{"id":543353,"date":"2026-04-06T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:03:20","slug":"crosby-has-goal-2-assists-penguins-defeat-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543353\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby has goal, 2 assists, Penguins defeat Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rickard Rakell<\/a> scored twice to push his goal streak to five games (seven goals), and Bryan Rust<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Penguins (40-22-16), who have won four of five, including 9-4 against Florida on Saturday. Evgeni Malkin<\/a> and Egor Chinakhov<\/a>\u00a0each had two assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arturs Silovs<\/a> made 29 saves in his second of back-to-back starts. He made 19 saves on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is second in the Metropolitan Division, six points ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way I coach and what I believe in is, when we have the puck, we have five players on the ice working together to go score a goal,\u201d Penguins coach Dan Muse said. \u201cWhen we don\u2019t have the puck, we\u2019re working to prevent goals. I felt strongly about this group early on, especially in training camp, that we had a lot of guys that would be able to contribute in different ways. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see we\u2019ve gotten contributions from throughout the lineup. I think that\u2019s important.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> and Cole Schwindt<\/a> scored, and Daniil Tarasov<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves for the Panthers (37-37-3), who have lost five of seven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida was already eliminated from playoff contention with the loss on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter than it was yesterday,\u201d Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. \u201cGot behind it a little bit, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019d given a whole lot to get behind in that manner. Had some good penalty kills, some good action on the power play. Scored a goal. That\u2019d be about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elmer Soderblom<\/a> put Pittsburgh ahead 1-0 at 11:00 of the first period. Tarasov came out of the crease to retrieve the puck, but Connor Dewar<\/a>\u00a0hit the goalie\u2019s stick, making the puck slip to Soderblom low in the left face-off circle for a wrist shot into an open net.<\/p>\n

Schwindt tied it 1-1 at 16:15 when his wrist shot from the top of the left circle deflected off Silovs\u2019 mask, dropped between his pads and trickled over the goal line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crosby put the Penguins back up 2-1 just 35 seconds later at 16:50, sending a wrist shot from the left circle over Tarasov’s glove into the top right corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rakell pushed the lead to 3-1 on a power-play goal at 19:12 with a one-timer to the blocker side after Crosby found him with a one-touch pass in the slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rakell chipped in a bouncing puck off a pass from Malkin behind the net to make to 4-1 at 18:08 of the second period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rickard Rakell scored twice to push his goal streak to five games (seven goals), and Bryan Rust had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-543353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116356253048462492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543353","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=543353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}