{"id":437847,"date":"2026-01-26T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:20:08","slug":"canucks-rally-falls-short-vs-surging-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437847\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks’ rally falls short vs. surging Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rookie Ben Kindel scored two second-period goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> used a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> on Sunday afternoon to sweep a four-game Western Canada NHL road trip.<\/p>\n

A large contingent of supporters was on hand to cheer the native of nearby Coquitlam, B.C., who recorded his second multi-goal game. The 18-year-old has 10 goals and 12 assists in 48 games.<\/p>\n

Veteran Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins (26-14-11).<\/p>\n

Goals by Jake DeBrusk and Teddy Blueger made things interesting in the third period for the Canucks (17-30-5), who have dropped two straight.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh goaltender Stuart Skinner stopped 26 shots.<\/p>\n

Kevin Lankinen stopped 23 shots for the Canucks.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh opened the road trip with a 6-3 win over Seattle on Monday, beat Calgary 4-1 on Wednesday, then bounced Edmonton 6-2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Canucks: The Canucks have just one win in their last 14 games (1-11-2). \u2026 Goaltender Thatcher Demko missed his eighth game with a lower-body injury. \u2026 Conor Garland appeared to have scored in the final minute of the first period but the goal was disallowed because of goalie interference. Replays showed Blueger in the blue paint but he didn\u2019t appear to touch Skinner.<\/p>\n

Penguins: The Penguins have points in 13 of their last 15 games with a 11-2-2 record. \u2026 After losing his first three starts following a Dec. 12 trade from Edmonton, Skinner has won seven of eight games. \u2026 Veteran Kris Letang returned to the lineup after missing two games with an upper-body injury. \u2026 Egor Chinakhov looked to give Pittsburgh a 1-0, first-period lead but the goal was called back after a review showed he came into the zone offside. \u2026 Former Canuck goaltender Arturs Silovs, who was the MVP of the Abbotsford Canucks Calder Cup championship, received a loud cheer when introduced on the big screen during the first period.<\/p>\n

Malkin and Kindel made it 2-0 with goals 3:17 apart in the second period. Malkin opened the scoring by taking a pretty pass from Thomas Novak that went over a Canuck defender\u2019s stick, then beat Lankinen. Kindel made it 2-0 by directing in a shot from defenceman Ryan Shea. Before the period ended Kindel ripped a shot from the faceoff circle past Lankinen.<\/p>\n

Kindel had gone 20 games without a goal after scoring eight in his first 28.<\/p>\n

Penguins: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Canucks: Host the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Ben Kindel scored two second-period goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins used a 3-2 win over the Vancouver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-437847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437847","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=437847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}