{"id":302170,"date":"2026-10-08T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302170\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:24:08","slug":"wilson-has-3-points-capitals-top-penguins-in-ovechkins-last-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302170\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson has 3 points, Capitals top Penguins in Ovechkin\u2019s last home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Tuch<\/a> intercepted a pass from Declan Carlile<\/a>\u00a0at the Penguins blue line, entered the offensive zone on a 2-on-0 rush with Wilson and scored off a return pass to make it 4-1 at 13:14.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s really smart,\u201d Wilson said of Tuch. \u201cObviously, he’s got a ton of skill, but he puts himself in the right spots to create offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Novak cut the deficit to 4-2 at 14:05. Evgeni Malkin<\/a>\u00a0hit the left post on a 2-on-1 rush and Novak knocked in the rebound from the slot.<\/p>\n

Robertson pulled Pittsburgh to within 4-3 when he deflected Kaedan Korczak<\/a>\u2019s point shot past Thompson from the slot at 18:01.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we just didn\u2019t have our legs at the start, but I think we had a little bit of a pushback there in the second, so definitely want to look at the positives as well,\u201d Penguins forward Ben Kindel<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard<\/a> made it 5-3 when he scored from the top of the left face-off circle at 3:55 of the third period during a power play.<\/p>\n

NOTES: Beauvillier’s goal was his 300th NHL point (147 goals, 153 assists). … This was the first time the Capitals earned their first win of a season in a home opener since a 5-1 victory against the New York Rangers on Oct. 13, 2021. … Jordan Kyrou<\/a> had the primary assist on Leonard’s power-play goal for his first point with Washington. The forward was acquired in a trade from the St. Louis Blues for Connor McMichael<\/a>, Milton Gastrin<\/a>\u00a0and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft (No. 16) on June 23. \u2026 Earlier in the day, Pittsburgh acquired defenseman Spencer Stastney<\/a>\u00a0in a trade with the Edmonton Oilers for forward Filip Hallander<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Tuch intercepted a pass from Declan Carlile\u00a0at the Penguins blue line, entered the offensive zone on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-302170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302170","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=302170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}