{"id":430373,"date":"2026-01-27T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/430373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:04:52","slug":"rookie-ben-kindel-scores-twice-leads-penguins-to-a-3-2-win-over-the-canucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/430373\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Ben Kindel scores twice, leads Penguins to a 3-2 win over the Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Rookie Ben Kindel scored twice in the second period to lead the Penguins to a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday and a sweep of Pittsburgh&#8217;s four-game western Canada trip.<\/p>\n<p>Kindel, from nearby Coquitlam, British Columbia, had a large contingent of supporters on hand for his second multi-goal game. The 18-year-old had gone 20 games without a goal after scoring eight in his first 28 and has 10 goals and 12 assists in 48 games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins (26-14-11), and Stuart Skinner stopped 19 shots and won for the seventh time in eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Jake DeBrusk and Teddy Blueger scored in the third period for the Canucks (17-30-5), who failed to complete their comeback try and dropped their second straight. Kevin Lankinen stopped 21 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin and Kindel made it 2-0 with goals 3:17 apart in the second period. Malkin opened the scoring by taking a pass from Thomas Novak that went over a Canuck defender\u2019s stick, then beat Lankinen. Kindel made it a two-goal lead by directing in a shot from defenseman Ryan Shea. Kindel gave Pittsburgh a 3-0 lead at 17:22 by beating Lankinen on a shot from the faceoff circle.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh opened its trip with a 6-3 win over Seattle on Monday, beat Calgary 4-1 on Wednesday, then defeated Edmonton 6-2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Kris Letang returned to the Pittsburgh lineup after missing two games with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks have just one win in their last 14 games (1-11-2). Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko missed his eighth game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Penguins: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: Host the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday in the sixth game of an eight-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Rookie Ben Kindel scored twice in the second period to lead the Penguins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[710,1020,895,96,53173,198,1495,5,7747,1538,1499,4,118,1469,100,5216,9748,168,2686,157,10316,6377,2171,893,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-430373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-ben-kindel","9":"tag-british-columbia","10":"tag-calgary","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-coquitlam","13":"tag-edmonton","14":"tag-evgeni-malkin","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jake-debrusk","17":"tag-kevin-lankinen","18":"tag-kris-letang","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-penguins","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","23":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","24":"tag-ryan-shea","25":"tag-san-jose-sharks","26":"tag-seattle","27":"tag-stuart-skinner","28":"tag-teddy-blueger","29":"tag-thatcher-demko","30":"tag-the-penguins","31":"tag-vancouver","32":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115966268166682289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}