Philip Tomasino scores tiebreaking goal and short-handed Penguins hold on to beat Rangers

By ALLAN KREDA

Philip Tomasino scored the go-ahead extremity midway done the 2nd period, and the short-handed Pittsburgh Penguins bushed the New York Rangers 3-2 connected Friday night.

Blake Lizotte and Rickard Rakell besides scored and Bryan Rust had 2 assists for the Penguins, who won for the 3rd clip successful 4 games contempt playing without skipper Sidney Crosby for the archetypal clip successful 3 seasons. Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves.

Vincent Trocheck and Adam Fox scored for the Rangers, who snapped a two-game triumph streak. Igor Shesterkin finished with 23 saves.

Crosby was retired owed to an upper-body injury. He had played each crippled since the commencement of the 2022-23 seasons and leads the squad with 58 points, including 17 goals. Evgeni Malkin besides missed his 5th consecutive crippled with a lower-body injury.

Tomasino fired a changeable past Shesterkin connected the powerfulness play with 8:01 near successful the 2nd period, little than 3 minutes aft Rakell had tied the score.

Pittsburgh, outshot 10-0 successful the third, smothered 2 Rangers powerfulness plays precocious successful the play to sphere the win.

Trocheck opened the scoring astatine 8:31 of the first, beating Nedeljkovic for this 17th goal.

Lizotte tied it astatine 2:25 of the 2nd with his ninth.

Fox enactment New York up 2-1 with his 4th astatine 3:39 earlier Rakell knotted the people astatine 9:07 of the mediate play with his team-leading 25th.

TAKEAWAYS

Penguins: Pittsburgh improved to 10-14-5 connected the road.

Rangers: New York is present 14-12-2 astatine location aft going 30-11-0 astatine Madison Square Garden past season.

KEY MOMENT

Rakell’s tying extremity midway done the 2nd play energized the Penguins who did not let a extremity by the Rangers the remainder of the way.

KEY STATS

Shesterkin fell to 18-19-2. New York’s starting goalie was 36-17-2 past season.

UP NEXT

Penguins sojourn Philadelphia connected Saturday, and Rangers play astatine Columbus.