Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning…
The Pittsburgh Penguins met the Tampa Bay Lightning in Tampa on Thursday night. Led by Tristan Jarry, the power-play and a vintage performance from Evgeni Malkin, the Penguins withstood the aggressive play of the Lightning and escaped TB with two points. [Recap]
It is time, at least temporarily, for the Tristan Jarry—Arturs Silovs platoon to end, as Jarry has exceedingly outplayed his Latvian counterpart. [PensBurgh]
News and notes from around the NHL…
Alex Ovechkin and a Washington Capitals teammate were recently part of never-before-seen
NHL history. The Capitals are the first team in league history to get multi-goal games from a player 40 or older (Ovechkin) and a player 20 or younger (Ryan Leonard) in the same game. [Sporting News]
As discouraging developments of delayed work on the Olympic ice hockey rink and a recent revelation that the rink is smaller than an NHL-sized one, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly recently said, “If there’s no rink completed, there’s no NHL players going to the Olympics.” [Toronto Sun]
The Ottawa Senators on Saturday will mark 35 years since NHL hockey returned to Canada’s capital, after the city was awarded an NHL franchise in the league’s 1990 expansion, returning the Senators after a nearly six-decade absence. [CBC Sports]
The Tampa Bay Lightning signed defenseman Ryan McDonagh to a three-year, $12.3 million extension on Thursday. [TSN]
A judge ruled Thursday that former NHL center Ryan Kesler must stand trial on two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. [The Athletic]
