Rakell made it 2-0 at 2:02, tapping in a backhand pass from Rust just above the crease.<\/p>\n
Morgan Barron<\/a> cut it to 2-1 at 3:50, when his shot off a rebound from Lambert was blocked by Karlsson and fluttered in as both he and Karlsson slid into Silovs. It was upheld after the Penguins challenged for goalie interference.<\/p>\n \u201c(Karlsson) is part of my equation, in my head,\u201d Barron said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not really thinking about him. Watching it over, I kind of felt like he wedged himself in between, and I think if he\u2019s not there, I stop and I\u2019m nowhere near the goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n Cole Koepke<\/a> tied it 2-2 with a short-handed goal at 6:10 of the second period, going forehand to backhand off a pass from Adam Lowry<\/a>\u00a0on a 2-on-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n Karlsson put Pittsburgh back in front 3-2 at 15:22 with a shot through traffic from the right face-off circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c(Karlsson) has taken it to another level, he really has,\u201d Penguins coach Dan Muse said. \u201cIt\u2019s been incredible to watch. … You get to this time of the year, everything\u2019s elevated. He\u2019s been great all year. When it\u2019s getting harder and it\u2019s getting tighter, he just keeps finding a way to elevate his game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rakell made it 2-0 at 2:02, tapping in a backhand pass from Rust just above the crease. Morgan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-555808","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\/555808","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=555808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}