The Florida Panthers and Pittsburgh Penguins did it all over again on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n
While the tenor of the game was different, the end result was the same with the Penguins pulling the rare weekend sweep with a 5-2 win.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the Penguins thumped the Panthers 9-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n Florida, playing with a masked Dmitry Kulikov after he broke his nose last Tuesday against the Senators, played the Penguins tight early with Cole Schwindt tying the score at 1 with 3:45 remaining in the opening period. <\/p>\n But then Sidney Crosby broke the tie, Rickard Rakell scored his first of the day, and the Panthers were chasing this one. <\/p>\n Rakell ended up with three goals and four points in the two wins over the Panthers. Crosby had a goal and five points. Evgeni Malkin, who had three goals and an assist on Saturday, had two assists on Sunday.<\/p>\n The Panthers continue their final road trip of the season with a visit to Canada for the next three starting Tuesday night in Montreal.<\/p>\n NOTES: PANTHERS at PENGUINS<\/p>\n With Kulikov back in the lineup, the Panthers returned Mikulas Hovorka to AHL Charlotte. He played in two games on this latest recall.<\/p>\n Minutes before warmup, the Penguins announced<\/a> that expected starting goalie\u00a0Stuart Skinner<\/a>\u00a0was hurt, with Taylor Gauthier of the ECHL Wheeling Nailers brought in to back up Arturs Silovs. Skinner is believed to have been injured after getting hit by a puck on the bench during Saturday\u2019s 9-4 win against the Panthers.<\/p>\n Crosby\u2019s\u00a0first-period goal guaranteed his 21st career point-per-game season \u2014 two more than any other player in NHL history. Wayne Gretzky\u00a0had 19.<\/p>\n HOW THEY SCORED<\/p>\n Penguins 1, Panthers 0 (11:00 1st): Florida goalie Daniil Tarasov misplayed a puck that would have been icing off the end boards with it going right to Elmer Soderblom for the opening goal.<\/p>\n Panthers 1, Penguins 1 (16:15 1st): Cole Schwindt sends a writers past Arturs Silovs to tie the score. If only for a moment.<\/p>\n Penguins 2, Panthers 1 (16:50 1st): Sidney Crosby drives into the offensive zone and sends one past Tarasov.<\/p>\n Penguins 3, Panthers 1 (19:12 1st): Rickard Rakell gets his first of the day, scoring on a one-timer from the slot. <\/p>\n Penguins 4, Panthers 1 (18:08 2nd): Rakell does it again, getting to a puck in the slot to beat Tarasov.<\/p>\n Penguins 5, Panthers 1 (3:48 3rd): Crosby finds Bryan Rust crashing the net and he jams his own rebound past Tarasov.<\/p>\n Penguins 5, Panthers 2 (14:15 3rd PP): Carter Verhaeghe scored on a heavy wrister from deep in the slot off a pass from Seth Jones.<\/p>\n FHN\u2019S 3 STARS<\/p>\n 1. Rickard Rakell, Penguins<\/p>\n 2. Sidney Crosby, Penguins<\/p>\n 3. Arturs Silovs, Penguins<\/p>\n ON DECK: GAME No. 78<\/p>\n FLORIDA PANTHERS at MONTREAL CANADIENS\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers and Pittsburgh Penguins did it all over again on Sunday afternoon. While the tenor of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[57,5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-545024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-florida-panthers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361910418241101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545024","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=545024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}