There\u2019s minimal changes for the Penguins compared to the norm this season; Ben Kindel gets back into the lineup at the expense of Philip Tomasino and Tristan Jarry rotates back in the cage.<\/p>\n
The hometown Sharks are going with this lineup:<\/p>\n
The first period is definitely something that happened. Free flowing, end to end action with a bunch of shots flung to net. No penalties, goals or really any close calls. Shots go 18-11 PIT, but that somehow makes it seem a little more exciting than it was.<\/p>\n
The second period ambles on, out of no where Kris Letang shoots from the right side and Sidney Crosby gets a really fine deflection on the puck from in front. 1-0 Pens.<\/p>\n
That goal puts a fire under the Sharks, they push hard for the rest of the period but can\u2019t find a way to beat Jarry. 1-0 game.<\/p>\n
Shots overall are 23-22 PIT. It\u2019s a Jarry\/Alex Nedeljkovic goalie duel through 40 minutes, just like everyone expected.<\/p>\n
More ugly play all around, eventually the aptly nicknamed Mutant Line strikes for the Pens. Evgeni Malkin wanders into the o-zone, feeds Justin Brazeau. Brazeau holds the puck for a beat and then lays a great pass over for Anthony Mantha. Mantha whips a hard shot that hits the back of the net. That was a slow, slow, slow, boom in the net. 2-0 Pens.<\/p>\n
With 7:26 to go, finally the first penalty of the game is called on Bryan Rust. The Pens killed it off and Rust made a power move when he came out of the box and forced the Sharks to hold him and earn Pittsburgh\u2019s first power play with 4:55 to play. Crosby ended the power play early, with a hooking penalty and not a goal or assist.<\/p>\n
Sane Jose used their timeout with 2:50 play and with 1:16 of power play time. San Jose pulls the goalie, Jarry takes a shot at the open net but it gets knocked down.<\/p>\n
Malkin salts the game away with his second goal of the season into the open net to set the final score at 3-0.<\/p>\n
A 2-1-0 California swing is always a plus, the Pens will head back home for a game Tuesday night full of confidence and looking to continue their nice start to the season after taking care of business in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s minimal changes for the Penguins compared to the norm this season; Ben Kindel gets back into the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[54699,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-315485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-game-recaps","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399757951924920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}