Rust nearly got it back when he rang a shot off the crossbar. Overall, the Penguins finished with 10 shots, and gave up just two, in that opening frame.<\/p>\n
But as Muse said before the game, even though the Rangers have started another retool, it\u2019s the National Hockey League. Every team\u2019s got great players, and every team is dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this group that they have over there, I’ve coached a lot of them,\u201d said Muse, who was an assistant coach with the Rangers before becoming head coach of the Penguins. \u201cThey’re guys that have a lot of skill. It’s a proud group.\u201d<\/p>\n
They pushed hard in the second, putting 11 shots on Stuart Skinner, and finding a goal of their own on the power play off the stick of Mika Zibanejad. But the Penguins did come away with a 2-1 lead, thanks to a beautiful goal from Shea.<\/p>\n
The defenseman displayed some fantastic poise on the blue line, holding onto the puck under pressure before spinning away from coverage and letting a shot fly that went into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did not play bad. We played okay. But we just need to play a little bit simple sometimes,\u201d Malkin said. \u201cWe try to play beautiful sometimes, but the game against Rangers, it\u2019s so tight. We need to maybe sometimes go to net, like how Sheazo scored. (Noel Acciari) was by Igor, and the puck went in. It\u2019s a simple shot, and we score.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh\u2019s third period wasn\u2019t on Thursday\u2019s level, as the Rangers tied it early on a fantastic re-direct from Taylor Raddysh. New York had long stretches in the offensive zone, with Skinner producing some huge stops.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be completely honest, it felt really weird in the first period,\u201d Skinner said. \u201cFor myself personally, I thought I had to kind of go through a couple stretches in the first and second period, kind of get my feet underneath me. The speed of the game is obviously a lot faster when you go from zero to 100. So yeah, it was a long time, and I thought for me, I really worked out the kinks. By the third period, even by halfway through the second period, I felt way, way better. So, keep on doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rust nearly got it back when he rang a shot off the crossbar. Overall, the Penguins finished with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-126772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126772","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=126772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}