SAN JOSE, Calif. —Cage goes in the water. You go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark. The Pittsburgh Penguins (3-2-0) make their annual visit to the SAP Center to face the San Jose Sharks (0-1-2) Saturday.
The puck drops just after 10 p.m. ET.
The Penguins snapped a two-game losing streak with a character-building comeback win over the LA Kings Thursday, 4-2 at Crypto.com Arena. The Penguins rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the first period with goals from Evgeni Malkin and Connor Dewar before Filip Hallander scored his first NHL goal early in the third period.
Hallander's goal was a shorthanded goal assisted by Rickard Rakell , who launched the shorthanded two-on-one and whose shot hit the crossbar. Hallander had a couple of whacks at the rebound before he squibbed it across the goal line for the game winner.
Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs was generous with the rebounds but stingy on goals, stopping 30 of 32 shots.
Sidney Crosby added the empty net goal and has five points (2-3-5) in five games. Malkin leads the team with seven points (1-6-7).
Friday, coach Dan Muse readjusted his lines with the rookies Harrison Brunicke and Ben Kindel back in place. Each been scratched in one of the last two games.
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Rickard Rakell-Sidney Crosby-Bryan Rust
Anthony Mantha-Evgeni Malkin-Justin Brazeau
Tommy Novak-Ben Kindel-Filip Hallander
Connor Dewar-Blake Lizotte-Noel Acciari
Parker Wotherspoon - Erik Karlsson
Caleb Jones-Harrison Brunicke
Goalie: TBD ( Tristan Jarry , expected)
Jeff Skinner – Macklin Celebrini – Philipp Kurashev
William Eklund – Alex Wennberg – Tyler Toffoli
Collin Graf – Ty Dellandrea – Will Smith
Barclay Goodrow – Adam Gaudette – Ryan Reaves
Sam Dickinson – Vincent Desharnais
Penguins power play: 23.1%, 10th. Penguins penalty kill: 76.5%, 20th.
Sharks power play: 23.1%, 10th. Sharks penalty kill: 72.7%, 23rd.
Parker Wotherspoon notched his first career multi-point game (2A) onThursday night against the Los Angeles Kings.
Erik Karlsson has 19 points (5-14-19) in 17 career games against his formerteam. He has points in 11 of his last 13 games vs. San Jose (4-13-17).
Ryan Shea leads the Penguins in plus/minus (+2), time-on-ice per game (21:40), and blocked shots (10).
Malkin's seven points through the Penguins' first five games are the
fourth-most points through a team's first five games by a player age 39+
in NHL history
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