{"id":954122,"date":"2026-11-01T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954122\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:20:09","slug":"anderson-canadiens-hold-off-penguins-for-fifth-win-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954122\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson, Canadiens hold off Penguins for fifth win in row"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his 1,112th assist, all with the Penguins, Crosby moved one ahead of Ray Bourque<\/a>, who had the first 1,111 of his 1,169 career assists with the Boston Bruins. An additional assist on Novak’s goal later in the period pushed his total to 1,113.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I\u2019ve been pretty fortunate to be a part of this organization for a really long time and it\u2019s crazy how fast it goes,\u201d said\u00a0Crosby, the Pittsburgh captain. \u201cBut I\u2019m definitely honored to be in that company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver Kapanen<\/a> tied it 1-1 at 2:41 with his first goal of the season, scoring with a one-timer past Murashov\u2019s blocker from the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n

Anderson put Montreal up 2-1 at 3:05, just 24 seconds after\u00a0Kapanen tied it. He curled toward the right face-off dot after the puck came to him when Pittsburgh forward Hendrix Lapierre<\/a>\u2019s pass went off Kreider and shot past Murashov to the blocker side for the third goal in 57 seconds.<\/p>\n

Novak tied it 2-2 at 7:28. He cut across the net front and slid the puck between Fowler\u2019s pads on the backhand.<\/p>\n

It appeared Montreal\u2019s Cole Caufield<\/a>\u00a0scored a fifth goal in the first 9:26, but it was overturned after Pittsburgh challenged for goaltender interference.<\/p>\n

Alexandre Texier<\/a> did make it 3-2 for the Canadiens at 1:54 of the second period. Hutson spun around and sent a pass to the right edge of the crease to set up Texier, who deked around Murashov\u2019s pad to score.<\/p>\n

Kreider pushed it to 4-2 at 2:21. Murashov made a pad save on his initial shot, but Kreider stuck with it and scored with a backhand off the rebound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his 1,112th assist, all with the Penguins, Crosby moved one ahead of Ray Bourque, who had the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-954122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954122","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=954122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}