Rickard Rakell scored the shootout winner because the Pittsburgh Penguins edged the visiting Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Sunday evening.
Rakell beat Jakub Dobes with a backhand deke within the third spherical for the win because the Penguins gained for the primary time in a shootout this season (1-5).
Rakell and Sidney Crosby every had a aim and an help in regulation, and Noel Acciari additionally tallied for Pittsburgh, which gained for the primary time in 9 outings (1-4-4).
Together with his two-point efficiency, Crosby (1,724) handed Corridor of Famer Mario Lemieux for the Penguins’ all-time scoring report and eighth in league historical past.
Arturs Silovs made 23 saves within the win.
Oliver Kapanen and Ivan Demidov every had a aim and an help, and Noah Dobson additionally discovered the again of the online for the Canadiens, who dropped to 4-1-2 of their final seven.
Juraj Slafkovsky had a pair of helpers, and Dobes stopped 28 photographs.
Dobson tied it 3-3 by backhanding a unfastened puck previous Silvos at 4:04 of the third interval.
Montreal had tied it 2-2 at 3:54 of the center body as Demidov one-timed a cross-ice feed from Slafkovsky.
Acciari snapped a shot glove-side previous Dobes at 11:51, giving Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead.
Kapanen opened the scoring, one-timing a Slafkovsky cross previous Silvos at 7:31 of the primary interval.
Pittsburgh responded 27 seconds later as Crosby redirected an Erik Karlsson shot previous Dobes for his twentieth aim of the season.
Rakell gave the Penguins their first lead of the evening, placing house the rebound off Bryan Rust’s shot on an influence play at 12:40 of the primary. Crosby picked up the secondary help on Rakell’s fourth of the season.
On Sunday, the Canadiens recalled Sammy Blais from Laval of the American Hockey League. Blais drew into the lineup on the fourth line for Jake Evans. Evans, who collided knee-on-knee with Justin Brazeau in the course of the first interval of Montreal’s 4-0 house win over Pittsburgh on Saturday evening, was positioned on injured reserve. Blais had an help in 8:32 of ice time.
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