Two of the Pittsburgh Penguins star gamers reached milestones on Wednesday night time, after which one among them scored in additional time to assist the Penguins defeat the Buffalo Sabres 6-5.
Sidney Crosby scored the additional time game-winner on a power-play aim after the Sabres’ Tage Thompson was whistled for tripping. It was his 91st profession game-winning aim, which tied Wayne Gretzky and Mark Recchi for twenty first place in NHL historical past. It was additionally his twenty first profession additional time aim, trailing solely Alex Ovechkin (26) for essentially the most in NHL historical past.
Within the first interval, Crosby picked up a secondary help (and 1,600th level of his profession) on the power-play aim by Bryan Rust, who tapped in a rebound from Evgeni Malkin. The 37-year-old Penguins captain is the primary NHL participant to attain the milestone since Jaromir Jagr had an help for the Philadelphia Flyers in a 2-1 win on the Boston Bruins on Oct. 6, 2011, and is the tenth skater in NHL historical past with 1,600 factors.
Within the third interval, Malkin scored the five hundredth aim of his profession to affix Mario Lemieux (690) and Crosby (592) because the third participant in franchise historical past to achieve the milestone. He’s the fourth lively participant to take action, following Ovechkin (853), Crosby, and Steven Stamkos (555). He grew to become the eighth participant born and educated exterior North America to attain 500 targets. The others are Ovechkin (853), Jagr (766), Teemu Selanne (684), Jari Kurri (601), Mats Sundin (564), Marian Hossa (525) and Peter Bondra (503).
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Along with the milestones, the back-and-forth contest headed to additional time when Rickard Rakell scored with 46 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the sport 5-5. The one different participant this season to attain a tying aim within the closing minute of regulation is Justin Faulk (59:13) on Oct. 10.
JJ Peterka scored twice for the Sabres, who additionally received targets from Jordan Greenway, Ryan Mcleod and Thompson. Peterka collected his fifth profession multi-goal sport, the third-most by a German-born and educated participant earlier than age 23. Solely Tim Stützle (14) and Leon Draisaitl (6) have extra.
The Penguins additionally had targets from Drew O’Connor and Jesse Puljujarvi. Joel Blomqvist stopped 26 of 28 pictures in aid after Tristan Jarry was pulled.
