{"id":101944,"date":"2026-02-01T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:56:10","slug":"mantha-and-acciari-score-twice-penguins-run-winning-streak-to-6-by-holding-off-rangers-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101944\/","title":{"rendered":"Mantha and Acciari score twice, Penguins run winning streak to 6 by holding off Rangers 6-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Mantha and Noel Acciari scored two goals apiece, and the surging Pittsburgh Penguins held off the New York Rangers 6-5 on Saturday for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mantha and Acciari beat Jonathan Quick twice in a span of just over three minutes early in the first period to give the Penguins an early cushion. Mantha made it 3-0 with an easy tap-in in the second period. Acciari and Rickard Rakell scored 20 seconds apart early in the third to push Pittsburgh&#8217;s advantage to 5-1 on a night the franchise celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 2016 club that won the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Karlsson became the 12th defenseman in NHL history to reach 700 career assists when he picked up the secondary helper on Rakell&#8217;s 10th goal of the season, 1:20 into the final period. The other 11 defensemen to reach the 700-assist plateau are in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Skinner improved to 8-1 in his last nine starts but nearly let a four-goal third period get away. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Lafreniere scored twice for the Rangers. Vincent Trocheck, Vladislav Gavrikov and Will Cuylle all scored during a late rally, but it wasn&#8217;t enough for the Rangers to fall to 2-10 since goaltender Igor Shesterkin was lost indefinitely with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Until the late surge, New York coach Mike Sullivan \u2014 who guided the Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017 during a decade-long run as head coach before trading Pittsburgh for New York last summer \u2014 watched his team spend most of the afternoon putting up little fight against the surprising Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh moved into second place by itself in the Metropolitan Division with the victory despite being without veteran defenseman Kris Letang, who will miss at least a month with a fractured left foot sustained in a win over Chicago on Thursday. The 20-year veteran was wearing a protective boot on the foot during a pregame ceremony honoring the 2016 club.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: Off until Thursday night, when they host Carolina in the final game before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Host Ottawa on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Mantha and Noel Acciari scored two goals apiece, and the surging Pittsburgh Penguins held off the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35293,4843,73,75,74,1067,726],"class_list":["post-101944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-new-york-rangers","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\/101944","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=101944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}