Artemi Panarin scored twice and tied a career high with five points Saturday to lead the visiting New York Rangers past the Pittsburgh Penguins 7-4.
K’Andre Miller and Chris Kreider each added a goal and two assists, Adam Fox a goal and an assist, and Kaapo Kakko and Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Rangers, who have won four of five.
New York goaltender Jonathan Quick made 34 saves.
Bryan Rust and Lars Eller each had a goal and an assist, and John Ludvig and Valtteri Puustinen also scored for the Penguins, who are 1-1-1 in their past three.
Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry allowed six goals on 23 shots. Alex Nedeljkovic relieved in the third and made four saves.
Ludvig made it back-to-back games with a goal when he gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead at 2:36 of the first on a screened shot from the left point.
The Rangers tied it 31 seconds later. Kakko scored on a shot that went in off Ludvig.
New York took its first lead 26 seconds later. Fox dragged the puck past Pittsburgh defenseman Marcus Pettersson as he went forehand to backhand to beat Jarry and make it 2-1.
Rust made it 2-2 at 12:27 of the first. Off a feed from Sidney Crosby, he flipped the puck inside the left post.
The Rangers went ahead 3-2 at 15:32 of the first on Panarin’s tip-in of a Trocheck shot.
Eller tied it at 3 at 10:10 of the second on a power play with a shot that went in off Quick before Panarin, on a New York power play, made it 4-3 at 16:27 on a second rebound.
The Rangers immediately got another power play when Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, and Zibanejad cashed in at 17:30 off a tic-tac-toe play for a 5-3 edge.
At 4:41 of the third, Miller’s shot through traffic from the left point made it 6-3 and chased Jarry.
Puustinen scored off a three-on-one at 7:23 of the third to close it to 6-4, but Kreider scored an empty-netter with 18 seconds left.
– Field Level Media
