Penguins Win with the Return of Malkin

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The Pittsburgh Penguins had an amazing opening to their season, going 11-3 at one point. However, in the last 5 games, they've been 1-4 with their only one of those wins coming on Saturday night against the Boston Bruins. Luckily, Evgeni Malkin returned after his two and a half weeks of being out because of his shoulder injury. He managed to add three assists during his first game back, including the assist that sent the game into Over Time.

This was a very back-and-forth game.  Jay McKee wasted no time, putting a goal in 1:42 into play.  The same team that had been shut out twice in the last four games now had an early lead.  Unfortunately, Boston answered back a few minutes later, tying the score up.  Before the end of the period, Pascal Dupuis got his fourth goal of the season off a rebound from Matt Cooke's wrist shot. 

The action continue in the second period, starting off with another tying goal from the Bruins.  About six minutes later, Sidney Crosby had an amazing deflection off of Alex Goligoski's shot, after skating circles around the Bruin's goal.  The Penguins were only able to keep their 3-2 lead for several minutes before Boston put in, yet, another tying goal. 

The third period started off with a goal from Mark Eaton off a great pass from Sidney Crosby.  The score has already jumped up to 4-3, but that wasn't the end of it.  With less than six minutes left to play, the Bruins put in the fourth tying goal of the game.  Then, only about three minutes later, the Bruins took the lead for the first time in the game.  It looked like it was all over for the Penguins, who had fought so hard to maintain the lead for the majority of the game…but Pittsburgh wasn't ready to chalk up another loss.

Down by a goal in the final 1:40 of the game, Pittsburgh pulled Brent Johnson from the goal to add an extra forward on the ice.  Now, with only seconds on the board, Evgeni Malkin stripped the puck away from a Bruins player on the Pittsburgh side.  He skated down the ice and sent a pass to Bill Guerin on the opposite side.  Guerin sent a shot whizzing past the Bruin's goalie in the final SECOND of regulation play, sending the game into Over Time.  Only 1:24 into Over Time, Dupuis put in a behind-the-net pass from Jordan Staal, winning the game for the Penguins.

Marc Andre Fleury, who's recently had a couple rough games, took the night off from the net.  In his place was Brent Johnson, who did a great job trying to hold off the Bruins.  Luckily, the Penguins offense stepped up their game and helped match up to the Bruins goals.  Both goalies had a total of 33 shots on them, but Johnson walked away with one more save, making his total shots saved, 28. 

The Penguins can hopefully get back on their winning streak this Monday, November 16 when they play the Anaheim Ducks at Home.  The game will begin at 7:30 P.M. ET.

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