PITTSBURGH — — John Klingberg capped off a frantic late rally by scoring his second aim of the sport 2:57 into additional time to elevate the San Jose Sharks to an unbelievable 6-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
Klingberg’s seventh of the season off a feed from Macklin Celebrini gave the Sharks their first victory within the franchise’s 34-year historical past when trailing by 4 targets within the third.
San Jose trailed 5-1 with lower than 14 minutes to go. Klingberg and William Eklund scored to get the Sharks again in it, and Celebrini and Tyler Toffoli beat Pittsburgh goalie Arturs Silovs with the goaltender pulled to pressure additional time.
Toffoli, whose tying aim got here with 1:38 to play, completed with two targets and two assists. Celebrini had a aim and two assists to push his season level whole to 44.
Yaroslav Askarov withstood a second-period deluge from Pittsburgh and completed with 38 saves as San Jose completed a five-game highway journey at 3-2.
Sidney Crosby scored a aim and added an help to maneuver inside two of Corridor of Famer Mario Lemieux’s franchise file for profession factors. Crosby beat Askarov within the first interval for his nineteenth aim of the season and assisted on Bryan Rust‘s power-play aim within the second to push his profession level whole to 1,721.
Kevin Hayes, Rutger McGroarty and Anthony Mantha additionally scored for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell performed 22:12 in his return from a 20-game absence attributable to a hand damage. Silovs stopped 26 pictures as Pittsburgh dropped its fourth straight.
The Penguins fell to 1-8 in additional time and are winless by way of three video games of a season-long five-game homestand. The primary loss got here in opposition to Anaheim on Tuesday when the Geese compelled additional time with one-tenth of a second left.
The loss marked the primary time the Penguins blew a four-goal lead within the third interval since March 10, 1976.
Sharks: Start a three-game homestand on Tuesday in opposition to Calgary.
Penguins: Host Utah on Sunday.
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