New York (AP) – Philip Tomasino scored the goal of fire in the middle of the second period, and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the short term beat the New York Rangers 3-2 Friday evening.
Blake Lizotte And Rickard Rakell also marked and Bryan Rust Had two assists for the Penguins, who won for the third time in four games despite the game without captain Sidney Crosby For the first time in three seasons. Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 stops.
Vincent Trocheck And Adam Fox Marked for the Rangers, who broke a sequence of two -game victories. Igor Shesterkin Finished with 23 stops.
Crosby was due to an upper body injury. He had played all the matches since the start of the 2022-23 season and led the team with 58 points, including 17 goals. Evgeni Malkin also missed his fifth consecutive match with an injury to the lower body.
Tomasino fired a blow in front of Sheterkin on the power game with 8:01 to do in the second period, less than three minutes after Rakell equalized the score. Pittsburgh, exceeded 10-0 in the third, smothered two Rangers Power Plays at the end of the period to preserve the victory.
Tocheck opened the scoring at 8:31 am from the first, beating Nedeljkovic for this 17th goal. Lizotte equalized it at 2:25 of the second with his ninth.
Fox put New York forward 2-1 with his fourth at 3:39 before Rakell tied the scoring at 9:07 am from the central period with his 25th at the top of the team.
Take -out
Penguins: Pittsburgh improved at 10-14-5 on the road.
Rangers: New York now has 14-12-2 at home after finishing 30-11-0 at Madison Square Garden last season.
Key
Rakell’s linked goal halfway through the second period energized the Penguins who did not authorize a goal by the Rangers the rest of the path.
Key statistics
Shesterkin fell to 18-19-2. New York goalkeeper was 36-17-2 last season.
The next
The Penguins visit Philadelphia on Saturday and the Rangers play Columbus.
