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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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Penguins Take Another Tough Loss, Shut Out by Edmonton Oilers 3/10/24

 




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


   The Penguins hosted the Edmonton Oilers at the PPG Paints Arena on Sunday, March 10th in hopes of ending their two-game losing streak. Pittsburgh took a tough 6-0 loss against the Washington Capitals following a relieving 5-3 victory when they played the Columbus Blue Jackets. They took another loss after the Capitals against the Boston Bruins on Saturday before getting shut out 4-0 by the Oilers. Calvin Pickard made 41 saves for Edmonton, and Connor McDavid had a goal and recorded two assists.


Oilers lineup against the Penguins:

Nugent-Hopkins - McDavid - Hyman

McLeod - Draisaitl - Foegele

Kane - Henrique - Brown

Janmark - Ryan - Perry


Ekholm - Bouchard

Nurse - Desharnias

Kulak - Ceci


Pickard


Penguins lineup against the Oilers:

Bunting - Crosby - Rust

Smith - Malkin - Puustinen

Rakell - Eller - Bemstrom

Gruden - Acciari - Carter


Pettersson - Letang

Graves - Karlsson

Ludvig - Joseph


Jarry

Nedeljkovic


   Connor McDavid began the scoring just one minute into the first period, putting Edmonton ahead 1-0. McDavid scored on a snap shot at the high slot after intercepting a pass at the blue line from Kris Letang. At 11:07, ending a 39-game goal drought - Mattias Ekholm went for the 2-0 lead with a one-timer through traffic. His shot deflected off John Ludvig's leg and in past Tristan Jarry.


   Edmonton held onto their two-nothing lead throughout the remainder of the first period and through the whole second, heading into the final frame.

   Darnell Nurse extended the Oilers' lead to 3-0 at 9:18 of the third period. He sent a wrister from the left circle after he took a pass from Connor McDavid... at 4:02, Nurse struck again for his second goal of the game and his eighth of the season for the 4-0 final.




Tristan Jarry on the Penguins 4-0 loss, who made 38 saves for Pittsburgh: "It's tough. Obviously, the games haven't gone the way we wanted probably the last six or seven. It's just finding that motivation - finding something that motivates you and something that can elevate your game to bring a new level to every game," - "It's obviously tough. I think just, collectively as a team, we've played very well. I think we've been giving up a lot of chances and obviously, the puck hasn't been going in for us, so I think it puts a cloud over a lot of guys."




Notes:

- The Penguins have had at least 39 shots on goal in each of their three consecutive losses, only scoring once on 119 shots.

- Bryan Rust had six shots on goal in 19:22 of ice time after returning, missing seven games due to an upper-body injury.

- Mattis Ekholm had a goal and an assist... Connor McDavid had his 30th multi-point game this season, and ties with Nikita Kucherov for the third in the NHL behind Nathan MacKinnon (35) and David Pastrnak (32). Darnell Nurse had a game-high seven shots on goal.

 

 




Postgame: Reilly Smith

Postgame: Mike Sullivan


POST-RAW: Connor McDavid

POST-RAW: Darnell Nurse

POST-RAW: Calvin Pickard

POST-RAW: Kris Knoblauch

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