Evgeni Malkin scored his second goal of the game with 2:43 left and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night for their fourth victory in five games.<\/p>\n
Tristan Jarry stopped 36 shots, Ville Koivunen scored his first career goal for Pittsburgh, and Ben Kindel had a power-play goal. Malkin also had an assist.<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel scored twice in the third period for Tampa Bay. He has 10 goals in the past seven games.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist, and Darren Raddysh had two assists. Jonas Johansson finished with 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has dropped consecutive games in regulation for the first time since Oct. 18-23.<\/p>\n
Malkin scored the winning goal off a one-timer feed from Tommy Novak.<\/p>\n
Kucherov appeared to tie it with 55.4 left in the third but the goal was overturned after a league initiated review determined there was a missed stoppage for a hand pass.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh’s top-ranked power play scored twice to help the Penguins build a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Koivunen converted on Pittsburgh’s first chance at 6:12 of the first period with a shot from the left circle, snapping Tampa Bay’s streak of consecutive penalty kills at 24.<\/p>\n
Malkin stole a Hagel pass inside the Pittsburgh blue line and converted a breakaway at 7:53 of the second period. Kindel tipped Erik Karlsson’s shot for another power-play goal at 9:49 to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Kucherov put Tampa Bay on the board with 1:14 left in the second period and Hagel cut the deficit to one 1:17 into the third. Hagel scored his second goal of the third period with 8:16 to go as the Lightning erased a three-goal deficit.<\/p>\n
Penguins: At Dallas on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Lightning: Host the New York Islanders on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
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