{"id":133309,"date":"2026-03-09T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:32:21","slug":"tommy-novak-scores-in-overtime-to-lift-the-penguins-past-the-bruins-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133309\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Novak scores in overtime to lift the Penguins past the Bruins, 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Novak scored 17 seconds into overtime to complete a wild comeback in the Pittsburgh Penguins&#8217; 5-4 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Mantha scored two third-period goals to help Pittsburgh \u2014 playing without franchise cornerstones Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin \u2014 snap a three-game losing streak. Second in the Metropolitan Division, Pittsburgh has points in 16 of its last 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby is out a minimum of four weeks because of a lower-body injury and Malkin served the second of a five-game suspension for slashing Buffalo&#8217;s Rasmus Dahlin in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Egor Chinakhov added a power-play goal, Connor Dewar also scored and Arturs Silovs stopped 22 shots. Chinakhov has 14 goals this season and 11 goals in 25 games with Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Zacha had his second career hat trick, and David Pastrnak also scored for Boston. The Bruins have lost five of their last eight. They have a three-point lead for the final wild-card spot in the East.<\/p>\n<p>Joonas Korpisalo made 34 saves for the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh had its second three-goal comeback this season. The last time the Penguins had a three-goal comeback without Crosby and Malkin was February 10, 2001, against New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Mantha became the first Pittsburgh player to score multiple game-tying goals in a third period since Alex Kovalev on March 23, 2002, against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh trailed 3-1 in the third period, but Dewar and Mantha scored 33 seconds apart to tie it.<\/p>\n<p>Zacha completed his hat trick at 8:34 of the third period, but Mantha tied it again for Pittsburgh with 8:42 to go when he tapped in a rebound from the left post.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Bruins: Host Los Angeles on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Begin a five-game trip at Carolina on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Novak scored 17 seconds into overtime to complete a wild comeback in the Pittsburgh Penguins&#8217; 5-4 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15359,1611,4843,73,75,74,1067,8664,726],"class_list":["post-133309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-boston-bruins","tag-buffalo","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309","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=133309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}