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As a penguin fan, you may have been distracted by the stars that hit the PPG Paints Arena Monday night during a 4-1 win over the Boston Bruins.
Fun fact: Evgeni Malkin has scored points in each of his last eight home games (3G-9A). He also has an eight point streak. # NHL101 pic.twitter.com/l7Mxqim0MI
That gave Malkin his 1,100. Career point. According to NHL public relations, only four other active players (Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau) have that many. And it only took Geno 950 games to hit that plateau. Of that group, only Crosby came in faster (850 games).
Jake Guentzel added a blank Nice (his fourth game in a row with a goal), and All-Star goalkeeper Tristan Jarry was brilliant at 42 out of 43 Stop shooting.
While all of this good stuff was going on, you may have missed some other nuggets in the NHL Monday night.
In the East Division, the Washington Capitals were the youngest team to take advantage of the slumped Buffalo Sabers and they ruled out 6-0. Goalkeeper Vitek Vanecek got his first career break. There are 11 straight defeats for the Sabers and five straight wins for the Caps.
Washington (40) is three points ahead of the Penguins (37) in second place in the east. The ardent New York Islanders – with nine straight wins – top the division with 42 points.
Former penguins have been everywhere in this game. Conor Sheary and Justin Schultz both had two assists and Daniel Sprong scored one.
The Philadelphia Flyers are still in fifth place with 31 points, but are within one thanks to a 5-4 win over New York Rangers Point closed in front of Boston (32).
In the Canadian division, Pittsburgh Hornets has alum JT Miller got an overtime game winner for the Vancouver Canucks when they defeated the Ottawa Senators 3-2.
In the west, ex-Penguin goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury and the Vegas Golden Knights split 2-1 against the San Jose Sharks. Fleury stopped 23 of 24 shots.
He is now 15-5, with 1.77 goals against average and a saving of 0.936 percent. It’s career win # 481. Fleury needs three more to tie Ed Belfour to fourth all-time goalkeeping wins list.
Tim Benz is a Tribune Review employee. You can contact Tim at [email protected] or on Twitter. All tweets could be republished. All emails can be published unless otherwise stated.
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