Pittsburgh’s Arturs Silovs stopped 25 shots to spoil the history-making debut of Florida counterpart Cooper Black as the Penguins beat the Panthers 4-0 on Thursday.
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Penguins → stop → Thursday
Black, who at 6-foot-9 became the tallest goalie ever to appear in an NHL regular season game, made 18 saves but it wasn’t enough to stop the Panthers from dropping their second game in as many nights.
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it → become → nights
Nick Robertson scored twice for Pittsburgh.
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Robertson → score → Pittsburgh
Hendrix Lapierre and Evgeni Malkin both finished with a goal and an assist as the Penguins shook off a miserable Western Conference road trip in which they were badly outplayed in losses to Chicago, Colorado, Vegas and Utah.
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they → finish → Chicago
The trip ended with 19-year-old forward Ben Kindel collapsing on Tuesday during the flight back to Pittsburgh.
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Kindel → end → Pittsburgh
Kindel spent the night in a Salt Lake City hospital for observation and returned to the Penguins’ facility on Thursday.
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Kindel → spend → Thursday
The team placed him on injured reserve but is hopeful may be able to return to practice as early as next week.
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team → place → week
Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse shuffled his lines in hopes of a spark, and the Penguins responded by solving the towering Black, a 25-year-old from Michigan, three times.
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Penguins → shuffle → Michigan
Black, called up from Florida’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte recently after Jacob Markstrom sustained a shoulder injury, was sharp early as the Panthers struggled to find their legs a night after an emotionally charged loss in Ottawa.
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Panthers → call → Ottawa
DEVILS 4, DUCKS 1
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Arseny Gritsyuk and Nico Hischier scored first-period goals, Nico Daws made 16 saves and New Jersey beat Anaheim.
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Jersey → score → Anaheim
Anthony Mantha restored the two-goal lead with 6:33 left in the third, and Jack Hughes added an empty-netter with 6.1 seconds remaining.
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Hughes → restore → seconds
New Jersey won its second straight to improve to 6-4-0, while Anaheim dropped its fifth in a row to fall to 4-6-0.
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Anaheim → win → 4
Gritsyuk and Hischier each scored their fifth goal of the season, with Jesper Bratt assisting on both scores.
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Bratt → score → scores
Hughes assisted on Gritsyuk’s goal.
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Hughes → assist → goal
Tim Washe scored for Anaheim on a tip at 8:20 of the third period.
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Washe → score → period
Ville Husso made 25 saves for the Ducks.
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Husso → make → Ducks
Gritsyuk opened the scoring at 4:38 of the first, connecting from close range off Bratt’s centering pass.
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Gritsyuk → open → pass
Hischier scored off a rebound on a power play with 41 seconds left in the period.
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Hischier → score → period
Michael DiPietro made 28 saves for his first career shutout, David Pastrnak had two goals and two assists, and Boston cruised to a victory over Nashville.
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Boston → make → Nashville
Charlie McAvoy had a career-high four assists for Boston, and Casey Mittelstadt, Elias Lindholm, JJ Peterka and Mark Kastelic also scored.
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Mittelstadt → have → Boston
Pastrnak leads the Bruins in goals (six) and assists (10).
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Pastrnak → lead → goals
Boston improved to 6-0-1 in its last seven games, with the only loss coming Tuesday in overtime at Dallas to conclude a four-game trip.
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loss → improve → trip
Justus Annunen stopped 25 shots in first start for Nashville since last season.
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Annunen → stop → season
The Predators have lost four of five.
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Predators → lose → five
The Bruins went ahead 3:49 into the game when Pastrnak sent a cross-ice pass to Mittelstadt, who fired it past Annunen’s right shoulder.
Lindholm made it 2-0 on the power play later in the first.
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it → go → first
Pastrnak scored midway through the second when he deflected McAvoy’s shot past Annunen, and the Bruins captain assisted on Peterka’s goal late in the period.
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captain → score → period
Pastrnak capped the scoring with 5 minutes remaining and became the eighth player in Bruins history with 20 career four-point games.
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Pastrnak → cap → games
SHARKS 6, SENATORS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Colin Graf had a goal and an assist, Yaroslav Askarov stopped 39 shots and San Jose beat Ottawa for its first regulation victory of the season.
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Jose → have → season
Nolan Allan, Tyler Toffoli, Jacob Trouba, Zack Ostapchuk and Ivar Stenberg also scored for the Sharks (6-4-1).
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Allan → score → Sharks
Tim Stutzle and Jordan Spence scored for Ottawa (7-4-0).
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Stutzle → score → Ottawa
Samuel Ersson made 23 saves.
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Ersson → make → saves
Ottawa placed goalie Linus Ullmark on injured reserve Thursday after he suffered a lower-body injury a night earlier.
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he → place → injury
Spence scored at 6:24 of the third period to make it a two-goal game.
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it → score → period
The Senators pulled Ersson while on the power play with under four minutes remaining, but Ostapchuk took advantage of a giveaway and scored an empty-net goal.
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Ostapchuk → pull → goal
Stenberg added a second empty-netter to round out the scoring.
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Stenberg → add → scoring
Troy Stecher scored with 26.3 seconds left in regulation and Toronto outlasted the New York Rangers for its third straight victory.
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Toronto → score → victory
Brandon Duhaime had a goal and two assists, and Teddy Blueger, Kirill Marchenko and Easton Cowan also scored for Toronto (6-4-2).
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Blueger → have → Toronto
Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves.
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Bobrovsky → make → saves
Zack MacEwen added two assists.
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MacEwen → add → assists
Blueger also had an assist for a two-point night.
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Blueger → have → night
…and 26 more, not listed.
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