EDMONTON, Alberta — Three goals in 37 seconds.

The Pittsburgh Penguins (25-14-11) rudely greeted their former goalie Tristan Jarry in the opening three minutes Thursday against the Edmonton Oilers (25-19-8).

From there, the teams played some good old-fashioned firewagon hockey, circa the Penguins and Oilers of the 1980s. Edmonton center Connor McDavid began cherrypicking at center ice, and neither team displayed too much of a defensive consciousness, and the Penguins pulled away for 6-2 at Rogers Place.

The Penguins are 10-2-2 since the holiday break that ended on Dec. 27. The win also ended Edmonton’s four-game winning streak against the Penguins.

In fact, the Penguins’ outburst hung a bit of dubious history on Jarry. No team had ever scored three goals faster against Edmonton than did the Penguins. The trio of markers was the third-fastest in Penguins history.

The Penguins’ record for fastest three goals was Nov. 22, 1972, when the team did it in 27 seconds. On Jan. 26, 1993, the Mario Lemieux-led team did it in 29 seconds. And then Thursday.

The roll call of offense started and continued with Anthony Mantha.

The Penguins counterattacked Edmonton’s overaggressiveness early. Justin Brazeau led a three-on-two from the right wing while Mantha sneaked behind the defensemen focused on Brazeau.

Mantha (15) neatly deflected the Penguins’ second shot of the game past Jarry at 2:20.

Then, Brazeau turned a defensive stop at the blue line into a stretch pass ahead to Mantha (16) for a breakaway goal at 2:37.

But wait, there was more.

The Penguins controlled the next faceoff, and with a little bit of offensive zone pressure, Sidney Crosby (27) provided another highlight goal when he deflected Ryan Shea’s point shot from the slot at 2:37.

Jarry could only watch helplessly as the puck made a hard right turn into the net.

Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs held the fort while the Penguins dealt with the fallout of a rapid three-goal lead. On paper, Edmonton outshot the Penguins 12-9 in the first period, but each team had a bevy of scoring chances.

Edmonton finally scored early in the second, on a Penguins power play after McDavid took a slashing minor.

Defenseman Jake Walkman (4) scored a shorthanded goal when he snapped a wrister from the slot past Silovs at 5:19 to cut the Penguins’ lead to 3-1.

But wait, there’s more. Again.

The Penguins scored a pair of goals less than two minutes apart later in the second period. First, on a delayed penalty, Rickard Rakell streaked into the Edmonton zone to be first on a loose puck to keep the play alive.

From behind Edmonton’s net, Malkin threaded a pass through defenders to Rakell in the slot. Rakell settled the pass, held the puck, and finally whipped a high shot past Jarry at 12:29 of the second.

Of the pretty goals and chances throughout the game, Malkin added an old-school breakaway goal. Malkin intercepted a pass at the blue line and bore down on Jarry all the way from the defensive zone. At full speed, Malkin (12) pulled the puck to the backhand and poked it through Jarry’s five-hole for a 5-1 lead at 14:26.

For the briefest of moments, the game in 2026 bore some resemblance to one that would have included players wearing 66 and 99.

Penguins winger Egor Chinakhov (5) scored a third-period goal on a wristshot with such force that it wasn’t immediately clear the puck had gone in the net because it ricocheted out even faster than it went in. Chinakhov has five goals in 12 games since the Penguins acquired the underused 25-year-old winger from the Columbus Blue Jackets.

That’s also five goals since he stopped being Yegor Chinakhov.

Brazeau had a pair of assists to raise his season point total to 24 points(14-10-24) in 36 games played. Malkin also had two points with a goal and an assist, raising his total to 39 points (12-27-39) in 35 games. And Jack St. Ivany had a pair of assists for the second straight game.

Edmonton rookie Matthew Savoie scored a late goal on a right-circle wrist shot.

Silovs’s performance might be overlooked, lost in the shadows of the offensive outburst, but he was quite good, stopping 29 of 31. Jarry did little to erase Penguins fans’ memories of rough starts. Despite countless difficult saves after the first few minutes, Edmonton could not overcome the start. Jarry stopped 16 of 22.

Penguins Notes

The Penguins activated top defenseman Erik Karlsson before the game. Karlsson had missed the last five games, last playing in the Penguins’ 1-0 loss to the Boston Bruins on Jan. 11.

Edmonton also got a notable addition back in their lineup as Leon Draisaitl returned from Germany, where he was with a sick family member. He was not expected back until Saturday.

Edmonton had won the last four against the Penguins, and eight of its last 10 against the Penguins, and most were decided by three goals or more.

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