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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 -...
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Boone Jenner Scored Late Goal to get Columbus the 4-3 Win, 2/17/24

 




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


   The Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the San Jose Sharks with a 4-3 score on Saturday, February 17th. Boone Jenner scored with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period to avoid overtime. The Sharks have lost their 39th game of this season... only winning 15 of their games.


Blue Jackets lineup against the Sharks:

Gaudreau - Jenner - Roslovic

Chinakhov - Voronkov - Marchenko

Johnson - Sillinger - Bemstrom

Texier - Kuraly - Danforth


Werenski - Boqvist

Provorov - Severson

Bean - Gudbranson


Merzilkins

Tarasov


Sharks lineup against the Blue Jackets:

Duclair - Granlund - Zettlund

Barabanov - Eklund - Kunin

Labanc - Sturm - Hoffman

Zadina - Carpenter - Bailey


Ferraro - Rutta

Vlasic - Emberson

Okhotiuk - Addison


Kahkonen

Blackwood


   The San Jose Sharks opened the scoring - Anthony Duclair gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead early into the first period. Duclair scored on a breakaway, getting a five-hole. Zach Werenski tied it 1-1 later into the period with a snap shot, coming from the top of the right circle, and beat Kaapo Kahkonen up high... recording his first goal since October 20th. Soon after Werenski's goal, Kirill Marchenko put the Blue Jackets ahead 2-1 from the right face-off circle.


   It appeared that Johnny Gaudreau scored in the second period, however, San Jose successfully challenged it for offside. Dmitri Voronkov pushed it to 3-1 for Columbus, he scored off a rebound in front. Voronkov is second among all rookies with 14 goals, Connor Bedard is first among all rookies with 16. Anthony Duclair scored his second goal of the night and his 11th of the season after he had taken a centering pass on the rush from Fabian Zetterlund. At 4:31 of the middle frame, Zetterlund tied the game 3-3 after being set up with a cross-ice pass for a one-timer from the left dot.


   Boone Jenner struck his 17th goal of the season with 12 seconds remaining in the third period to avoid overtime and got a 4-3 final.




Notes:

- Johnny Gaudreau has had six assists in the last five games and 20 points in the last 22 games... He also had two assists vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning on February 10th.

- Erik Gudbranson, Yegor Chinakhov, and Johnny Gaudreau each recorded two assists.

- Elvis Merzlikins made 28 saves for Columbus... Kaapo Kahkonen made 37 saves for San Jose

- Anthony Duclair scored two goals... Fabian Zetterlund had a goal and an assist, Calen Addison recorded two assists.

- The Detroit Red Wings and the Columbus Blue Jackets will be playing in the 2025 Stadium Series game on March 1st at the Ohio Stadium.


 




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