Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Colorado Avalanche by a big score in the regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The match played at PG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh ended with the Penguins winning 4-0. The goals of the match were scored by Reilly Smith, Lars Eller and Sidney Crosby, who scored a double.
Pittsburgh earned its third win of the season with four losses. Colorado suffered its first defeat of the NHL season; prior to this, the team had won six games at the beginning of the NHL regular season.
Pittsburgh’s Russian forward Evgeni Malkin scored a point in this match. He and Brian Rust recorded an assist when he assisted Smith, who scored the team’s second goal in the 17th minute of the game.
On October 19, ESPN journalists and analysts compiled a ranking of the National Hockey League’s top 100 players playing in the new 2023/2024 season. Malkin was not included in this list. The best Russian was Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, who was ranked eighth.
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