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PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Rickard Rakell<\/a> scored twice, Sidney Crosby<\/a> had a goal and two assists and the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> beat the Florida Panthers<\/a> 5-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The teams faced off Saturday night and the Penguins beat them 9-4, eliminating the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions from playoff contention. <\/p>\n

Rakell scored his first goal for the Penguins with 48 seconds left in the first period on the power play, assisted on by Crosby and Evgeni Malkin<\/a>. His second came with 1:52 left in the second period. <\/p>\n

Bryan Rust<\/a> and Elmer Soderblom<\/a> also scored for the Penguins. Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> and Cole Schwindt<\/a> each scored for the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh’s Arturs Silovs<\/a> stopped 29 shots after tandem mate Stuart Skinner<\/a> was ruled out with an upper-body injury. Daniil Tarasov<\/a> allowed five goals on 23 shots in defeat.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Penguins: Visit the New Jersey Devils<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Panthers: Visit the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Rickard Rakell scored twice, Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists and the Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[8659,2215,246,3711,8020,4587,55279,1495,62,57,5141,5,285,4,63,100,5782,768,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-543534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-arturs-silovs","9":"tag-bryan-rust","10":"tag-carter-verhaeghe","11":"tag-cole-schwindt","12":"tag-daniil-tarasov","13":"tag-elmer-soderblom","14":"tag-event_recap","15":"tag-evgeni-malkin","16":"tag-florida","17":"tag-florida-panthers","18":"tag-floridapanthers","19":"tag-hockey","20":"tag-national-hockey-league","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-panthers","23":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","24":"tag-rickard-rakell","25":"tag-sidney-crosby","26":"tag-stuart-skinner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543534","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=543534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}