{"id":936112,"date":"2026-10-17T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:32:08","slug":"mackinnon-has-goal-three-assists-avalanche-rally-past-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936112\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon\u00a0has goal, three assists, Avalanche rally past Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malkin put the Penguins up 1-0 at 8:28 of the first period when he put a wrist shot far side past the right foot of Blackwood Blackwood. He cut through the right circle into the high slot and scored while falling to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Rust pushed it to 2-0 at 8:57, finishing a 2-on-1 rush with Crosby. Crosby took the puck down the left side and sent Rust a cross-ice pass to the right of the crease for the tap-in.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby&#8217;s assist was the 1,110th of his career, passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joe-thornton-8466138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thornton<\/a>\u00a0and moving him into sole possession of seventh place in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they started taking momentum, I didn&#8217;t think we were able to put some shifts together to just pause it a little bit more,\u201d Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. \u201cI thought the first period, we came out, they were doing a lot of the things that I know that this group is capable of when we&#8217;re on. It&#8217;s just the consistency throughout the entire game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lehkonen cut the lead to 2-1 at 11:01 when he put home a centering feed from MacKinnon under Silovs&#8217; blocker. MacKinnon skated the puck in down the right side, cut outside and around Pittsburgh defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/declan-carlile-8483398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Declan Carlile<\/a>, and fed Lehkonen as he crashed the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s been good,\u201d MacKinnon said of Lehkonen. \u201cHe&#8217;s always getting to the right areas. We got a good warmup going before the game, me and &#8216;Lehks.&#8217; Good chemistry in the gym, and it&#8217;s translating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lehkonen tied it 2-2 just 25 seconds into the second period. He gloved down MacKinnon&#8217;s rebound after it glanced off the right post, dropped the puck in the blue paint, and backhanded it five-hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Art&#8217;s like the unsung hero. He doesn&#8217;t get enough credit,\u201d Blackwood said. \u201cEverybody in here really appreciates him. He knows how much we value him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not surprised. I see it in practice all the time. Yeah, he does it all the time. It&#8217;s not surprising to me, but I&#8217;m sure to a lot of people it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malkin put the Penguins up 1-0 at 8:28 of the first period when he put a wrist shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-936112","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\/936112","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=936112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}