Erik Karlsson scored the game-winning goal at 1:42 of overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to their third consecutive victory, topping the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Tuesday night.
“We’re hanging in there but we need some individuals to up their game, some guys are just OK. It’s been OK for a while and you have to contribute," said Rick Tocchet before adding his further thoughts.Mike Sullivan, the Penguins head coach, praised his team's resiliency in the overtime win.
“I thought there was some sloppy stuff some detailed stuff. Some guys looked tired out there … I thought there was a lot of average guys out there.”" had a pretty good first period, and then just proceeded to turn the puck over and get loose and let a team where, if we had the mentality of winning the game today, we could have killed them in the second period.Down 2-0 entering the second period, Rakell scored twice in just over seven minutes to tie the game.
"He's the heartbeat of our team and he's playing an inspiring game for us and so when he reaches these milestones, it doesn't at this point surprise us because there's a lot of them, but I think it just speaks volumes for how consistently well he's played for so long." Miller restored Vancouver's lead at 10:05 of the second. He stripped a Penguins defenceman on the forecheck and bore down on Jarry to score his 30th goal of the season.
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