In Edmonton, Tristan Jarry made 26 saves for the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 5-2 win on Friday night.
“It was pretty cool. It’s exciting, something that you think would really never happen,” Jarry said. “I’m glad it did, glad I was able to start in one of the two cities where I basically grew up, so it’s fun.”
The Pens are 15-0-4 in their last 19 games against the Oilers.
Zack Kassian and Riley Sheahan were the Oilers’ strikers.
“It’s tough,” Sheahan said. “When things are going for you, you seem to get the bounces and the power play was scoring a lot and it seemed like we were just rolling. Right now we’re in a rut and maybe it takes a game or two to get out of that. We have focus on the little things and try to calm down when mistakes are made and try to forget about them and play the way we know we can play.”
The Pens broke out to a 2-0 lead off goals from Chad Ruhwedel and Joseph Blandisi.
“We were trying to check and defend hard, especially against a team that has a dynamic offense like Edmonton does,” Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said. “I thought for the most part we did a pretty good job in the first. We accomplished that.”
Jared McCann, Kris Letang and Brandon Tanev also scored for the Pens.
“When you don’t play a team that much you just focus on yourself and how your team plays,” McCann said. “Tonight we did that, just focused on ourselves and what we could do to come out on top. We did a really good job tonight defensively of kind of taking time and space from their top guys. You’ve got to give [Jarry] credit again, he was a wall for us.”
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Mike Smith made 21 saves in the loss.
“I haven’t minded our game, which is tough to say when you are losing hockey games,” Connor McDavid said. “Obviously we have to find a way to get wins, but we’re working hard, we’re defending better than we have before. The number might not suggest that, but it feels that way at least. We just have to find a way to create some offense.”
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