{"id":137061,"date":"2026-03-13T05:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137061\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:32:20","slug":"penguins-stumble-lose-6-2-to-vegas-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137061\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins stumble, lose 6-2 to Vegas Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Dorofeyev had two goals and an assist and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas, which had lost six of seven, snapped a three-game losing streak that dropped them to third place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p>With Edmonton losing 7-2 in Dallas earlier in the night, the Golden Knights moved into sole possession of second place. The Penguins remained tied with the New York Islanders in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<p>Clinging to a 3-2 lead after the first two periods, the Golden Knights scored twice on their first four shots of the third on goals from Dorofeyev and Jack Eichel to pull away.<\/p>\n<p>Dorofeyev has a career-high 54 points, two more than last season.<\/p>\n<p>Eichel added an assist to go along with his 24th goal of the season. He has six points in his last six games, and goals in three consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Colton Sissons and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/2032298174573133834?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitch Marner<\/a> also scored for the Golden Knights, and Adin Hill made 24 saves. Marner also had an assist, while rookie Braeden Bowman finished with two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Rickard Rakell and Ben Kindel scored for Pittsburgh, and Arturs Silovs stopped 11 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins had wins in seven of their previous 10 games against Vegas (7-3-0), including a 5-0 victory in Pittsburgh on March 1, when the Knights lost captain Mark Stone to an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Stone returned to the lineup Thursday night after a five-game absence.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins: At Utah on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights: Host Chicago on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NHL<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavel Dorofeyev had two goals and an assist and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4843,73,75,74,1067,726,31748],"class_list":["post-137061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137061","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=137061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}