In the next game of the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Minnesota Wild on home ice.
The match, which took place at the PG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, ended with the Penguins winning by a minimum of 4:3. Russian striker Evgeni Malkin scored his 11th goal of the season with the goal he scored for the winning team.
After this game, the 37-year-old Russian had scored 482 goals in NHL seasons. To reach the second place in the NHL in the number of goals scored among compatriots, Malkin needs to score only once – in this case he will equal Sergei Fedorov, who has 483 goals.
Malkin scored 11 goals and made 15 assists in 30 matches in the 2023/24 season. The Penguins have played 30 games in the regular season and sit in 13th place in the NHL Western Conference standings with 31 points.
Previously in the USA in the name The main misconception about Alexander Ovechkin.