfoot - Crouse

Carcone - McBain - O'Brien

Zucker - Cooley - Guenther


Moser - Durzi

Dermott - Kesselring

Valimaki - Brown


Vejmelka


Panthers lineup against the Coyotes:

Luostarinen - Lundell - Reinhart

Verhaeghe - Bennett - Tkachuk

Rodrigues - Barkov - Samoskevich

Gadjovich - Stenlund - Lomberg


Forsling - Ekblad

Mikkola - Montour

Ekman-Larsson - Kulikov


Bobrovsky

Stolarz


   Matthew Tkachuk scored the first goal of the game, getting Florida a 1-0 lead early into the first frame. He had won a puck battle with J.J. Moser along the boards, turned, and got the puck past Karel Vejmelka. Sam Reinhart made it a 2-0 score on the power play, on a one-timer from the low slot, passing back and forth with Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov. Only 17 seconds after Reinhart, Sam Bennett gets one in... beating Vejmelka glove side, a pass from Verhaeghe.


   Matthew Tkachuk strikes another with 15:46 remaining in the middle frame - scoring from the right circle, making it 4-0. Anton Lundell scored a one-timer off a pass from Reinhart, with 1:43 remaining in the period.


   Making it a 6-0 lead for Florida, Jonah Gadjovich scores a backhand in the front early into the final period. Dylan Guenther nets one for Arizona on the power play, making it 6-1. Logan Cooley tapped in a backdoor pass by Guenther... the final score was 6-2.



Notes:

- Matthew Tkachuk had 2 goals and an assist

- Paul Maurice became the 2nd in NHL history in games coached (1,813)... passing Barry Trotz for 2nd. Scotty Bowman is in first place with 2,141

- Gustav Forsling hit 100 NHL assists

- Carter Verhaeghe had 3 assists

- Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves

- Karel Vejmelka made 38 saves

- Aaron Ekblad, 3rd in all-time in games played in team history (655)



Jonah Gadjovich on the Panthers' 6-2 win over the Coyotes: "It's huge. It's a lot of fun - The boys are just building off each other, and those wins are fun."



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