{"id":412470,"date":"2026-01-16T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:36:12","slug":"sidney-crosby-helps-pittsburgh-penguins-power-past-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412470\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby helps Pittsburgh Penguins power past Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Sidney Crosby<\/a> scored one of Pittsburgh\u2019s three power-play goals and the Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> 6-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Crosby also had an assist to become the eighth player in NHL history with at least 19 50-point seasons. Crosby, who reached 50 for the sixth consecutive season, has points in 29 of his last 34 games against the Flyers.<\/p>\n

Justin Brazeau<\/a> and Bryan Rust<\/a> also scored power-play goals for Pittsburgh, which has nine with the man advantage in its last 12 games. Egor Chinakhov, Blake Lizotte<\/a> and Connor Dewar<\/a> scored for the Penguins, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Evgeni Malkin<\/a> had two assists for Pittsburgh, which has won eight of its last 12 overall.<\/p>\n

Stuart Skinner<\/a> stopped 30 shots for his fourth win in five starts. He has allowed seven goals in his last five starts.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo Abols<\/a>, Nick Seeler<\/a> and Matvei Michkov<\/a> scored for the Flyers, who lost their fifth straight. Philadelphia has lost nine of 14 overall and allowed at least four goals in eight of its last nine losses.<\/p>\n

Samuel Ersson<\/a> allowed three goals on 14 shots. He was replaced by Aleksei Kolosov<\/a>, who made 13 saves. Kolosov was recalled from the American Hockey League because of an injury to Dan Vladar.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has points in 12 of its last 14 games against the Flyers. The Penguins also have points in 11 straight home games against Philadelphia dating to March 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

Brazeau and Rust scored power-play goals for Pittsburgh in the first period. Crosby scored Pittsburgh\u2019s third power-play goal at 3:10 of the third period to give Pittsburgh a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Chinakhov chased Ersson when he scored on a pass from Malkin at 1:16 of the second period. Chinakhov has three goals in eight games with Pittsburgh after recording six points in 29 games with Columbus.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Flyers: Host the New York Rangers<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Penguins: Host Columbus on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Dan Scifo, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Sidney Crosby scored one of Pittsburgh\u2019s three power-play goals and the Penguins beat the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-412470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}