Canucks top struggling Penguins 4-3 with second-period goal-scoring run

Arshdeep Bains scored nan first extremity of his NHL career, and nan Vancouver Canucks scored 4 goals successful nether six minutes for a 4-3 triumph complete nan Pittsburgh Penguins

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Arshdeep Bains scored nan first extremity of his NHL career, and nan Vancouver Canucks scored 4 goals successful nether six minutes for a 4-3 triumph complete nan Pittsburgh Penguins connected Saturday.

Elias Pettersson scored nan first of a speedy four-goal tally midway done nan 2nd play aft nan Penguins built a 2-0 lead.

Kiefer Sherwood and J.T. Miller scored earlier Bains buried nan puck into nan backmost of nan nett to headdress nan run. Bains' extremity provided security for Vancouver (4-1-2) aft Evgeni Malkin scored successful nan 3rd period.

Malkin besides had 2 assists for nan Penguins (3-6-1), while Anthony Beauvillier contributed a extremity and an assist. Bryan Rust rounded retired nan scoring.

Goaltender Kevin Lankinen stopped 21 shots for nan Canucks, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 30 saves for Pittsburgh.

Canucks: The team’s extent showed successful nan 2nd erstwhile each of its 4 lines scored complete a six-minute span. Ten Vancouver players contributed either a extremity aliases assist, pinch nary putting up aggregate points.

Penguins: The visitors were nan ascendant broadside crossed nan first period, pinch Beauvillier opening nan scoring 7:48 in. But Pittsburgh’s discourtesy faltered afterwards, and nan Penguins were outshot 34-23.

With nan Canucks down 2-0 early successful nan 2nd period, Pettersson snapped a changeable complete Nedeljkovic from nan faceoff circle to get Vancouver connected nan committee astatine nan 4:06 mark. The extremity was his first of nan play and sparked an violative onslaught wherever nan Canucks scored 3 goals successful 65 seconds.

Saturday marked nan extremity of a winless four-game occidental Canadian roadworthy plaything for Pittsburgh. The Penguins caput location pinch conscionable 1 constituent from nan trip, coming from a 4-3 overtime nonaccomplishment to nan Calgary Flames connected Tuesday.

The Canucks proceed a three-game homestand Monday against nan Hurricanes, while nan Penguins return location to big nan Wild connected Tuesday.

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