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Penguins Rally, Vanquish Golden Knights

Hey all. Other activities are keeping me detained, so I don’t have time to write a full-blown game summary. But I wanted to put up a quick blurb about the Penguins stirring 5-3 come-from-behind victory over Vegas last night.

The highlights:

Vegas jumped to a 3-0 first period lead, courtesy of goals from Chandler Stephenson, Evgenii Dadonov and Nicolas Roy, the last on a power-play with 30 seconds to go in the period.
The Pens stormed back in the second, firing off the first 13 shots of the period and closing the gap to 3-2 on goals by Jason Zucker and Teddy Blueger just 49 seconds apart.
Our guys snatched a 4-3 lead early in the third, thanks to tallies by Zucker (0:28) and Jake Guentzel (2:12), again of the quick-strike variety. It was Jake’s 20^th goal of the season.
Sidney Crosby closed out the scoring with an empty-netter at 18:52.
The Pens outshot the Golden Knights 37-26 (18-6 in the second period) and outhit them, 32-26.
Tristan Jarry made 23 saves on 26 shots (.885 save percentage).
Kasperi Kapanen and Jeff Carter finished with two assists apiece, Brian Boyle, Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin and Mike Matheson one each.
Zucker and Bryan Rust returned to the lineup following lengthy absences.
The Pens finished their six-game road trip with a 4-2 record. With the victory, we’ve moved into a third-place tie in the Metro with the Capitals. Both teams have 51 points.
Next up…Ottawa at home on Thursday night.