\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBryan Rust and Kevin Hayes scored in the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-2 on Wednesday night to snap a two-game losing streak.Hayes tapped in Erik Karlsson\u2019s pass from the top of the crease with 7:26 remaining to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead. Jack Quinn trimmed the deficit for Buffalo with 4:18 left, and Connor Dewar had an empty-net goal for Pittsburgh in the final minute.Mathew Dumba also scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have won just three of last 10 games since an 8-2-2 start.Karlsson had an assist to tie Brad Park for the 12th-most assists by a defenseman in NHL history with 683.Tristan Jarry stopped 29 shots for Pittsburgh. Jarry returned after missing the last seven games with a lower-body injury.Jason Zucker also scored for Buffalo.Tage Thompson\u2019s six-game goal scoring streak ended for Buffalo, which is 5-6-4 in its last 15 games. The Sabres are 1-6-2 on the road. In all of their road losses, the Sabres were tied or within a goal during the third period.Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 15 saves.Zucker briefly tied it at 1 at 7:20 of the third period, but Rust helped Pittsburgh regain the lead 29 seconds later. Rust\u2019s initial try was blocked, he picked up the rebound, skated across the slot and put a shot between Luukkonen\u2019s pads.Up nextSabres: Host New Jersey on Friday.Penguins: At Columbus on Friday night.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Bryan Rust and Kevin Hayes scored in the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-2 on Wednesday night to snap a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Hayes tapped in Erik Karlsson\u2019s pass from the top of the crease with 7:26 remaining to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead. Jack Quinn trimmed the deficit for Buffalo with 4:18 left, and Connor Dewar had an empty-net goal for Pittsburgh in the final minute.<\/p>\n
Mathew Dumba also scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have won just three of last 10 games since an 8-2-2 start.<\/p>\n
Karlsson had an assist to tie Brad Park for the 12th-most assists by a defenseman in NHL history with 683.<\/p>\n
Tristan Jarry stopped 29 shots for Pittsburgh. Jarry returned after missing the last seven games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
Jason Zucker also scored for Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson\u2019s six-game goal scoring streak ended for Buffalo, which is 5-6-4 in its last 15 games. The Sabres are 1-6-2 on the road. In all of their road losses, the Sabres were tied or within a goal during the third period.<\/p>\n
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 15 saves.<\/p>\n
Zucker briefly tied it at 1 at 7:20 of the third period, but Rust helped Pittsburgh regain the lead 29 seconds later. Rust\u2019s initial try was blocked, he picked up the rebound, skated across the slot and put a shot between Luukkonen\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Sabres: Host New Jersey on Friday.<\/p>\n
Penguins: At Columbus on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Rust and Kevin Hayes scored in the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10170,27186,27190,27188,3618,27187,18587,15265,3834,73,75,74,1067,3842,22515,7053,27189],"class_list":["post-45888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bryan-rust","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-empty-net-goal","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-game","tag-jack-quinn","tag-kevin-hayes","tag-lead","tag-penguin","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-shot","tag-third-period","tag-tristan-jarry","tag-ukko-pekka-luukkonen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888","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=45888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}