Crosby, who has nine points (five goals, four assists) during a five-game point streak, is also two points away from becoming the ninth player in NHL history to reach 1,700 points. He has five goals during his goal streak.<\/p>\n
Rickard Rakell had a goal and an assist, and Erik Karlsson and Evgeni Malkin each had two assists for the Penguins (6-2-0). Tristan Jarry made 34 saves, including 16 in the third period.<\/p>\n
Brad Marchand scored twice, and Mackie Samoskevich and Seth Jones each had two assists for the Panthers (4-5-0), who have lost five of six. Sergei Bobrovsky made 11 saves.<\/p>\n
Crosby gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead on the power play at 6:26 of the first period, scoring on a one-timer from the left face-off dot off Bryan Rust\u2019s pass from behind the net.<\/p>\n
Rakell made it 2-0 at 6:36 of the second period. He knocked in a rebound in the low slot after Karlsson\u2019s shot from the right point was blocked by Eetu Luostarinen in front of Bobrovsky,<\/p>\n
Marchand cut it to 2-1 on the power play at 8:26. He scored at the right post by tapping home a backdoor pass from Samoskevich.<\/p>\n
Ben Kindel pushed the lead to 3-1 at 15:24. He beat Bobrovsky with a one-timer from the left circle to the short side, finishing a give-and-go with Thomas Novak.<\/p>\n
Florida pulled to within 3-2 at 2:24 of the third period. Sam Reinhart scored a power-play goal from low in the left circle with a wrist shot that went in off Jarry.<\/p>\n
Connor Dewar then restored the two-goal lead, making it 4-2 at 4:49. His shot from the right circle skipped off Bobrovsky\u2019s stick and went underneath his blocker.<\/p>\n
Marchand cut it to 4-3 at 11:06 with his second of the game, going forehand to backhand from the low slot off a pass from Luostarinen.<\/p>\n
Crosby answered with his second of the game, scoring on the power play at 11:49 for the 5-3 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crosby, who has nine points (five goals, four assists) during a five-game point streak, is also two points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-236499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}