Penguins Beat the Sharks 3-2 in a Shootout: Celebrini's 200th Career Point Forces Overtime, Kindel Settles It
San Jose erased a 2-0 third-period deficit in 4:07 - Celebrini scoring his 200th career point before turning 21, then feeding Marchment's 100th career goal - but Ben Kindel scored the shootout's only goal and Sergei Murashov's 34 saves carried Pittsburgh through.
The Pittsburgh Penguins blew the lead and won the game anyway. Pittsburgh beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 in a shootout on Wednesday night in San Jose, after Macklin Celebrini dragged the Sharks back from 2-0 down in the third period and Ben Kindel - who had already scored in regulation - supplied the only goal of the tiebreaker, beating Yaroslav Askarov five-hole in the first round.
The Penguins built their lead slowly: Samuel Girard opened the scoring on a slap shot at 8:57 of the first period, and Kindel made it 2-0 on a power play at 3:28 of the third, putting home the rebound of an Erik Karlsson point shot. Sergei Murashov made 34 saves through overtime, and Pittsburgh needed nearly all of them once the third period turned.
Celebrini turned it almost single-handedly. At 11:32 he snapped a shot under Murashov's glove - his 200th career point, making the 20-year-old Sharks captain the 14th player in NHL history to reach 200 points before turning 21. Four minutes and seven seconds later he found Mason Marchment at the post for the tying goal, Marchment's fifth of the season and the 100th of his career. Sidney Crosby, the No. 2 search in the country on the night, was held without a point and was stopped in the shootout; Celebrini missed his attempt as well.
Pittsburgh survived a San Jose power play for the final 43 seconds of overtime after Kris Letang was sent off for holding Sam Dickinson's stick, and Murashov closed the shootout by stopping Will Smith in the third round. Askarov stopped 33 shots for San Jose (8-11-2), which has lost six of its past seven; the Penguins (7-10-2) host Ottawa on Saturday, while the Sharks play at Utah.
