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  Graphic: Genevive Oliver There have been great players for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and then there has been Mario Lemieux. From the impossible reach of his stick to his effortless, balletic stride, 'Le Magnifique' wasn't just a force of nature—he was a work of art on ice. His time in Pittsburgh wasn't just about piling up goals and assists; it was an incredible journey of dizzying highs, a battle with a life-threatening illness, and then, a truly triumphant comeback that carved his place as an eternal Penguins legend. His story is one of unrivaled greatness on the ice and a fierce, unwavering loyalty to the city that loved him. The Arrival of Le Magnifique: The Savior of a City The hype around Mario Lemieux started almost before he even got here. In the mid-1980s, the Pittsburgh Penguins were a punchline—a franchise teetering on the brink of irrelevance. Their arena was a ghost town, their roster a collection of misfits. Then, on a fateful day in 1984, the draft lotte...
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Penguins Made a Comeback vs. San Jose Sharks 6-3, 3/14/24

 




*Sorry for the lack of photos! Hoping to get permission eventually.*


   The Penguins put an end to their four-game skid with a relieving 6-3 victory against the San Jose Sharks at the PPG Paints Arena on Thursday, March 14th. Pittsburgh scored three goals in the third period the 6-3 final to hand the Sharks their second straight loss following a 2-1 win against the Ottawa Senators that ended their nine-game losing streak. Tristan Jarry made a total of 29 saves for Pittsburgh.


Sharks lineup against the Penguins:

Barabanov - Granlund - Zetterlund

Zadina - Eklund - Kunin

Bordeleau - Sturm - Kostin

Smith - Carpenter - Bailey


Ferraro - Burroughs

Thrun - Vlasic

Addison


Chrona

Cooley


Penguins lineup against the Sharks:

Bunting - Crosby - Rust

O'Connor - Malkin - Rakell

Smith - Eller - Puustinen

Bemstrom - Acciari - Carter


Pettersson - Letang

Graves - Karlsson

Ludvig - Joseph


Jarry

Nedeljkovic


   Noel Acciari recorded his fourth of the season to put the Penguins in a 1-0 lead at 9:32 of the first frame to end his 21-game goal drought, last scoring on the 31st of December. Acciari deflected a point shot from Erik Karlsson. Tying the game at 1-1 to get San Jose on the board, Fabian Zetterlund put in a rebound off a shot from Calen Addison just inside the crease. This goal was Zetterlund's 17th of the season, an NHL career-high. With 59 seconds remaining in the opening 20, Marc-Edouard Vlasic went for the 2-1 lead for the Sharks with his sixth goal of the season when he jerked a sharp-angle shot on goal, rebounding off Marcus Pettersson's knee. This goal was his first since he had a three-game goal streak from January 27-31.


   Tying the game back up, 2-2, Jeff Carter struck his 18th goal against the San Jose Sharks (ranking in the top three among active skaters in the NHL) at 15:49 of the middle frame. He took a backhanded pass from Emil Bemstrom, who had circled the net before sending the puck off to Carter, and he tapped it in. Evgeni Malkin put Pittsburgh back on top 3-2 when he backhanded a rebound of a shot by Drew O'Connor into the net off the inside of Magnus Chrona's pad from behind the goal line. Klim Kostin netted his first as a Shark to tie it back up with a one-timer off a backhanded pass from Mikael Granlund.


   John Ludvig went for his second of the season to put the Penguins back in the lead with a wrister through traffic, from the point, early into the third at 17:22. Extending the lead to 5-3, a shot by Pierre-Olivier Joseph's one-timer had deflected off Rickard Rakell's skate and past Magnus Chrona. In the final two minutes of the game, Bryan Rust struck the Shark's empty net for the 6-3 final to end that four-game skid.




Tristan Jarry on the Penguins' 6-3 victory: "I thought the guys did a good job. We talked a lot about going to the net over the last couple of days and we got a reward for it, so it's nice. I think that will build our confidence for our group just knowing that we got to the net, we'll get rewarded with those."


Drew O'Connor on the win and Tristan Jarry: "It's obviously been a struggle to score goals the last few, so to score six feels pretty good. It just feels good to get back in the win column... It was a bad start by us, but I thought we responded well, we can't let that happen," - "I thought he's played really well. Like I said, we haven't been scoring goals and we've been still in the last few games so, that's because of him. He's been making big saves for us."




Notes:

- John Ludvig had a goal and an assist, and both Drew O'Connor and PO Joseph recorded two assists.

- Sidney Crosby's secondary assist on Bryan Rust's goal gave him his fifth assist during a 10-game goal drought, and he leads the Penguins with 32 goals in 65 games. Erik Karlsson has the most points among all defensemen on a new team this NHL season with 45 points, eight goals, and 37 assists.

- Each Klim Kostin and Marc-Edouard Vlasic had a goal and an assist... Mikael Granlund recorded two assists and Magnus Chrona made 25 saves for San Jose.

- The San Jose Sharks used 13 forwards and five defensemen without Jacob MacDonald out due to illness.

- The Sharks did not score on their two power plays, ending a five-straight game streak with a power play goal.

 

 




Postgame: John Ludvig

Postgame: Rickard Rakell

Postgame: Mike Sullivan

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