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SPORTS Friday 21 december 2018

Penguins end Capitals' 5-game winning streak

By The Associated Press Evgeny Kuznetsov had
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sid- his streak of eight straight
ney Crosby and Bryan Rust games with an assist come
scored and the Pittsburgh to an end, one shy of the
Penguins ended hot streaks franchise record.
by Alex Ovechkin and the AVALANCHE 2, CANA-
Washington Capitals with DIENS 1
a 2-1 victory Wednesday DENVER (AP) — Gabriel
night. Landeskog broke a tie 35
The third meeting this sea- seconds into the third pe-
son between these long- riod by batting in a goal,
time rivals featured tight Philipp Grubauer stopped
checking, strong goalten- 35 shots and Colorado
ding and more than a few beat Montreal.
punches. Rust broke a 1-1 Mikko Rantanen had a goal
tie late in the second pe- and an assist to give him an
riod with his sixth goal in NHL-leading 58 points. He's
five games, and the Pen- followed by teammate Na-
guins held on against the than MacKinnon, who has
defending Stanley Cup 55 points after a two-assist Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) gets away from Washington Capitals right wing T.J.
champions. evening. Landeskog, the Oshie (77) in the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, in Washington.
Playing in his second third member of their high- Associated Press
game since returning from flying line, scored his team-
a lower body injury, Pitts- best 23rd goal.
burgh goalie Matt Murray Carey Price, who stopped
stopped 31 shots. 24 shots, came up short in
Lars Eller scored the lone his bid for his 300th career
goal for the Capitals. They victory. He's trying to be-
had won five in a row. come the 35th goaltender
Ovechkin was held without to reach that milestone.
a goal for the first time in Brendan Gallagher had a
seven games and had his power-play goal for Mon-
career-high run of games treal, breaking the Cana-
with a point end at 14. diens' 0 for 25 dry spell with
In addition, Washington's the man advantage.q