Fowler, a 21-year-old rookie, was selected in the third round (No. 69) of the 2023 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield scored for the third time in four games, and Lane Hutson and Juraj Slafkovsky each had two assists for the Canadiens (16-11-3), who lost 6-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust had a goal and an assist, and Tristan Jarry made 25 saves for the Penguins (14-8-7), who have lost three straight (0-1-2).<\/p>\n
Alexandre Texier put Montreal ahead 1-0 on its second shot on goal at 2:54 of the first period, stealing the puck from Kris Letang and carrying it to the slot for a snap shot and his first goal this season.<\/p>\n
Brendan Gallagher made it 2-0 at 4:37 of the second period by taking a cross-ice pass from Hutson in the left face-off circle for a wrist shot past Jarry\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n
Caufield then extended the lead to 3-0 on a power play at 10:18 with a wrist shot from below the goal line that went in off Jarry\u2019s skate for his 17th goal this season.<\/p>\n
Owen Beck seemed to score his first NHL goal for Montreal at 16:21, but it was overturned when the play was ruled offside on a Pittsburgh challenge.<\/p>\n
Rust cut it to 3-1 by chipping in a backhand pass from Sidney Crosby 44 seconds into the third period.<\/p>\n
Oliver Kapanen scored 15 seconds later, tapping in Slafkovsky\u2019s pass to make it 4-1 at 59 seconds.<\/p>\n
Erik Karlsson pulled Pittsburgh to within 4-2 on a power play and with the extra attacker at 15:07, scoring his second this season on a point shot through traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fowler, a 21-year-old rookie, was selected in the third round (No. 69) of the 2023 NHL Draft. Cole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342331","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\/342331","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=342331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}