{"id":100349,"date":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","slug":"penguins-rout-blackhawks-6-2-for-5th-consecutive-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100349\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins rout Blackhawks 6-2 for 5th consecutive win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egor Chinakhov and Anthony Mantha scored on rushes in a 31-second span in Pittsburgh&#8217;s four-goal second period, helping the Penguins beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Dewar scored twice, Ben Kindel and Ryan Shea added goals, and Arturs Silovs made 17 saves. Mantha, Shea and Noel Acciari each had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins had been off since sweeping a four-game trip with a victory over Vancouver on Sunday, with forward Bryan Rust starting a three-game suspension for a check to Canucks forward Brock Boeser&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Murphy and Connor Bedard scored for Chicago, and Soderblom stopped 38 shots in the first game of a back-to-back. The Blackhawks have lost four straight, falling 4-3 in a shootout in Minnesota on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kindel gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead at 5:54 of the second period. He came down the left side and beat Soderblom to the far side with a wrister.<\/p>\n<p>Chinakhov slipped a shots between Arvid Soderblom&#8217;s leg pads with 4:30 left in the period, and Mantha also beat Soderblom through the legs with 3:59 to go. Shea capped the spree with 30 seconds left in the period, and Dewar added his second of the night with 6:01 left in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard fired a wrist shot past Silovs with 5:21 to go for his 21st of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy opened the scoring for Chicago at 9:32 of the first. Dewar tied it 1:52 later.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins forward Rutger McGroarty was recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League for his NHL game since sustaining a concussion in practice Jan. 6. He had five shots, three hits and a block in 10:36.<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks: Host Columbus on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egor Chinakhov and Anthony Mantha scored on rushes in a 31-second span in Pittsburgh&#8217;s four-goal second period, helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29528,36573,4843,73,75,74,1067,726],"class_list":["post-100349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}