The Finnish players were very prominent in the battle between Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
About Sidney Crosby became the tenth NHL player to break the 1,600-point mark in the regular season. The 37-year-old superstar of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored 1+2 in the home game against the Buffalo Sabres. Crosby was responsible for the game-winning hit in the overtime of a big goal (6–5).
Crosby, who has only represented Pittsburgh throughout his NHL career, has scored 1,602 points in 1,277 regular season games. A similar achievement had been reached before Crosby Jaromir Jagr 11 years ago. The all-time leading scorer is Wayne Gretzky (2,857).
– It is an honor to be part of such a group. I haven’t thought much about that. Hopefully there will be time to deal with the matter later, Crosby stated according to the NHL.
In that match, Pittsburg’s 26-year-old Finnish forward Jesse Puljujärvi opened his scoring tap for the season. He was responsible for the stylish 3-3 equalizing goal by the Danish striker by Lars Eller serving. Puljujärvi got more than 13 minutes of ice time.
Also the second club legend of the Penguins Yevgeni Malkin was in a strong attack, doing the same with powers 1+2. For Malkin, the goal was the 500th of his career.
Pittsburg’s young Finnish guard Joel Blomqvist your ear Tristan Jarryn in the middle of the match and dribbled in front of the puck 26 times. In Buffalo’s goal Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen on the other hand, saved 37 times, but still had to concede six times. Henri Jokiharju toiled in Buffalo’s back lines for 21 minutes.
of Colorado Mikko Rantanen continued his strong early season momentum by hitting 1+2 against Boston. Despite Rantanen’s power points, Colorado lost 3–5.
Rantanen is sixth in the points market with four goals and seven power points.
Updated 7.02: Edited title
Updated 7.40: Added information about Mikko Rantanen’s points.