By ALLAN KREDA
Philip Tomasino scored the go-ahead aim halfway by way of the second interval, and the short-handed Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Friday evening.
Blake Lizotte and Rickard Rakell additionally scored and Bryan Rust had two assists for the Penguins, who received for the third time in 4 video games regardless of enjoying with out captain Sidney Crosby for the primary time in three seasons. Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves.
Vincent Trocheck and Adam Fox scored for the Rangers, who snapped a two-game win streak. Igor Shesterkin completed with 23 saves.
Crosby was out on account of an upper-body harm. He had performed each sport because the begin of the 2022-23 seasons and leads the crew with 58 factors, together with 17 targets. Evgeni Malkin additionally missed his fifth straight sport with a lower-body harm.
Tomasino fired a shot previous Shesterkin on the ability play with 8:01 left within the second interval, lower than three minutes after Rakell had tied the rating.
Pittsburgh, outshot 10-0 within the third, smothered two Rangers energy performs late within the interval to protect the win.
Trocheck opened the scoring at 8:31 of the primary, beating Nedeljkovic for this seventeenth aim.
Lizotte tied it at 2:25 of the second along with his ninth.
Fox put New York forward 2-1 along with his fourth at 3:39 earlier than Rakell knotted the rating at 9:07 of the center interval along with his team-leading twenty fifth.
TAKEAWAYS
Penguins: Pittsburgh improved to 10-14-5 on the highway.
Rangers: New York is now 14-12-2 at house after going 30-11-0 at Madison Sq. Backyard final season.
KEY MOMENT
Rakell’s tying aim halfway by way of the second interval energized the Penguins who didn’t permit a aim by the Rangers the remainder of the best way.
KEY STATS
Shesterkin fell to 18-19-2. New York’s beginning goalie was 36-17-2 final season.
UP NEXT
Penguins go to Philadelphia on Saturday, and Rangers play at Columbus.
