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.

That’s all for now, folks.