Same lineup for the Penguins again, Arturs Silovs gets back in the net.<\/p>\n
Fun first period with free-flowing play and limited faceoffs. Vegas is the better team in the first 5-10 minutes, Pittsburgh then battles back and tips the scales as play moves along. Evgeni Malkin sets the tone with a huge hit on Tomas Hertl, then later helps build momentum with Egor Chinakhov with several scoring chances.<\/p>\n
Back-and-forth play ambles along, Ben Kindel has two Golden Knights in front of him when he snaps a long-range shot. It catches Adin Hill a little off guard, 1-0 Pens.<\/p>\n
The rest of the period slips away quickly, there are only eight faceoffs in the whole period. Shots are low too, 6-5 Pens.<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner takes the first penalty of the game when he trips Erik Karlsson. The ensuing power play doesn\u2019t get much going but does have a lot of zone time. That leads to Tommy Novak hitting Chinakhov with a pass soon after the penalty expired, Chinakhov displayed his lightning quick release to beat Hill to the far side. 2-0.<\/p>\n
A bit later, Avery Hayes hits Colton Sissons, pretty routine. Cole Reinhardt skates over and asks for a fight, Hayes is very willing to give it to him. They throw a few punches and then get tied up, nothing major. The Pens come out of that deal with a power play with Reinhardt picking up an extra minor. The power play scores quickly, Erik Karlsson throws a high shot to the net, the puck bounces around and Bryan Rust is the first on it. Rust flicks it by an out of sorts Hill. 3-0.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights get their first power play of the game, Kris Letang is sent off for tripping. The strong Pens PK takes care of it.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh then gets another power play, Vegas is caught with too many players on the ice. The Pens make quick work of it again, Karlsson finds Rickard Rakell who sweeps a puck in past Hill. 4-0.<\/p>\n
The penalty-fest continues when Blake Lizotte gets called for reaching in and tripping Jack Eichel, another successful penalty kill.<\/p>\n
The three-goal second period puts the Pens up a commanding 4-0 after 40 minutes, shots were 11-7 PIT in the middle frame.<\/p>\n
The Knights start trying to get it into gear late but hit a road block when Reilly Smith trips Lizotte.<\/p>\n
Hertl pays Malkin back from the first period with a massive open ice hit of his own.<\/p>\n
Play continues on, Kindel drops a puck in the offensive zone for Justin Brazeau in support and skates to the net. Brazeau shoots from distance, Hill doesn\u2019t pick up on it. 5-0.<\/p>\n
Good bounceback from the Pens for letting a point getaway yesterday, the party moves onto Boston on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Same lineup for the Penguins again, Arturs Silovs gets back in the net. Fun first period with free-flowing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[111671,385,99],"class_list":["post-498336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-game-recaps","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}