• GOAL: Ben Kindel hits the empty net to extend his goal streak to six games. Penguins 6, Rangers 3
• GOAL: Vladislav Gavrikov from the top right circle to make it a two-goal game with 4:45 left. Penguins 5, Rangers 3
• Back to five-on-five.
• GOAL: Local kid Vincent Trocheck on a shorthanded breakaway. Penguins 5, Rangers 2
• I feel like Evgeni Malkin should probably not be rushing into kerfuffles like that.
• Will Borgen looked like he wanted to fight Egor Chinakhov, Chinakhov just looked at him as he got shoved around. Borgen gets a roughing penalty out of it. "RANGERS SUCK" chant breaks out.
• Ilya Solovyov is a free man.
• Penguins to the PK with 15:23 left. Matt Rempe had a huge hit on Connor Dewar and Ilya Solovyov came in and cross-checked Rempe. He tried pleading his case to the ref and you could read the ref's lips saying, "Get in there right now," haha.
• Seems like Evgeni Malkin is avoiding putting his left hand on his stick unless absolutely necessary. That's his bad arm.
• Erik Karlsson finally hit the 700-assist milestone, by the way.
• Rangers players knock Justin Brazeau into their own goalie and go after him for it, a little scrum breaks out.
• GOAL: Noel Acciari with his second of the game 20 seconds later. He picks up a rebound from a Brett Kulak shot and scored from a tough angle, right on the goal line. Penguins 5, Rangers 1
•GOAL: Rickard Rakell cashes in 1:20 into the power play. Sidney Crosby picked up a rebound and quickly got it to Rakell over to his left. Penguins 4, Rangers 1
• Third period is underway. Penguins open on the power play.
• Evgeni Malkin is out there for the start of the third after having more apparent shoulder issues in the second.
• Ben Kindel and Rutger McGroarty both have an on-ice expected goals share of 100%. Crazy to see, it's not like they haven't been on the ice for shot attempts against. But xG is the stat that takes into account location, among other factors, and quantifies the quality of those chances. Rangers are getting nothing with them on the ice.
• Penguins will open the third on the power play. Will Cuylle got called for holding right at the end.
• End of the first, it's 3-1 Penguins. Anthony Mantha with the Penguins' goal that period. Shots are 21-11 Penguins.
• GOAL: Alexis Lafreniere just 13 seconds into the ensuing power play. Goes to the right of the net and buries one. Penguins looked on the bench like they were considering challenging for something (presumably offside) but ended up not doing it. That was their second shot of the period. Penguins 3, Rangers 1
• Penguins to the PK 1:04 into the four-on-four for too many men. Evgeni Malkin serves it.
• Anthony Mantha gets two for slashing, Sam Carrick gets two for tripping. Carrick took the initial penalty, Mantha retaliated. No. 39 on 39 violence. It's four-on-four with 2:51 left.
• Scratch that: Back down to one shot for the Rangers this period. If anyone's curious why that happens -- the puck-tracking data makes it easy to see if a shot attempt that was "saved" by the goalie was actually going to go wide, and so if a goalie saves a puck that wasn't going to be a shot on goal anyway, it still gets counted as a miss. The NHL is cracking down on those phantom saves, which is why save percentages are down everywhere now.
• Make that two shots for the Rangers this period. They're on fire. Like, a tire fire.
• Rangers draw the fewest penalties in the league (2.93/60) and have the second-worst ratio of penalties for vs. against (minus-24).
• GOAL: Anthony Mantha with his second of the game just after the power play expires. Rickard Rakell took a shot at the end of the power play, recovers his own rebound and backhand passes it over to Mantha, who had a wide-open net in front of him. Penguins 3, Rangers 0
• About seven minutes left in the second and the Rangers have one shot this period. They're terrible.
• Justin Brazeau is back on the bench.
• Penguins are back on the power play with 9:04 left in the second, Jonny Brodzinski to the box.
• Still no Justin Brazeau, by the way.
• Back to five-on-five.
• Penguins get a power play, two minutes for interference on Matthew Robertson. That's the right call, he just got in Justin Brazeau's way and they collided. He didn't hit him up high or anything.
• Justin Brazeau goed down the tunnel after a collision at center ice with Matthew Robertson. They're reviewing it for a major penalty. Brazeau had a towel to his mouth as he went off, he might have just been bleeding. Which would be way better than a concussion, obviously.
• Second period is underway.
• They played video messages from Brian Dumoulin and Matt Murray at this intermission to applause from the crowd.
• End of the first. Anthony Mantha and Noel Acciari have the Penguins up 2-0. They lead 11-9 in shots.
• Back to even strength.
• Top power play: Erik Karlsson, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, Rickard Rakell, Anthony Mantha.
• Now the Penguins go on the power play with 2:20 left in the first. Scott Morrow hooked Rutger McGroarty.
• Tommy Novak was just shoved down from behind, he was looking for a call but there wasn't one.
• Stuart Skinner is locked in. He's been tested fairly frequently so far and has come up big.
• ABC just showed a clip of Sidney Crosby with tears running down his face during the 2016 ceremony.
• There's a video playing at this TV timeout that's just celebrating Jim Rutherford. Big smile from him when he's shown in their suite.
• Ben Kindel with a laser of a one-timer now that just goes wide.
• Penguins kill the Rutger McGroarty penalty.
• Noel Acciari is on a heater. Just drove to the net with real speed and nearly tucked in another while shorthanded.
• Penguins go right on the PK after the last goal. Rutger McGroarty is called for tripping with 13:50 left in the first.
• GOAL: Noel Acciari doubles the lead with a one-timer from the left circle, Blake Lizotte set him up. Big celebration from him after, you don't usually see that from him. Penguins 2, Rangers 0
• GOAL: Anthony Mantha redirects a shot from Rutger McGroarty. Think it hit Mantha in the leg and went in. That was the Penguins' first shot of the game. Penguins 1, Rangers 0
• This is underway.
• Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are both among the starters. Dan Muse does a good job of starting guys playing in notable games.
• Kris Letang has a boot on his left foot for the foot fracture.
• Unsurprisingly, the loudest ovation for the returning members of the 2016 team is for Marc-Andre Fleury. Patric Hornqvist, Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz, Carl Hagelin all got loud ones too.
• Rangers' lines and pairings:
J.T. Miller - Mika Zibanejad - Gabe Perreault Will Cuylle - Vincent Trocheck - Alexis Lafreniere Brennan Othman - Noah Laba - Taylor Raddysh Jonny Brodzinski - Sam Carrick - Matt Rempe
Vladislav Gavrikov - Braden Schneider Matthew Robertson - Will Borgen Urho Vaakanainen - Scott Morrow
• Malkin is in:
Rickard Rakell - Sidney Crosby - Justin Brazeau Egor Chinakhov - Tommy Novak - Evgeni Malkin Rutger McGroarty - Ben Kindel - Anthony Mantha Connor Dewar - Blake Lizotte - Noel Acciari
Parker Wotherspoon - Erik Karlsson Brett Kulak - Ryan Shea Ilya Solovynov - Connor Clifton
• Evgeni Malkin is on the ice for warmups. Worth noting that Kevin Hayes is also taking warmups and they don't usually have an extra forward warm up unless someone is legitimately questionable.
• Marc-Andre Fleury joked before his preseason game that he feels like he's had 17 "goodbye" moments here, looking forward to this latest one.
• Pretty sure they're intentionally playing 2016 music here, songs that either came out during that season or were popular during it. The Chainsmokers, DNCE, Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy, Imagine Dragons among the selections so far.
THE ASYLUM
Final: Penguins 6, Rangers 5
• Who: Penguins (27-14-11) vs. Rangers (21-23-9)
• What: NHL regular season, Game 53
• When: 3:50 p.m.
• Where: PPG Paints Arena
• Goaltenders: Stuart Skinner (18-12-4 .896 SV%) vs. Jonathan Quick (4-12-2 .885 SV%)
• TV: ABC
• Stream: ESPN+
• Radio: Penguins Radio Network
• Boxscore: NHL.com
• Media notes: Penguins | Rangers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• Penguins win, 6-5. Goals from Noel Acciari (2), Anthony Mantha (2), Rickard Rakell, Ben Kindel
• GOAL: Rangers score with 10.6 left. Penguins 6, Rangers 5
• GOAL: Alexis Lafreniere gets one back. Penguins 6, Rangers 4
• Two minutes left.
• GOAL: Ben Kindel hits the empty net to extend his goal streak to six games. Penguins 6, Rangers 3
• GOAL: Vladislav Gavrikov from the top right circle to make it a two-goal game with 4:45 left. Penguins 5, Rangers 3
• Back to five-on-five.
• GOAL: Local kid Vincent Trocheck on a shorthanded breakaway. Penguins 5, Rangers 2
• I feel like Evgeni Malkin should probably not be rushing into kerfuffles like that.
• Will Borgen looked like he wanted to fight Egor Chinakhov, Chinakhov just looked at him as he got shoved around. Borgen gets a roughing penalty out of it. "RANGERS SUCK" chant breaks out.
• Ilya Solovyov is a free man.
• Penguins to the PK with 15:23 left. Matt Rempe had a huge hit on Connor Dewar and Ilya Solovyov came in and cross-checked Rempe. He tried pleading his case to the ref and you could read the ref's lips saying, "Get in there right now," haha.
• Seems like Evgeni Malkin is avoiding putting his left hand on his stick unless absolutely necessary. That's his bad arm.
• Erik Karlsson finally hit the 700-assist milestone, by the way.
• Rangers players knock Justin Brazeau into their own goalie and go after him for it, a little scrum breaks out.
• GOAL: Noel Acciari with his second of the game 20 seconds later. He picks up a rebound from a Brett Kulak shot and scored from a tough angle, right on the goal line. Penguins 5, Rangers 1
•GOAL: Rickard Rakell cashes in 1:20 into the power play. Sidney Crosby picked up a rebound and quickly got it to Rakell over to his left. Penguins 4, Rangers 1
• Third period is underway. Penguins open on the power play.
• Evgeni Malkin is out there for the start of the third after having more apparent shoulder issues in the second.
• Ben Kindel and Rutger McGroarty both have an on-ice expected goals share of 100%. Crazy to see, it's not like they haven't been on the ice for shot attempts against. But xG is the stat that takes into account location, among other factors, and quantifies the quality of those chances. Rangers are getting nothing with them on the ice.
• Penguins will open the third on the power play. Will Cuylle got called for holding right at the end.
• End of the first, it's 3-1 Penguins. Anthony Mantha with the Penguins' goal that period. Shots are 21-11 Penguins.
• GOAL: Alexis Lafreniere just 13 seconds into the ensuing power play. Goes to the right of the net and buries one. Penguins looked on the bench like they were considering challenging for something (presumably offside) but ended up not doing it. That was their second shot of the period. Penguins 3, Rangers 1
• Penguins to the PK 1:04 into the four-on-four for too many men. Evgeni Malkin serves it.
• Anthony Mantha gets two for slashing, Sam Carrick gets two for tripping. Carrick took the initial penalty, Mantha retaliated. No. 39 on 39 violence. It's four-on-four with 2:51 left.
• Scratch that: Back down to one shot for the Rangers this period. If anyone's curious why that happens -- the puck-tracking data makes it easy to see if a shot attempt that was "saved" by the goalie was actually going to go wide, and so if a goalie saves a puck that wasn't going to be a shot on goal anyway, it still gets counted as a miss. The NHL is cracking down on those phantom saves, which is why save percentages are down everywhere now.
• Make that two shots for the Rangers this period. They're on fire. Like, a tire fire.
• Rangers draw the fewest penalties in the league (2.93/60) and have the second-worst ratio of penalties for vs. against (minus-24).
• GOAL: Anthony Mantha with his second of the game just after the power play expires. Rickard Rakell took a shot at the end of the power play, recovers his own rebound and backhand passes it over to Mantha, who had a wide-open net in front of him. Penguins 3, Rangers 0
• About seven minutes left in the second and the Rangers have one shot this period. They're terrible.
• Justin Brazeau is back on the bench.
• Penguins are back on the power play with 9:04 left in the second, Jonny Brodzinski to the box.
• Still no Justin Brazeau, by the way.
• Back to five-on-five.
• Penguins get a power play, two minutes for interference on Matthew Robertson. That's the right call, he just got in Justin Brazeau's way and they collided. He didn't hit him up high or anything.
• Justin Brazeau goed down the tunnel after a collision at center ice with Matthew Robertson. They're reviewing it for a major penalty. Brazeau had a towel to his mouth as he went off, he might have just been bleeding. Which would be way better than a concussion, obviously.
• Second period is underway.
• They played video messages from Brian Dumoulin and Matt Murray at this intermission to applause from the crowd.
• End of the first. Anthony Mantha and Noel Acciari have the Penguins up 2-0. They lead 11-9 in shots.
• Back to even strength.
• Top power play: Erik Karlsson, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, Rickard Rakell, Anthony Mantha.
• Now the Penguins go on the power play with 2:20 left in the first. Scott Morrow hooked Rutger McGroarty.
• Tommy Novak was just shoved down from behind, he was looking for a call but there wasn't one.
• Stuart Skinner is locked in. He's been tested fairly frequently so far and has come up big.
• ABC just showed a clip of Sidney Crosby with tears running down his face during the 2016 ceremony.
• There's a video playing at this TV timeout that's just celebrating Jim Rutherford. Big smile from him when he's shown in their suite.
• Ben Kindel with a laser of a one-timer now that just goes wide.
• Penguins kill the Rutger McGroarty penalty.
• Noel Acciari is on a heater. Just drove to the net with real speed and nearly tucked in another while shorthanded.
• Penguins go right on the PK after the last goal. Rutger McGroarty is called for tripping with 13:50 left in the first.
• GOAL: Noel Acciari doubles the lead with a one-timer from the left circle, Blake Lizotte set him up. Big celebration from him after, you don't usually see that from him. Penguins 2, Rangers 0
• GOAL: Anthony Mantha redirects a shot from Rutger McGroarty. Think it hit Mantha in the leg and went in. That was the Penguins' first shot of the game. Penguins 1, Rangers 0
• This is underway.
• Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are both among the starters. Dan Muse does a good job of starting guys playing in notable games.
• Kris Letang has a boot on his left foot for the foot fracture.
• Unsurprisingly, the loudest ovation for the returning members of the 2016 team is for Marc-Andre Fleury. Patric Hornqvist, Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz, Carl Hagelin all got loud ones too.
• Rangers' lines and pairings:
J.T. Miller - Mika Zibanejad - Gabe Perreault
Will Cuylle - Vincent Trocheck - Alexis Lafreniere
Brennan Othman - Noah Laba - Taylor Raddysh
Jonny Brodzinski - Sam Carrick - Matt Rempe
Vladislav Gavrikov - Braden Schneider
Matthew Robertson - Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen - Scott Morrow
• Malkin is in:
Rickard Rakell - Sidney Crosby - Justin Brazeau
Egor Chinakhov - Tommy Novak - Evgeni Malkin
Rutger McGroarty - Ben Kindel - Anthony Mantha
Connor Dewar - Blake Lizotte - Noel Acciari
Parker Wotherspoon - Erik Karlsson
Brett Kulak - Ryan Shea
Ilya Solovynov - Connor Clifton
• Evgeni Malkin is on the ice for warmups. Worth noting that Kevin Hayes is also taking warmups and they don't usually have an extra forward warm up unless someone is legitimately questionable.
• Marc-Andre Fleury joked before his preseason game that he feels like he's had 17 "goodbye" moments here, looking forward to this latest one.
• Pretty sure they're intentionally playing 2016 music here, songs that either came out during that season or were popular during it. The Chainsmokers, DNCE, Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy, Imagine Dragons among the selections so far.
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