Bryan Rust makes certain his second OT purpose counts as Penguins defeat Kings 4-3

LOS ANGELES — After having a purpose waved off in additional time, Bryan Rust rapidly made certain it didn’t occur twice.

His wraparound purpose with 1:15 remaining on the clock in additional time gave the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night time, giving them a sweep of their California street journey for the primary time since 1996-97.

Rust appeared to place in his personal rebound 19 seconds earlier, however the purpose was waved off when he was dominated offside.

“The first one, when I first got it, I thought it was offside. They didn’t blow the whistle and I just kept playing in the puck. I celebrated like it was a goal, but I wasn’t too surprised when it didn’t count,” mentioned Rust, who has 5 additional time regular-season objectives in his 10-year profession. “I was able to get out there right away again and make the most of it.”

Sidney Crosby had a purpose and an help as he turned the eleventh participant in NHL historical past with 450 profession multi-point video games. He additionally prolonged his level streak to seven video games.

Lars Eller and Jake Guentzel additionally had objectives for the Penguins. Magnus Hellberg stopped 34 photographs.

PHOTOS: Bryan Rust makes certain his second OT purpose counts as Penguins defeat Kings 4-3

“I know it was an ugly win. I don’t think we were at our best. We had moments when I thought we would get into momentum swings on both sides, but I just thought we kept competing,” coach Mike Sullivan mentioned. “It’s obviously a great road trip for us. I think it’s something that we can build on.”

Los Angeles had a four-game profitable streak snapped. Adrian Kempe prolonged his factors streak to eight video games with a second-period purpose and Anze Kopitar moved into second on the Kings’ profession factors checklist with an help on Carl Grundstrum’s first-period rating.

Kevin Fiala additionally scored and Pheonix Copley made 16 saves.

Crosby assisted on Guentzel’s purpose 37 seconds into the third interval, which snapped the Kings‘ four-game profitable streak. Crosby was close to the blue line within the offensive zone when he noticed Guentzel rapidly skating in to his left. Crosby fed an ideal cross-ice go to Guentzel, who redirected it previous Copley to make it 3-2.

Fiala evened it at 6:40 when he put in a rebound after a mad scramble in entrance of the online.

Crosby – who has 4 objectives and 9 factors throughout his factors streak – opened the scoring with a wraparound purpose 7:11 into the primary interval. It was his 557th profession purpose, which ties him with Mike Modano (Minnesota/Dallas) and Luc Robitaille (Kings) for the ninth most in NHL historical past by a participant with one franchise.

Kopitar picked up his 1,one hundred and fifty fifth level in the course of the first interval when Grundstrum tied it.

Matt Roy fired the puck down the ice because the Kings have been killing a penalty. Kopitar chased down the puck within the nook behind the online and fed it to Grundstrom, who chipped it in as he was skating to the entrance of the online

The help, the 755th of Kopitar’s profession, additionally put him two away from tying Marcel Dionne’s franchise document 757.

“It seems to be happening every night. The sun comes up and it goes down, and Kopi sets a record,” coach Todd McLellan mentioned. “It should be recognized, acknowledging the type of career he’s had. But it’s happening over and over again, which is great for him.”

Kempe put the Kings up 2-1 at 9:58 of the second with a slap shot from the again of the left faceoff circle. Eller then tied it when he saved management of the puck and launched a snap shot from the slot at 18:03.

UP NEXT

Penguins: Return residence to face Buffalo on Saturday.

Kings: Host Philadelphia on Saturday.