LOS ANGELES — After having a objective waved off in additional time, Bryan Rust rapidly made certain it didn’t occur twice.
His wraparound objective with 1:15 remaining on the clock in additional time gave the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night time, giving them a sweep of their California street journey for the primary time since 1996-97.
Rust appeared to place in his personal rebound 19 seconds earlier, however the objective was waved off when he was dominated offside.
“The first one, when I first got it, I thought it was offside. They didn’t blow the whistle and I just kept playing in the puck. I celebrated like it was a goal, but I wasn’t too surprised when it didn’t count,” mentioned Rust, who has 5 additional time regular-season targets in his 10-year profession. “I was able to get out there right away again and make the most of it.”
Sidney Crosby had a objective and an help as he grew to become the eleventh participant in NHL historical past with 450 profession multi-point video games. He additionally prolonged his level streak to seven video games.
Lars Eller and Jake Guentzel additionally had targets for the Penguins. Magnus Hellberg stopped 34 pictures.
PHOTOS: Bryan Rust makes certain his second OT objective counts as Penguins defeat Kings 4-3
“I know it was an ugly win. I don’t think we were at our best. We had moments when I thought we would get into momentum swings on both sides, but I just thought we kept competing,” coach Mike Sullivan mentioned. “It’s obviously a great road trip for us. I think it’s something that we can build on.”
Los Angeles had a four-game profitable streak snapped. Adrian Kempe prolonged his factors streak to eight video games with a second-period objective and Anze Kopitar moved into second on the Kings’ profession factors record with an help on Carl Grundstrum’s first-period rating.
Kevin Fiala additionally scored and Pheonix Copley made 16 saves.
Crosby assisted on Guentzel’s objective 37 seconds into the third interval, which snapped the Kings‘ four-game winning streak. Crosby was near the blue line in the offensive zone when he saw Guentzel quickly skating in to his left. Crosby fed a perfect cross-ice pass to Guentzel, who redirected it past Copley to make it 3-2.
Fiala evened it at 6:40 when he put in a rebound after a mad scramble in front of the net.
Crosby – who has four goals and nine points during his points streak – opened the scoring with a wraparound goal 7:11 into the first period. It was his 557th career goal, which ties him with Mike Modano (Minnesota/Dallas) and Luc Robitaille (Kings) for the ninth most in NHL history by a player with one franchise.
Kopitar picked up his 1,155th point during the first period when Grundstrum tied it.
Matt Roy fired the puck down the ice as the Kings were killing a penalty. Kopitar chased down the puck in the corner behind the net and fed it to Grundstrom, who chipped it in as he was skating to the front of the net
The assist, the 755th of Kopitar’s profession, additionally put him two away from tying Marcel Dionne’s franchise file 757.
“It seems to be happening every night. The sun comes up and it goes down, and Kopi sets a record,” coach Todd McLellan mentioned. “It should be recognized, acknowledging the type of career he’s had. But it’s happening over and over again, which is great for him.”
Kempe put the Kings up 2-1 at 9:58 of the second with a slap shot from the again of the left faceoff circle. Eller then tied it when he stored management of the puck and launched a snap shot from the slot at 18:03.
UP NEXT
Penguins: Return house to face Buffalo on Saturday.
Kings: Host Philadelphia on Saturday.
