Pittsburgh Penguins beat San Jose Sharks 8: 5 (6: 1, 0: 1, 2: 3).
According to the club’s Twitter account on Sunday, Bluger has already ended his Covid-19 quarantine. Balcer, on the other hand, will have to do without playing for another week due to an injury to his lower body, said Koctis Peschka, a hockey observer in San Jose, on Sunday.
The Penguins quickly scored a four-goal lead, with two shots by Evans Rodrigues and Jake Guncell and Brian Rasta 4-0 after six minutes and nine seconds.
At the end of the first third, the home team responded to the goal scored by Aleksandrs Barabanovs in the 16th minute with Kasper Bjerkvist and another goal of Rasta – 6: 1.
In the 35th minute, Brent Burns regained one goal in the majority – 2: 6, but in the beginning of the third quarter, in three minutes and 49 seconds, “Sharks” almost reached the home team, throwing three discs into the home goal. Matt Nieto, Erik Carlson and Logan Couture stood out – 5: 6.
The guests were not destined to escape, because in the 18th minute Rodrigess reached the majority in the match 7: 5, scoring his third goal in the match, but 11 seconds before the end of the match, the final result was recorded by Rasta, “hat-trick” with an empty throw – 8: 5.
He found five (3 + 2) performance points in this game, but three passes went to Chris Letan.
Timo Meiers stood out with three assists.
The Penguins have scored 41 points in 31 games and ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, while Sharks are tenth in the West with 35 points in 33 duels.
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