Famous person captain Sidney Crosby and fellow top-liner Bryan Rust have reached or surpassed main achievements this season for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Crosby and Rust will glance to assist the Penguins rebound from a lopsided shutout loss after they host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.
A long term first-ballot Corridor of Famer, Crosby has team-leading totals in assists (35) and issues (47) via 44 video games. He completed with a objective and two assists in Thursday’s 5-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers.
That driven Crosby to at least one,643 issues, sufficient to cross Corridor of Famer Joe Sakic for 9th position in NHL historical past. Up subsequent is Pittsburgh legend Mario Lemieux (1,723).
“I am operating out of superlatives,” Penguins trainer Mike Sullivan mentioned of the 37-year-old Crosby. “What he is undertaking, to begin with, his frame of labor within the (NHL), his legacy that has been constructed up to now, speaks for itself. He is the consummate professional. … He simply carries himself with such a lot grace and humility and integrity. And he is a fierce competitor at the ice.”
Rust, 32, has been achieving excessive marks, too.
On Jan. 3 on the Florida Panthers, Rust performed in his 600th occupation fit and recorded his four-hundredth level. He’s the 9th Penguins participant to hit the latter milestone.
Rust is 2nd at the Penguins with 16 aims. He additionally owns 16 assists for Pittsburgh, which used to be blown out 5-0 by means of the Ottawa Senators on Saturday within the 3rd contest of a five-game homestand.
The Penguins have been blanked for the fourth time.
Sunday’s matchup would be the again finish of a back-to-back for Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh, and each golf equipment wish to rebound from losses.
Tampa Bay gained the primary assembly 3-2 in additional time on Nov. 19 as Brayden Level tucked within the recreation winner.
Saturday night time in New Jersey additionally required time beyond regulation, however the Devils’ Stefan Noesen beat goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy for a 3-2 win.
Captain Victor Hedman and Nikita Kucherov scored a objective for the Lightning, who’re 2-4-1 of their previous seven contests.
Hedman’s objective used to be his 6th, lots of the defensemen, and he has 25 assists. Kucherov posted his 18th objective and team-high 59th level.
Incomes some degree at the street after dropping all 3 fits in California final week used to be a favorable for the Lightning.
“On the finish of the day, it is a step in the suitable course at the street,” Hedman mentioned. “We have been having a difficult move nowadays.”
Vasilevskiy posted 22 saves opposed to the Devils and most likely will flip over the crease to Jonas Johansson for his tenth look this season.
The 29-year-old Swedish backstop is 4-3-1 in 8 selections. He has a three.32 goals-against reasonable and .898 save proportion.
Johansson yielded 3 aims on 25 photographs in his final day out, a 4-1 setback to the Anaheim Geese final Sunday.
With starter Alex Nedeljkovic surrendering 5 tallies in 27 mins and being pulled, the Penguins may come again with him or Tristan Jarry, who stopped all 5 photographs in aid.
–Box Stage Media
